How billionaires, surgeons and royals built the Victor Chang institute
How the cream of Sydney's high society banded together to help build the world-class Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Princess Diana and Professor Bob Graham at the The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in 1996. VCCRI
In late 1996, the Graham family was speeding across Sydney. They were expected for Sunday afternoon tea with Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lady-in-waiting at a hotel in Double Bay.
But the Grahams were running late because Professor Bob Graham had been on an 80-kilometre bike ride for charity that morning. He’d had too much sun and the emotional temperature in the family car was running high.
