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.
She attempted suicide
One of the most troubling revelations from Princess Diana's audiotapes was that she struggled with depression and even attempted to take her own life.
* Princess Diana wasn't afraid of making a splash. She ignored her advisors and was photographed holding the hand of a leprosy patient at Sitanala Leprosy Hospital in Indonesia. This was no ordinary woman, shining a light on this forgotten disease. Soon after Princess Diana became Patron of The Leprosy Mission.
What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
Katie Couric has revealed why she broke down in tears while covering Princess Diana\x27s funeral. Couric was struck by an envelope with \\\x22Mummy\\\x22 ... Yes, Prince Harry and Prince William both cried at their mother, Princess Diana\x27s, funeral.
Did Queen Elizabeth II cry at Diana's funeral? The Queen did not cry at Princess Diana's funeral, the late British monarch has only cried in public on a number of occasions.
After the wedding, Seward reported, the Queen was more “understanding of Diana's difficulties” and they developed a strong bond. Diana even once told Seward that “I have the best mother-in-law in the world.” But as Diana and Charles' relationship grew rocky, so did her relationship with the Queen.
It reveals she was "dosed with anti-depressants and sleeping drugs" and had tried behavioural therapy. Dr McGlashan says Diana had been "surrounded by an army of doctors" who were 'plainly scared' by her symptoms and "overawed by the possibilities of dynastic disaster".
A firm believer in the power of young people, she became patron of the Red Cross Youth in 1983, which gave her an increasingly visible role with the British Red Cross. In July 1985, Diana visited Activenture, a Red Cross adventure camp for children with disabilities at Hindleap Warren in East Sussex.
The Queen thought Diana quite suitable for Charles. “She was very much a hit with the royal family—they really warmed to her,” Chernock says.
Frances had an affair, and the Spencers divorced when Diana was just 6 years old. Little Diana was devastated and ashamed. She and her siblings – brother Charles and older sisters Sarah and Jane – went to live with their father at Althorp, the family estate.
The dress in question, known today as the Revenge Dress, was designed by Christina Stambolian for Princess Diana, who memorably wore the black number on June 29, 1994 to the Serpentine Gallery, the same night that Prince Charles admitted to his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles on national television.
Not only did the Queen then intercede and tell the Waleses it was time to divorce, but with Diana's paranoia having been stoked to such a degree and with her having lost trust in “key people,” as her brother has argued, she had made the decision to give up her official government bodyguard day-to-day.
The SAMU team spent an hour treating her in the tunnel. Then, following French emergency standards aimed at not further injuring the victim, they drove slowly to the hospital about 4 miles away. Yards from the hospital, her blood pressure dropped and the ambulance stopped again to revive her.
Princess Diana took being a mother very seriously and always made an effort to spend time with her sons, William and Harry. From the time they were born, Diana pushed the boundaries of what was expected of the mother of the royal heirs — she chose their own names and breastfed them as infants.
Diana suffered several injuries in the crash. She had a concussion, broken arm and a cut to her thigh, according to United Press International. But her most lethal injuries were severe chest wounds. She had a tear to her left pulmonary vein that caused internal bleeding, The Independent reported.
The couple had been seeing each other for just a few months before the tragic car accident took both of their lives. Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Tests on the remains of Princess Diana suggested she was not pregnant at the time of her death, a forensic scientist involved in the inquiry into her death has revealed. However, the scientists also found that she was not taking the contraceptive pill.
But the queen wasn't wholly unsupportive. Just like Prince Philip, she did offer support to Diana in the wake of the split. “She [found] one perhaps rather unlikely ally at the palace in the queen,” Morton wrote, “whose understanding and helpful attitude did much to encourage Diana to soldier on.”
Answer: The big reason Prince Charles and Camilla Shand, as she was then known, didn't get married in the early 1970s: He never asked her. And there are probably a number of reasons for that. In his early 20s, like many other young men, Charles simply wasn't ready for marriage.
The Royal Family's response
The Queen's first public address came five days after Diana's death. “I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being,” she said in a speech broadcast to the nation.
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 turned her back on the royal family.
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.
Princess Diana was buried in a long black dress designed by Lay Di's friend and designer Catherine Walker.
Slamming the show's decision to travel down this route, Richard said: "This is one of the most alarming scenes in The Crown because it's simply not true. "There's no evidence that the brakes of her car were ever tampered with, and what it's doing is trying to illustrate her fears at the time.