Earl Spencer speaks about Diana Funeral- 12/06/01
On ITV’s Tonight programm, Earl Spencer speaks for the first time about the funeral of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales.

In an interview to be aired on Thursday 14/06/01, the earl says that he still vividly remembers the procession from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey in 1997, which he describes as the ’worst experience’ of his life.

He said: ’Just walking behind my sister’s body to Westminster Abbey, thinking about the boys (Princes William and Harry) - I think this was also so horrendous and so public - and to have to keep your eyes straight ahead and not look at either side. I can still hear the horses’ hooves, the grinding of the gun carriage and the crunch of our steps. People were screaming and bellowing.’

He added: ’I think when I saw her coffin on the day of the funeral on the gun carriage - the shock of seeing that and by that time it was all just so public - it was all just so appalling. That walk - it was just a nightmare, really. That was the worst experience of my life.’

Earl Spencer has given a number of interviews in the last week, although the Tonight show is thought to be the most shocking of them. The programme will also reveal previously unseen footage of Diana discovered at Althorp, the Spencer family home.
 
Diana Vs Mother Teresa -14/03/01
Lewisham council will have to decide what name a South London road will be called, after two rival camps are battling it out to name the road after Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. Sydenham residents want the street - built to serve a shopping centre - to honour Diana. But some officials at Lewisham Council, which will make the decision, are firmly backing the Mother Teresa option because of the area’s strong links with India. They are said to feel that Diana Road would not be appropriate for Lewisham. The council will reveal the winner in April. One suggestion, made by a schoolchild, has already been ruled out. The youngster wanted it to be called ’Just Another Road’.

Diana Could Have Been Saved - 12/03/01
In a new book, pioneering heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard claims that Princess Diana could have been saved if she had been taken to hospital earlier after the Paris car crash.

In "50 Ways to a Healthy Heart" Barnard says, "My opinion is that they made a mistake in not rushing her to hospital quicker because her bleeding could only be stopped by surgery".

In Barnard’s opinion if she had been taken to hospital immediately instead of being cared for at the scene of the crash for more than an hour she could have survived. "I think she could have been saved because, according to the report which I have seen, she died of internal bleeding. The injury which caused the bleeding was to a vein which doesn’t bleed particularly quickly. In fact, it bleeds rather slowly".

The Princess suffered a heart attack at the crash scene and was taken to hospital unconscious and under artificial respiration. At 2.10am, two hours after the crash occurred she suffered a second heart attack and then received large doses of adrenalin to keep her heart beating.

Following surgery her heart was massaged by hand to keep it beating. Her torn vein was stitched and the internal bleeding was controlled. Finally the Princess received electric-therapy in an attempt to keep her heart beating. When that failed she was pronounced dead at 4am.

Kevin & Diana Film Plans Revealed - 27/02/01
Kevin Costner has abandoned plans to make a sequel to his hit film The Bodyguard, which was to be based on the idea of an assassination attempt on Princess Diana.