10 years ago on September 6, 1997, horses of the King's Troop were called on to carry out a final and solemn royal duty, conducting Princess Diana's casket from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey for her funeral. London's Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch also accompanied the cortege.
“The sight of Diana's coffin, pulled along by horses, cause many onlookers to cry, as their grief poured out after the funeral,” I added, after seeing entire families sobbing as they walked away from the funeral route.
The Final Journey – The Procession
On the specially extended route, Diana's coffin was carried on a gun carriage, drawn by the Kings Troop, the Royal Horse Artillery.
Diana's coffin was carried on a military gun carriage and accompanied by a military guard, but there were no other military touches. As it passed St. James's Palace, where the coffin had rested in private all week, the cortege was joined by Charles, William, Harry, Spencer and the Duke of Edinburgh.
RM K11YD8–London, UK, 6th September, 1997. Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Diana's coffin draped with the royal standard is shown being carried on a gun carriage accompanied by eight members of the Welsh Guards as the funeral procession makes it's way along Horse Guards Road.
Margaret chose not to bow her head in respect. Instead, she gave a lazy salute to the casket. that has been compared to shooting away a fly. According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess.
Diana had hyperplasia and heavy bleeding. She was advised that these issues would be resolved by removing the uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes. She chose to keep her ovaries so they could continue to supply her body with hormones that help protect her heart, bones, skin and libido.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
Although she was the 'people's princess,' Diana was not a Royal at the time of her death and so she was not eligible to be buried in the Royal Vault. Instead of being laid to rest in the Royal Vault, it was decided that Diana would be buried at Althorp House, the Spencer family home in Northamptonshire.
The pair joined their father, uncle and grandfather in walking behind the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales — their mother — in a heartwrenching procession. The decision was made by the Royal Family for the brothers, who were just 15 and 12 at the time, to take part in Diana's cortege as a sign of continuity.
The queen stood with her family, and as Diana's funeral cortege passed by, she bowed her head. It was not a quick bow, nor a shallow one. The woman accustomed to being bowed by the world now lowered her head and humbly honored the princess.
Prince Harry has said there was 'absolutely no way' he have let his brother walk behind his mother Princess Diana's coffin alone. The brothers famously had to walk together behind Diana's coffin as it made its way to Westminster Abbey on the day of her funeral in 1997.
1972. Diana grew up surrounded by dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits, and horses. “She loved animals when she was a child,” her mother said. “She loved everything that was small and furry or had feathers.” Diana learned to ride horses before she was four, but after she broke her arm in a riding accident, her love faded.
The favouring of sailors over horses during state funeral processions was entrenched in tradition after Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901 when chilly weather spooked the horses that were due to pull the gun carriage.
Queen Elizabeth II's horse waited at the entrance of Windsor Castle during her funeral. Terry Pendry, the Queen's head groom, stood alongside the horse and bowed his head.
According to Oprah magazine, Diana suffered from a concussion, a broken arm, a cut thigh and massive chest injuries. After a two-hour operation to save her, the doctors failed to get Diana's heart to beat properly and she never regained consciousness. She died from internal bleeding at 4:53 a.m. on August 31, 1997.
But the princes attended her funeral in London, and they chose to walk behind Diana's casket during its one-mile procession to Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997. William was 15 at the time, and Harry was just 12.
It is nearly 20 years since William and Harry lost their mother, Diana. Prince William and Prince Harry have attended a private service to rededicate the grave of their mother, Princess of Wales, almost 20 years after her death.
In The Crown this season, the two women even meet up for lunch after the big engagement. But did this really happen in real life? According to Andrew Morton's biography, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, written with his subject's cooperation in 1992, it did.
“It was horrid,” Camilla admitted in a rare interview, of the media scrutiny that imprisoned her in her home after the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales. “I wouldn't want to put my worst enemy through it.”
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Before she was taken out of the car, he held her hand and comforted her. "My God, what's happened," Diana then asked him, in what proved to be her final words. "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again.
I had bulimia for a number of years. And that's like a secret disease." At the time, she was married to Prince Charles, who is infamous for his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, who he married later in 2005.
The loss officially obliged Diana to curtsy to others with an HRH — including her ex-husband and even her own children, Prince William and Prince Harry. Whether this rule was enforced or not is unknown.
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana.