It is known that before the Queen, who is the symbol of national unity, everyone bowed. "But that day, it is Elizabeth who bowed her head as a sign of respect for the passage of Diana's coffin, the woman who wore more than anyone else had defied the conventions of the palace."
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana.
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.
When, on the day of the funeral, the queen bowed her head as Diana's coffin passed Buckingham Palace other members of the royal family who were standing with her also followed suit. Princess... That said, following Princess Diana's death, Queen Elizabeth did the unthinkable: She bowed her head towards Diana's coffin.
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.
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.
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 queen, her private secretary, Sir Robert Fellowes, and her advisers reportedly told Prince Charles that they wanted Diana's body to rest in a private mortuary and not in a royal palace before the funeral.
As TIME pointed out, the royal family had been cool towards Diana even before her divorce from Charles, due to the attention she attracted from the tabloids. While the precise reasons for the coolness are “still ultimately a matter of speculation,” Lacey says, “there was no doubt it was there.
"But there is no hard and fast rule, and if you can't do it or don't feel comfortable doing it or don't want to do it that's fine; it doesn't mean you hold the queen in any less respect and you won't be sent to the Tower." Another royal source added, "People do tend to bow or curtsy to the queen, and that's just good ...
Due to the lead lining of the coffin, the casket would be very heavy. It has been estimated that it would weigh between 250kg and 317kg. Eight military bearers have been selected to carry the Queen's coffin on the day of her funeral.
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.
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.
According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess. Diana had turned her back on the royal family. by giving the infamous Panorama interview.
FOOTAGE has been captured of a man who appears to run forward and touch the Queen's coffin inside Westminster Hall.
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According to Camilla: From Outcast To Future Queen Consort author Angela Levin, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, had a huge part to play in it, as did the fact that Princess Diana was much younger than Camilla and therefore, in theory, more likely to give birth to the heir to the ...
Princess Diana's BFF, Jemima Khan, is calling it like she sees it when it comes to her late friend's marriage to Prince Charles. And many royal watchers would agree with her assessment even though they probably prefer not to say it publicly: Diana and Charles' marriage was planned by palace insiders.
Camilla Is Related to Both Diana and King Charles
Strangely, they are also both related to the late Princess Diana through shared ancestry dating back to King Charles II. Also note that Camilla's great-grandmother was a mistress to King Edward VII, the great-great-grandfather of King Charles.
Prince William technically broke royal protocol by not bowing to Queen Camilla during the Coronation. A body language expert believes the Prince of Wales may have found it unnatural to perform such a gesture to his stepmother.
Sure enough, the queen bowed her head, the rest of the royal family bowed their heads, but the one person who remained ram-rod straight and barely acknowledged the passing of Diana's coffin was Princess Margaret, so even in death she would not forgive her.”
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.
"One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding, Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton said. "I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her, and it was devastating for Diana."
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.
“For her part, Diana was upset by the disproportionate interest in her, especially when she realized that it was disturbing Charles. She collapsed under the strain, weeping to her lady-in-waiting and secretly succumbing to bulimia.” The Princess of Wales at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 28th March 1983.