John Stevens, former head of Scotland Yard, told the Daily Mail that he spoke to then-Prince Charles about a note that Princess Diana wrote in 1995, which read: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury," so that he could marry Tiggy Legge-Bourke, a nanny for Prince William ...
The letter Diana wrote on December 17, 1996, reads: 'I was so thrilled to receive flowers and a glass bowl, thank you very much indeed for thinking of me. I am off abroad for a week on the 24th to the sunshine, as not being a lover of Christmas, I will top myself if I remain here!
In October 2003, four years after the French case was closed, The Daily Mirror published a photograph of the note. It read: “I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.
"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. It was a relief of course because, as a first responder, you want to save lives - and that's what I thought I had done.
"My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car," the letter read. "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure or some serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy [William and Harry's nanny].
Prince Charles' name was originally redacted from Mr Burrell's book, but the full accusation was revealed in the 2007 inquest into Diana's death at London's High Court.
When Princess Diana was laid to rest after her death at 36 in 1997, her sons, Prince William, who was 15 at the time, and Prince Harry, who was 12, broke hearts around the world when they left a simple note reading "Mummy" on her funeral wreath.
The Queen did not cry at Princess Diana's funeral, the late British monarch has only cried in public on a number of occasions.
She's spotted crying at Heathrow airport upon his departure—not because she is sad, but because before he left, he had taken a phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. “It just broke my heart,” she later recalled, according to Diana: In Her Own Words.
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.
One of the last places Princess Diana visited before her death was the Ritz Paris hotel — or more specifically, "L'Espadon," the hotel's restaurant, for dinner on August 31, 1997. It has been reported that Diana's last meal consisted of Dover sole, vegetable tempura, and a mushroom and asparagus omelet.
The former butler stunned the packed courtroom describing Diana's mother's alleged comments as “a hate-filled personal attack on the men and their religious beliefs.” According to Burrell, as a result of that call, Diana vowed never to speak to her mother again.
The queen's public words about Diana were sincere, as a private letter—made public in 2017—that she wrote after the funeral to her aide Lady Henriette Abel Smith seems to confirm. "It was indeed dreadfully sad, and she is a huge loss to the country," the queen wrote.
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
He told me he was terrified the first night he stayed in Kensington Palace, relieved at least that Charles and Diana had separate bedrooms. Apparently, she had 30 childhood cuddly toys lining the end of her bed."
King Charles' shocking reaction to Princess Diana's death: 'Almost fainted' King Charles III's reaction to the death of his former wife Princess Diana in 1997 reportedly shocked royal aides, with an expert claiming that he 'collapsed' and cried uncontrollably despite his differences with Diana.
Shortly before her passing, the former couple began to reconcile their relationship, with Charles stopping in at her Kensington Palace residence occasionally. In 2005, Prince Charles went on to wed Camilla Parker Bowles, now known as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
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.
For Princess Diana's September 1997 funeral, the card atop her coffin read, simply, "Mummy," in the 12-year-old scrawl of Prince Harry. Heir and spare dynamic, be gone.
Diana was buried later that day in a private ceremony in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate. She was wearing a black woolen long-sleeved cocktail dress by Catherine Walker that she had ordered only weeks before she died, and holding a set of rosary beads that were a gift from Mother Theresa.
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.
Who walked behind Diana's coffin? The funeral procession included William and Harry,Prince Charles andPrince Philip, as well as hundreds of representatives of the charities Diana had been involved with.
Charles, 58, took to his Instagram Stories with a clip of ducks flying overhead as he made a trip to the lake on the grounds of Althorp House where Diana's grave stands. Captioning the post, he penned: "Duck fly past," whilst also capturing the stunning surroundings where it is thought Diana was laid to rest.