Princess Diana's Funeral Part 21: The Bells and The Applause
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- "The Half Muffled Bells of Westminster Abbey ring out their quarter peal across an unusually still London."
The Welsh Guards march with the coffin outside as Tom Fleming reads his own moving tribute in which he refers to Mother Theresa who died the day before the funeral. The organ starts up J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Minor, which was requested by Diana's mother.
Diana's family line up to bid to coffin farewell as the Welsh Guards load it into the hearse with the registration number B626 MRK; passing it to the care of Leverton & Sons, the North London Funeral Directors who have held the Royal Charter for over two hundreds years. The commentary is then passed back to David Dimbleby.
The hearse then departs and the crowd bursts into rapturous applause as it goes up Broad Sanctuary towards Parliament Square. It has become customary in Britain to applaud at funerals of public figures ever since this moment.
You can also see the cranes that were building Portcullis House across the street from Big Ben. The London Eye is conspicuous by its absence from the sky. How things change in fifteen years...
The Hearse proceeds up Whitehall, passing Downing Street and the Cenotaph, and then goes through the archway into Horseguards as the applause reaches crescendo.
Next Part: The Hearse begins its hour long journey through London, accompanied by applause all along the way.
20/4/10: Commentator Tom Fleming died today.
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24 years have gone by and I still shed a tear. I'm not even British.
That moment when the car drives and the people start clapping is very heart touching . Diana is the best princess the world has ever known. I still remember how my mother cried for her death. I was only 10
The Bells are absolutely beautiful.
They were paying their respects to her, applauding her well-lived life and saying thank-you for all she did, kind of like when people applaud when an athlete gets injured. They are not happy that he is injured, they are supporting him and telling him he played well. I actually find the applause to be quite moving, though I can see how you may think it to be too happy for such a somber event.
RIP Princess Diana, from across the pond.
I found his words comforting in 1997, I was in tears at this point and to hear his voice speak those moving words was far better than hearing the bells in silence. It was a form of human contact at a deeply sad and distressing moment.
I love the organ with the bells. It's beautiful!!! RIP princess Diana. 💔💔💔
I watched and I will never forget those tolling bells, how beautiful, and what a tribute to this amazing Princess
Will never forget the peal of those bells, the sound of them was other-worldly like nothing Id ever heard before, intensely moving....
she is still alive in our heart and memories..
i was in buckingham palace that day as a guardsman was very weird nobody believed it everyone was crying at the gates on guard mount i saw the boxer prince nassem bringing flowers up 2 the gates crying when i was collecting the bandstands
The sound of the bells are extremely beautiful and mark the day in memory of our beloved Diana. They ring from the heavens.
Ringing half muffled bells for mourning or funerals is a long-standing tradition in English bell ringing.
I love Princess Diana. I like the scripture read by Tony Blair, the song by Elton John, the poem about love and her brothers speech..I am moved so thank you for putting it up
I always felt the bells sounded like an angry shout that our hearts did not want to hear or feel but did.
Thanks you for this footage. I cried again but this time in gratitude for a lovely lady who touched us all.
❤
same here, i watched the whole thing but couldnt forget the bells, think about them from time to time, so glad i found this clip.
All these years later 2022 my heart still breaks for Dianna. She never had a chance. Prince Charles I pray you never find joy.
I had a lump in my throat during Tom Flemings moving tribute, and the final fairwell to Lady Diana Spencer, as she is taken to her final resting place.
God bless you
I'm with stryker4511 the sound of the bells still haunts me.. and the fact that 10 years later I can still remember the sound of it..
that applause...says it all
Those bells with the J.S. Bach music are just amazing.
The beautiful sound of a funeral decades ago.
Rest in Peace Diana, your sons are doing fine!
Ten years later and watchig ths reminds me of the terrible loss we the liing have experienced. Diana was an inspiration to all of us to never forget those who suffer, who are in pain, and who know cruel discrimination. In that message and countless others SHE LIVES STILL.
I agree, Tom Fleming was a British broadcasting legend.
The bells were unforgettable as the People's Princess, Diana, was carried from the church and out into the sunshine one last time. 💗
I was 10 when the Princess died and I still remember that Sunday morning . My mom took the newspaper and started crying... she was too shocked
+Maria Alcocia just to say she was the princess of wales
I will never forget the Queen of Hearts.
We never really let go of people we love for they are with us... still...and they know...
Diana was an angel she was one of the few good people left in this world proof that the good die young it's sad and not fair but her spirit will always live on R.I.P
the most beautiful service I've been witness to other than my mothers. rest in peace to both Diana and my mother ethel, both of their passings have left my world a little bit more darker.
The most moving funeral procession.
Grief does not last forever, but love does. RIP, sweet Diana.
beautiful half muffled bells :), RIP diana
God Bless the wonderful, brave home of my ancestors.
R.I.P Princess Diana...gone but NEVER FORGOTTEN..you will always live on in our hearts
It's 2020 and i'm still watching it. Ive been a follower of Princess Diana since day 1 before her wedding until today. I admired you so much my princess. Because you stand by the truth until your last day. We love you until now. Watching here from the Philippines.
Such an amazing, historical, one and only princess of people's hearts!Lord Jesus Christ embrace you in heaven lady d!
I think these bells are a great mark of respect for the life of Diana. Not scary at all.
There was an album published of the funeral that has the entire service without any narration. This includes Tavener's piece and the bells, which go on for many minutes afterward.
she was the only one with heart and soul in that family, the day she died was a sad day.
it's a good thing she was allowed to wear her Royal Standard over her coffin.
Thank you tribecatom for posting the funeral in its entirety. It provides solace on this day, fifteen years after her passing, as I also have read today the poem: Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye
The pealing Bells of westminster abbey are crying and beautifully accompanied by the organ playing inside the Abbey while the hearse makes it way through the streets of London 😢
It, and everything else, had just paused for one minute for the public to reflect on their thoughts (amoung other things).
The commentary was appropriate and touching.
Diana forever
If you read the description, it was the first time there had been applause at a British funeral and it's kind of become custom in this country to applaud at the funerals of public figures since then. It stands as testimony to the remarkable person Diana was. I'm not sure if people clap at funerals in other European countries.
In America, it depends on the funeral, the person, & the method people chose to express their appreciation for the Life of the person. I completely understand the clapping in this instance as how else can the people truly get their point across to the family & the World of what high esteem they held for the Life of Diana; the appreciation for how she used her celebrity to bring the plight of the downtrodden, & sick to the forefront, enabling many to receive the help they so desperately needed.
It's called change ringing. It's common at the conclusion of religious services. For funerals, the bells are half muffled, allowing them to sound for only one half of their rotation.
The eerie sound of these bells never left me in this memory. There was something about how thw bells never calles for a wedding, but funural. Still they chime for a relief after the tens funural.
@snazzzzz I have always been haunted by that sound; it was like the antipode of the joyous peal of 1981 when she married, like the happy peal was reversed & now sounded sad, sorrowful, like the closing of a circle...
This was so very sad but befitting the People's Princess...
RIP Princess Diana, love from USA.
J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Minor BWV 546, which was requested by Diana's mother.
I miss Diana and am still in shock all these years later. (See if Camilla gets this send off and public reaction.) Di will always get the last laugh! :-)
May you rest i peace. Your grand son George Alexander Louis will grow up knowing you as a great Mom for his dad, William.
@snazzzzz I think it is the fact of the ''Half muffling'' which gives an ''echo'', like a faint repeat...Heard some fantastic ones from Worcester Cathedral played on Remembrance Sunday..it is the ''Echo'' which gives the other worldly feel, which is quite wonderful.
I met Princess Diana, and she was an extremely sensitive person...her eyes reflected her soul...a lovely woman. Rest in Peace, Diana.
R.I.P. Diana :( 💔
The applause is a good counter-point to the bells; they always stuck me as sounding as though they were crying. :'-(
the day princess Diana Died is the very day i moved in to London from Australia
@tribecatom I could not agree with you more, and I am from the US, not England. I've watched this coverage of Diana's funeral, and can see why it was a comfort for so many of you. He did an amazing job and I wish we had someone like this in the US.....
Took me a while to find, but later realized that the organ pieces is called "Prelude and Fugue in C minor BMV 546". According to BBC news regarding Baroness Thatcher's funeral: you will hear it again.
The People Princess
As I say below, in 1997, most people would have been very sad at this moment and it was comforting to hear Tom Fleming's (who's voice is familiar to British TV audiences on state occasions) warm words. You should get the CD of the fineral if you want to hear it without commentary.
Personally, as I've said before, I think what he had to say was very poignant and touching and a fitting tribute to Diana.
Fantastic bells - just spoilt by the commentry and applause in this clip.
The Abbey tenor is actually 1.5tons. They're ringing Stedman Caters.
There is something about the Abbey bells that always makes me stop and listen. Not often you hear half-muffled ringing to that standard.
I think I understand why people applaud at funerals but at 62 I'm more used to a respectful silence. So quiet, no shuffling coughing or anything. To hear applause, to me, an old fart traditional Englishman, is quite shocking.
Diana Prinzessin der Herzen.Du warst ein wunderbarer Mensch.Ich werde Dich nie vergessen!
We miss you Diana
Only in these pagan times, when some call the beautiful ugly and the ugly beautiful, would anyone think of church bells as being "scary."
In a world full of Kardashians, *BE A DIANA.*
13 years and I feel like it was yesterday.
Foi belíssimo o funeral de Daiana!!! Dar vontade de assistir umas 40 vezes seguida, é lindo demais!!! e ao mesmo tempo emocionante!!!
I know the bit I find Terrifying is actually the clash between the begining of the Organ Voluntary, the Bells, and the fact that the Cortege passes through the Great West Doors and into the outside world. Remember the last scene of the video before was the catafalgue pausing before the door, the light silhouetting the Dean infront of it, perfectly choreographed to reach the exit at the climax of Taveners music. :) Course I can only speak for myself lol
well that is because Americans are not famous for their elegant culture. Is there a greater most respectable,honourable way to leave the world than when you are applauded by thousands. Right for Kings and Popes, Princesses as sweet as her.
@Brenda2OOO Bells are the only thing, besides humans, that can be baptized. They are named, and they raise their voices in a joyful (and as here, sometimes mournful) song to the Lord.
Up to that point, there was never a funeral like that one, and it would not be topped until Pope John Paul II died. But the senselessness of Diana's death lent to the proceedings a certain pungency the late pontiff's service naturally lacked. She died young and unexpectedly. He expectedly died in old age and after years of Parkinson's Disease.
Thank goodness for that. It would have sounded terrible on camera, especially with them being half muffled!
@szqsk8 other ppl have commented on this over the two and a half years or so. My own thoughts are that when this was being broadcast live in 1997, many people watching would have been very upset and I think the words Tom Fleming spoke were very touching and would have provided some comfort to those who were crying. For myself, I was totally devastated at this moment and I think it was better to hear someone's voice than the bells and solemn organ music on their own.
rip diana
Thanks for that. I suppose I should know more about bell ringing, living next to a Cathedral and all!
Yes - the peal of bells is half - muffled. this is a funerary tradition, the bells in this world reflected in the next.
Hear! Hear!
It's the English people! God bless em!
I disagree. I think what Tom Fleming said was very touching and he did a superb job of commentating. Fleming is rarely seen and he made fewer mistakes that David Dimbleby who's never off the telly.
very sad ...
I can See Charles as King, but his Camilla, I just do not see her as a Queen. You cannot wipe away scares over night and through the years. I think the tapes of her true feelings released this year around her death anniversary, told the truth what broke up her love for Charles, and yet he was still even during the wedding ceremony, Camilla was in the church for his wedding. A surrounding moment of hypocrisy with Charles and Camilla. His mother will die being the Queen. She will not relinquish that title (King) anytime soon.
You're welcome!
Lovely cars, the Daimler DS420 hearse and limousine. Very British.
Elle ne mériter pas ce destin ci tragique.........c'est vraiment injuste.......
The flag given back to the Royal Family bcs that's a Queen Flag. Not only British have a custom for clapping after funerals. Italian have a same custom. After the Requiem Mass of Pope John Paul II all the people at St. Peter's Square applaud to the coffin.
Nancy Reagan must have loved the sounds of Westminster's Bells ringing because the bells at the National Cathedral put out the same notes at the end of Ronald Reagan's funeral.
Well at least you're not saying it was because the French doctors didn't do it like the Americans and I'm thankful for that.
And now it'll ring for the late Prince's death, right?
J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Minor BWV 546
Does any one no the words what tom fleming reads out at the end or if you no where I can find them please
I remember reading that the hearse was sold for £90,000 not so long after this, without the royal connection it would have only been worth about £4,000.
why is the flag not in half-mast?
Definitely not right. The Metropolitan police spent three years investigating it and it's been conclusively proven that she wasn't murdered. I intend to make a video on my thoughts about this in the near future
the bells are 1971 white-chapel in D(10 bells)
+Shannon Delaney westminster abbey is know to be the home of st peter
I was replying to the comment below yours.