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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

March 20, 2023

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed, Diana's partner, and Henri Paul, their chauffeur, had died upon impact. Her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was seriously injured but was the only survivor of the crash.

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Flowers left outside Kensington Palace in tribute to Diana
Date31 August 1997; 25 years ago (1997-08-31)
LocationPont de l'Alma, Paris, France
Coordinates48°51′51.7″N 2°18′06.8″E / 48.864361°N 2.301889°E / 48.864361; 2.301889[1]
TypeCar accident
Death caused by dangerous driving
Deaths
Non-fatal injuriesTrevor Rees-Jones
InquiriesOperation Paget (2008)
Accused
  • Jacques Langevin
  • Christian Martinez
  • Fabrice Chassery[2]
ChargesInvasion of privacy[a]
VerdictFrench criminal trial:
Not guilty[2]
Operation Paget:
Unlawful killing

Some media claimed that the erratic behaviour of the paparazzi chasing the car, as reported by the BBC,[3] caused the crash. However, in 1999, a French investigation found that Paul lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs, and concluded that he was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel.[4] Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood might have worsened Paul's inebriation.[5] In 2008, the jury at the British inquest Operation Paget returned a verdict of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving by Paul and the following paparazzi vehicles.[6] Some media reports claimed that Rees-Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt, but other investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing them.[7]

Diana was 36 years old when she died.[8] Her death sparked an outpouring of public grief in the United Kingdom and worldwide,[9] and her televised funeral was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people.[10] The royal family were criticised in the press for their reaction to Diana's death. Public interest in Diana has remained high and she has retained regular press coverage in the decades since her death.

Circumstances

Events preceding the crash

 
Diana, Princess of Wales, in June 1997
 
Mercedes-Benz S280 sedan (W140[11] S-Class), similar to the one involved in the crash[12][13][14][15][16]

On Saturday, 30 August 1997, Princess Diana left the Olbia Airport, Sardinia, on a private jet and arrived at Le Bourget Airport[17] in Paris with Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed, the son of businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.[18][19] They had stopped there en route to London, having spent the preceding nine days together on board Mohamed's yacht Jonikal on the French and Italian Riviera.[20] They had intended to stay there for the night. Mohamed was and remains the owner of the Hôtel Ritz Paris and resided in an apartment on Rue Arsène Houssaye, a short distance from the hotel, just off the Avenue des Champs Elysées.[21]

Henri Paul, the deputy head of security at the Ritz, had been instructed to drive the hired black 1994[12][13][14][15] armoured[16] Mercedes-Benz S280 sedan (W140[11] S-Class) in order to elude the paparazzi;[22] a decoy vehicle left the Ritz first from the main entrance on Place Vendôme, attracting a throng of photographers. Diana and Fayed then departed from the hotel's rear entrance,[23] Rue Cambon, at around 00:20 on 31 August CEST (22:20 on 30 August UTC), heading for the apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. They did this to avoid the nearly thirty photographers waiting in front of the hotel.[23] Diana and Fayed were the rear passengers; Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family's personal protection team, was in the (right) front passenger seat.[24] None of the occupants were wearing seat belts.[b] After leaving the Rue Cambon and crossing the Place de la Concorde, they drove along Cours la Reine and Cours Albert 1er – the embankment road along the right bank of the River Seine – into the Place de l'Alma underpass.[25]

The crash

At 00:23, Paul lost control of the car at the entrance to the Pont de l'Alma underpass. The car reportedly struck a passing white Fiat, swerved to the left of the two-lane carriageway and collided head-on with the thirteenth pillar that supported the roof.[26][27] It was travelling at an estimated speed of 105 km/h (65 mph)[28] – more than twice the 50 km/h (31 mph) speed limit of the tunnel. It then spun, hit the stone wall of the tunnel backwards and finally came to a stop. The impact caused substantial damage, particularly to the front half of the vehicle, as there was no guard rail to prevent this.[29] Witnesses arriving shortly after the crash reported smoke.[30] Witnesses also reported that photographers on motorcycles "swarmed the Mercedes sedan before it entered the tunnel".[31]

Aftermath

 
Pont de l'Alma Tunnel east entrance, 1998, the site of the crash
 
Pont de l'Alma Tunnel west entrance, 2007, showing pillars and lack of guard rails

The photographers had been driving slower and were some distance behind the Mercedes. When they reached the scene, some rushed to help, trying to open the doors and help the victims, while some of them took pictures.[32] Police arrived around ten minutes after the crash at 00:30[32] and an ambulance was on site five minutes later, according to witnesses.[33] France Info radio reported that one photographer was beaten by witnesses who were horrified by the scene.[31] Five of the photographers were arrested directly.[30] Later, two others were detained and around 20 rolls of film were taken directly from the photographers.[31] Police also impounded their vehicles afterwards.[31] Firefighters also arrived at the scene to help remove the victims.[34]

Rees-Jones sustained multiple serious facial injuries and a head contusion, but he was still conscious.[35] The front airbags had functioned normally.[36] Diana was sitting in the right rear passenger seat and was critically injured, but she was still conscious.[32][37] The crash mostly affected the righthand side of her body, indicating that she was sitting sideways in her seat at the time of impact.[38] Her ribs and arm were fractured and her right collar bone was dislocated, and she suffered from swelling and bruising to the brain.[38] She was reported to murmur repeatedly, "Oh my God", and after the photographers and other helpers were pushed away by police, "Leave me alone."[37] In June 2007, the Channel 4 documentary Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel claimed that the first person to touch Diana was off-duty physician Frederic Mailliez,[39] who chanced upon the scene. Mailliez reported that Diana had no visible injuries but was in shock.[40] She was reported to have been extremely disturbed and removed an intravenous drip while shouting incoherently.[41] After being sedated and removed from the car at 01:00, she went into cardiac arrest, but her heart started beating again following external cardiopulmonary resuscitation.[42] Diana was moved to the ambulance at 01:18, left the scene at 01:41, and arrived at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital at 02:06.[43]

Fayed was in the left rear passenger seat and was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards.[44] Paul was also pronounced dead at the scene on removal from the wreckage.[32] Both were taken directly to the Institut Médico-Légal (IML), the Paris mortuary.[45] Paul was later found to have a blood alcohol level of 1.75 grams per litre of blood, about 3.5 times the legal limit in France.[35]

Diana's injuries were extensive, and resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful, including internal cardiac massage. Her heart had been displaced to the right side of the chest,[46] which tore the upper left pulmonary vein and the pericardium.[41] Diana died at the hospital at 03:00.[47][48] Anaesthetist Bruno Riou announced her death at 06:00 at a news conference held at the hospital.[30][49]

Later that morning, French prime minister Lionel Jospin and Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement visited the hospital.[50] At around 17:00, Diana's former husband Charles and her two older sisters Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes arrived in Paris.[51] The group visited the hospital along with French president Jacques Chirac and thanked the doctors for trying to save her life.[52] Charles accompanied Diana's body to the UK later the same day.[53] They departed from Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base and landed at RAF Northolt, and a bearer party from the Queen's Colour Squadron transferred her coffin to the hearse. The coffin was draped with the royal standard with an ermine border. Her body was taken to the Hammersmith and Fulham mortuary in London for a post-mortem examination later that day.[54]

Initial media reports stated that Diana's car had collided with the pillar at 190 km/h (120 mph), and that the speedometer's needle had jammed at that position.[35] It was later announced that the car's speed upon collision was 95–110 km/h (59–68 mph), about twice as fast as the speed limit of 50 km/h (31 mph). In 1999, a French investigation concluded that the Mercedes had come into contact with a white Fiat Uno in the tunnel.[55] The driver of the Fiat was never conclusively traced, although many believed that the driver was Le Van Thanh. Thanh was questioned by French detectives in 1997, who ruled him out as a suspect but friends and family members have noted inconsistences in his story. Thanh has since refused interviews or inquiries from investigators.[56] The specific vehicle was not identified.[57][55]

British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook remarked that, if the crash had been caused in part by being hounded by paparazzi, it would be "doubly tragic".[23] Diana's younger brother, the Earl Spencer, also blamed tabloid media for her death.[58] An 18-month French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the crash was caused by Paul, who lost control at high speed while intoxicated.[59]

"No charges were brought against the paparazzi who had been pursuing the princess' car."[60]

Mourning

Members of the public were invited to sign a book of condolence at St James's Palace.[61] A book of condolence was also set up by the British embassy in the US.[62] All 11,000 light bulbs at Harrods department store, owned by Mohamed Al-Fayed, were turned off and not switched on again until after the funeral.[61] Throughout the night, members of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service and the Salvation Army provided support for people queuing along the Mall.[63] More than one million bouquets were left at her London residence, Kensington Palace,[64] while at her family's estate of Althorp the public was asked to stop bringing flowers as the volume of both visitors and flowers in the surrounding roads was said to be causing a threat to public safety.[65]

By 10 September, the pile of flowers outside Kensington Gardens was 5 feet (1.5 m) deep in places and the bottom layer had started to compost.[66] The people were quiet, queuing patiently to sign the book and leave their gifts.[67] Fresh flowers, teddy bears, and bottles of champagne were later donated and distributed among the sick, the elderly and children. Cards, personal messages and poems were collected and given to Diana's family.[68]

Funeral and burial

Main article: Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
Further information: Althorp § Diana grave, memorial, and exhibition

Early on, it was uncertain if Diana would receive a ceremonial funeral, since she had lost the status of Her Royal Highness following her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996.[69]

Diana's death was met with extraordinary public expressions of grief,[70][9] and her funeral at Westminster Abbey on 6 September drew an estimated 3 million mourners and onlookers in London.[71][72] Outside the Abbey and in Hyde Park crowds watched and listened to proceedings on large outdoor screens and speakers as guests filed in, including representatives of the many charities of which Diana was patron. Attendees included US First Lady Hillary Clinton and French First Lady Bernadette Chirac, as well as celebrities including Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and two friends of Diana, George Michael and Elton John.[37][73] John performed a rewritten version of his song "Candle in the Wind" that was dedicated to her, known as "Goodbye England's Rose" or "Candle in the Wind 1997";[74] the single became the best-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s, with total sales exceeding 33 million units.[75] Protocol was disregarded when the guests applauded the speech by Earl Spencer, who strongly criticised the press and indirectly criticised the Royal Family for their treatment of her.[76] The funeral is estimated to have been watched by 31.5 million viewers in Britain.[77] Precise calculation of the worldwide audience is not possible, but it was estimated to be around 2.5 billion.[10] The ceremony was broadcast in 44 languages.[78]

After the end of the ceremony, Diana's coffin was driven to Althorp in a Daimler hearse.[79] Mourners cast flowers at the funeral procession for almost the entire length of its journey and vehicles even stopped on the opposite carriageway of the M1 motorway as the cars passed.[80]

In a private ceremony, Diana was buried on an island in the middle of a lake called The Oval, which is part of the Pleasure Garden at Althorp.[81] The coffin bore a weight of a quarter of a tonne (250 kg / approx. 550 lb) as it was lined with lead,[82] as is tradition with British royalty.[83] In her coffin, she wears a black Catherine Walker dress and black tights, and is holding a rosary in her hands. The rosary had been a gift from Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a confidante of Diana, who had died the day before her funeral. A visitors' centre is open during summer months, with an exhibition about Diana and a walk around the lake. All profits were donated to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.[84]

Reactions

Royal family

 
Official correspondence by the Government of New Zealand regarding Diana's death

Queen Elizabeth II expressed her dismay at Diana's death.[85] Then-Prince Charles woke his sons before dawn to share the news.[86] Upon announcement of the death, the website of the Royal Family temporarily removed all its content and replaced it with a black background, displaying a picture of Diana accompanied by her name and dates of birth and death. An online book of condolence was also made available on the website for the public to post their personal tributes.[87] On Sunday morning after Diana's death, the Queen, Princes Charles, William and Harry all wore black to church services at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral Castle.[88] The royal family later issued a statement, saying Charles, William and Harry were "taking strength from" and "deeply touched" by and "enormously grateful" for the public support.[89][90] Princes Andrew and Edward met the mourners outside Kensington Palace as a precautionary measure to test the public mood,[89] and Edward visited St James's Palace to sign the book of condolences.[91] On their way from Crathie Kirk to Balmoral, the Queen, Prince Philip, Charles, William and Harry viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.[89][92]

Charles and his sons returned to London on Friday, 5 September.[93] They made an unannounced visit to see the floral tributes left outside Kensington Palace.[89][94] The Queen, who returned to London from Balmoral accompanied by Prince Philip, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret, agreed to a television broadcast to the nation.[95][91] She viewed the floral tributes in front of Buckingham Palace and visited the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, where Diana's body was remaining, and met crowds that were in line to sign the books of condolence.[89][96] Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and her former sister-in-law, Sarah, Duchess of York, also visited St James's Palace.[90]

The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family was criticised for a rigid adherence to protocol, and their efforts to protect the privacy of Diana's grieving sons were interpreted as a lack of compassion.[97] In particular, the refusal of Buckingham Palace to fly the Royal Standard at half-mast provoked angry headlines in newspapers.[97][98] The Palace's stance was one of royal protocol: no flag could fly over Buckingham Palace, as the Royal Standard is only flown when the monarch is in residence, and the Queen was then in Scotland. The Royal Standard never flies at half-mast as it is the Sovereign's flag and there is never an interregnum or vacancy in the monarchy, as the new monarch immediately succeeds his or her predecessor. Finally, as a compromise, the Union Flag was flown at half-mast as the Queen left for Westminster Abbey on the day of the funeral.[95] This set a precedent, and Buckingham Palace has subsequently flown the Union Flag when the monarch is not in residence.[99]

A rift between Prince Charles and the Queen's private secretary, Sir Robert Fellowes (Diana's brother-in-law), was reported in the media over the nature of the funeral, with Charles demanding a public funeral and Fellowes supporting the Queen's idea of a private one.[100] The Palace later issued a statement denying such rumours.[100] Discussions were also held with the Spencer family and the British royal family as to whether Diana's HRH style needed to be restored posthumously, but Diana's family decided that it would be against Diana's wishes and no formal offer was made.[101] The funeral committee at Buckingham Palace wanted William and Harry to have a bigger role in their mother's funeral and Downing Street officials suggested that they could walk in the funeral cortège,[102] but faced opposition from Prince Philip, who reportedly stated "They've just lost their mother. You're talking about them as if they are commodities."[89] Prince Harry said in 2017 that the death of his mother caused severe depression and grief.[103] He later stated that what he experienced after his mother's death "was very much" post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI).[104] William was 15 and Harry was 12 when Diana died.[105] The boys received locks of their mother's hair from their aunt Lady Sarah McCorquodale once she returned from Paris according to Harry.[106]

Years later, William and Harry defended their father and grandmother's actions in the aftermath of their mother's death. Describing his father's role, Harry said: "[Our dad] was there for us — he was the one out of two left, and he tried to do his best and to make sure that we were protected and looked after."[107] Speaking about his grandmother, William stated: "At the time, my grandmother wanted to protect her two grandsons and my father as well. Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers and things like that so there was nothing in the house to read."[107] Diana's sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, also spoke in defence of the Queen's decision: "She did absolutely the right thing. If I'd been her, I'd have done that."[107]

Politicians

President Bill Clinton's remarks on Diana's death

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was "utterly devastated by the death of the Princess".[69][108] US President Bill Clinton said that he and his wife, Hillary Clinton, were "profoundly saddened" when they found out about her death.[30] Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General said that her death "has robbed the world of a consistent and committed voice for the improvement of the lives of suffering children worldwide".[88] In a telegram of condolences, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl expressed the view that Diana had also become the victim of an "increasingly brutal and unscrupulous competition on the part of some of the media."[109] In Australia, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, condemned the paparazzi for their overzealous coverage of Diana.[110] Russian President Boris Yeltsin praised Diana's charity work in a statement saying, "All know of Princess Diana's big contribution to charitable work, and not only in Great Britain".[111][112] Among other politicians who sent messages of condolences were Australian Prime Minister John Howard, South African President Nelson Mandela, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[111] The Australian House of Representatives and the New Zealand House of Representatives also passed parliamentary motions of condolence.[113][114] The Government of Canada, as well as individual provinces in the country, set up online and in-person books of condolences in their parliament buildings and memorial services were held across the country.[115]

Following her death, delegates at an international conference in Oslo to ban landmines paid their tributes to Diana, who was an avid campaigner for banning the explosive devices.[116] The Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines, was adopted in Oslo, in September 1997 and signed by 122 States in Ottawa on 3 December 1997.[117] Diana's work on the landmines issue has been described as influential in the signing of the treaty.[118]

Public

In London, thousands of people carried bouquets and stood outside Buckingham Palace after the news of her death.[88] People started bringing flowers within an hour after the news was shared.[85] The BBC flew its flags at half-mast.[88] Both radio and television aired the British national anthem, "God Save the Queen", in response to Diana's death, as is precedent for the death of a member of the Royal Family.[85] An elegy was published by Ted Hughes to mark her death.[119] Sporting events in the UK were rearranged, with demands for Scotland's Football Association chief executive to resign due to their delayed response to reschedule Scotland's World Cup qualifier.[120]

People in the US were shocked at her death.[121] In San Francisco, around 14,000 people marched through the city in a procession on 5 September to pay tribute to Diana, honouring her for her work on behalf of AIDS patients.[122] In Los Angeles, more than 2,500 people transformed a baseball field into a candle-lit altar in a memorial service prepared by an AIDS organisation.[122] In Paris, thousands of people visited the site of the crash and the hospital where Diana died, leaving bouquets, candles and messages.[123] People brought flowers and also attempted to visit the Hotel Ritz.[123] On the eve of the funeral, 300 members of the British community in Paris took part in a service of commemoration.[122] Landmine victims in Angola and Bosnia also honoured Diana with separate services, pointing out how her efforts had helped raise awareness about the damage caused by landmines.[122] In Bosnia, a landmine survivor, Jasminko Bjelic, who had met Diana only three weeks earlier, said, "She was our friend."[88] In Egypt, the homeland of Dodi Fayed, people visited the British embassy in Cairo to pay their tributes and sign a book of condolences.[124] Following her death many celebrities including actors and singers blamed the paparazzi and condemned their reckless behavior.[125][126]

Mother Teresa, who met Diana a few months before her death, expressed her sorrow and prayers were held at the Missionaries of Charity for Diana.[111] The Bishop of Bradford David Smith and the Bradford Council of Mosques held prayers by the Christian and Muslim communities.[127] Jonathan Sacks led prayers by the Jewish community at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, and Cardinal Basil Hume presided over the Roman Catholic requiem mass held at Westminster Cathedral.[127] Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997, the day before Diana's funeral.

Social and economic impact

During the four weeks following her funeral, the suicide rate in England and Wales rose by 17% and cases of deliberate self-harm by 44.3% compared with the average for that period in the four previous years. Researchers suggest that this was caused by the "identification" effect, as the greatest increase in suicides was by people most similar to Diana: women aged 25 to 44, whose suicide rate increased by over 45%.[128] Another research showed that 50% of Britons and 27% of Americans were deeply affected by her death as if someone they knew had died. It also concluded that in general women were more affected than men in both of the countries.[129] The same research showed that Diana's "charitable endeavors" and "ability to identify with ordinary people" were among the main factors that caused her to be admired and respected by the people.[129] In the weeks after her death counselling services reported an increase in the number of phone calls by the people who were seeking help due to grief or distress.[130]

Diana's death mostly affected people who were already vulnerable and could identify with her as "a public figure perceived as psychologically troubled but who seemed to have made a constructive adjustment".[131] Another research described Diana's death and funeral as traumatic stressors with psychological impacts that could "be equated with traditional stressors identified in the trauma research literature".[132] In the days after her funeral, an increase in the number of inappropriate hospital admissions was observed, whereas the number of admissions for traumatic injuries decreased for at least three months, showing a possible change in people's driving habits.[133][134] Her death was also associated with "30% reduction in calls to the police and a 28% drop in public order offences", yet despite its effect on increasing depression and traumatic stress, no significant increase was observed in the number of psychiatric emergencies in Edinburgh.[135]

The national grieving for Diana had economic effects. In the short term, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) estimated that retail sales dropped 1% that week. Traffic congestion in central London as crowds went to the palaces to pay homage likewise adversely affected productivity, and the CEBR estimated that would cost businesses £200 million, or a total loss of 0.1% of gross domestic product for the third quarter of 1997. However, in the long run the CEBR expected that to be offset by increased tourism and memorabilia sales.[136]

Reception

Some criticised the reaction to Diana's death at the time as being "hysterical" and "irrational". As early as 1998, philosopher Anthony O'Hear identified the mourning as a defining point in the "sentimentalisation of Britain", a media-fuelled phenomenon where image and reality become blurred.[137] Oasis bandleader Noel Gallagher responded to the reaction with, "The woman's dead. Shut up. Get over it".[138] These criticisms were repeated on the tenth anniversary of the crash, when journalist Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian expressed the opinion that, "It has become an embarrassing memory, like a mawkish, self-pitying teenage entry in a diary ... we cringe to think about it."[139] In 2010, Theodore Dalrymple suggested "sentimentality, both spontaneous and generated by the exaggerated attention of the media, that was necessary to turn the death of the princess into an event of such magnitude thus served a political purpose, one that was inherently dishonest in a way that parallels the dishonesty that lies behind much sentimentality itself".[140]

The reactions following Diana's death were subject to criticism by Christopher Hitchens. His 1998 documentary Princess Diana: The Mourning After accused the British media of playing an essential role in creating a national, unchallengeable, and at times hysterical cult of personality surrounding Diana, whereas previously they had been extremely critical of her and the monarchy after she had separated and divorced from Charles, and was having an affair with Dodi Fayed. Hitchens claimed the public were behaving irrationally and that many appeared to not even know why they were mourning. He also scrutinised the level of censorship against criticism of Diana and the monarchy but was accused, in a review by The Independent, of exaggerating on this point.[141] Private Eye's sales dropped by one third after it ran a cover titled "Media to Blame", which attempted to criticise the instant switch in the media and the public's opinion of Diana after her death from critical to complimentary.[142]

Hitchens's views were later supported by Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian, who also questioned the reason behind the "outburst of mass hysteria" following Diana's death and described it as "an episode when the British public lost its characteristic cool and engaged in seven days of bogus sentimentality, whipped up by the media, and whose flimsiness was demonstrated when it vanished as quickly as it had appeared".[139] Comparing Diana's funeral to that of Winston Churchill, Peter Hitchens observed the "difference in the self-discipline of the people and their attitudes" at the two historical events, with them being more restrained at Churchill's funeral but "un-English" at Diana's.[143]

Some cultural analysts disagreed. Sociologist Deborah Steinberg pointed out that many Britons associated Diana not with the Royal Family but with social change and a more liberal society: "I don't think it was hysteria, the loss of a public figure can be a touchstone for other issues."[144] Carol Wallace of People magazine said that the fascination with Diana's death had to do with "the fairy tale failing to end happily – twice, first when she got divorced and now that she died".[145]

Reflecting back on the event in the 2021 Apple TV+ docuseries The Me You Can't See, Diana's son Prince Harry said that he was surprised by the extent to which the public reacted to his mother's death. Referring to the day of her funeral, he said: "I'm just walking along and doing what was expected of me, showing the one-tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing. This was my mum, you never even met her."[146] In his memoir Spare, he mentions meeting members of the public following his mother's death and "Hundreds and hundreds of hands that planted us again and again in front of our faces, with our fingers often wet. Of what? I wondered. Tears, I understood. I disliked the touch of those hands. What's more, I disliked how they made me feel guilty. Why were all of those people crying when I was neither crying nor able to cry?"[147]

Memorials

Further information: Diana, Princess of Wales § Memorials
 
The Flame of Liberty, the unofficial Diana memorial in Paris, France, the day after the 20th anniversary of her death. The ground is covered with flowers and other tributes, and the chain fence covered with love locks.

In the years after her death, many memorials were commissioned and dedicated to her. As a temporary memorial, the public co-opted the Flamme de la Liberté (Flame of Liberty), a monument near the Pont de l'Alma tunnel related to the French donation of the Statue of Liberty to the US. The messages of condolence have since been removed and its use as a Diana memorial has discontinued, though visitors still leave messages in her memory. A permanent memorial, the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, was opened by the Queen in Hyde Park in London on 6 July 2004,[148] followed by a statue in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace, which was unveiled by her sons on 1 July 2021.[149]

Following her death, a member of the Millennium Dome's board suggested the project be refashioned and extended "to accommodate, for example, a hospital, businesses, charities, private residences, and the whole thing named 'the Princess Diana Centre'". The idea was later scrapped.[150]

Inquests

Further information: Operation Paget

Under English law, an inquest is required in cases of sudden or unexplained death.[151][152] A French judicial investigation had already been carried out but the 6,000-page report was never published.[153] On 6 January 2004, six years after Diana's death, an inquest into the crash opened in London held by Michael Burgess, the coroner of the Queen's Household.[152] The coroner asked the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir John Stevens, to make inquiries in response to speculation that the deaths were not an accident.[152][154] Forensic scientist Angela Gallop was commissioned to examine the forensic evidence.[155] The police investigation reported its findings in Operation Paget in December 2006.[156]

In January 2006, Lord Stevens explained in an interview on GMTV that the case is substantially more complex than once thought. The Sunday Times wrote on 29 January 2006 that agents of the British secret service were cross-examined because they were in Paris at the time of the crash. It was suggested in many journals that these agents might have exchanged the blood test from Henri Paul with another blood sample (although no evidence for this has been forthcoming).[157][158]

The inquests into the deaths of Diana and Fayed opened on 8 January 2007, with Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss acting as Deputy Coroner of the Queen's Household for the Diana inquest and Assistant Deputy Coroner for Surrey in relation to the Fayed inquest. Butler-Sloss originally intended to sit without a jury;[159] this decision was later overturned by the High Court of Justice,[160] as well as the jurisdiction of the coroner of the Queen's Household. On 24 April 2007, Butler-Sloss stepped down, saying she lacked the experience required to deal with an inquest with a jury.[161] The role of coroner for the inquests was transferred to Lord Justice Scott Baker, who formally took up the role on 13 June as Coroner for Inner West London.[162]

On 27 July 2007, Baker, following representations for the lawyers of the interested parties, issued a list of issues likely to be raised at the inquest, many of which had been dealt with in great detail by Operation Paget:

  1. Whether driver error on the part of Henri Paul caused or contributed to the cause of the collision
  2. Whether Henri Paul's ability to drive was impaired through drink or drugs
  3. Whether a Fiat Uno or any other vehicle caused or contributed to the collision
  4. Whether the actions of the Paparazzi caused or contributed to the cause of the collision
  5. Whether the road/tunnel layout and construction were inherently dangerous and, if so, whether this contributed to the collision
  6. Whether any bright/flashing lights contributed to or caused the collision and, if so, their source
  7. Whose decision it was that Diana and Dodi Al Fayed should leave from the rear entrance to the Ritz and that Henri Paul should drive the vehicle
  8. Henri Paul's movements between 7 and 10 pm on 30 August 1997
  9. The explanation for the money in Henri Paul's possession on 30 August 1997 and in his bank account
  10. Whether Andanson, a photographer who followed the princess in the week before her death, was in Paris on the night of the collision
  11. Whether Diana's life would have been saved if she had reached hospital sooner or if her medical treatment had been different
  12. Whether Diana was pregnant
  13. Whether Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were about to announce their engagement
  14. Whether and, if so in what circumstances, the Princess of Wales feared for her life
  15. The circumstances relating to the purchase of the ring
  16. The circumstances in which Diana's body was embalmed
  17. Whether the evidence of Tomlinson throws any light on the collision
  18. Whether the British or any other security services had any involvement in the collision
  19. Whether there was anything sinister about (i) the Cherruault burglary[clarification needed] or (ii) the disturbance at the Big Pictures agency
  20. Whether correspondence belonging to Diana (including some from Prince Philip) has disappeared, and if so the circumstances.[163]

The inquests officially began on 2 October 2007 with the swearing of a jury of six women and five men. Lord Justice Baker delivered a lengthy opening statement giving general instructions to the jury and introducing the evidence.[164] The BBC reported that Mohamed Al-Fayed, having earlier reiterated his claim that his son and Diana were murdered by the Royal Family, immediately criticised the opening statement as biased.[165]

The inquest heard evidence from people connected with Diana and the events leading to her death, including Rees-Jones, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Paul Burrell, Diana's stepmother, and the former head of MI6.[166]

 
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Lord Justice Baker began his summing up to the jury on 31 March 2008.[167] He opened by telling the jury "no-one except you and I and, I think, the gentleman in the public gallery with Diana and Fayed painted on his forehead sat through every word of evidence" and concluded that there was "not a shred of evidence" that Diana's death had been ordered by Prince Philip or organised by the security services.[168] He concluded his summing up on Wednesday, 2 April 2008.[169] After summing up, the jury retired to consider five verdicts, namely unlawful killing by the negligence of either or both the following vehicles or Paul; accidental death or an open verdict.[167] The jury decided on 7 April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the "grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles [the paparazzi] and of the Mercedes driver Henri Paul".[170][171] Princes William and Harry released a statement in which they said that they "agree with their verdicts and are both hugely grateful".[172] Mohamed Al-Fayed also said that he would accept the verdict and "abandon his 10-year campaign to prove that Diana and Dodi were murdered in a conspiracy".[173]

The cost of the inquiry exceeded £12.5 million, the coroner's inquest cost £4.5 million; a further £8 million was spent on the Metropolitan Police investigation. It lasted 6 months and heard 250 witnesses, with the cost heavily criticised in the media.[174]

In his memoir, Diana's younger son Prince Harry mentions how the summary conclusion of investigations into his mother's death was "simplistic and absurd."[175] He writes that even if the driver "had been drunk, he wouldn't have had any problem driving through such a short tunnel."[175] He questions why the paparazzi that had been following her and the people who sent them were not in prison, unless it was all due to "corruption and cover-ups being the order of the day?"[175] Harry claims that he and his brother were planning on issuing a statement to ask jointly for the investigation to be reopened but "those who decided dissuaded us."[175]

Related lawsuits

Nine photographers, who had been following Diana and Dodi in 1997, were charged with manslaughter in France.[2] France's "highest court" dropped the charges in 2002.[2]

Three photographers who took pictures of the aftermath of the crash on 31 August 1997 had their photographs confiscated and were tried for invasion of privacy for taking pictures through the open door of the crashed car.[2][176] The photographers, who were part of the "paparazzi", were acquitted in 2003.[2]

Conspiracy theories

Main article: Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Although the initial French investigation found that Diana had died as a result of an accident, several conspiracy theories have been raised.[177] Since February 1998, Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has claimed that the crash was a result of a conspiracy,[178] and later contended that the crash was orchestrated by MI6 on the instructions of the Royal Family.[179] His claims were dismissed by a French judicial investigation[5] and by Operation Paget.[180] On 7 April 2008, Lord Justice Baker's inquest into the deaths of Diana and Fayed ended with the jury concluding that they were the victims of an "unlawful killing" by Henri Paul and the drivers of the following vehicles.[181] Additional factors were "the impairment of the judgment of the driver of the Mercedes through alcohol" and "the death of the deceased was caused or contributed to by the fact that the deceased was not wearing a seat belt, the fact that the Mercedes struck the pillar in the Alma Tunnel rather than colliding with something else".[170]

On 17 August 2013, Scotland Yard revealed that they were examining the credibility of information from a source that alleged that Diana was murdered by a member of the British military.[182][183]

In the media

 
A special After Dark television discussion – After Diana – broadcast on Channel 4 on 13 September 1997

Actor George Clooney was critical of several tabloids and paparazzi agencies following Diana's death. A few of the tabloids boycotted Clooney following the outburst, stating that he "owed a fair portion of his celebrity" to the tabloids and photo agencies in question.[184] In September 1997, a number of supermarket chains in the US removed the September 9 issue of the National Enquirer, which bore the title "Di Goes Sex Mad".[185] The paper's editor described the incident as "an unfortunate circumstance", which was not meant to coincide with her death.[186] Another American tabloid, Globe, issued an apology for its headline "To Di For".[186]

Diana was ranked third in the 2002 Great Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the British public, after Sir Winston Churchill (1st) (a distant cousin), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (2nd), just above Charles Darwin (4th), William Shakespeare (5th), and Isaac Newton (6th). That same year, another British poll named Diana's death as the most important event in the country's last 100 years.[187] Historian Nick Barrett criticised this outcome as being "a pretty shocking result".[188]

Later in 2004, the CBS programme 48 Hours broadcast photos from the crash scene which were "part of a 4,000-page French government report". They showed an intact rear side and centre section of the Mercedes, including one of an unbloodied Diana with no outward injuries crouched on the rear floor with her back to the right passenger seat – the right rear door is fully open. The release of these pictures was poorly received in the UK, where it was felt that the privacy of Diana was being infringed.[189] Buckingham Palace, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Diana's brother condemned the action, while CBS defended its decision saying that the pictures "are placed in journalistic context – an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash".[190]

On 13 July 2006, Italian magazine Chi published photographs that showed Diana amid the wreckage of the car crash;[191] the photos were released despite an unofficial blackout on such photographs being published.[192][c] The editor of Chi defended his decision by saying he published the photographs simply because they had not been previously seen, and he felt the images were not disrespectful to the memory of Diana.[192]

The British newspaper, the Daily Express, was criticised for continued and sustained coverage of Diana following her death. A 2006 report in The Guardian showed that the newspaper had mentioned her in numerous recent news stories, with headlines including, "Perhaps Diana should have worn seatbelt", "Diana inquiry chief's laptop secrets stolen", "£250,000 a year bill to run Diana fountain" and "Diana seatbelt sabotage probe".[193]

The events from Diana's death to her funeral became the subject of a 2006 film, The Queen, with Helen Mirren in the title role.[194]

Internet coverage

Diana's death occurred at a time when Internet use in the developed world was booming, and several national newspapers and at least one British regional newspaper had already launched online news services. BBC News had set up online coverage of the general election earlier in 1997[195] and as a result of the widespread public and media attention surrounding Diana's death, BBC News swiftly created a website featuring news coverage of Diana's death and the events that followed it. Diana's death helped BBC News officials realise how important online news services were becoming, and a full online news service was launched on 4 November that year, alongside the launch of the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News 24 on 9 November.[196]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Nine paparazzi originally charged with manslaughter, but charges were dropped.
  2. ^ Although there are conflicting reports (such as BBC and CNN), the investigation Operation Paget report notes "Operation Paget's view is that none of the seat belts were being worn at the time of the impact, including that of Trevor Rees-Jones." (Page 421) [1].
  3. ^ The photographs, taken minutes after the crash, show her slumped in the back seat while a paramedic attempts to fit an oxygen mask over her face.

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External links

  • BBC's full coverage
  • Diana: One year on – BBC
  • The Washington Post's full coverage
  • Operation Paget full report
  • Official Website of the Inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed (Archived)
  • The life and poignant death of Diana's driver The Times online article
  • Princess Diana Car Crash — Knott Laboratory
  • Diana's final moments — Today (American TV program)
  • The Paparazzi Photos — CBS News

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death, diana, princess, wales, early, hours, august, 1997, diana, princess, wales, died, from, injuries, sustained, earlier, that, night, crash, pont, alma, tunnel, paris, france, dodi, fayed, diana, partner, henri, paul, their, chauffeur, died, upon, impact, . In the early hours of 31 August 1997 Diana Princess of Wales died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a car crash in the Pont de l Alma tunnel in Paris France Dodi Fayed Diana s partner and Henri Paul their chauffeur had died upon impact Her bodyguard Trevor Rees Jones was seriously injured but was the only survivor of the crash Death of Diana Princess of WalesFlowers left outside Kensington Palace in tribute to DianaDate31 August 1997 25 years ago 1997 08 31 LocationPont de l Alma Paris FranceCoordinates48 51 51 7 N 2 18 06 8 E 48 864361 N 2 301889 E 48 864361 2 301889 1 TypeCar accidentDeath caused by dangerous drivingDeathsDiana Princess of WalesDodi FayedHenri PaulNon fatal injuriesTrevor Rees JonesInquiriesOperation Paget 2008 AccusedJacques Langevin Christian Martinez Fabrice Chassery 2 ChargesInvasion of privacy a VerdictFrench criminal trial Not guilty 2 Operation Paget Unlawful killingSome media claimed that the erratic behaviour of the paparazzi chasing the car as reported by the BBC 3 caused the crash However in 1999 a French investigation found that Paul lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs and concluded that he was solely responsible for the crash He was the deputy head of security at the Hotel Ritz Paris and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel 4 Anti depressants and traces of an anti psychotic in his blood might have worsened Paul s inebriation 5 In 2008 the jury at the British inquest Operation Paget returned a verdict of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving by Paul and the following paparazzi vehicles 6 Some media reports claimed that Rees Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt but other investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing them 7 Diana was 36 years old when she died 8 Her death sparked an outpouring of public grief in the United Kingdom and worldwide 9 and her televised funeral was watched by an estimated 2 5 billion people 10 The royal family were criticised in the press for their reaction to Diana s death Public interest in Diana has remained high and she has retained regular press coverage in the decades since her death Contents 1 Circumstances 1 1 Events preceding the crash 1 2 The crash 1 3 Aftermath 2 Mourning 3 Funeral and burial 4 Reactions 4 1 Royal family 4 2 Politicians 4 3 Public 4 3 1 Social and economic impact 4 3 2 Reception 5 Memorials 6 Inquests 7 Related lawsuits 8 Conspiracy theories 9 In the media 9 1 Internet coverage 10 See also 11 References 11 1 Notes 11 2 Citations 11 3 Bibliography 12 External linksCircumstances EditEvents preceding the crash Edit Diana Princess of Wales in June 1997 Mercedes Benz S280 sedan W140 11 S Class similar to the one involved in the crash 12 13 14 15 16 On Saturday 30 August 1997 Princess Diana left the Olbia Airport Sardinia on a private jet and arrived at Le Bourget Airport 17 in Paris with Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed the son of businessman Mohamed Al Fayed 18 19 They had stopped there en route to London having spent the preceding nine days together on board Mohamed s yacht Jonikal on the French and Italian Riviera 20 They had intended to stay there for the night Mohamed was and remains the owner of the Hotel Ritz Paris and resided in an apartment on Rue Arsene Houssaye a short distance from the hotel just off the Avenue des Champs Elysees 21 Henri Paul the deputy head of security at the Ritz had been instructed to drive the hired black 1994 12 13 14 15 armoured 16 Mercedes Benz S280 sedan W140 11 S Class in order to elude the paparazzi 22 a decoy vehicle left the Ritz first from the main entrance on Place Vendome attracting a throng of photographers Diana and Fayed then departed from the hotel s rear entrance 23 Rue Cambon at around 00 20 on 31 August CEST 22 20 on 30 August UTC heading for the apartment in Rue Arsene Houssaye They did this to avoid the nearly thirty photographers waiting in front of the hotel 23 Diana and Fayed were the rear passengers Trevor Rees Jones a member of the Fayed family s personal protection team was in the right front passenger seat 24 None of the occupants were wearing seat belts b After leaving the Rue Cambon and crossing the Place de la Concorde they drove along Cours la Reine and Cours Albert 1er the embankment road along the right bank of the River Seine into the Place de l Alma underpass 25 The crash Edit At 00 23 Paul lost control of the car at the entrance to the Pont de l Alma underpass The car reportedly struck a passing white Fiat swerved to the left of the two lane carriageway and collided head on with the thirteenth pillar that supported the roof 26 27 It was travelling at an estimated speed of 105 km h 65 mph 28 more than twice the 50 km h 31 mph speed limit of the tunnel It then spun hit the stone wall of the tunnel backwards and finally came to a stop The impact caused substantial damage particularly to the front half of the vehicle as there was no guard rail to prevent this 29 Witnesses arriving shortly after the crash reported smoke 30 Witnesses also reported that photographers on motorcycles swarmed the Mercedes sedan before it entered the tunnel 31 Aftermath Edit Pont de l Alma Tunnel east entrance 1998 the site of the crash Pont de l Alma Tunnel west entrance 2007 showing pillars and lack of guard rails The photographers had been driving slower and were some distance behind the Mercedes When they reached the scene some rushed to help trying to open the doors and help the victims while some of them took pictures 32 Police arrived around ten minutes after the crash at 00 30 32 and an ambulance was on site five minutes later according to witnesses 33 France Info radio reported that one photographer was beaten by witnesses who were horrified by the scene 31 Five of the photographers were arrested directly 30 Later two others were detained and around 20 rolls of film were taken directly from the photographers 31 Police also impounded their vehicles afterwards 31 Firefighters also arrived at the scene to help remove the victims 34 Rees Jones sustained multiple serious facial injuries and a head contusion but he was still conscious 35 The front airbags had functioned normally 36 Diana was sitting in the right rear passenger seat and was critically injured but she was still conscious 32 37 The crash mostly affected the righthand side of her body indicating that she was sitting sideways in her seat at the time of impact 38 Her ribs and arm were fractured and her right collar bone was dislocated and she suffered from swelling and bruising to the brain 38 She was reported to murmur repeatedly Oh my God and after the photographers and other helpers were pushed away by police Leave me alone 37 In June 2007 the Channel 4 documentary Diana The Witnesses in the Tunnel claimed that the first person to touch Diana was off duty physician Frederic Mailliez 39 who chanced upon the scene Mailliez reported that Diana had no visible injuries but was in shock 40 She was reported to have been extremely disturbed and removed an intravenous drip while shouting incoherently 41 After being sedated and removed from the car at 01 00 she went into cardiac arrest but her heart started beating again following external cardiopulmonary resuscitation 42 Diana was moved to the ambulance at 01 18 left the scene at 01 41 and arrived at the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital at 02 06 43 Fayed was in the left rear passenger seat and was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards 44 Paul was also pronounced dead at the scene on removal from the wreckage 32 Both were taken directly to the Institut Medico Legal IML the Paris mortuary 45 Paul was later found to have a blood alcohol level of 1 75 grams per litre of blood about 3 5 times the legal limit in France 35 Diana s injuries were extensive and resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful including internal cardiac massage Her heart had been displaced to the right side of the chest 46 which tore the upper left pulmonary vein and the pericardium 41 Diana died at the hospital at 03 00 47 48 Anaesthetist Bruno Riou announced her death at 06 00 at a news conference held at the hospital 30 49 Later that morning French prime minister Lionel Jospin and Interior Minister Jean Pierre Chevenement visited the hospital 50 At around 17 00 Diana s former husband Charles and her two older sisters Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes arrived in Paris 51 The group visited the hospital along with French president Jacques Chirac and thanked the doctors for trying to save her life 52 Charles accompanied Diana s body to the UK later the same day 53 They departed from Velizy Villacoublay Air Base and landed at RAF Northolt and a bearer party from the Queen s Colour Squadron transferred her coffin to the hearse The coffin was draped with the royal standard with an ermine border Her body was taken to the Hammersmith and Fulham mortuary in London for a post mortem examination later that day 54 Initial media reports stated that Diana s car had collided with the pillar at 190 km h 120 mph and that the speedometer s needle had jammed at that position 35 It was later announced that the car s speed upon collision was 95 110 km h 59 68 mph about twice as fast as the speed limit of 50 km h 31 mph In 1999 a French investigation concluded that the Mercedes had come into contact with a white Fiat Uno in the tunnel 55 The driver of the Fiat was never conclusively traced although many believed that the driver was Le Van Thanh Thanh was questioned by French detectives in 1997 who ruled him out as a suspect but friends and family members have noted inconsistences in his story Thanh has since refused interviews or inquiries from investigators 56 The specific vehicle was not identified 57 55 British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook remarked that if the crash had been caused in part by being hounded by paparazzi it would be doubly tragic 23 Diana s younger brother the Earl Spencer also blamed tabloid media for her death 58 An 18 month French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the crash was caused by Paul who lost control at high speed while intoxicated 59 No charges were brought against the paparazzi who had been pursuing the princess car 60 Mourning EditMembers of the public were invited to sign a book of condolence at St James s Palace 61 A book of condolence was also set up by the British embassy in the US 62 All 11 000 light bulbs at Harrods department store owned by Mohamed Al Fayed were turned off and not switched on again until after the funeral 61 Throughout the night members of the Women s Royal Voluntary Service and the Salvation Army provided support for people queuing along the Mall 63 More than one million bouquets were left at her London residence Kensington Palace 64 while at her family s estate of Althorp the public was asked to stop bringing flowers as the volume of both visitors and flowers in the surrounding roads was said to be causing a threat to public safety 65 By 10 September the pile of flowers outside Kensington Gardens was 5 feet 1 5 m deep in places and the bottom layer had started to compost 66 The people were quiet queuing patiently to sign the book and leave their gifts 67 Fresh flowers teddy bears and bottles of champagne were later donated and distributed among the sick the elderly and children Cards personal messages and poems were collected and given to Diana s family 68 Funeral and burial EditMain article Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales Further information Althorp Diana grave memorial and exhibition Early on it was uncertain if Diana would receive a ceremonial funeral since she had lost the status of Her Royal Highness following her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 69 Diana s death was met with extraordinary public expressions of grief 70 9 and her funeral at Westminster Abbey on 6 September drew an estimated 3 million mourners and onlookers in London 71 72 Outside the Abbey and in Hyde Park crowds watched and listened to proceedings on large outdoor screens and speakers as guests filed in including representatives of the many charities of which Diana was patron Attendees included US First Lady Hillary Clinton and French First Lady Bernadette Chirac as well as celebrities including Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and two friends of Diana George Michael and Elton John 37 73 John performed a rewritten version of his song Candle in the Wind that was dedicated to her known as Goodbye England s Rose or Candle in the Wind 1997 74 the single became the best selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s with total sales exceeding 33 million units 75 Protocol was disregarded when the guests applauded the speech by Earl Spencer who strongly criticised the press and indirectly criticised the Royal Family for their treatment of her 76 The funeral is estimated to have been watched by 31 5 million viewers in Britain 77 Precise calculation of the worldwide audience is not possible but it was estimated to be around 2 5 billion 10 The ceremony was broadcast in 44 languages 78 After the end of the ceremony Diana s coffin was driven to Althorp in a Daimler hearse 79 Mourners cast flowers at the funeral procession for almost the entire length of its journey and vehicles even stopped on the opposite carriageway of the M1 motorway as the cars passed 80 In a private ceremony Diana was buried on an island in the middle of a lake called The Oval which is part of the Pleasure Garden at Althorp 81 The coffin bore a weight of a quarter of a tonne 250 kg approx 550 lb as it was lined with lead 82 as is tradition with British royalty 83 In her coffin she wears a black Catherine Walker dress and black tights and is holding a rosary in her hands The rosary had been a gift from Mother Teresa of Calcutta a confidante of Diana who had died the day before her funeral A visitors centre is open during summer months with an exhibition about Diana and a walk around the lake All profits were donated to the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund 84 Reactions EditRoyal family Edit Official correspondence by the Government of New Zealand regarding Diana s death Queen Elizabeth II expressed her dismay at Diana s death 85 Then Prince Charles woke his sons before dawn to share the news 86 Upon announcement of the death the website of the Royal Family temporarily removed all its content and replaced it with a black background displaying a picture of Diana accompanied by her name and dates of birth and death An online book of condolence was also made available on the website for the public to post their personal tributes 87 On Sunday morning after Diana s death the Queen Princes Charles William and Harry all wore black to church services at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral Castle 88 The royal family later issued a statement saying Charles William and Harry were taking strength from and deeply touched by and enormously grateful for the public support 89 90 Princes Andrew and Edward met the mourners outside Kensington Palace as a precautionary measure to test the public mood 89 and Edward visited St James s Palace to sign the book of condolences 91 On their way from Crathie Kirk to Balmoral the Queen Prince Philip Charles William and Harry viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public 89 92 Charles and his sons returned to London on Friday 5 September 93 They made an unannounced visit to see the floral tributes left outside Kensington Palace 89 94 The Queen who returned to London from Balmoral accompanied by Prince Philip the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret agreed to a television broadcast to the nation 95 91 She viewed the floral tributes in front of Buckingham Palace and visited the Chapel Royal at St James s Palace where Diana s body was remaining and met crowds that were in line to sign the books of condolence 89 96 Diana s brother Earl Spencer and her former sister in law Sarah Duchess of York also visited St James s Palace 90 The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family was criticised for a rigid adherence to protocol and their efforts to protect the privacy of Diana s grieving sons were interpreted as a lack of compassion 97 In particular the refusal of Buckingham Palace to fly the Royal Standard at half mast provoked angry headlines in newspapers 97 98 The Palace s stance was one of royal protocol no flag could fly over Buckingham Palace as the Royal Standard is only flown when the monarch is in residence and the Queen was then in Scotland The Royal Standard never flies at half mast as it is the Sovereign s flag and there is never an interregnum or vacancy in the monarchy as the new monarch immediately succeeds his or her predecessor Finally as a compromise the Union Flag was flown at half mast as the Queen left for Westminster Abbey on the day of the funeral 95 This set a precedent and Buckingham Palace has subsequently flown the Union Flag when the monarch is not in residence 99 A rift between Prince Charles and the Queen s private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes Diana s brother in law was reported in the media over the nature of the funeral with Charles demanding a public funeral and Fellowes supporting the Queen s idea of a private one 100 The Palace later issued a statement denying such rumours 100 Discussions were also held with the Spencer family and the British royal family as to whether Diana s HRH style needed to be restored posthumously but Diana s family decided that it would be against Diana s wishes and no formal offer was made 101 The funeral committee at Buckingham Palace wanted William and Harry to have a bigger role in their mother s funeral and Downing Street officials suggested that they could walk in the funeral cortege 102 but faced opposition from Prince Philip who reportedly stated They ve just lost their mother You re talking about them as if they are commodities 89 Prince Harry said in 2017 that the death of his mother caused severe depression and grief 103 He later stated that what he experienced after his mother s death was very much post traumatic stress injury PTSI 104 William was 15 and Harry was 12 when Diana died 105 The boys received locks of their mother s hair from their aunt Lady Sarah McCorquodale once she returned from Paris according to Harry 106 Years later William and Harry defended their father and grandmother s actions in the aftermath of their mother s death Describing his father s role Harry said Our dad was there for us he was the one out of two left and he tried to do his best and to make sure that we were protected and looked after 107 Speaking about his grandmother William stated At the time my grandmother wanted to protect her two grandsons and my father as well Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers and things like that so there was nothing in the house to read 107 Diana s sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale also spoke in defence of the Queen s decision She did absolutely the right thing If I d been her I d have done that 107 Politicians Edit source source source source source source source source source source track track President Bill Clinton s remarks on Diana s death British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was utterly devastated by the death of the Princess 69 108 US President Bill Clinton said that he and his wife Hillary Clinton were profoundly saddened when they found out about her death 30 Kofi Annan the United Nations Secretary General said that her death has robbed the world of a consistent and committed voice for the improvement of the lives of suffering children worldwide 88 In a telegram of condolences German Chancellor Helmut Kohl expressed the view that Diana had also become the victim of an increasingly brutal and unscrupulous competition on the part of some of the media 109 In Australia the Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer condemned the paparazzi for their overzealous coverage of Diana 110 Russian President Boris Yeltsin praised Diana s charity work in a statement saying All know of Princess Diana s big contribution to charitable work and not only in Great Britain 111 112 Among other politicians who sent messages of condolences were Australian Prime Minister John Howard South African President Nelson Mandela Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 111 The Australian House of Representatives and the New Zealand House of Representatives also passed parliamentary motions of condolence 113 114 The Government of Canada as well as individual provinces in the country set up online and in person books of condolences in their parliament buildings and memorial services were held across the country 115 Following her death delegates at an international conference in Oslo to ban landmines paid their tributes to Diana who was an avid campaigner for banning the explosive devices 116 The Ottawa Treaty which created an international ban on the use of anti personnel landmines was adopted in Oslo in September 1997 and signed by 122 States in Ottawa on 3 December 1997 117 Diana s work on the landmines issue has been described as influential in the signing of the treaty 118 Public Edit In London thousands of people carried bouquets and stood outside Buckingham Palace after the news of her death 88 People started bringing flowers within an hour after the news was shared 85 The BBC flew its flags at half mast 88 Both radio and television aired the British national anthem God Save the Queen in response to Diana s death as is precedent for the death of a member of the Royal Family 85 An elegy was published by Ted Hughes to mark her death 119 Sporting events in the UK were rearranged with demands for Scotland s Football Association chief executive to resign due to their delayed response to reschedule Scotland s World Cup qualifier 120 People in the US were shocked at her death 121 In San Francisco around 14 000 people marched through the city in a procession on 5 September to pay tribute to Diana honouring her for her work on behalf of AIDS patients 122 In Los Angeles more than 2 500 people transformed a baseball field into a candle lit altar in a memorial service prepared by an AIDS organisation 122 In Paris thousands of people visited the site of the crash and the hospital where Diana died leaving bouquets candles and messages 123 People brought flowers and also attempted to visit the Hotel Ritz 123 On the eve of the funeral 300 members of the British community in Paris took part in a service of commemoration 122 Landmine victims in Angola and Bosnia also honoured Diana with separate services pointing out how her efforts had helped raise awareness about the damage caused by landmines 122 In Bosnia a landmine survivor Jasminko Bjelic who had met Diana only three weeks earlier said She was our friend 88 In Egypt the homeland of Dodi Fayed people visited the British embassy in Cairo to pay their tributes and sign a book of condolences 124 Following her death many celebrities including actors and singers blamed the paparazzi and condemned their reckless behavior 125 126 Mother Teresa who met Diana a few months before her death expressed her sorrow and prayers were held at the Missionaries of Charity for Diana 111 The Bishop of Bradford David Smith and the Bradford Council of Mosques held prayers by the Christian and Muslim communities 127 Jonathan Sacks led prayers by the Jewish community at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue and Cardinal Basil Hume presided over the Roman Catholic requiem mass held at Westminster Cathedral 127 Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997 the day before Diana s funeral Social and economic impact Edit During the four weeks following her funeral the suicide rate in England and Wales rose by 17 and cases of deliberate self harm by 44 3 compared with the average for that period in the four previous years Researchers suggest that this was caused by the identification effect as the greatest increase in suicides was by people most similar to Diana women aged 25 to 44 whose suicide rate increased by over 45 128 Another research showed that 50 of Britons and 27 of Americans were deeply affected by her death as if someone they knew had died It also concluded that in general women were more affected than men in both of the countries 129 The same research showed that Diana s charitable endeavors and ability to identify with ordinary people were among the main factors that caused her to be admired and respected by the people 129 In the weeks after her death counselling services reported an increase in the number of phone calls by the people who were seeking help due to grief or distress 130 Diana s death mostly affected people who were already vulnerable and could identify with her as a public figure perceived as psychologically troubled but who seemed to have made a constructive adjustment 131 Another research described Diana s death and funeral as traumatic stressors with psychological impacts that could be equated with traditional stressors identified in the trauma research literature 132 In the days after her funeral an increase in the number of inappropriate hospital admissions was observed whereas the number of admissions for traumatic injuries decreased for at least three months showing a possible change in people s driving habits 133 134 Her death was also associated with 30 reduction in calls to the police and a 28 drop in public order offences yet despite its effect on increasing depression and traumatic stress no significant increase was observed in the number of psychiatric emergencies in Edinburgh 135 The national grieving for Diana had economic effects In the short term the Centre for Economics and Business Research CEBR estimated that retail sales dropped 1 that week Traffic congestion in central London as crowds went to the palaces to pay homage likewise adversely affected productivity and the CEBR estimated that would cost businesses 200 million or a total loss of 0 1 of gross domestic product for the third quarter of 1997 However in the long run the CEBR expected that to be offset by increased tourism and memorabilia sales 136 Reception Edit Some criticised the reaction to Diana s death at the time as being hysterical and irrational As early as 1998 philosopher Anthony O Hear identified the mourning as a defining point in the sentimentalisation of Britain a media fuelled phenomenon where image and reality become blurred 137 Oasis bandleader Noel Gallagher responded to the reaction with The woman s dead Shut up Get over it 138 These criticisms were repeated on the tenth anniversary of the crash when journalist Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian expressed the opinion that It has become an embarrassing memory like a mawkish self pitying teenage entry in a diary we cringe to think about it 139 In 2010 Theodore Dalrymple suggested sentimentality both spontaneous and generated by the exaggerated attention of the media that was necessary to turn the death of the princess into an event of such magnitude thus served a political purpose one that was inherently dishonest in a way that parallels the dishonesty that lies behind much sentimentality itself 140 The reactions following Diana s death were subject to criticism by Christopher Hitchens His 1998 documentary Princess Diana The Mourning After accused the British media of playing an essential role in creating a national unchallengeable and at times hysterical cult of personality surrounding Diana whereas previously they had been extremely critical of her and the monarchy after she had separated and divorced from Charles and was having an affair with Dodi Fayed Hitchens claimed the public were behaving irrationally and that many appeared to not even know why they were mourning He also scrutinised the level of censorship against criticism of Diana and the monarchy but was accused in a review by The Independent of exaggerating on this point 141 Private Eye s sales dropped by one third after it ran a cover titled Media to Blame which attempted to criticise the instant switch in the media and the public s opinion of Diana after her death from critical to complimentary 142 Hitchens s views were later supported by Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian who also questioned the reason behind the outburst of mass hysteria following Diana s death and described it as an episode when the British public lost its characteristic cool and engaged in seven days of bogus sentimentality whipped up by the media and whose flimsiness was demonstrated when it vanished as quickly as it had appeared 139 Comparing Diana s funeral to that of Winston Churchill Peter Hitchens observed the difference in the self discipline of the people and their attitudes at the two historical events with them being more restrained at Churchill s funeral but un English at Diana s 143 Some cultural analysts disagreed Sociologist Deborah Steinberg pointed out that many Britons associated Diana not with the Royal Family but with social change and a more liberal society I don t think it was hysteria the loss of a public figure can be a touchstone for other issues 144 Carol Wallace of People magazine said that the fascination with Diana s death had to do with the fairy tale failing to end happily twice first when she got divorced and now that she died 145 Reflecting back on the event in the 2021 Apple TV docuseries The Me You Can t See Diana s son Prince Harry said that he was surprised by the extent to which the public reacted to his mother s death Referring to the day of her funeral he said I m just walking along and doing what was expected of me showing the one tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing This was my mum you never even met her 146 In his memoir Spare he mentions meeting members of the public following his mother s death and Hundreds and hundreds of hands that planted us again and again in front of our faces with our fingers often wet Of what I wondered Tears I understood I disliked the touch of those hands What s more I disliked how they made me feel guilty Why were all of those people crying when I was neither crying nor able to cry 147 Memorials EditFurther information Diana Princess of Wales Memorials The Flame of Liberty the unofficial Diana memorial in Paris France the day after the 20th anniversary of her death The ground is covered with flowers and other tributes and the chain fence covered with love locks In the years after her death many memorials were commissioned and dedicated to her As a temporary memorial the public co opted the Flamme de la Liberte Flame of Liberty a monument near the Pont de l Alma tunnel related to the French donation of the Statue of Liberty to the US The messages of condolence have since been removed and its use as a Diana memorial has discontinued though visitors still leave messages in her memory A permanent memorial the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain was opened by the Queen in Hyde Park in London on 6 July 2004 148 followed by a statue in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace which was unveiled by her sons on 1 July 2021 149 Following her death a member of the Millennium Dome s board suggested the project be refashioned and extended to accommodate for example a hospital businesses charities private residences and the whole thing named the Princess Diana Centre The idea was later scrapped 150 Inquests EditFurther information Operation Paget Under English law an inquest is required in cases of sudden or unexplained death 151 152 A French judicial investigation had already been carried out but the 6 000 page report was never published 153 On 6 January 2004 six years after Diana s death an inquest into the crash opened in London held by Michael Burgess the coroner of the Queen s Household 152 The coroner asked the Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir John Stevens to make inquiries in response to speculation that the deaths were not an accident 152 154 Forensic scientist Angela Gallop was commissioned to examine the forensic evidence 155 The police investigation reported its findings in Operation Paget in December 2006 156 In January 2006 Lord Stevens explained in an interview on GMTV that the case is substantially more complex than once thought The Sunday Times wrote on 29 January 2006 that agents of the British secret service were cross examined because they were in Paris at the time of the crash It was suggested in many journals that these agents might have exchanged the blood test from Henri Paul with another blood sample although no evidence for this has been forthcoming 157 158 The inquests into the deaths of Diana and Fayed opened on 8 January 2007 with Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss acting as Deputy Coroner of the Queen s Household for the Diana inquest and Assistant Deputy Coroner for Surrey in relation to the Fayed inquest Butler Sloss originally intended to sit without a jury 159 this decision was later overturned by the High Court of Justice 160 as well as the jurisdiction of the coroner of the Queen s Household On 24 April 2007 Butler Sloss stepped down saying she lacked the experience required to deal with an inquest with a jury 161 The role of coroner for the inquests was transferred to Lord Justice Scott Baker who formally took up the role on 13 June as Coroner for Inner West London 162 On 27 July 2007 Baker following representations for the lawyers of the interested parties issued a list of issues likely to be raised at the inquest many of which had been dealt with in great detail by Operation Paget Whether driver error on the part of Henri Paul caused or contributed to the cause of the collision Whether Henri Paul s ability to drive was impaired through drink or drugs Whether a Fiat Uno or any other vehicle caused or contributed to the collision Whether the actions of the Paparazzi caused or contributed to the cause of the collision Whether the road tunnel layout and construction were inherently dangerous and if so whether this contributed to the collision Whether any bright flashing lights contributed to or caused the collision and if so their source Whose decision it was that Diana and Dodi Al Fayed should leave from the rear entrance to the Ritz and that Henri Paul should drive the vehicle Henri Paul s movements between 7 and 10 pm on 30 August 1997 The explanation for the money in Henri Paul s possession on 30 August 1997 and in his bank account Whether Andanson a photographer who followed the princess in the week before her death was in Paris on the night of the collision Whether Diana s life would have been saved if she had reached hospital sooner or if her medical treatment had been different Whether Diana was pregnant Whether Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were about to announce their engagement Whether and if so in what circumstances the Princess of Wales feared for her life The circumstances relating to the purchase of the ring The circumstances in which Diana s body was embalmed Whether the evidence of Tomlinson throws any light on the collision Whether the British or any other security services had any involvement in the collision Whether there was anything sinister about i the Cherruault burglary clarification needed or ii the disturbance at the Big Pictures agency Whether correspondence belonging to Diana including some from Prince Philip has disappeared and if so the circumstances 163 The inquests officially began on 2 October 2007 with the swearing of a jury of six women and five men Lord Justice Baker delivered a lengthy opening statement giving general instructions to the jury and introducing the evidence 164 The BBC reported that Mohamed Al Fayed having earlier reiterated his claim that his son and Diana were murdered by the Royal Family immediately criticised the opening statement as biased 165 The inquest heard evidence from people connected with Diana and the events leading to her death including Rees Jones Mohamed Al Fayed Paul Burrell Diana s stepmother and the former head of MI6 166 Wikinews has related news Princess Diana jury returns verdict of unlawful killing Lord Justice Baker began his summing up to the jury on 31 March 2008 167 He opened by telling the jury no one except you and I and I think the gentleman in the public gallery with Diana and Fayed painted on his forehead sat through every word of evidence and concluded that there was not a shred of evidence that Diana s death had been ordered by Prince Philip or organised by the security services 168 He concluded his summing up on Wednesday 2 April 2008 169 After summing up the jury retired to consider five verdicts namely unlawful killing by the negligence of either or both the following vehicles or Paul accidental death or an open verdict 167 The jury decided on 7 April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles the paparazzi and of the Mercedes driver Henri Paul 170 171 Princes William and Harry released a statement in which they said that they agree with their verdicts and are both hugely grateful 172 Mohamed Al Fayed also said that he would accept the verdict and abandon his 10 year campaign to prove that Diana and Dodi were murdered in a conspiracy 173 The cost of the inquiry exceeded 12 5 million the coroner s inquest cost 4 5 million a further 8 million was spent on the Metropolitan Police investigation It lasted 6 months and heard 250 witnesses with the cost heavily criticised in the media 174 In his memoir Diana s younger son Prince Harry mentions how the summary conclusion of investigations into his mother s death was simplistic and absurd 175 He writes that even if the driver had been drunk he wouldn t have had any problem driving through such a short tunnel 175 He questions why the paparazzi that had been following her and the people who sent them were not in prison unless it was all due to corruption and cover ups being the order of the day 175 Harry claims that he and his brother were planning on issuing a statement to ask jointly for the investigation to be reopened but those who decided dissuaded us 175 Related lawsuits EditNine photographers who had been following Diana and Dodi in 1997 were charged with manslaughter in France 2 France s highest court dropped the charges in 2002 2 Three photographers who took pictures of the aftermath of the crash on 31 August 1997 had their photographs confiscated and were tried for invasion of privacy for taking pictures through the open door of the crashed car 2 176 The photographers who were part of the paparazzi were acquitted in 2003 2 Conspiracy theories EditMain article Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana Princess of Wales Although the initial French investigation found that Diana had died as a result of an accident several conspiracy theories have been raised 177 Since February 1998 Fayed s father Mohamed Al Fayed has claimed that the crash was a result of a conspiracy 178 and later contended that the crash was orchestrated by MI6 on the instructions of the Royal Family 179 His claims were dismissed by a French judicial investigation 5 and by Operation Paget 180 On 7 April 2008 Lord Justice Baker s inquest into the deaths of Diana and Fayed ended with the jury concluding that they were the victims of an unlawful killing by Henri Paul and the drivers of the following vehicles 181 Additional factors were the impairment of the judgment of the driver of the Mercedes through alcohol and the death of the deceased was caused or contributed to by the fact that the deceased was not wearing a seat belt the fact that the Mercedes struck the pillar in the Alma Tunnel rather than colliding with something else 170 On 17 August 2013 Scotland Yard revealed that they were examining the credibility of information from a source that alleged that Diana was murdered by a member of the British military 182 183 In the media Edit A special After Dark television discussion After Diana broadcast on Channel 4 on 13 September 1997 Actor George Clooney was critical of several tabloids and paparazzi agencies following Diana s death A few of the tabloids boycotted Clooney following the outburst stating that he owed a fair portion of his celebrity to the tabloids and photo agencies in question 184 In September 1997 a number of supermarket chains in the US removed the September 9 issue of the National Enquirer which bore the title Di Goes Sex Mad 185 The paper s editor described the incident as an unfortunate circumstance which was not meant to coincide with her death 186 Another American tabloid Globe issued an apology for its headline To Di For 186 Diana was ranked third in the 2002 Great Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the British public after Sir Winston Churchill 1st a distant cousin and Isambard Kingdom Brunel 2nd just above Charles Darwin 4th William Shakespeare 5th and Isaac Newton 6th That same year another British poll named Diana s death as the most important event in the country s last 100 years 187 Historian Nick Barrett criticised this outcome as being a pretty shocking result 188 Later in 2004 the CBS programme 48 Hours broadcast photos from the crash scene which were part of a 4 000 page French government report They showed an intact rear side and centre section of the Mercedes including one of an unbloodied Diana with no outward injuries crouched on the rear floor with her back to the right passenger seat the right rear door is fully open The release of these pictures was poorly received in the UK where it was felt that the privacy of Diana was being infringed 189 Buckingham Palace Prime Minister Tony Blair and Diana s brother condemned the action while CBS defended its decision saying that the pictures are placed in journalistic context an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash 190 On 13 July 2006 Italian magazine Chi published photographs that showed Diana amid the wreckage of the car crash 191 the photos were released despite an unofficial blackout on such photographs being published 192 c The editor of Chi defended his decision by saying he published the photographs simply because they had not been previously seen and he felt the images were not disrespectful to the memory of Diana 192 The British newspaper the Daily Express was criticised for continued and sustained coverage of Diana following her death A 2006 report in The Guardian showed that the newspaper had mentioned her in numerous recent news stories with headlines including Perhaps Diana should have worn seatbelt Diana inquiry chief s laptop secrets stolen 250 000 a year bill to run Diana fountain and Diana seatbelt sabotage probe 193 The events from Diana s death to her funeral became the subject of a 2006 film The Queen with Helen Mirren in the title role 194 Internet coverage Edit Diana s death occurred at a time when Internet use in the developed world was booming and several national newspapers and at least one British regional newspaper had already launched online news services BBC News had set up online coverage of the general election earlier in 1997 195 and as a result of the widespread public and media attention surrounding Diana s death BBC News swiftly created a website featuring news coverage of Diana s death and the events that followed it Diana s death helped BBC News officials realise how important online news services were becoming and a full online news service was launched on 4 November that year alongside the launch of the BBC s rolling news channel BBC News 24 on 9 November 196 See also Edit 1990s portalConcert for Diana a 2007 rock concert to commemorate Diana Diana Last Days of a Princess a 2007 television docudrama List of people who died in traffic collisions The Little White Car a 2004 novel based around the mystery Fiat Uno The Murder of Princess Diana a 2007 book 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