For many royal watchers, the late Diana Spencer has been kept alive in a variety of ways.
And there are other, more expository means by which Diana’s truth has been told in modern times.
Her glass castle shattered, however, in Paris in August 1997.
Here’s everything we know about the final moments of the “people’s princess.”
By 10 p.m., Diana and Dodi had found a table at the Ritz’s L’Espadon restaurant.
“My husband is planning an accident in my car.
Brake failure and serious head injury …” Diana wrote in part at the time.
In the aftermath of the fatal crash, more details about the car in question would emerge.
“Why would [bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones] let a drunk man drive him?
Let alone Diana and Dodi?”
Burrell questioned, per Express.
“That’s rubbish.
I think there was a mixing up of toxicology results.”
Such questions have plagued Diana’s final moments in the decades since.
The car rolled over and “rebounded” off the right wall, continuing to spin.
Dr. Richard Shepherd detailed her injuries to theDaily Mail.
she was reported to have said, theIndependentnoted.
“If only she had been wearing a seat belt.
Six photographers and one motorcyclist were arrested on the scene, and their camera equipment was confiscated.
Despite using both chest massage and direct massage to the heart, doctors were unable to resuscitate her.
Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. and the news broke in the United Kingdom shortly thereafter.
It was a death felt around the world.
William shared that he simply froze upon hearing his mother had died.
“I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy,” William said.
“You feel very, very confused.
And you keep asking yourself, ‘Why me?’
All the time, ‘Why?
What have I done?
Why has this happened to us?'”
Other conspiracy theories have circulated about the events of the night in question.
