Princess Diana's funeral was not a state funeral in part because the then Princess of Wales was no longer a member of the Royal Family - she and the then-Prince of Wales had divorced one year before. Instead, Princess Diana had a ceremonial funeral - which shared many of the elements of a state funeral.
The only British monarch not to have been given a state funeral in the last 295 years was Edward VIII due to his abdication. Other members of the Royal family are not automatically entitled to a state funeral, with Princess Diana, the Queen Mother and Prince Philip all having ceremonial funerals instead.
Who walked behind Diana's coffin? The funeral procession included William and Harry,Prince Charles andPrince Philip, as well as hundreds of representatives of the charities Diana had been involved with.
In life, Diana revitalized the British monarchy and in death, she changed it forever. Today, her legacy lives on in everything from Windsor's more accessible approach to the public to William and Harry's charity work to virtually everything Kate does.
“We have all been trying in our different ways to cope,” she said. “It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings: disbelief, incomprehension, anger — and concern for those who remain.”
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.”
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.
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.
Arbiter said: “Diana and the Queen shared a warm relationship. The Queen found emotional problems difficult – that's her generation.” She also explained that the Queen had asked the press to give Diana her space.
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.
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.
After Princess Diana died in 1997, Charles, then the Prince of Wales, wore a navy suit to her funeral. At the time, royal watchers read his outfit choice as a tribute to the late princess; Diana was said to have preferred men in navy.
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.
According to Seward in The Queen & Di, although Elizabeth was initially sympathetic to Diana, eventually the stoic monarch felt that the emotional Princess was simply too much to handle.
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.
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?”
Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon, and Princess Diana dated for two years, from 1995 to 1997. Diana reportedly described him as the "love of her life" to friends, and introduced him to her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.
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.
He then supposedly used a surrogate womb in order to bring carry Sarah for 9 months. Sha was born in 1981, allegedly. When Princess Diana passed away in that 1997 car crash, Sarah feared for her life and fled to the United States. She's lived in New England ever since, allegedly.
Worst of all are Jack Bass and Diana Payne, whose strategy for hiding the fact that Chuck's supposedly deceased father is still alive consisted of getting super-involved in the lives of Chuck and everyone he knows, confusing him with multiple, preposterous stories about his lineage, and sputtering, “Why do you have to ...
Charles chose to include the sapphire and diamond ring in the collection because it reminded him of the brooch he often saw his mother and grandmother wear. Diana reportedly picked the sapphire ring because it matched her blue eyes.
Actors Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks were among the mourners at the funeral. Michael famously "bawled his eyes out" at the funeral.
It was worn for the first time to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The garment has been interpreted as having been worn by Diana "in revenge" for the televised admission of adultery by her husband Charles, then Prince of Wales.
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.