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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory August 31, 1997 British Princess Diana died in Paris
On this day, 28 years ago, August 31, 1997 (July 29, 1997, the British Princess Diana died in Paris. Diana's funeral On the afternoon of August 30, 1997, British Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, son of an Egyptian billionaire, returned to Paris after a week-long vacation in the tourist resort of Saint-Tobe in southern France. After midnight, they finished dinner at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and prepared to head to Dodi's private residence in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In order to get rid of the chase by seven photographers riding motorcycles, the Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 luxury sedan they rode could reach speeds of more than 150 kilometers per hour. At about 0:30 a.m. on the 31st, the car suddenly lost control as it reached the road tunnel under the Arma Bridge on the Seine River in central Paris. It hit a boundary cement pillar in the center of the tunnel. The car was completely damaged. Dodi and the driver were killed on the spot. Diana and her bodyguard were seriously injured and were taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. The seven photographers who were tracking Diana were immediately detained by police. At 4 a.m., Diana died in hospital due to massive chest bleeding. She was only 36 years old. That night, her body was transported back to the UK by special plane under the escort of Prince Charles and her two sisters. On the morning of September 6, Diana's funeral was held at Westminster Abbey in London, England. As the hearse drove towards the cathedral, millions of people stood along the way to bid farewell to the "People's Princess". More than one billion people around the world watched the funeral on television. After the funeral, Diana was buried in the Spencer family cemetery in her hometown of Alsop. The whole world lamented Diana's early death. A candlelight parade of thousands of people was held in San Francisco; Tongans remembered her in a traditional wake; Parisians filled the scene of the accident with flowers and eulogy, and cars passing by had to slow down to express condolences; Indigenous children in Australia held banners to mourn the princess, which read: "You have warmed our hearts."... United Nations Secretary-General Annan issued a statement after learning of the bad news, saying: "Diana's death has deprived the world's poor, elderly, sick and disabled people of an important humanitarian voice." Diana left like this. Like an angel of God, she came to the world with kindness and beauty, bringing a rose-colored brilliance of goodness and beauty to a world full of struggle and evil deeds. Now she has completed God's mission and has faded away, forever fixing a charming and beautiful image in people's hearts. Diana was born into a noble family in England. She was the third of Earl Spencer's four children. Her father served as a servant to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II of England, and her mother served as a servant to the Queen Mother. Diana was 8 years old when her parents divorced and her father got custody of her. She studied at a boarding school in southern England in her early years, then went to Switzerland to complete her studies, and after graduation worked as a kindergarten nurse in London. In 1977, Diana met Charles, Prince of Wales, at a hunting party. She was favored by the Prince and became engaged to him on February 24, 1981. On July 29, 1981, Diana and Charles held a world-renowned grand wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and she was subsequently made Princess of Wales. More than a year after marriage, Diana gave birth to Prince William, and in 1984, she gave birth to Prince Harry. Diana's life after marriage was not as satisfactory. The royal red tape was incompatible with her natural and lively character. Charles was also unhappy with her charisma in public places. News of the rift between the Crown Prince and his wife first broke out in 1985. The following year, Charles restored his relationship with his old lover Camilla, which greatly humiliated Diana. She did not swallow her anger to keep her title as Princess. She respected her personality and inner feelings, and like any woman, expressed her anger and fought against her infidelity. After failing, she tried to have another child to save the marriage, but failed. In despair, she even attempted to commit suicide to attract Charles's attention. On December 9, 1992, British Prime Minister John Major announced in Parliament that the two sides would formally separate. After the separation, Diana was exhausted and developed a relationship with Major of the Royal Guard and her riding instructor Hewitt, who made their relationship public for £ 3 million. In a 1995 interview with a television reporter, Diana publicly admitted the relationship. For a woman, this does require a lot of courage, and it once again proves Diana's true and natural principles of life. On July 12, 1996, Charles and Diana reached a divorce agreement, ending their 15-year marriage. Although Diana was not welcomed by the royal family, she was loved by the people. She is kind and kind, enthusiastic about public welfare, and has won wide praise. No matter how unfortunate her marriage life was, she always smiled brightly in front of the public, bringing enthusiasm and thoughtfulness to those unfortunate people. She has connections with more than 100 charities in the UK, is the chairman of 6 charities and an adviser to the British Red Cross. She was full of love and compassion, shaking hands with AIDS patients and leprosy patients, distributing food to refugees in Zimbabwe, visiting war-disabled children in Sarajevo, auctioning off her clothes in New York to raise funds for anti-AIDS and anti-cancer societies... Just three months before her death, she also visited Bosnia, wearing protective clothing, walking along a path next to a minefield marked with an bony skull, promoting the international campaign to ban landmines. All of this earned her the title of "Princess of Peace". In 1981, Diana walked into St. Paul's Cathedral in London wearing a white wedding dress and tied the knot with British Crown Prince Charles. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched the ceremony. Sixteen years later, the "Cinderella" was killed in Paris in a car accident, shocking the world. Diana Spencer wrote a beautiful fairy tale for the 20th century with her short life of 36 years old, noble and charming temperament and tragic life of love. Diana's funeral at the scene of Diana's death. From left, the funeral of her two sons and ex-husband Prince Charles Diana was held at Westminster Abbey. Diana's former friend and famous pop singer Elton rewritten a song after Diana's death: "Candle in the Wind", which expresses people's true emotions. Farewell, rose of England, your soul is flying in heaven, and behind you is the confusion of a country. We miss you so much, miss your emotional wings. You will always be in our hearts, you are the goddess of nature; wherever there is a broken life, there will be the call of your soul; You speak softly to the suffering. Now, your soul has returned to heaven, and your name is written in the long sky, shining like stars! For me, you have had a fulfilling life, like a candle candle in the wind, not dying out with the wind and rain, not fading with the dusk; along the winding green hills of England, your footprints are scattered everywhere. Nowadays, the candles are turned to ashes, but what you have is more than your legend. We lost love. Without your smile, time and space become lonely; For the beautiful descendants of our motherland, we took over your torch; we suppressed our tears, but the tears still flowed out of our sockets; reality brought tears to our eyes. Words cannot describe the great joy you once brought us. Diana always tried her best to protect her two sons from harassment by reporters Diana was popular with the public in south London. Two kind and famous women, Diana and Mother Teresa, died within a week. In 1996, in Pakistan, Diana used motherly thoughtfulness to warm the hearts of orphans while promoting mine victims. On the day of Princess Diana's funeral, all London shops were closed to express condolences for Princess Diana's death. Her residence, Kensington Palace, was filled with flowers from mourners News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1393.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-14:15] 访问:82
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