One of the most heart breaking facts that came out was that she very possibly would have survived had she worn her seatbelt. The bodyguard had his fastened and he lived. That just made it all the more tragic.
She was assassinated. And had they not SLOWLY driven her to a hospital, doing God knows what to her in the meantime, and hadn’t engineered the “accident” in the first place she’d have lived.
Agreed. She was a HUGE security risk for the royals. She knew too much of the inner workings of the royalty. Publishers were offering her tens of millions of dollars for a biography. On top of the fact she travelled the world without bodyguards or security. It was only a matter of time before some terrorist or islamic group would have abducted her and held her hostage for hundreds of millions of dollars...@@angelwings7930
52:43 "A concussion, a broken arm, and serious cuts to her thigh..." I remember watching the CNN coverage of this that night, and we were told that too, and believed it right up until they brought the car out of the tunnel. When we saw that we looked at each other and said, "There is no way she got out of that with only a broken arm and cuts." RIP Diana, 24 years ago today.
@@ninachr there had to be major internal injuries. Her seatbelt was broken and they hit that barrier at 80 mph. I'm surprised she wasn't killed on impact.
I watched her being brought out of that car live. Her car was crushed on the front but the rest of car was intact. There was no reason for me to think her injuries were serious, it was only later after the announcement that they showed photos of the sardine like crushed car.
I was in England at home after a night out with friends and I thought the same thing, when I saw the state of the car I had a bad feeling, it was so awful.
I'd been on a night out and about 15 of us ended up back at a friend's house - watching the news through the night was surreal at the time, but then waking the next day to the news that Diana had actually died was absolutely shocking.
I was 17, and my senior year in high school was a couple weeks away. I remember being so shocked. Diana was everywhere when I was a child growing up in the 80s. I didn’t realize how young she was, all I knew is she had always been there. It was terrible, it IS terrible. I wish she were still here, she had only just begun to enjoy her life and her freedom. 😢
I will never forget that first BBC news report, I was watching television while on night duty in a care home. This is news reporting at its most vulnerable, most visceral, takes me right back to the moment, the terrible uncertainty of not knowing, then the awful truth which followed
Me too , watched with shock from a local bar in lahaina Maui. A few weeks later, I laid flowers for her at the Alma Tunnel in Paris...People were still in shock and in tears at the Tunnel.
Same here, just got home together with some friends after partying and turnd on the tv and we saw the first report. Our party was over from then on, we watched bbc for hours and hours.
Me too got in form a night out whilst at university my mum said about it I sobered up so quickly. The story she’d suffered a fractured arm but was stable... it just didn’t make sense :-(
I was a porter at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and on nightshift. We knew she had gone when we had a call from the Health secretary's office telling us to lower the hospital flag to half-mast.
I remember coming home from a Saturday night at the clubs and this was on the TV. I was in my early 20's. Normally I would not turn on the TV when I came home from clubbing but for some reason I did.
Americans adored her & she loved them. I will never forget her dancing with John Travolta, brilliant. She said she was so nervous because he was a fabulous dancer, she didn't think that he may of been nervous because she was the Princess of Wales & at the time she was the future Queen, she was so down to earth, she didn't act like a Diva or think she was above anyone. She loved people rich or poor & she was the first to hug someone who was poorly or down on their luck.
The film still of Night of the Hunter seems rather ironic. I met Princess Di on 16 April 1991, when she went out of her way to be kind to me. A lovely person. RIP.
I was 11 years old when this tragic accident happened. My heart still goes out to her two boys. Just so sad, and she will be remembered as a loving and caring lady
I was 14 and not even British, didn't even speak English then. But I was gay and naturally attracted to her. Me and my brother were in a car going to pick the apples when I heard it on a radio.
I can remember this day like it was yesterday. It was one of those life-defining 'where were you when it happened?' moments that occur throughout history that you never forget. I'm the same age now as Diana was when she died and that is absolutely far too young to pass away. The impact she made on this planet during the short time she was here that will never ever be forgotten.
Wear a seatbelt people, the only person that survived had his seatbelt on, Trevor Reese Jones, sitting in the passenger seat, admittedly he had some injuries, but he survived.
Twenty six years on and I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I can still feel the shock of disbelief and horror of the moment for what her death would mean to her children, family, admirers and the world. Each year that passes this date always creeps up on me. I relive the sorrow of losing someone I admired as a humanitarian who lived the life of a Greek tragedy heroine. As I lost my own Mother under tragic circumstances six months later my grief was compounded and life changed forever. I’ve lost all the “heroes” in my life. Not one has been replaced. Nobody can ever compare to them and nobody ever will. When Diana died my Mom gave me words of comfort to think about…, “you have to thank God that she was given life and came to prominence at all to do the good works she did and give thanks for that.” I remembered those words six months later when I delivered her eulogy.
I was 6 the night that this happened and hearing the announcement on the news is burnt into my brain. I was up so late because there had been a party and we were just getting organised after arriving home, when my Auntie turned the tv on and a few minutes later it flashed on. The silence that descended in the house was deafening and even as such a young child I knew something had changed forever.
I was 12 when this happened. I was having a sleepover at my best friend’s house on a Saturday and we’d been up all night long by Sunday morning watching the news and hoping she’d make it. I remember being sleepy and delirious as we called our friend’s homes to tell them all she’d passed and many pissed parents answered the phone and were so shocked by the news if they weren’t up already. It was so sad and surreal. 😔
2:22 - BBC World airing on BBC One would be a unique event as by the BBC charter they weren't allow to air BBC World on any of the home BBC channels as BBC World was not funded by the licence fee but was a commercial subsidiary of the BBC funded by advertising, so airing this on BBC One was a one off exemption due to the serious news event.
I was in bed when the news began to break. The radio was on quietly in the background to lull me to sleep when I heard the first very vague report of an accident. I had a sense it was serious so I got up to watch Sky News etc. After an hour or so the reports were that she had seriously injured her thigh and this was repeated a few times. I decided all would likely be well; it didn't sound too serious, and I returned to bed and fell asleep. When I awoke early in the morning my radio was still on and the very first thing I heard was that she'd died. It's hard to describe the sense of shock I felt given I'd felt sure everything would be ok. The sense of shock and grief in my local community was palpable....it completely dominated our thoughts and conversations right up until the point of the funeral. RIP Diana 🙏
Its quite incredible to listen to the various people in the media discussing how their behaviour was justified. It seems to me there is a difference between wanting attention and accepting that she couldn't get away from it and trying to make the best of a situation that was inescapable.
Never forget she was the people's princess, but her most important role was being a mum. Two young boys lost their mum in a horrible way. I lost my mum at the same age Harry was when Princess diana died. It's not easy to lose such an important and special person from your life at that age
I was 16 year old, and remember that night clearly. I was watching late night TV in the living room, when the news came on. Didn't think it was serious, even after the news of Dodi's death. Watched for a bit, then went to bed. Couldn't sleep, so turned on the TV in my bedroom, which I was sharing with my brother. Less than 5 minutes later, confirmation of Diana's death coincided with my brother's sleepy grunt to turn the TV off. I told him Diana had died, and he instantly woke up and watched the news with me until the early morning.
My family were on holiday overseas and on waking that morning couldn’t work out who’d been killed. It simply sad “Diana killed in Paris car crash”. I was shocked to learn it was the Princess of Wales. We flew back to the U.K. on the day of her funeral and the roads from the airport were nearly empty.
It shows how times have changed. This happened in the days before Smart phones and social media. The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning. I was on holiday on a camp site in the Black Forest in Germany with my UK registered vehicle and it wasn’t until Monday evening that I found out about the accident. I was wondering why everyone was staring at us but I think they were bemused that we weren’t reacting to the tragic news. In the days that followed the German shops in many of the places we visited had tributes to Princess Diana in their windows and the shock was palpable. We drove home northwards on the motorway in England and the amount of floral tributes was incredible. Very sad!
I was camping that weekend as well with family and friends (Albeit in America). We were swimming in a lake when that was closed off after someone drowned Sunday afternoon and went back to hang out at the campsite and heard the news on the radio. Absolutely shocking.
I was a single mom who had just enjoyed an adult vacation away leaving my children home with my parents. That day i had come home after my sons were asleep, enjoying talking with my mom about all the fun things i had done. Then the news break came across that Diana had been injured and the attitude changed instantly. My mom and I prayed for Diana and her family. When the news finally came that we had lost Diana i couldn't have asked to be in a better place right in my moms arms. I never met Diana but still admired and loved her no less.
I was camping in Lake District and didn’t know for 3 days. Saw a paper on train and asked reader. He asked where I had been in complete disbelief, think I was last in U.K. to know
I was 8 years old in Ireland. I woke up very early in the morning and heard the tv on and got up because I knew my Dad was up watching TV. I went to him in the living room and asked if I could watch one of my Disney videos. He just said ‘no’ and continued watching in silence ..
Weird and shocking to watch this. I was at work Saturday evening, waiting tables on the west coast of the USA. A man came in and asked if it was too late to have a meal. I told him, of course not, and as I handed him a menu he looked up at me and said, "I don't know if you've heard, but Princess Diana was killed in a car accident today." I still remember the overwhelming sadness and disbelief that swept over me. Clearly he felt the same. It was one of those earth-shaking events where you find yourself really wanting, needing to immediately talk about it--with anyone, even a complete stranger--so profound was the sense of unreality: "is this really real?! how could this happen??"
Absolutely, it was surreal. Her funeral was incredible, Police Officers, Soldiers were openly sobbing & trying to comfort the people in these vast crowds that lined every street in London & the route to the North bound motorway which was the route that took her home to Althorp. The flowers being thrown at the hearse is something I will never forget. London has never seen a state funeral like it by all accounts, it was a fitting 'send off' & our beloved Queen Elizabeth had an incredible funeral day, the Armed Forces did her proud, they were beyond brilliant. I cried my heart out, miss her so much as well, Windsor isn't the same without her, she was always about. I'm taking my friend to St George's Chapel this Thursday, it is beautiful in there & you can now lay flowers on the Queen's grave which I am so pleased they are allowing, it wouldn't have surprised me if you couldn't as the world is full of weird people that do terrible things, she had several attempts on her life & quite a few people have been discovered on the little island trying to dig Diana's coffin up so the nut jobs don't give a shite.
Thanks very much for this upload; I can already see some footage that hasn't been put up before. Anything more you have from the overnight coverage on ITV into GMTV would be appreciated.
Bloody hell, I get goosebumps every time I hear about her death like this. I can't imagine how people must have felt when they heard the news, their nerves must have been set right on edge. I wasn't born at the time, but I do get affected by it, and people ask why because I didn't 'know' her but it's because I knew that she was such a beautiful human being, even though she was going through so much and she was alone, she was giving her love and care to us, the people. But I know that her legacy will be carried through by William and Harry, and everyone will remember her time and time again. What a woman she was. Diana 1961-1997
alone ? she was in a car with a multi-billionaire, a driver and bodyguard, she had a life of luxury , she was beautiful and i too fell for that , however i never met her, so i have perspective.
i met lilly allens dad he came to where i worled ,had a good chat with hime about this & he said it was murder ,they shot dodi & diana went mad so they shot her too - he made the doc death of a princess
I was just 8 years old when this tragedy took place. 1997 wasn't a good year for me because I also lost my mother that year too. 😢 I felt nothing but heartbreak for all of that year. 😭 Diana was taken away from all us way too soon. I wish that I've could've met her in person.
I was 12 when this happened. I got to meet her when I was 5 in 1990 when our school went to see her when she visited Blackpool. I say “meet” but I was behind railings and I grabbed her red coat by the arm when she walked past us lol. My younger sister got to give her a bouquet of flowers though. Sorry about your mother, must have been horrific to lose her at such a young age x
That must of been very hard for you to lose your mum so sorry for your loss, she will always be with you in your heart ❤️sending love and light to you ❤️
Some TV geeking: Visible at 2:30 , the top row of monitors behind the BBC reporter from left to right are showing: 1. (unknown - possibly EuroNews?), 2. BBC1 (simulcasting BBC World), 3. BBC2 (it's off air - it came back on later that night, and also simulcast BBC World, as can be seen in later footage) 4. ITV 5. Channel 4 6. BBC World 7. Sky News The wall clock on the far right shows the local London time. Later that night, NBC in the US interrupted 'Saturday Night Live' and simulcast this BBC coverage, beginning 7 minutes before the death announcement was made on-air.
And a switch off of *all* cctv in Paris 🤔 when the establishment want you on camera - your on it 24/7 And when they want to cover up a murder........... Go figure 🏁🤺👎**Nephelum* 🤬ts
Strange how we never forget where we were or what we were doing when we first hear about events like this. They truly become forever imprinted in our memory. I'm a Canadian, and in 1997 was living and working in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. I had just got home to my flat Sunday morning after working the nightshift at our hospital. As per habit, I turned on the tv for background 'noise'(BBC World, in fact this very broadcast) and without paying any attention, proceeded to the bathroom to take off my scrubs and get ready for bed. While brushing my teeth and over the sound of the running water, I kept hearing vague references from the tv to "Diana's death" and "reaction to the death of Diana", but never made the connection. Wondering what Diana they could possibly be talking about, I stepped back into my sitting room, and standing in front of the tv, saw the breaking news banner at the bottom of the screen announcing that Princess Diana was dead. It was simply surreal. I remember my legs felt like rubber and I had to sit down. As the initial shock of the event wore off, I'll admit that I wept more than once. Funny thing is, I was working the day of her funeral and all our Saudi patients were glued to their tv's watching the live coverage at St. Paul's, this in a country which at that time, was incredibly strict about banning any Christian references. I think they were just fascinated by this glimpse into the ceremony of a religion that they knew very little about.
I was marshalling at Brands Hatch that weekend and the meeting went ahead on the Sunday. The weirdest thing happened during a two minute silence at lunchtime. Brands hatch is set in a natural bowl and when things are quiet you can hear any noise from anywhere on the circuit, During that silence NO sound was heard; no children chatting, no babies crying and no birds chirping in the trees; nothing. It was as if the world stopped for those two minutes. My mate I was marshalling with noticed it too
I was driving back from Spa during an extended stay after the Grand Prix and as I got to Boulogne I heard France 1 news on the radio say "Diana est décédée". I had to pull over, I got out and said a prayer to the heavens.
My Dad was working that night, so he probably would have seen this broadcast live all those years ago. He came in that morning and broke the news to me and my mum. I was 4 years old at the time. We all sat in silence for the rest of the day as the news continued to roll.
In the US I was watching tv when news of the accident began saying Diana had a cut on her leg. I stayed up throughout the night and was stunned hearing she had died. We tried to go shopping the next day and I couldn’t concentrate. The shock was everywhere and it felt unbelievably sad.
I was 26, walking by Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia and wandered into a surf shop. The radio was playing and the news said that Princess Diana had been seriously hurt in a car crash. It was clear it was a life or death situation and I was praying she would be alright. Next thing the announcement came that she was dead. I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I just walked out of the shop, wishing I could somehow bring her back but knowing she was gone forever. It was so final, so shocking, so terribly tragic.
Martyn Lewis talked about being awakened at home and being called into Television Centre to give the newsflash, which explains why he looks a little out of sorts in the first two clips. Since BBC1 then picked up the BBC World feed, Lewis then said he was told to go home for a few hours' sleep and then come back at 6AM. He was back on air at 6:30 to officially announce Diana's death.
my friend was staying with us with her family and her little brother woke up in the small hours and turned the TV on. He came in to tell us and we told him to shove off and to stop winding us up and let us sleep. We didn't for a second think it was true. The shock when we woke up was enormous
We were shocked when we learned the news. It was a holiday weekend in the U.S., we were staying at a B+B in Glen Arbor, MI. Our room had CNN, we wouldn’t normally watch television on vacation, but we had never seen the cable station. We turned on the t.v. by chance after returning from dinner. We couldn’t believe the news, we never thought the world would lose her and were in disbelief when it was confirmed. It was just a sad time for everyone.
This was no accident , it only looked like it , as far as I'm concerned she was murdered! Rest her soul may she ( Diane princess of Wales) rest in peace.😭😭😭😭💔💔💔.
My family were probably the last people in Britain to know, we went out the next day and didn't watch TV. We went in a supermarket and I saw "DI IS DEAD" on the newspapers, but they always had overblown coverage about everything she did, so I didn't think they actually meant that.
I remember driveing on motorway from portsmouth to southampton hearing on the radio diana has died i couldnt believe it! Every 31st of august i remember her ! It was like looseing a sister weird feeling!! God bless Diana x
Yes, and how galling it is, to hear Princess Diana's widower 'husband' now nicely referring to his long-term-mistress-become-spouse as "My Darling Wife". All for our benefit. Everything is fine and dandy now, is it? Quite a handy 'accident', I must say!
May Princess Diana rest in peace. She will be missed by all of us 😢🌹⚰️. BBC and ITV had great coverage and this was only a few weeks before the current BBC logo had been updated.
ITV News really did an excellent job with Dermot Murnaghan and Nicholas Owen, much better than the BBC over dramatic "This is BBC Television from London" - end of the world type news announcement.
Well as she only only married into royal family it is incorrect to refer to her as Princess Diana. The use of a prince or Princess title is reserved for people born in royal family not those who marry into it. She. Was Diana, Princess of Wales not Princess diana
@@BillyHayes79Music true but they do bring in millions in tourism and money earned from crown estate which pays for them with remaining going to treasury
I’ll never forget… I was 8 years old on a family trip in Louisiana. We were in a restaurant that evening when the tragic news broke. We stayed there until after it closed. And that was the first time I ever heard the word “paparazzi”.
I can remember watching the whole night live, from them originally saying she’d walked away, to the inevitable awful news. James Whitaker knew way before it was announced that we weren’t being told the truth. I still have six hours of this on VHS, that I wish I could convert to digital and upload to TH-cam
@@Rfoz51 That’s exactly what I need. Probably doesn’t help I recorded it on Longplay (!!) so you got six hours on a 3 hour VHS. Showing me age now! Thank you 👍🏻😊
I will never forget it, switching on my telly & see blanket coverage on that Sunday morning, I have never cried so much in all my life. The People's Princess a Queen of people's hearts
I cried more when people I actually knew had died. I cried at the loss of pets, love, family. Thankfully I didn't shed a single tear about a pampered princess whom I had never met.
@@sagefields5847 Well, that seems very sane and sensible. Your family, friends, your beloved pets are all part of your life. I must admit I didn't shed a tear about Diana, but for some strange reason cried my eyes out about Prince Philip. Not because I knew him, I think it was tears for the loss of all the people who had died since COVID and all the suffering it had caused..He had always been there, stable and never changing. In the last year it was like living through some horrible nightmare. Nothing was the same.
I will assume you have never suffered a personal loss such as parents, grandparents, other family including pets or close friends. You are either young or lucky.
Many Britishers likely were awakened by phone calls in the middle of the night from friends who were awake telling them "Turn on the Telly! Princess Diana's been in a bad accident! BBC-1 and ITV are on the air with non-stop coverage!"
It was a Saturday night here in the States. I had just come home after a day with my then girlfriend at a local fair. Shortly after coming home, I turned on my radio to catch an hourly newscast, heard about the accident, turned on my TV and watched coverage into the wee hours.
I'd been out with my first girlfriend and I was driving home when I heard it on the radio. I woke my mum up to tell her that Dodi was dead, then went to bed, she woke me up in the morning to tell me Diana was dead. One quiz question I always get right, what year did Diana die.
I was working a night shift on the Saturday night & came home at 0630 in the morning, I tried to get a paper but was told they were going to be late as they had been re-pulped due to adverse stories about Diana & Dodi, so basically the newspapers were a bunch of hypocrites till the end ...
I learnt about this about 5-6am on that morning. I was 8yo and the foster family I was living with, we were going on holiday to France on that morning. I don't remember when her death was announced or remember much else about it. But I do remember hearing about the accident and that she was seriously injured.
Never understood the worldwide obsession with Diana or the royals in general. Yes it was very sad and a horrible way to die but I felt the reaction at the time was wildly over the top
I used to fall asleep with my bedroom radio on. One of the speakers was 8” from my head. I was up early on the Sunday to go into work to do an annual stock take at 6am. The news on the radio was filtering into my ears whilst I was asleep about the death, and it eventually woke me up. I got up and went into my parents room and woke my mum who was a total royalist, she didn’t believe me at first. I then went into work and told all the staff and owners about it, non of them turned the Tv or radio on before going into work. Remember like it was yesterday. I was 17 years old.
I was in Greenwich Village, NYC in my apt during a heatwave. I went out to the local Gristedes grocery store and there were all these tabloid mags at checkout "Diana Finds Love!" and I thought wow how nice at long last. Then once home a friend called and broke the news that there had been a bad accident in Paris. I sat all night glued to the tv like most but thought instantly when I saw that crunched wreck that she most likely had died. A few hours later they announced this tragic news. I too revisit this coverage as some part of me still finds it difficult to process even after all this time.
Everyone in the car, especially the driver, was at fault for Di’s death. In 1999, a French investigation found that the driver Henri Paul, who lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs, was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel. Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood may have worsened Paul's inebriation. In 2008, the jury at a British inquest returned a verdict of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving by Paul and the paparazzi for following vehicles. Early media reports claimed bodyguard Rees-Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt, but further investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing their seat belts. Careless and drunk. Sorry.
I agree it was the drunk driver but Diana herself chose not to put her seatbelt on. Trevor Jones was the only one who was wearing one. Seat Belts SAVE LIVES.
Treaver Reese Jones,the only survivor said,that Henri Paul,the driver,was not drunk!! And since he was there,i believe him!! There were several bodies in the morgue that night,and i truly believe,that was someones blood toxicology,but it was not Henri Paul's!!
There are issues with his results - he certainly didn't appear drunk on cctv and I can't see her - or Dodi- getting in a car for planned evasive action, if he were.
@Chrissy Cuts What a evil witch you are. And had the audacity to say sorry after your demonic rant. You most likely do not the detail of anything. Learn first.
I was 23 years old and cried like a baby whilst sat on my mums knee! I know it sounds ridiculous but it was a great shock to everyone who grew up seeing her on TV and on newspapers since she got married. I was 6 when she got married so I did practically grew up with her.
I watched this live as it unfolded. Was 16 and holiday with my family on the South coast. Couldn't sleep so had nothing better to do. Ashamed to admit this but, as you can see from this coverage, it wasn't known that she was dead initially, and to my shame I 'pranked' my father, telling him that she'd died when he got up from bed to go to the toilet. She still hadn't been reported dead when I fell asleep. Got up in the morning and my old man told me she actually was dead. Felt terrible. Hey, I was 16. Spent the rest of the day driving home in the rain (after it had been hot and sunny all week) listening to tributes on the radio. Very long, quiet and depressing drive home.
It was the afternoon in Australia. It was one of the few news flashes that have ever made me exclaim aloud - I knew immediately how massive this would be.
I was at home on the Sunday afternoon. My parents had come home, parked the car in the carport and walked into the kitchen where I was. My mother was first, followed by my father. Her first words were 'Princess Diana has been killed in a car crash.' She was shocked. My father made a comment I won't repeat (he was not a fan) and my mother told him off.
Was in Blackpool with my first love and BM. Vans were throwing bails of newspapers out of the back that morning. Informing people of the news. Never seen that before or since.
The camera into the tunnel coincidently wasn’t working that night. There wasn’t a pile up. The ambulance took nearly 2 hours to drive 4 miles. Diana predicted her death. The tunnel was deep cleaned and reopened only a few hours later. The driver was accused of being very drunk through blood toxicology tests yet all the CCTV footage into the Ritz Hotel shows him speaking with several people who all said he wasn’t intoxicated, was stable on his feet and bent down to tie his shoe laces without as much as a single wobble. His family fought for years to get the blood samples so they could run their own private test but the samples were “lost”
None of this establishes conspiracy. Traffic cameras often fail. French medical practice is to stabilise patients at the scene before moving them to hospital. There was no reason not to reopen the road. Henri Paul was provably drunk but good at hiding it.
I’ve still got a copy of the Times from that morning. Remember that day. Very rarely seen everyone so shocked. Shopping that morning in Sainsbury’s everyone was subdued. Only other day I can compare it to is the day after the EU referendum when everyone was shocked at what had happened.
I remember waking up and switching the TV on and hearing at the awful news I couldn't believe what had happened I woke my partner up and told him to come and watch the news at first he didn't believe me but we both sat there not moving for a good few hours
It was a sunny ish day and I was on the drive of my olds house polishing my Astra Gte 16v when I heard the bad news on the car stereo. I split up with my girlfriend a few weeks before and she had just went passed my drive walking up the road and I ignored her. I was listening to empty rooms on the stereo and I just ejected the tape and the news had just started stating that she had died. People remember and never forget things like this, it's a fixed point in time.
I was stopping for gas on my way back home from an amazing long weekend on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Utah when the gas station cashier asked us 'How are the royals?' Someone I was with asked if they were talking about the baseball team, of course they were not. I remember being in complete shock and disbelief the entire 5 hour ride home, anxious to get home and turn on the news to see if it could possibly be true. Inexplicably the radio station we were listening to never mentioned the accident at all. That horrible ride hom was followed by the confirmation of her death. I'll never forget that day. ❤️
I will never forget this night as long as I live...where I was, what I did and who was present. I had come from the movie theatre...As soon as I walked through the door, mom says 'Princess Diana's been in an accident'. Think about that...an American family glued to the television, genuinely concerned about a woman who married into the royal family and wanting her to be okay. At the time of the first news announcements, I said 'I hope it was minor injuries - perhaps a broken arm or leg only. Then, the unthinkable was announced. Her loss was deeply saddening. I felt like I had lost another family member (I had lost my grandmother just 2 weeks earlier). Princess Diana touched people's hearts. Never forget that...her light and legacy will never be distinguished.
I was a young hot thing out & about in London at the time. I was somewhere that had a huge screen playing a music video channel & I remember distinctly my distain when a member of staff changed the channel over to BBC news only to discover what had happened. Diana was only apparently injured at this point but we all kind of stopped what we were doing & followed the updates almost in disbelief. I stayed where I was & waited for the news conference that never came. I knew something was wrong when the foreign secretary who was abroad delayed his flight. I rememeber turning away from the screen for a moment & then turning back & the banner at the bottom said that Diana had died. The utter disbelief. I cancelled my plans of clubbing that night & travelled home on the train, no one spoke, it was surreal. I arrived home, put my bag down & switched on the TV. The message came up that all programes had been suspended & I knew that I was experiencing history right there & then. I know it was a world event but for the UK it was just tragic.
I was 10 years old camping somewhere and my uncle came out of his tent and told everyone she died. I didn’t know who she was back then, but have been captured by her story and life ever since.
Can remember my dad getting in from work and coming to wake me up and told me, I went downstairs and into the living room and saw it on telly. I ran upstairs and went into my parents bedroom and woke my mum and told her. I remember hearing the neighbours next door screaming when they heard the news. Was horrendous seeing it on telly and thinking she won’t survive that. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Never met her but will never forget her. Rest In Peace Princess Diana, the Queen of our hearts. 😭😭😭😭 xxxxxxxx
33:25 of course you don't know in which hospital she is in because they chose to drive 45 minutes to reach the farest hospital ever with low speed rather than going to the other one that is located on the other side of the road where her other companions were rushed to, simply put! Just to make sure that she's gone inside that bloody ambulance! and who knows, maybe they tried to hurt her body injuries even more! RIP princess Diana and don't worry cuz God gives time but doesn't ignore, and he is severe in punishment!
Diana was at some fault here,travelling around france day in day out playing cat and mouse with an inadequate security system.They(diana and dodi)accepted the situation of being chased by photographers.If not they would have stayed in the hotel.
There was a documentary about breaking news in which Martyn Lewis said he had to go drom his home to BBC studios twice. He was woken up by his daughters who had a BBC colleague on the phone.
35:30 blaming the paparazzi. She is still alive. Talking about Bosnia and the princess using her celebrity. Talking about her not beyond using her celebrity wearing attractive dresses has not made it easy for her. Wow.
Wow, The original news here reports she has only a broken arm, cut on thigh and head concussion. The french ministry has visited etc. ...very interesting!
This was fairly standard for the time. My late father was a Fire Officer. They would only say that someone had been taken unconscious to hospital. Only after relatives had been told would they let out a death occurred. As ex-daughter-in-law of Head of Head of UK I can see that they would get the Foreign Secretary for France & the UK Ambassador to visit to see the body. I can then see everything then getting reported through “channels” to get people told/reacting. Only then would she be announced as dying.
Amazing that. Amazing that there were other cars involved and they were cutting people free from other cars involved in the pile up inside the tunnel. Amazing also is Diana receiving visitors in hospital after the crash when she died before getting to any hospital . Very interesting indeed.
I don’t think there was any secret that other peoples cars got caught in the tunnel down there and were essentially trapped due to the pile up. However the visitor by the French guy would probably have been the go between the French and British in order to relay the news. He had to be there in order to officially confirm that she was dead.
26 years later and it feels like yesterday.
she barely got a mention this year.
@@kimgrant3879she passed before I was born and I’m old… it’s been a long time for her.
Dodi old yeardFayed
To me it feels like 27 years ago
This brings it all back, it is still hurtfull. 😢😢
One of the most heart breaking facts that came out was that she very possibly would have survived had she worn her seatbelt. The bodyguard had his fastened and he lived. That just made it all the more tragic.
royalty never wear seatbealts
@@kizy55More fool them.
@@kizy55i think they do.
She was assassinated. And had they not SLOWLY driven her to a hospital, doing God knows what to her in the meantime, and hadn’t engineered the “accident” in the first place she’d have lived.
Agreed. She was a HUGE security risk for the royals. She knew too much of the inner workings of the royalty. Publishers were offering her tens of millions of dollars for a biography. On top of the fact she travelled the world without bodyguards or security. It was only a matter of time before some terrorist or islamic group would have abducted her and held her hostage for hundreds of millions of dollars...@@angelwings7930
Awful day. Still feels weird even now
52:43 "A concussion, a broken arm, and serious cuts to her thigh..."
I remember watching the CNN coverage of this that night, and we were told that too, and believed it right up until they brought the car out of the tunnel. When we saw that we looked at each other and said, "There is no way she got out of that with only a broken arm and cuts." RIP Diana, 24 years ago today.
Internal injuries?
@@ninachr there had to be major internal injuries. Her seatbelt was broken and they hit that barrier at 80 mph. I'm surprised she wasn't killed on impact.
Her heart was misplaced in her body and het pulmonary artery was torn causing internal bleeding. No seatbelt unfortunatly
I watched her being brought out of that car live. Her car was crushed on the front but the rest of car was intact. There was no reason for me to think her injuries were serious, it was only later after the announcement that they showed photos of the sardine like crushed car.
I was in England at home after a night out with friends and I thought the same thing, when I saw the state of the car I had a bad feeling, it was so awful.
I'd been on a night out and about 15 of us ended up back at a friend's house - watching the news through the night was surreal at the time, but then waking the next day to the news that Diana had actually died was absolutely shocking.
I was 17, and my senior year in high school was a couple weeks away. I remember being so shocked. Diana was everywhere when I was a child growing up in the 80s. I didn’t realize how young she was, all I knew is she had always been there. It was terrible, it IS terrible. I wish she were still here, she had only just begun to enjoy her life and her freedom. 😢
I will never forget that first BBC news report, I was watching television while on night duty in a care home. This is news reporting at its most vulnerable, most visceral, takes me right back to the moment, the terrible uncertainty of not knowing, then the awful truth which followed
This is heartbreaking because there was still hope that she survived.
I remember watching this live. I was up late that night. Doesn't seem long ago.
Me too. Its 23 years ago now. But still it feels so surreal.
Me too , watched with shock from a local bar in lahaina Maui. A few weeks later, I laid flowers for her at the Alma Tunnel in Paris...People were still in shock and in tears at the Tunnel.
Same here, just got home together with some friends after partying and turnd on the tv and we saw the first report. Our party was over from then on, we watched bbc for hours and hours.
Me too got in form a night out whilst at university my mum said about it I sobered up so quickly. The story she’d suffered a fractured arm but was stable... it just didn’t make sense :-(
I was a porter at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and on nightshift. We knew she had gone when we had a call from the Health secretary's office telling us to lower the hospital flag to half-mast.
I remember coming home from a Saturday night at the clubs and this was on the TV. I was in my early 20's. Normally I would not turn on the TV when I came home from clubbing but for some reason I did.
Same here!
She died on my 32nd Birthday. It's never been quite the same since. I always think of her on my B-Day. America loved her too.
🙄🙄🙄
get a grip
Americans adored her & she loved them. I will never forget her dancing with John Travolta, brilliant. She said she was so nervous because he was a fabulous dancer, she didn't think that he may of been nervous because she was the Princess of Wales & at the time she was the future Queen, she was so down to earth, she didn't act like a Diva or think she was above anyone. She loved people rich or poor & she was the first to hug someone who was poorly or down on their luck.
The film still of Night of the Hunter seems rather ironic. I met Princess Di on 16 April 1991, when she went out of her way to be kind to me. A lovely person. RIP.
Hey April 16th is my birthday
And the moment BBC One cut for the newsflash was, ironically, a funeral scene set in France.
I was 11 years old when this tragic accident happened. My heart still goes out to her two boys. Just so sad, and she will be remembered as a loving and caring lady
she is in fact, IMMORTAL!!!
Same age here aswell!
Also 11 years old. I was on vacation with my family at the beach in Delaware when we heard the news!
Nobody gives a shit
I was 14 and not even British, didn't even speak English then. But I was gay and naturally attracted to her. Me and my brother were in a car going to pick the apples when I heard it on a radio.
I can remember this day like it was yesterday. It was one of those life-defining 'where were you when it happened?' moments that occur throughout history that you never forget. I'm the same age now as Diana was when she died and that is absolutely far too young to pass away. The impact she made on this planet during the short time she was here that will never ever be forgotten.
Wear a seatbelt people, the only person that survived had his seatbelt on, Trevor Reese Jones, sitting in the passenger seat, admittedly he had some injuries, but he survived.
He was seriously injured too
Twenty six years on and I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I can still feel the shock of disbelief and horror of the moment for what her death would mean to her children, family, admirers and the world. Each year that passes this date always creeps up on me. I relive the sorrow of losing someone I admired as a humanitarian who lived the life of a Greek tragedy heroine. As I lost my own Mother under tragic circumstances six months later my grief was compounded and life changed forever. I’ve lost all the “heroes” in my life. Not one has been replaced. Nobody can ever compare to them and nobody ever will. When Diana died my Mom gave me words of comfort to think about…, “you have to thank God that she was given life and came to prominence at all to do the good works she did and give thanks for that.” I remembered those words six months later when I delivered her eulogy.
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hat was beautifully written. I'm sorry for your loss, mate.
I was 6 the night that this happened and hearing the announcement on the news is burnt into my brain.
I was up so late because there had been a party and we were just getting organised after arriving home, when my Auntie turned the tv on and a few minutes later it flashed on. The silence that descended in the house was deafening and even as such a young child I knew something had changed forever.
I didn’t exist at that time
@@CloudTheAngeloudneither did Diana
I was 12 when this happened. I was having a sleepover at my best friend’s house on a Saturday and we’d been up all night long by Sunday morning watching the news and hoping she’d make it. I remember being sleepy and delirious as we called our friend’s homes to tell them all she’d passed and many pissed parents answered the phone and were so shocked by the news if they weren’t up already. It was so sad and surreal. 😔
BBC 2:
Diana gravely injured, passenger dead....and now for the weather
Not true. Not gravely injured, going for surgery on arm/shoulder. Completely awake when removed from the car.
@Flamehayls81 she had internal injures that proved fatal.
2:22 - BBC World airing on BBC One would be a unique event as by the BBC charter they weren't allow to air BBC World on any of the home BBC channels as BBC World was not funded by the licence fee but was a commercial subsidiary of the BBC funded by advertising, so airing this on BBC One was a one off exemption due to the serious news event.
Yep, they aired it that night and the following night too. This is probably where the seeds of BBC News 24 were sewn.
@@wirhannah nope, bbc had started to discuss plans to launch a home 24 hour news channel in 1996 i believe
The BBC 2 bulletin that was on here for a short while makes its return here I see too. Good upload.
I was in bed when the news began to break. The radio was on quietly in the background to lull me to sleep when I heard the first very vague report of an accident. I had a sense it was serious so I got up to watch Sky News etc. After an hour or so the reports were that she had seriously injured her thigh and this was repeated a few times. I decided all would likely be well; it didn't sound too serious, and I returned to bed and fell asleep. When I awoke early in the morning my radio was still on and the very first thing I heard was that she'd died. It's hard to describe the sense of shock I felt given I'd felt sure everything would be ok. The sense of shock and grief in my local community was palpable....it completely dominated our thoughts and conversations right up until the point of the funeral.
RIP Diana 🙏
Thanks for the upload. The video documents a historical event of a great magnitude.
Why? What did the event change?
Diana lives forever in our hearts ❤
She would like that. Well said.
Its quite incredible to listen to the various people in the media discussing how their behaviour was justified. It seems to me there is a difference between wanting attention and accepting that she couldn't get away from it and trying to make the best of a situation that was inescapable.
Never forget she was the people's princess, but her most important role was being a mum. Two young boys lost their mum in a horrible way. I lost my mum at the same age Harry was when Princess diana died. It's not easy to lose such an important and special person from your life at that age
I was 16 year old, and remember that night clearly. I was watching late night TV in the living room, when the news came on. Didn't think it was serious, even after the news of Dodi's death. Watched for a bit, then went to bed.
Couldn't sleep, so turned on the TV in my bedroom, which I was sharing with my brother. Less than 5 minutes later, confirmation of Diana's death coincided with my brother's sleepy grunt to turn the TV off. I told him Diana had died, and he instantly woke up and watched the news with me until the early morning.
My family were on holiday overseas and on waking that morning couldn’t work out who’d been killed. It simply sad “Diana killed in Paris car crash”. I was shocked to learn it was the Princess of Wales. We flew back to the U.K. on the day of her funeral and the roads from the airport were nearly empty.
It shows how times have changed. This happened in the days before Smart phones and social media. The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning. I was on holiday on a camp site in the Black Forest in Germany with my UK registered vehicle and it wasn’t until Monday evening that I found out about the accident. I was wondering why everyone was staring at us but I think they were bemused that we weren’t reacting to the tragic news. In the days that followed the German shops in many of the places we visited had tributes to Princess Diana in their windows and the shock was palpable. We drove home northwards on the motorway in England and the amount of floral tributes was incredible. Very sad!
I was camping that weekend as well with family and friends (Albeit in America). We were swimming in a lake when that was closed off after someone drowned Sunday afternoon and went back to hang out at the campsite and heard the news on the radio. Absolutely shocking.
It was an assassination not an accident.
Better back then with no phones and social media
I was a single mom who had just enjoyed an adult vacation away leaving my children home with my parents. That day i had come home after my sons were asleep, enjoying talking with my mom about all the fun things i had done. Then the news break came across that Diana had been injured and the attitude changed instantly. My mom and I prayed for Diana and her family. When the news finally came that we had lost Diana i couldn't have asked to be in a better place right in my moms arms. I never met Diana but still admired and loved her no less.
I was camping in Lake District and didn’t know for 3 days. Saw a paper on train and asked reader. He asked where I had been in complete disbelief, think I was last in U.K. to know
I was 10 when this happened and I remember the look and sadness in my mums face. She absolutely adored Princess Diana. Gone but never forgotten 🙏
I was 8 years old in Ireland. I woke up very early in the morning and heard the tv on and got up because I knew my Dad was up watching TV. I went to him in the living room and asked if I could watch one of my Disney videos. He just said ‘no’ and continued watching in silence ..
Weird and shocking to watch this. I was at work Saturday evening, waiting tables on the west coast of the USA. A man came in and asked if it was too late to have a meal. I told him, of course not, and as I handed him a menu he looked up at me and said, "I don't know if you've heard, but Princess Diana was killed in a car accident today." I still remember the overwhelming sadness and disbelief that swept over me. Clearly he felt the same. It was one of those earth-shaking events where you find yourself really wanting, needing to immediately talk about it--with anyone, even a complete stranger--so profound was the sense of unreality: "is this really real?! how could this happen??"
Absolutely, it was surreal. Her funeral was incredible, Police Officers, Soldiers were openly sobbing & trying to comfort the people in these vast crowds that lined every street in London & the route to the North bound motorway which was the route that took her home to Althorp. The flowers being thrown at the hearse is something I will never forget. London has never seen a state funeral like it by all accounts, it was a fitting 'send off' & our beloved Queen Elizabeth had an incredible funeral day, the Armed Forces did her proud, they were beyond brilliant. I cried my heart out, miss her so much as well, Windsor isn't the same without her, she was always about. I'm taking my friend to St George's Chapel this Thursday, it is beautiful in there & you can now lay flowers on the Queen's grave which I am so pleased they are allowing, it wouldn't have surprised me if you couldn't as the world is full of weird people that do terrible things, she had several attempts on her life & quite a few people have been discovered on the little island trying to dig Diana's coffin up so the nut jobs don't give a shite.
Thanks very much for this upload; I can already see some footage that hasn't been put up before. Anything more you have from the overnight coverage on ITV into GMTV would be appreciated.
Sorry, went to sleep on the assumption nothing important would happen during the night.
GMTV wasn't a station famous for it's serious news reporting the only other serious news story that happened many years later was War on Saddam
Bloody hell, I get goosebumps every time I hear about her death like this. I can't imagine how people must have felt when they heard the news, their nerves must have been set right on edge.
I wasn't born at the time, but I do get affected by it, and people ask why because I didn't 'know' her but it's because I knew that she was such a beautiful human being, even though she was going through so much and she was alone, she was giving her love and care to us, the people.
But I know that her legacy will be carried through by William and Harry, and everyone will remember her time and time again.
What a woman she was.
Diana 1961-1997
it was a tremendous shock. So young and vivacious and full of life.
The words "tremendous shock " don't even cover it. It blindsided the entire UK. I have many vivid memories of that week. x
alone ? she was in a car with a multi-billionaire, a driver and bodyguard, she had a life of luxury , she was beautiful and i too fell for that , however i never met her, so i have perspective.
i met lilly allens dad he came to where i worled ,had a good chat with hime about this & he said it was murder ,they shot dodi & diana went mad so they shot her too - he made the doc death of a princess
@@sbutler860 Not everyone, I was certainly surprised and a bit shocked but honestly I wasn't blindsided or freaked out
I was just 8 years old when this tragedy took place. 1997 wasn't a good year for me because I also lost my mother that year too. 😢 I felt nothing but heartbreak for all of that year. 😭 Diana was taken away from all us way too soon. I wish that I've could've met her in person.
I was 12 when this happened. I got to meet her when I was 5 in 1990 when our school went to see her when she visited Blackpool. I say “meet” but I was behind railings and I grabbed her red coat by the arm when she walked past us lol. My younger sister got to give her a bouquet of flowers though.
Sorry about your mother, must have been horrific to lose her at such a young age x
@@Simon1985_ Thank you for that. She was 39 and I never really got a chance to know her because she was dealing with her own "personal demons".
I am so sorry for you losing your mum and at such a young age as well. My heart goes out to you.
@@jenniferjones188 Thank you. She would've turned 64 this past August.
That must of been very hard for you to lose your mum so sorry for your loss, she will always be with you in your heart ❤️sending love and light to you ❤️
Some TV geeking: Visible at 2:30 , the top row of monitors behind the BBC reporter from left to right are showing:
1. (unknown - possibly EuroNews?),
2. BBC1 (simulcasting BBC World),
3. BBC2 (it's off air - it came back on later that night, and also simulcast BBC World, as can be seen in later footage)
4. ITV
5. Channel 4
6. BBC World
7. Sky News
The wall clock on the far right shows the local London time.
Later that night, NBC in the US interrupted 'Saturday Night Live' and simulcast this BBC coverage, beginning 7 minutes before the death announcement was made on-air.
And a switch off
of *all* cctv in Paris 🤔 when the establishment want you on camera - your on it 24/7
And when they want to cover up
a murder...........
Go figure 🏁🤺👎**Nephelum* 🤬ts
Strange how we never forget where we were or what we were doing when we first hear about events like this. They truly become forever imprinted in our memory. I'm a Canadian, and in 1997 was living and working in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. I had just got home to my flat Sunday morning after working the nightshift at our hospital. As per habit, I turned on the tv for background 'noise'(BBC World, in fact this very broadcast) and without paying any attention, proceeded to the bathroom to take off my scrubs and get ready for bed. While brushing my teeth and over the sound of the running water, I kept hearing vague references from the tv to "Diana's death" and "reaction to the death of Diana", but never made the connection. Wondering what Diana they could possibly be talking about, I stepped back into my sitting room, and standing in front of the tv, saw the breaking news banner at the bottom of the screen announcing that Princess Diana was dead. It was simply surreal. I remember my legs felt like rubber and I had to sit down. As the initial shock of the event wore off, I'll admit that I wept more than once. Funny thing is, I was working the day of her funeral and all our Saudi patients were glued to their tv's watching the live coverage at St. Paul's, this in a country which at that time, was incredibly strict about banning any Christian references. I think they were just fascinated by this glimpse into the ceremony of a religion that they knew very little about.
Yes I remember both places I was at when this and 9 11 happened ❤😊
I was marshalling at Brands Hatch that weekend and the meeting went ahead on the Sunday. The weirdest thing happened during a two minute silence at lunchtime. Brands hatch is set in a natural bowl and when things are quiet you can hear any noise from anywhere on the circuit, During that silence NO sound was heard; no children chatting, no babies crying and no birds chirping in the trees; nothing. It was as if the world stopped for those two minutes. My mate I was marshalling with noticed it too
I was driving back from Spa during an extended stay after the Grand Prix and as I got to Boulogne I heard France 1 news on the radio say "Diana est décédée".
I had to pull over, I got out and said a prayer to the heavens.
I'll bet even the M20 went quiet, given that is literally just the other side of Paddock Hill Bend.
@@scsutton1 yes I was at Druid’s and couldn’t hear the traffic. Couldnt even hear the Major complaining
@@stephenbrown4211 surreal silence at a track is eerie
@@stephenbrown4211 same at both druids north and saarff
My Dad was working that night, so he probably would have seen this broadcast live all those years ago. He came in that morning and broke the news to me and my mum. I was 4 years old at the time. We all sat in silence for the rest of the day as the news continued to roll.
Thank you for this excellent documentation of the news reports.
Pay the man
In the US I was watching tv when news of the accident began saying Diana had a cut on her leg. I stayed up throughout the night and was stunned hearing she had died. We tried to go shopping the next day and I couldn’t concentrate. The shock was everywhere and it felt unbelievably sad.
Thanks for posting these reports.
I just got in late from a club when it broke,, I sobered up instantly, R.I.P DIANA
Exactly same here! Had been at a hen party all day and night. Immediately sober when I heard. I’d never had that happen before 🤷🏼♀️
@@ashsara9233 lol
I was 26, walking by Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia and wandered into a surf shop. The radio was playing and the news said that Princess Diana had been seriously hurt in a car crash. It was clear it was a life or death situation and I was praying she would be alright. Next thing the announcement came that she was dead. I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I just walked out of the shop, wishing I could somehow bring her back but knowing she was gone forever. It was so final, so shocking, so terribly tragic.
Martyn Lewis talked about being awakened at home and being called into Television Centre to give the newsflash, which explains why he looks a little out of sorts in the first two clips. Since BBC1 then picked up the BBC World feed, Lewis then said he was told to go home for a few hours' sleep and then come back at 6AM. He was back on air at 6:30 to officially announce Diana's death.
27 years later and its still incredibly raw 🥀
I wish somebody would upload CNN’s late night coverage of Diana’s accident and death. I was up all night watching it. Such a sad night.
Being a Canadian, I would have liked someone to upload coverage of this from CBC News.
@@denelson83there are 2 short videos on TVARK that show partially the CBC coverage in Canada. In fact, they even showed this BBC footage.
my friend was staying with us with her family and her little brother woke up in the small hours and turned the TV on. He came in to tell us and we told him to shove off and to stop winding us up and let us sleep. We didn't for a second think it was true. The shock when we woke up was enormous
We were shocked when we learned the news. It was a holiday weekend in the U.S., we were staying at a B+B in Glen Arbor, MI. Our room had CNN, we wouldn’t normally watch television on vacation, but we had never seen the cable station. We turned on the t.v. by chance after returning from dinner. We couldn’t believe the news, we never thought the world would lose her and were in disbelief when it was confirmed. It was just a sad time for everyone.
This was no accident , it only looked like it , as far as I'm concerned she was murdered! Rest her soul may she ( Diane princess of Wales) rest in peace.😭😭😭😭💔💔💔.
My family were probably the last people in Britain to know, we went out the next day and didn't watch TV. We went in a supermarket and I saw "DI IS DEAD" on the newspapers, but they always had overblown coverage about everything she did, so I didn't think they actually meant that.
I saw a comment by someone saying they didn’t know until 3 days later because they were on a camping trip
I remember driveing on motorway from portsmouth to southampton hearing on the radio diana has died i couldnt believe it! Every 31st of august i remember her ! It was like looseing a sister weird feeling!! God bless Diana x
Yes, and how galling it is, to hear Princess Diana's widower 'husband' now nicely referring to his long-term-mistress-become-spouse as "My Darling Wife". All for our benefit. Everything is fine and dandy now, is it? Quite a handy 'accident', I must say!
Loosing a sister - get a grip !
I wasn’t born yet, but I still feel a shockwave every time I hear that Princess Diana has died
Now you are 🐒
I stayed up that night in America. First night in my college apartment. The whole world was sad that night and ever since.
May Princess Diana rest in peace. She will be missed by all of us 😢🌹⚰️. BBC and ITV had great coverage and this was only a few weeks before the current BBC logo had been updated.
ITV News really did an excellent job with Dermot Murnaghan and Nicholas Owen, much better than the BBC over dramatic "This is BBC Television from London" - end of the world type news announcement.
She's resting in pieces 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💀
Well as she only only married into royal family it is incorrect to refer to her as Princess Diana. The use of a prince or Princess title is reserved for people born in royal family not those who marry into it. She. Was Diana, Princess of Wales not Princess diana
@@jamesmarshall1967 I do wish one day this country and its people grow up and stop believing in princes, princesses and castles. It’s mental
@@BillyHayes79Music true but they do bring in millions in tourism and money earned from crown estate which pays for them with remaining going to treasury
Poor Martyn Lewis. He did a good job, but it was obvious he was shocked.
Sunday morning getting ready to go play football......absolutely shocked.Remember it like yesterday.
Ty for upload
I remember it like it was last night. I’d just played a show at Nottingham rock city and was winding down watching it with my mouth wide open. Surreal
Princess Diana was a fantastic beautiful woman and should never be forgotten RIP 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Who?
@@woowah32 Pratt 😠
@@harrolldthebarroll 😘👍🏻🤣
@@woowah32 🦎🤬
I’ll never forget…
I was 8 years old on a family trip in Louisiana. We were in a restaurant that evening when the tragic news broke. We stayed there until after it closed. And that was the first time I ever heard the word “paparazzi”.
I can remember watching the whole night live, from them originally saying she’d walked away, to the inevitable awful news. James Whitaker knew way before it was announced that we weren’t being told the truth. I still have six hours of this on VHS, that I wish I could convert to digital and upload to TH-cam
@DoubleDS9 I’ll get googling, cheers.
I know someone in Kettering who converts videos onto a memory stick
@@Rfoz51 That’s exactly what I need. Probably doesn’t help I recorded it on Longplay (!!) so you got six hours on a 3 hour VHS.
Showing me age now!
Thank you 👍🏻😊
@@tdurb0 yes! Can you please post them?
@@tdurb0DO IT!
We need that other part, its such history any fool would wanna watch it!
Do post it!
I will never forget it, switching on my telly & see blanket coverage on that Sunday morning, I have never cried so much in all my life. The People's Princess a Queen of people's hearts
I cried more when people I actually knew had died. I cried at the loss of pets, love, family. Thankfully I didn't shed a single tear about a pampered princess whom I had never met.
@@sagefields5847 Well, that seems very sane and sensible. Your family, friends, your beloved pets are all part of your life. I must admit I didn't shed a tear about Diana, but for some strange reason cried my eyes out about Prince Philip. Not because I knew him, I think it was tears for the loss of all the people who had died since COVID and all the suffering it had caused..He had always been there, stable and never changing. In the last year it was like living through some horrible nightmare. Nothing was the same.
I will assume you have never suffered a personal loss such as parents, grandparents, other family including pets or close friends. You are either young or lucky.
@@sagefields5847 get a life! We love Diana. Why are you on here to bad mouth a deceased royal!? If you don't like them then bug off!!
Many Britishers likely were awakened by phone calls in the middle of the night from friends who were awake telling them "Turn on the Telly! Princess Diana's been in a bad accident! BBC-1 and ITV are on the air with non-stop coverage!"
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Perhaps, but this wasn't a universal fact due to the early hours.
It was a Saturday night here in the States.
I had just come home after a day with my then girlfriend at a local fair.
Shortly after coming home, I turned on my radio to catch an hourly newscast, heard about the accident, turned on my TV and watched coverage into the wee hours.
I'd been out with my first girlfriend and I was driving home when I heard it on the radio. I woke my mum up to tell her that Dodi was dead, then went to bed, she woke me up in the morning to tell me Diana was dead. One quiz question I always get right, what year did Diana die.
I was working a night shift on the Saturday night & came home at 0630 in the morning, I tried to get a paper but was told they were going to be late as they had been re-pulped due to adverse stories about Diana & Dodi, so basically the newspapers were a bunch of hypocrites till the end ...
I learnt about this about 5-6am on that morning. I was 8yo and the foster family I was living with, we were going on holiday to France on that morning. I don't remember when her death was announced or remember much else about it. But I do remember hearing about the accident and that she was seriously injured.
Thanks for sharing.
Never understood the worldwide obsession with Diana or the royals in general. Yes it was very sad and a horrible way to die but I felt the reaction at the time was wildly over the top
I was 25, shocked, but not devastated.
I used to fall asleep with my bedroom radio on. One of the speakers was 8” from my head. I was up early on the Sunday to go into work to do an annual stock take at 6am.
The news on the radio was filtering into my ears whilst I was asleep about the death, and it eventually woke me up.
I got up and went into my parents room and woke my mum who was a total royalist, she didn’t believe me at first.
I then went into work and told all the staff and owners about it, non of them turned the Tv or radio on before going into work. Remember like it was yesterday. I was 17 years old.
I was in Greenwich Village, NYC in my apt during a heatwave. I went out to the local Gristedes grocery store and there were all these tabloid mags at checkout "Diana Finds Love!" and I thought wow how nice at long last. Then once home a friend called and broke the news that there had been a bad accident in Paris.
I sat all night glued to the tv like most but thought instantly when I saw that crunched wreck that she most likely had died.
A few hours later they announced this tragic news. I too revisit this coverage as some part of me still finds it difficult to process even after all this time.
Everyone in the car, especially the driver, was at fault for Di’s death. In 1999, a French investigation found that the driver Henri Paul, who lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs, was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel. Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood may have worsened Paul's inebriation. In 2008, the jury at a British inquest returned a verdict of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving by Paul and the paparazzi for following vehicles. Early media reports claimed bodyguard Rees-Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt, but further investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing their seat belts.
Careless and drunk. Sorry.
I agree it was the drunk driver but Diana herself chose not to put her seatbelt on. Trevor Jones was the only one who was wearing one. Seat Belts SAVE LIVES.
Treaver Reese Jones,the only survivor said,that Henri Paul,the driver,was not drunk!! And since he was there,i believe him!! There were several bodies in the morgue that night,and i truly believe,that was someones blood toxicology,but it was not Henri Paul's!!
And if you believe that then I’m sorry, you’ve been brainwashed. He wasn’t drunk at all
There are issues with his results - he certainly didn't appear drunk on cctv and I can't see her - or Dodi- getting in a car for planned evasive action, if he were.
@Chrissy Cuts
What a evil witch you are. And had the audacity to say sorry after your demonic rant. You most likely do not the detail of anything. Learn first.
I was 23 years old and cried like a baby whilst sat on my mums knee! I know it sounds ridiculous but it was a great shock to everyone who grew up seeing her on TV and on newspapers since she got married. I was 6 when she got married so I did practically grew up with her.
23 and sat on your Mams knee ?? I’ll pray for your mother…
@@shanet5604 she was fine I wasn’t that heavy 😀🤣🤣
I was only 6 but ill never forget my mom watching the news coverage here in USA.
Its engraved in my head.
I watched this live as it unfolded. Was 16 and holiday with my family on the South coast. Couldn't sleep so had nothing better to do.
Ashamed to admit this but, as you can see from this coverage, it wasn't known that she was dead initially, and to my shame I 'pranked' my father, telling him that she'd died when he got up from bed to go to the toilet.
She still hadn't been reported dead when I fell asleep. Got up in the morning and my old man told me she actually was dead. Felt terrible.
Hey, I was 16.
Spent the rest of the day driving home in the rain (after it had been hot and sunny all week) listening to tributes on the radio. Very long, quiet and depressing drive home.
I was 11 and at a slumber party with my friends in the US so we got word before it was past our bedtime. Around 8 or so maybe?
It was the afternoon in Australia. It was one of the few news flashes that have ever made me exclaim aloud - I knew immediately how massive this would be.
I was at home on the Sunday afternoon. My parents had come home, parked the car in the carport and walked into the kitchen where I was. My mother was first, followed by my father. Her first words were 'Princess Diana has been killed in a car crash.' She was shocked. My father made a comment I won't repeat (he was not a fan) and my mother told him off.
Was in Blackpool with my first love and BM. Vans were throwing bails of newspapers out of the back that morning. Informing people of the news. Never seen that before or since.
The camera into the tunnel coincidently wasn’t working that night. There wasn’t a pile up. The ambulance took nearly 2 hours to drive 4 miles. Diana predicted her death. The tunnel was deep cleaned and reopened only a few hours later. The driver was accused of being very drunk through blood toxicology tests yet all the CCTV footage into the Ritz Hotel shows him speaking with several people who all said he wasn’t intoxicated, was stable on his feet and bent down to tie his shoe laces without as much as a single wobble. His family fought for years to get the blood samples so they could run their own private test but the samples were “lost”
None of this establishes conspiracy. Traffic cameras often fail. French medical practice is to stabilise patients at the scene before moving them to hospital. There was no reason not to reopen the road. Henri Paul was provably drunk but good at hiding it.
I’ve still got a copy of the Times from that morning.
Remember that day. Very rarely seen everyone so shocked. Shopping that morning in Sainsbury’s everyone was subdued. Only other day I can compare it to is the day after the EU referendum when everyone was shocked at what had happened.
Heartbreaking!
I remember waking up and switching the TV on and hearing at the awful news I couldn't believe what had happened I woke my partner up and told him to come and watch the news at first he didn't believe me but we both sat there not moving for a good few hours
It was a sunny ish day and I was on the drive of my olds house polishing my Astra Gte 16v when I heard the bad news on the car stereo. I split up with my girlfriend a few weeks before and she had just went passed my drive walking up the road and I ignored her. I was listening to empty rooms on the stereo and I just ejected the tape and the news had just started stating that she had died. People remember and never forget things like this, it's a fixed point in time.
I was stopping for gas on my way back home from an amazing long weekend on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Utah when the gas station cashier asked us 'How are the royals?' Someone I was with asked if they were talking about the baseball team, of course they were not. I remember being in complete shock and disbelief the entire 5 hour ride home, anxious to get home and turn on the news to see if it could possibly be true. Inexplicably the radio station we were listening to never mentioned the accident at all. That horrible ride hom was followed by the confirmation of her death. I'll never forget that day. ❤️
Watched it on an overnight shift and couldn't understand the fuss. Sad but man was it overblown.
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overblown like your comment? strange that you clicked on the video here.
I will never forget this night as long as I live...where I was, what I did and who was present. I had come from the movie theatre...As soon as I walked through the door, mom says 'Princess Diana's been in an accident'. Think about that...an American family glued to the television, genuinely concerned about a woman who married into the royal family and wanting her to be okay. At the time of the first news announcements, I said 'I hope it was minor injuries - perhaps a broken arm or leg only. Then, the unthinkable was announced. Her loss was deeply saddening. I felt like I had lost another family member (I had lost my grandmother just 2 weeks earlier). Princess Diana touched people's hearts. Never forget that...her light and legacy will never be distinguished.
I was a young hot thing out & about in London at the time. I was somewhere that had a huge screen playing a music video channel & I remember distinctly my distain when a member of staff changed the channel over to BBC news only to discover what had happened. Diana was only apparently injured at this point but we all kind of stopped what we were doing & followed the updates almost in disbelief. I stayed where I was & waited for the news conference that never came. I knew something was wrong when the foreign secretary who was abroad delayed his flight. I rememeber turning away from the screen for a moment & then turning back & the banner at the bottom said that Diana had died. The utter disbelief. I cancelled my plans of clubbing that night & travelled home on the train, no one spoke, it was surreal. I arrived home, put my bag down & switched on the TV. The message came up that all programes had been suspended & I knew that I was experiencing history right there & then. I know it was a world event but for the UK it was just tragic.
Well where about was you this was all in the early hours of the morning most clubs would be shot by then?
Summer night in a packed bar at the South Jersey Shore........you could hear a pin drop.
I was 10 years old camping somewhere and my uncle came out of his tent and told everyone she died. I didn’t know who she was back then, but have been captured by her story and life ever since.
I remember watching breaking news when princess was injured she passed away I was 17 when this happen
Can remember my dad getting in from work and coming to wake me up and told me, I went downstairs and into the living room and saw it on telly. I ran upstairs and went into my parents bedroom and woke my mum and told her. I remember hearing the neighbours next door screaming when they heard the news. Was horrendous seeing it on telly and thinking she won’t survive that. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Never met her but will never forget her. Rest In Peace Princess Diana, the Queen of our hearts. 😭😭😭😭 xxxxxxxx
I was 12 years old at the time, watching the reports from the US 😔
Same here, turned 12 that July
33:25 of course you don't know in which hospital she is in because they chose to drive 45 minutes to reach the farest hospital ever with low speed rather than going to the other one that is located on the other side of the road where her other companions were rushed to, simply put! Just to make sure that she's gone inside that bloody ambulance! and who knows, maybe they tried to hurt her body injuries even more! RIP princess Diana and don't worry cuz God gives time but doesn't ignore, and he is severe in punishment!
Diana was at some fault here,travelling around france day in day out playing cat and mouse with an inadequate security system.They(diana and dodi)accepted the situation of being chased by photographers.If not they would have stayed in the hotel.
Inadequate security how do you come to that conclusion? They were all ex sas and Royal Marine Commandos.
Thank you very much
There was a documentary about breaking news in which Martyn Lewis said he had to go drom his home to BBC studios twice. He was woken up by his daughters who had a BBC colleague on the phone.
35:30 blaming the paparazzi. She is still alive. Talking about Bosnia and the princess using her celebrity. Talking about her not beyond using her celebrity wearing attractive dresses has not made it easy for her. Wow.
Wow, The original news here reports she has only a broken arm, cut on thigh and head concussion. The french ministry has visited etc. ...very interesting!
just goes to show that early reports are often very wrong, this is why there are so many conspiracy theories about these big events.
This was fairly standard for the time. My late father was a Fire Officer.
They would only say that someone had been taken unconscious to hospital. Only after relatives had been told would they let out a death occurred.
As ex-daughter-in-law of Head of Head of UK I can see that they would get the Foreign Secretary for France & the UK Ambassador to visit to see the body.
I can then see everything then getting reported through “channels” to get people told/reacting. Only then would she be announced as dying.
Concussion to me says head injury I'm more interested in the other cars mentioned
@@williamclark-hall2757 because,I take it, they didn't want relatives to learn that a relative had died from media.
Amazing that.
Amazing that there were other cars involved and they were cutting people free from other cars involved in the pile up inside the tunnel.
Amazing also is Diana receiving visitors in hospital after the crash when she died before getting to any hospital .
Very interesting indeed.
I don’t think there was any secret that other peoples cars got caught in the tunnel down there and were essentially trapped due to the pile up. However the visitor by the French guy would probably have been the go between the French and British in order to relay the news. He had to be there in order to officially confirm that she was dead.