Diana suffered several injuries in the crash. She had a concussion, broken arm and a cut to her thigh, according to United Press International. But her most lethal injuries were severe chest wounds. She had a tear to her left pulmonary vein that caused internal bleeding, The Independent reported.
Her heart had been displaced to the right side of the chest, which tore the upper left pulmonary vein and the pericardium. Diana died at the hospital at 03:00. Anaesthetist Bruno Riou announced her death at 06:00 at a news conference held at the hospital.
What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
The driver of the car, Henri Paul — who was later found to be inebriated — turned into a tunnel that ran next to the Seine River in an attempt to evade the photographers. But the vehicle quickly spun out of control while being driven at a speed of 121 mph.
The driver, Henri Paul, and Princess Diana's boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed are believed to have been killed instantly. The only survivor was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was hospitalized for two months with severe injuries. He has consistently maintained he does not remember much of the crash.
Why are Royal coffins lined with lead? Royal coffins are lead-lined, creating a lead casket inside the oak coffin, to help preserve the body for longer in an airtight seal while the deceased is lying in state and for when they are laid to rest above ground.
The Queen thought Diana quite suitable for Charles. “She was very much a hit with the royal family—they really warmed to her,” Chernock says. “Diana worked very, very hard to ingratiate herself and to model what she thought being a princess would entail, and she did it very successfully.”
The U.K.'s top forensic pathologist has said that Princess Diana died due to a tiny tear in a vein in one of her lungs, and would almost certainly have survived the 1997 Paris car crash that killed her had she been wearing a seat belt or had the car been traveling at a slightly slower speed.
Actors Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks were among the mourners at the funeral. Michael famously "bawled his eyes out" at the funeral.
The ring reportedly was found in the wreckage of the Mercedes and given to Diana's sisters when they came to Paris to accompany her body back to England.
A firefighter who led the response team pulled Diana from the wreckage. He said that the princess asked him, "My God, what has happened?" It was only later that he found out the victim was Princess Diana, and that these would be her final words.
Upon seeing the video, Chuck leaves the salon. She later goes to see him at The Empire and explains the whole story: she had an affair with Bart while he was with Elizabeth Fisher and ended up pregnant.
If you watch the footage, Princess Margaret was not the only person who didn't bow her head as the coffin passed. There was nothing significant in that. That the one person in the UK who does not need to bow to anyone DID, WAS significant.
Supposedly, the point of the tradition is to see how much everyone enjoyed their food, and make sure that all the guests were given enough to eat. The idea being that if they had been well fed, they'd have put a couple of pounds on.
The most significant claim made in the book is that the Princess had suffered from borderline personality disorder. It is also claimed that she could not fix her serious eating disorder and was not able to manage to sustain relationships.
Public reaction in Britain to Camilla's decision not to attend today's service has been largely positive, if caustic at times. "I couldn't be happier if I'd won the lottery," Joan Berry, secretary of the Diana Appreciation Society told newspaper The Telegraph.
Jemima Khan, a close friend of the Princess and the former wife of Hasnat's distant cousin, Imran Khan, shared, "Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him, even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that's one of the reasons why we became friends."
Diana's body was clothed in a black long-sleeved, three-quarter length woolen cocktail dress designed by Catherine Walker which she had chosen some weeks before, a pair of black pantyhose, and a pair of black shoes.
11.23am. Diana and Earl Spencer made their three-and-a-half-minute walk up the aisle, which Fleming dubbed 'the longest and happiest walk she will ever take'.
2:01 a.m.: Nearly two hours after the accident, Diana reached Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital and was rushed immediately into surgery.
The late princess continued to wear her engagement ring even after she and Prince Charles divorced in 1996. After her death, Prince William inherited the sapphire sparkler, eventually using it to propose to Kate Middleton in 2010.
Prince Philip reportedly wrote a series of letters to Diana at this point which “upset and infuriated” the princess. In one, he reportedly told her that her “irrational” behavior and jealousy were to blame for many of her marital problems with Charles.
"One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding, Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton said. "I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her, and it was devastating for Diana."
During Diana and Charles's Australia tour – their immensely successful royal tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1983 – the couple appeared to be very much in love.
The Queen and Princess Diana's Coffins Were Draped in the Same Flag. Both the queen and Diana's caskets were draped in the Royal Standard, a flag representing the Sovereign and the United Kingdom.