Princess Diana Part Two: Her Final Hours, Death & the Conspiracies
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This episode explores the final hours of Princess Diana, the circumstances surrounding her death, and the ensuing public and media reactions.
On 31st August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died following a catastrophic car crash in Paris. She was just 36 years old. Twenty-nine years later, the events of that night continue to fascinate, disturb and divide people around the world. In Part Two of our Princess Diana special, I pick up the story during Diana's final hours in Paris with Dodi Fayed. We reconstruct the frantic pursuit by paparazzi, the journey from the Ritz Hotel, the devastating crash inside the Pont de l'Alma tunnel and the desperate attempts by doctors to save Diana's life. We then return to Britain, where grief on an almost unimaginable scale was rapidly turning into anger. Why was the Royal Family initially so silent? Why wasn't the flag above Buckingham Palace lowered to half-mast? And how did the Queen eventually respond to a public mood threatening to become a genuine crisis for the monarchy? And then there are the questions that have refused to disappear. Was Henri Paul really drunk? Why did the ambulance take so long to reach hospital? What happened to the mysterious white Fiat Uno? What did Dodi's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, believe had happened to his son and Diana? And what did the enormous…
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