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Diana: The Day We Said Goodbye (2017) is a touching documentary that reflects on the farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales. Featuring archival footage, commentary, and personal recollections, the film revisits the events surrounding the day of her funeral and the worldwide outpouring of emotion. It offers a respectful look at how people across the globe came together to honor her life and legacy. This program serves as a tribute to Diana’s enduring impact as a beloved public figure and humanitarian.
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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
01:00To witness that level of grief, crying, sobbing, people holding their heads in their hands, it was just massive.
01:13This film tells the story of that extraordinary day, 20 years ago, the day of Princess Diana's funeral.
01:22Through the memories of people who played a part, this is the untold story of a unique event that transfixed the world.
01:32Many people are speaking for the first time.
01:37We've done various flowers for the royal household.
01:41Seeing mummy on the car, I've never been allowed to speak about it until today.
01:47We got into the Princesses' world, eliminating the people who were just trying to cash in.
01:54Candles burned out long before.
01:56I had to say to Elton that really there was no possible chance that that could be used at the service.
02:05I honestly thought we were going to have an absolute disaster.
02:08It was a moment that brought together billions of people around the world.
02:14In 1981, Diana married the future king, Queen Elizabeth's oldest son, Prince Charles, in a fairytale wedding broadcast around the world.
02:39A glamorous icon on a million magazine covers, Diana also won hearts and minds as the devoted mother of two sons and patron of many charities, highlighting AIDS and landmines.
02:59Challenging the traditions of the royal family, she declared,
03:02I don't go by the rulebook. I lead from the heart, not the head.
03:09Her troubled marriage ended in divorce in 1996, and she lost her royal title.
03:18But her criticisms of the royal family and her high-profile relationships with boyfriends kept her in the headlines.
03:28In August 1997, she was in Paris with Egyptian film producer Dodi Al-Fayed.
03:34In the late summer of 1997, the royal family are on holiday at Balmoral, their country retreat in Scotland.
03:44In the late summer of 1997, the royal family are on holiday at Balmoral, their country retreat in Scotland.
04:00Graham Craker is royal protection officer for princes William and Harry.
04:05At 1am on Sunday, August 31st, Craker is awoken with a message from Buckingham Palace, requesting him to call as soon as possible.
04:17I crept down the stairs to the house phone, dialed the duty officer at Buckingham Palace,
04:26and he then said that there were reports that there'd been an accident in Paris,
04:33and that Dodi Al-Fayed had been killed, and the princess had a broken arm.
04:38We established an open line to the embassy in Paris.
04:47At 1.30 in the morning, the British ambassador to France, Lord Jay,
04:52rushes to the hospital where Diana's condition is unknown.
04:59Jay is taken to Diana's bedside and is told she is critical.
05:03With senior French government ministers, he waits for further news.
05:12It was at about half past three in the morning when a nurse came and took Jean-Pierre Chevenmont,
05:19the interior minister, aside and spoke to him.
05:23And he turned to me and he was visibly moved
05:28and took me aside and said that he regretted to say that she had died.
05:38Jay phones Balmoral to report the news of Diana's death.
05:44It was disbelief, really, and obviously a great degree of sorrow,
05:50obviously for William and Harry.
05:52And you just, you try and deal with it as best you can,
06:00but, yeah, you do get quite emotional about it.
06:07That she should die in the most banal way possible,
06:13in a drink-drive accident,
06:15in a concrete underpass on a Saturday night,
06:18with something which people were not going to be able to accept,
06:22that is not something which happens to your fairy princess.
06:33Around the world,
06:35the news of Diana's death is shocking and hard to accept.
06:40Princess Di is dead.
06:42And who should we see about that?
06:44The driver of the car,
06:48the paparazzis,
06:49or the magazines and papers who purchase these pictures
06:52and make bounty hunters out of photographers.
06:54How very sad Hillary and I are about the terrible accident
06:57that has taken the life of Princess Diana
07:00and the others who were with her.
07:03It was a tremendous shock.
07:06But the telephone then started ringing.
07:08Many people were ringing.
07:08We were all ringing each other.
07:10There is a standing plan with the Royal Air Force
07:12to recover any member of the Royal Family
07:13who has died abroad.
07:15So that was put into effect.
07:17Anything that was ceremonial
07:19and involved the Queen was my responsibility.
07:21And that, of course, included Royal Funerals.
07:24And I had plans for all the members of the Royal Family
07:27of a certain age
07:28so that I would be ready.
07:30But, of course, in this instance,
07:31I wasn't ready.
07:37Twelve hours after Diana's death,
07:39her body arrives back in Britain.
07:43John Stilwell,
07:45official royal photographer
07:46for the Press Association,
07:48is there.
07:50It was a very, very eerie feeling.
07:54No one could believe
07:55that they were actually covering her
07:56being brought home
07:58after she'd been killed the night before.
08:01Stilwell has been photographing
08:04Princess Diana
08:05around the world for years.
08:08You know, she was very easy to photograph,
08:10very easy.
08:11She made ordinary people
08:13feel really at ease.
08:16Jonathan Friedland
08:18is with a handful of reporters
08:19witnessing the return of Diana's body.
08:23There were just a few of us
08:24and a few photographers
08:25and it was very quiet
08:27and very still.
08:29So on day one,
08:30it wouldn't have been obvious
08:30what was going to happen.
08:38Over the next five days,
08:40London will become the stage
08:42for an extraordinary spectacle
08:44and an unprecedented outpouring
08:47of a nation's emotions.
08:50That week before the funeral,
08:53my job was to be outside Buckingham Palace
08:55because once the flowers started,
08:57it just built up
08:58and up and up.
09:04I'd never seen anything like it.
09:06Such emotion
09:07for someone
09:08that a lot of these people
09:09never even met.
09:10nobody at that stage
09:18knew whether it should be
09:19a Spencer family funeral
09:21or whether it was going
09:22to be a royal funeral.
09:23Princess Diana
09:24was no longer a member
09:25of the royal family.
09:26She had left the fold.
09:27It's a political
09:31and constitutional minefield.
09:37Although Diana
09:38was the mother of a son
09:39who would one day be king,
09:41she had lost
09:41her royal highness status
09:43when she and Prince Charles
09:45announced their divorce
09:46in 1996.
09:47The royal family handled
09:52what would actually be
09:53eventually a crisis
09:54for them
09:55ineptly
09:56and very badly.
09:59They stuck to formal procedure
10:01rather than just realising
10:03this was beyond the rule book.
10:05This was an exceptional event.
10:07So the royal stayed in Balmain.
10:09Very, very, very disgraceful
10:10I find their behaviour.
10:11Very disgraceful.
10:12What do you think, madam?
10:14I think it's disgusting
10:15that they have not peered
10:16or said a word.
10:17It was perfectly apparent
10:27that a private funeral
10:29would not satisfy the nation.
10:32It was decided
10:33and the decision passed to us
10:35that it was to be
10:36a state funeral.
10:38This was, I think,
10:38the biggest challenge of my life.
10:42Sir Malcolm
10:43now has just five days
10:44to plan and execute
10:46Britain's biggest
10:47funeral of the modern era.
10:54The day after Diana's death,
10:56at the request
10:57of the Prince of Wales,
10:58Prince Charles,
10:59soldiers of the Welsh Guards
11:01are flown in
11:01from security patrols
11:03in Northern Ireland.
11:06In command
11:07of the specially selected
11:08pull-bearer unit
11:09is decorated war hero,
11:11and also Captain Richard Williams.
11:12We were in this massive
11:16military helicopter
11:17flying down the Thames,
11:18hopping over the bridges.
11:21I suddenly thought,
11:22there must be something
11:23significant here
11:24because normally
11:25a helicopter this big
11:27isn't allowed
11:28into the centre of London.
11:29and he was in the centre of London.
11:31Corporal Philip Bartlett
11:33was 24 at the time.
11:35You were told very little
11:36at first.
11:37We spent six months
11:38in Northern Ireland,
11:39away from everybody,
11:41people chucking bricks at us
11:42and shooting at us.
11:44When you hear your name
11:45saying that you're going back
11:46to do Princess Diana's funeral,
11:49you're like,
11:50well, what's going on?
11:51As preparations begin
11:55for the funeral procession,
11:57the guardsmen continue
11:58gruelling rehearsals.
12:05The eight pull-bearers,
12:07who will carry Diana's
12:08quarter-ton coffin,
12:09lead-lined like all
12:11royal caskets,
12:12have been selected
12:13for their height
12:14and fitness.
12:17They size us all up.
12:19They're taller
12:20to the back
12:20and the shorts
12:21at the front
12:21and they put a piece
12:22of a plasterboard
12:23on our shoulders
12:24to see if it had that
12:26the right angle
12:27where the head
12:28was higher than the feet.
12:32In many ways,
12:33it was quite good
12:34that we got straight
12:36into the business
12:36of rehearsing
12:37for the funeral
12:38because we just
12:39didn't have time
12:41to think,
12:42didn't have time
12:43to contemplate
12:44quite what was going on.
12:50by the time
12:51the soldiers
12:52arrive in the capital,
12:53Britain is in a state
12:54of what many
12:55describe as hysteria.
13:00And for some,
13:01the initial feelings
13:02of shock and grief
13:03have now turned
13:04to anger,
13:05directed at the press
13:06and photographers
13:07accused of hounding
13:08Diana to her death
13:10in Paris.
13:10Photographers there
13:13and there were
13:14a few of us
13:14were all being
13:15accused of being
13:16the murderers
13:16of Diana.
13:17It's you
13:18who pressed
13:18that killed her.
13:21You're the scum.
13:22Throughout the week,
13:35the Queen
13:35has not spoken publicly
13:37about Diana
13:38and has remained
13:39in Scotland.
13:48Following days
13:49of protest in London,
13:50the young princes
13:51are seen in public
13:52for the first time,
13:53viewing flowers
13:54that have appeared
13:55at the gates
13:55of Balmoral.
14:07The day before
14:08the funeral,
14:11at last,
14:12the Queen
14:13returns to London.
14:16In the end,
14:17the Queen
14:17all but had to be
14:18dragged back to London.
14:19was such a weight
14:22of pressure
14:22from press
14:23and I think
14:24crucially
14:25from government
14:26saying to them,
14:27you have to do this.
14:32So what I say to you now
14:33as your Queen
14:34and as a grandmother,
14:36I say from my heart.
14:39First,
14:40I want to pay tribute
14:41to Diana myself.
14:42It had the visual grammar
14:45of a hostage video
14:46where it looked as if
14:48she was reading a text
14:49that her kidnappers
14:50had written for her
14:51as she said to the camera,
14:53you know,
14:54I am grieving,
14:55I do feel lost
14:56as a grandmother.
14:56The same day
15:06with their father,
15:07Prince Charles,
15:08William and Harry
15:09meet the crowds
15:09outside Kensington Palace.
15:11The royal family
15:23is working to heal
15:25the bruised relationship
15:26with the public.
15:35Locked away
15:36in rehearsals
15:37at their barracks,
15:39soldiers of the Welsh guards
15:40charged with carrying
15:41the princess's coffin
15:42are largely unaware
15:44of the huge outpouring
15:46of national feeling.
15:49I can remember
15:51very vividly
15:52going out
15:53and walking down
15:54and just seeing
15:56the sea of flowers.
16:00I remember
16:02coming back
16:03and saying
16:04to all the guys,
16:06you know,
16:07we've been locked away
16:08but, you know,
16:09this is really big,
16:10this is really,
16:11really big.
16:14Corporal Philip Bartlett
16:15has grown up
16:16in a small Welsh village.
16:19She was the Princess of Wales
16:21and with that in mind,
16:23she was our princess.
16:26Like many soldiers
16:27in his unit,
16:28he has met Diana
16:29when she visited
16:30the Welsh guards.
16:31You could see that in her,
16:34that she was so caring
16:35and so willing
16:36to be part of your lives
16:38as well
16:39and do things,
16:40especially with charities.
16:42She engaged with them
16:43and she cared for them
16:45and that is a very special person.
16:49So,
16:50you knew what she did
16:51for all of us
16:52and we thought
16:54it was by time
16:55we could do something for her.
16:56It was hard
17:01but we all realised
17:03what the job
17:03we had to do.
17:04Saturday, September 6th.
17:17As dawn breaks
17:18on the day
17:19of Princess Diana's funeral,
17:21the crowds are already gathering
17:22on the streets of London.
17:24Good morning
17:26on this sad September day
17:28as our grieving nation
17:29leads the world
17:30in saying goodbye
17:31to Diana,
17:32Princess of Wales.
17:34Sir Trevor MacDonald
17:35is anchoring the coverage
17:37for independent television
17:38as he has done
17:39over the five days
17:40since Diana's death.
17:42I hardly ever left the newsroom.
17:46This was in its intensity,
17:48in its emotion,
17:50in everything that it meant,
17:53in everything that it symbolised,
17:55in the way it captured
17:57the nation.
17:59I'm not sure
18:00anything else
18:01would ever
18:02surpass that.
18:07The Princess's coffin
18:08will travel
18:09on a gun carriage
18:10from Kensington Palace
18:12through the streets
18:13of central London
18:14to Westminster Abbey.
18:18It was one of those
18:20amazing London mornings
18:21that starts off
18:22a little bit kind of misty
18:24and chilly,
18:25but it was obviously
18:26going to be
18:27an absolutely bluebird day.
18:30I remember very vividly
18:32arriving at Kensington Palace
18:35to collect the coffin
18:36and put it on the gun carriage.
18:38And it was a very intimate affair,
18:40as you could imagine.
18:42We had all the maids
18:43and all that crying.
18:44they were all coming out of the house.
18:50Next minute,
18:51the undertaker said
18:51the coffin's coming,
18:52so the coffin was rolled
18:54in between us.
18:57A small unit
18:58from the King's troop,
19:00Royal Horse Artillery,
19:01has been assigned
19:02to drive the gun carriage
19:03carrying the coffin.
19:07Like the pallbearers,
19:08they too have been kept away
19:10from the unfolding drama
19:11on the streets.
19:14I think if I'd been aware
19:16of what was going on
19:17in the outside world,
19:18I think sheer panic
19:19would have set in.
19:20The sheer expectancy
19:21of the country,
19:22what was about to happen,
19:25was just massive.
19:29Captain Grant Chanter
19:31will be driving
19:32the gun carriage.
19:33Well, I remember gulping,
19:36just making me realise
19:37that this is real now.
19:39And of who's in there as well,
19:42it came to me
19:45that this was going to be
19:46something even bigger
19:47than I even thought
19:49was possible.
19:55At a time before smartphones
19:57and social media,
19:59over a million people
20:01wait to see Diana's coffin
20:03with their own eyes.
20:0820,000 extra policemen
20:10and women
20:11have been drafted in
20:12to monitor the crowds,
20:14the largest security operation
20:16ever mounted in Britain.
20:21There were a lot of us
20:22that were actually
20:23volunteering to work
20:25and wanted to be part of it.
20:27and London just had
20:30this feeling
20:32that was just so different.
20:38There were the extremists.
20:40She had the odd fanatic
20:42who would have probably
20:44tried to lie on top
20:45of the coffin
20:46or done something
20:46ridiculous like that.
20:47at Westminster Abbey,
20:55a single chime
20:56of the tenor bell
20:57will be the signal
20:58for the soldiers
20:59to begin their two-hour journey.
21:05It will ring again
21:06every minute
21:07to mark their progress.
21:09This parade was like
21:13nothing we'd done before.
21:15You could hear the bell
21:16tolling,
21:17tolling every minute.
21:18They had the police horses
21:19out in front of us
21:20so effectively
21:21they were taking the pace.
21:27I thought it was just
21:28going to be quiet sobs
21:29and quiet,
21:31being English.
21:32I thought that's what we do,
21:33isn't it?
21:34We don't show emotion.
21:35but then you hit
21:39the crowd
21:40and that's what I
21:41will never forget
21:43about the whole thing.
21:50You heard that huge scream.
21:52Diana, we love you.
21:54It cut right through all of us.
21:56That was a very strange feeling
21:58and I still don't quite
21:59know how to assimilate it
22:00to this day.
22:02Somehow something had changed.
22:05and then most alarmingly
22:11for me
22:12people started
22:14throwing flowers.
22:15It was raining flowers
22:16at one point.
22:17They were hitting the horses
22:18and hitting the guardsmen.
22:23To practice for that
22:24we got loads of newspapers
22:26out of the mess,
22:27wrapped them up in tinfoil
22:28and then throwing them
22:29in front of the horses.
22:32The fear was that
22:33maybe one of the horses
22:34get so panicky
22:35that it can drop out
22:37a harness,
22:37it could bolt
22:38and then obviously
22:40if one horse goes
22:41in a set of harness
22:41the other five
22:42are going to go with it.
22:45I was genuinely,
22:47seriously worried
22:48that we'll make it
22:48all the way
22:49just because of the reaction.
22:52The cortege
22:58will now pass through the streets
22:59for four and a half miles.
23:03Its progress is relayed
23:04on giant screens
23:05to tens of thousands
23:06of mourners in Hyde Park.
23:11Across the country
23:1232 million viewers
23:14are watching.
23:17Around the world
23:18more than two billion people
23:21are following the funeral
23:22of Princess Diana
23:23on television.
23:32Journalist Jonathan Friedland
23:33is reporting for American TV.
23:36For them this was just
23:37the most juicy
23:39double blockbuster episode
23:41of a soap opera
23:42they'd been following for years.
23:43I think people
23:44are going to want to see
23:45and maybe they shouldn't
23:46have this need
23:47but I think they do
23:48some real emotion
23:49from the Queen
23:50perhaps from her husband
23:51but also from
23:52crucially
23:52Prince Charles.
23:57For the soldiers
23:58in the funeral cortege
23:59their focus
24:01is on the challenge
24:02of the march
24:02to Westminster Abbey.
24:06I remember thinking
24:08this is really
24:08quite a long way.
24:10Slow marching
24:11all that way
24:13at the pace
24:14of a horse
24:15you suddenly thought
24:17this is going to be
24:20a bit of a feat
24:21of endurance.
24:27You could hear
24:28the procession
24:29as it was approaching.
24:30It was a really
24:31odd sound.
24:35You had the sound
24:36of the soldiers
24:38marching.
24:41you then had
24:42the horse's hooves
24:43and you could hear
24:45the wheels
24:45of the carriage.
24:51It was dead silent
24:53apart from
24:54the noise
24:54of the procession
24:55no one was
24:56speaking.
24:59One couple
25:00that I had been
25:00talking to
25:01the man
25:02blessed himself
25:03and as he
25:05blessed himself
25:06his wife
25:08looked at him
25:09and she
25:09started to cry.
25:12When she
25:12began crying
25:13it set
25:14everybody off
25:15in front of me
25:16and you don't
25:18realise
25:19just how
25:19contagious
25:20that is.
25:22I don't even
25:23think I could count
25:24how many people
25:24there were
25:25that were
25:25actually just
25:26crying
25:27sobbing.
25:28after more
25:33than an hour
25:34the procession
25:35approaches
25:36Buckingham Palace
25:37and there is
25:38another break
25:38from any
25:39known protocol
25:40a dramatic
25:43concession
25:43from the Queen
25:44following the
25:45criticisms
25:45of the previous
25:46days.
25:49I think the
25:50Queen thought
25:50that it was
25:51an opportunity
25:51that would
25:52demonstrate
25:52to the world
25:54how involved
25:55she was.
25:59The Queen
26:00who bows
26:01to no one
26:01who bows
26:02before the
26:03coffin
26:03of her
26:04former
26:04daughter-in-law.
26:06A few days
26:07ago such a
26:08thing would
26:08have been
26:08unthinkable.
26:14At Westminster
26:15Abbey
26:15the congregation
26:16for the
26:17funeral service
26:17is beginning
26:18to arrive.
26:20An enormous
26:21number of
26:22people wanted
26:22to come
26:23and dare I
26:24say an
26:25almost number
26:25of people
26:26thought they
26:26should come
26:27and somehow
26:28we had to
26:28siphon that
26:29down to the
26:30people who
26:30really should
26:31come.
26:32And so we
26:33got into
26:33the princess's
26:35world looking
26:36at her
26:36Christmas card
26:37list, talking
26:38to her really
26:39special near
26:40friends.
26:42It had always
26:43been my plan
26:43to get
26:44everything
26:45relating to
26:46attending the
26:47service into
26:48the first-class
26:49post on the
26:50Thursday evening.
26:51So it was a
26:52scramble.
26:53I telephoned the
26:54person who ran
26:56the post office
26:56who said that
26:57he would hold
26:58the whole first-class
26:59post for one
27:00hour.
27:01What he didn't
27:02tell me was he
27:03then called in
27:041,200 postmen
27:05who drove their
27:07vans from all
27:07over Britain to
27:08collect the
27:09invitations.
27:11Everybody had
27:11this by midday.
27:12in the final mile
27:20of the procession
27:20there's a total
27:22surprise.
27:24The two young
27:25princes along with
27:26their father,
27:27grandfather and
27:28uncle join the
27:30cortege.
27:34The family's
27:35decision to walk
27:36has not been
27:37announced or
27:38expected.
27:39The involvement
27:40of the princes on
27:41the day was
27:42something which
27:42we didn't address
27:44until the last
27:44possible moment.
27:46And I understand
27:47that it was at a
27:48family supper on
27:49the Friday night
27:50in Buckingham
27:50Palace that the
27:52decision was made
27:53and Prince
27:54Philip, after some
27:56discussion, said
27:57to the boys,
27:59I'll walk if you
28:00walk.
28:11psychotherapist Lucy
28:21Beresford is in
28:23the watching crowd.
28:24The first we know
28:25of that is when we
28:27see it for ourselves
28:28and that was such
28:30an extraordinary
28:32sight.
28:33suddenly it becomes
28:42so real that what
28:43we're looking at is
28:45the death of a
28:45young woman and her
28:47family walking
28:47beside her.
28:55There was almost
28:56like a collective
28:57sharp intake of
28:59breath at that
28:59moment.
29:04Prince Harry's
29:05floral tribute for
29:06his mother has been
29:07created by royal
29:08florist Lisa Webb.
29:12I knew that I would
29:13be making the
29:15tributes because I'd
29:16always looked after
29:17the royal household.
29:19The flowers were
29:20chosen by the princes
29:21because their mum
29:23loved white roses
29:24and also tulips.
29:27I felt extremely
29:29emotional seeing
29:31mummy on the card.
29:33And it was in
29:34Prince Harry's own
29:35handwriting.
29:37A young boy was
29:39sending those to
29:40his mother.
29:43I came into
29:44floristry because of
29:45my grandfather
29:46passing away and
29:48then it connected
29:49with doing the
29:50flowers to Princess
29:52Diana all those years
29:54later.
30:06By the time the
30:07cortege reaches
30:08Westminster Abbey,
30:10the soldiers have
30:10been marching for
30:11almost two hours.
30:14I was exhausted
30:16from marching that
30:16way.
30:18They then had to go
30:19and carry a really
30:19heavy coffin up
30:20those steps in front
30:22of however many
30:23million, billions of
30:24people were watching.
30:26This is when all of
30:27those rehearsals, all
30:29of those times up and
30:30down the steps, this
30:32is when it, you know,
30:33really mattered.
30:34the first time we actually
30:40felt the proper weight of
30:42the coffin.
30:43That was extraordinary.
30:45It was because you could
30:46hear all these flashes,
30:48everything.
30:49You feel all the pressure
30:50from all the media around
30:52you.
30:53You had the whole world
30:54watching you.
30:56The guys had field dressings
31:00underneath their tunic
31:01because all the rehearsing
31:02had rubbed away a lot of
31:03skin.
31:04So I knew they were in a fair
31:05amount of discomfort.
31:07You can see it on their
31:08faces.
31:12I was trying to keep my mind
31:14off the pain and all that
31:16and then we had the steps to
31:17go up to.
31:19We only got to coughing once
31:21on the rehearsals and we got
31:23it taken straight off us
31:24once we banged it.
31:26We caught it on one of the
31:27doors and going into the
31:29gymnasium in Chelsea Barracks.
31:33When we actually got into
31:35the cathedral and we stood
31:36there for two minutes, I
31:39could really feel the weight
31:41and the pain in my heels as
31:43well.
31:45And I kept thinking to
31:46myself, this is going to go
31:48if we don't start moving
31:49now.
31:49It felt like it was going to
31:51go.
31:53Oliver John Riven was a 12
31:55year old choir boy at the
31:56Abbey.
31:59I suppose the first time I
32:01felt the enormity of it was
32:03seeing the soldiers who
32:05carried the coffin and how
32:07nervous they were and how
32:09much it mattered to them.
32:14There was a sense that this
32:16was something that had to be
32:18absolutely perfect, you know,
32:22there was no place for any
32:24kind of slip up.
32:28You couldn't make a mistake.
32:29No way, could you?
32:32I can remember the squeak of
32:35the guy's boots on the floor
32:36and I can also remember very
32:40clearly hearing that they
32:41started to get a little bit out
32:43of sink and then, of course, it
32:45starts swaying.
32:50We got studs on our boots and
32:52also metal plates on them.
32:54Metal and marble doesn't go.
32:56And it was really slippery.
33:00The pallbearers were all
33:01incredibly young and I also
33:04remember that one of them
33:06stumbled as they came along our
33:08side of the abbey.
33:10Started going under the archway
33:11then when the boys slept.
33:16There was almost a perceptible
33:18intake of breath from the people
33:19on our side.
33:21I felt that little jerk and we
33:23thought, all right, okay.
33:24My heart stopped for a moment
33:25thinking this would just be the
33:27most awful thing.
33:28As we went underneath the screen,
33:36I knew that we were going to be
33:37out of the view of the cameras.
33:39So I just said, guys, you have
33:40to get, just take your chance
33:42now.
33:45We go in a little bit out of
33:47step and come out perfectly.
33:50I don't think we were ever
33:51dropped it because you always
33:54had in the back of your mind
33:55who you're doing it for.
33:57You're doing it for the public
33:58and you're doing it for the boys.
34:02Jenny Rivett was Princess Diana's
34:05personal trainer for seven years.
34:07The shuffling of those feet
34:09as they brought Diana's coffin
34:11up.
34:15Lying inside there was this body
34:17that I had worked so hard on.
34:20The heart was the very thing
34:24that in the end had given up on
34:26her.
34:28The broadcasters and royal
34:30advisers have agreed that
34:32television should not show
34:33close-ups of the royal family.
34:35We then went past the members of the royal family.
34:41What we saw was a family, you know,
34:44very obviously, you know, sad and grieving.
34:49It struck me that it was becoming terribly
34:50easy to look at this as the final scene
34:54of some kind of soap opera.
34:57Actually, it was, you know,
34:58somebody's funeral.
34:59The musical director at the Abbey,
35:04Martin Neary, has the difficult job
35:07of putting together a service
35:09that relates to Diana personally
35:10as well as to the centuries-long
35:12traditions of Westminster Abbey.
35:14I certainly felt there had to be something
35:18representing the era of Princess Diana
35:21when the name of Elton John came up.
35:26I think I really didn't know quite what to think
35:29at that point.
35:30The question came up of what he should sing.
35:32When I gathered that the favoured choice
35:37was Candle in the Wind,
35:39I had to say to Elton that really
35:41there was no possible chance
35:43that that could be used at the service.
35:48Elton John's celebrated song with lyrics
35:50about the death of Marilyn Monroe
35:52was judged to be unacceptable
35:54for Princess Diana's funeral.
35:58Elton John contacted his lyricist,
36:02Bernie Taupin, who was in California,
36:05and within a matter of hours
36:06he came up with this amazing title,
36:09Goodbye, England's Rose.
36:11Goodbye, England's Rose
36:14May you ever grow in our hearts
36:18You are the grace that placed yourselves
36:21Where lives were torn apart
36:24When Elton John was playing
36:28and he was battling to keep the tears back,
36:31and it was incredibly powerful.
36:33And it seems to me
36:36You lived your life
36:38Like a candle in the wind
36:41There was an oddity about
36:44the words written about
36:47another life which had been destroyed
36:50in various ways.
36:52That was the point at which
36:54I almost broke down.
36:55Your candles burned out long before
37:00Your legend ever will
37:05Finally, Diana's younger brother
37:16Earl Spencer delivers his tribute.
37:18No one at the Abbey
37:23knows what he's about to say
37:25I stand before you today
37:28the representative of a family in grief
37:30in a country in mourning
37:33before a world in shock
37:35The Earl's emotional speech
37:38is the defining moment of the ceremony
37:41Of all the ironies about Diana
37:43Perhaps the greatest was this
37:45A girl given the name
37:47of the ancient goddess of hunting
37:49was, in the end
37:51the most hunted person
37:53of the modern age
37:54She would want us today
37:56to pledge ourselves
37:58to protecting her beloved boys
37:59William and Harry
38:01from a similar fate
38:02And I do this here, Diana
38:04on your behalf
38:05I felt a great sympathy
38:08for what she'd suffered
38:10But at the same time
38:12I was shocked
38:13by some of the things
38:15which were said
38:16I pledge that we
38:18your blood family
38:20will do all we can
38:21to continue the imaginative
38:23and loving way
38:24in which you were steering
38:25these two exceptional young men
38:27If we had a Shakespeare living now
38:29that would be in a play
38:31that could endure for centuries
38:32that speech
38:33He vows that
38:34the blood family
38:37will take care of these children
38:38as if Charles
38:40the father of these boys
38:41isn't really their family
38:43The real family
38:45is him as the brother
38:46That such was her extraordinary appeal
38:48He felt as if a battle royal
38:51was about to unfold
38:52for emotional custody
38:54of these princes
38:57The intensity of it was huge
39:00Diana was the very essence
39:02of compassion
39:03of duty
39:05of style
39:06of beauty
39:07Somehow he managed to find the right words
39:09that did give us the impression
39:12that this is the elephant in the room
39:15This is what's not being said basically
39:18Someone with a natural nobility
39:20who was classless
39:22and who proved in the last year
39:24that she needed no royal title
39:26to continue to generate
39:27her particular brand of magic
39:29It grated to me on the day
39:32because I thought he was actually
39:34having a little bit of a go at the royal family
39:37Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman
39:39I'm so proud to be able to call my sister
39:42The unique, the complex
39:45The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana
39:48whose beauty
39:49both internal and external
39:51will never be extinguished from our minds
39:54For it to start outside for the applause to start outside and then ripple into the abbey through the open doors
40:09For it to start outside for the applause to start outside and then ripple into the abbey through the open doors
40:22I remember that as being peculiar and unusual
40:27And it was as if that whole emotion had barreled through the walls
40:33It was my mistake to leave the doors of the abbey open
40:38What that meant was that when Lord Spencer made his remarks
40:42and the audience outside applauded
40:45which in fact started the audience inside applauding
40:49Fine
40:51I don't think anybody took offence
40:54The princes actually applauded at the end
40:58although the senior members of the royal family did not
41:01Outside the abbey
41:11Graham Craker, royal protection officer to the princes
41:14is waiting in a hearse
41:16to carry Diana back to the Spencer family estate
41:19in Northamptonshire
41:21I looked upon it as an honour to be asked
41:25I also thought it might possibly be a comfort for William and Harry to know that I was there
41:32and their mum wasn't alone on that journey
41:35When the pallbearers brought the coffin from the abbey
41:41William and Harry very briefly acknowledged that I was there with their mother
41:46My wife died in 1991
41:51and I have two sons and I have two sons
41:54So to a great degree I could understand how William and Harry felt
41:58I think it hit home to a lot of us
42:01I think it hit home to a lot of us
42:03You're doing your part of the job but this was their mother
42:06I know now what it was because I lost my sister
42:12But that feeling inside when you lose someone so close to you
42:16It's like your heart getting heavy
42:18I remember sitting in the hearse
42:22You know when it snows
42:25You get that silent atmosphere
42:28It felt like that
42:29It was just like there was a cloud
42:31over the whole of London
42:33Most of the time it was almost as if it was raining flowers
42:50It was very poignant
42:54Knowing that each of those flowers represents the emotions of somebody in the crowd
43:00We tried using the windscreen wipers
43:04But the driver was finding it quite hard to see
43:07I called the motorcycle escort in front
43:13And said we need to stop
43:16I took the flowers off of the bonnet and laid them beside the road
43:30You just get that feeling that this is a moment in history
43:34And as the coffin passes from public view
43:41We must draw back
43:45And let her go
43:48Everyone disappeared
44:09And you're left looking at an unbelievable number of flowers
44:15That are just lying everywhere
44:17And people are just wandering off
44:21Just disappearing literally
44:22And it's like okay well
44:24What actually just happened?
44:30It wasn't any longer a stiff upper lip
44:34Just standing in silence
44:36These were people who felt compelled
44:40To express that emotion
44:42Because Princess Diana herself
44:44Had been someone who wasn't afraid
44:47To show her emotions
44:48Today's monarchy
44:52Because of her
44:54They've changed
44:55They have changed a lot
44:58Like William and Harry
45:00Unbelievable
45:01What they do
45:02I think we surprised ourselves
45:19As a nation
45:20On the day
45:21Because we reacted
45:23In a way
45:24That felt at times
45:25A little bit un-British
45:26But I guess my feeling would be
45:30That's okay isn't it?
45:32I guess my uncle
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