Diana's accident: overnight coverage
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- News of the car crash which eventually claimed the life of Diana, Princess of Wales came in the early hours of Sunday morning, 31 August 1997. Here's some of what appeared on television - a time when BBC channels closed down overnight.
First is Martyn Lewis with a BBC One news report (which interrupted the film Borsalino & Co). Then he gives much the same news on BBC Two a few minutes later. A few minutes after that Tim Willcox appeared on ITV during a scheduled ad break in the film 'Night of the Hunter'. After the end of the film, BBC One joined BBC World News overnight instead of closing down: Nik Gowing is the presenter.
Although I've added captions to explain, this is presented fairly roughly as what I recorded on the night - not knowing when the news would appear. The BBC World coverage represents leaving the tape running while I went to sleep, and the tape only had an hour or so left on it, so there isn't any more.
One of the most heart breaking facts that came out was that she very possibly would have survived had she worn her seatbelt. The bodyguard had his fastened and he lived. That just made it all the more tragic.
royalty never wear seatbealts
@@kizy55More fool them.
@@kizy55i think they do.
She was assassinated. And had they not SLOWLY driven her to a hospital, doing God knows what to her in the meantime, and hadn’t engineered the “accident” in the first place she’d have lived.
Agreed. She was a HUGE security risk for the royals. She knew too much of the inner workings of the royalty. Publishers were offering her tens of millions of dollars for a biography. On top of the fact she travelled the world without bodyguards or security. It was only a matter of time before some terrorist or islamic group would have abducted her and held her hostage for hundreds of millions of dollars...@@angelwings7930
I will never forget that first BBC news report, I was watching television while on night duty in a care home. This is news reporting at its most vulnerable, most visceral, takes me right back to the moment, the terrible uncertainty of not knowing, then the awful truth which followed
26 years later and it feels like yesterday.
she barely got a mention this year.
@@kimgrant3879she passed before I was born and I’m old… it’s been a long time for her.
Awful day. Still feels weird even now
She died on my 32nd Birthday. It's never been quite the same since. I always think of her on my B-Day. America loved her too.
I remember coming home from a Saturday night at the clubs and this was on the TV. I was in my early 20's. Normally I would not turn on the TV when I came home from clubbing but for some reason I did.
I'd been on a night out and about 15 of us ended up back at a friend's house - watching the news through the night was surreal at the time, but then waking the next day to the news that Diana had actually died was absolutely shocking.
I was 17, and my senior year in high school was a couple weeks away. I remember being so shocked. Diana was everywhere when I was a child growing up in the 80s. I didn’t realize how young she was, all I knew is she had always been there. It was terrible, it IS terrible. I wish she were still here, she had only just begun to enjoy her life and her freedom. 😢
I remember watching this live. I was up late that night. Doesn't seem long ago.
Me too. Its 23 years ago now. But still it feels so surreal.
Me too , watched with shock from a local bar in lahaina Maui. A few weeks later, I laid flowers for her at the Alma Tunnel in Paris...People were still in shock and in tears at the Tunnel.
Same here, just got home together with some friends after partying and turnd on the tv and we saw the first report. Our party was over from then on, we watched bbc for hours and hours.
Me too got in form a night out whilst at university my mum said about it I sobered up so quickly. The story she’d suffered a fractured arm but was stable... it just didn’t make sense :-(
I was a porter at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and on nightshift. We knew she had gone when we had a call from the Health secretary's office telling us to lower the hospital flag to half-mast.
To this day 24 years later my heart still sinks when I hear the words: "Princess Diana has died." It's still unbelievable and still so painful for those of us who loved her.
I assume you didn't know her so what did you "love" about her?
I also remember the day how shocked i was..and being angry, irritable an very upset all week..
Why the hell did you care, shes just some middle class persons celeb?
I met her once and shook her hand. She was beautiful. It was a horrible way to go, but Britain went completely bonkers for a week, the whole country lost its mind, collectively. People I know who hated the monarchy still bought flowers.
@@sagefields5847 oh shush...she was loved...get over yourself.
I was 12 when this happened. I was having a sleepover at my best friend’s house on a Saturday and we’d been up all night long by Sunday morning watching the news and hoping she’d make it. I remember being sleepy and delirious as we called our friend’s homes to tell them all she’d passed and many pissed parents answered the phone and were so shocked by the news if they weren’t up already. It was so sad and surreal. 😔
I was 6 the night that this happened and hearing the announcement on the news is burnt into my brain.
I was up so late because there had been a party and we were just getting organised after arriving home, when my Auntie turned the tv on and a few minutes later it flashed on. The silence that descended in the house was deafening and even as such a young child I knew something had changed forever.
I didn’t exist at that time
@@CloudTheAngeloudneither did Diana
The film still of Night of the Hunter seems rather ironic. I met Princess Di on 16 April 1991, when she went out of her way to be kind to me. A lovely person. RIP.
Hey April 16th is my birthday
I was 11 years old when this tragic accident happened. My heart still goes out to her two boys. Just so sad, and she will be remembered as a loving and caring lady
she is in fact, IMMORTAL!!!
Same age here aswell!
Also 11 years old. I was on vacation with my family at the beach in Delaware when we heard the news!
Nobody gives a shit
I was 14 and not even British, didn't even speak English then. But I was gay and naturally attracted to her. Me and my brother were in a car going to pick the apples when I heard it on a radio.
52:43 "A concussion, a broken arm, and serious cuts to her thigh..."
I remember watching the CNN coverage of this that night, and we were told that too, and believed it right up until they brought the car out of the tunnel. When we saw that we looked at each other and said, "There is no way she got out of that with only a broken arm and cuts." RIP Diana, 24 years ago today.
Internal injuries?
@@ninachr there had to be major internal injuries. Her seatbelt was broken and they hit that barrier at 80 mph. I'm surprised she wasn't killed on impact.
Her heart was misplaced in her body and het pulmonary artery was torn causing internal bleeding. No seatbelt unfortunatly
I watched her being brought out of that car live. Her car was crushed on the front but the rest of car was intact. There was no reason for me to think her injuries were serious, it was only later after the announcement that they showed photos of the sardine like crushed car.
I was in England at home after a night out with friends and I thought the same thing, when I saw the state of the car I had a bad feeling, it was so awful.
BBC 2:
Diana gravely injured, passenger dead....and now for the weather
I remember this BBC report really well.
I was 17 and living in Italy back then. I was awake that night zapping through channels when I noticed the Breaking News on BBC. I was glued to the report for hours, even though my English was far from perfect. I was so shocked, Diana was such an iconic and loved figure in Italy... and I had seen her pictures on magazines only a few weeks earlier that summer. I think of her picture whilst she was sitting on a yacht in Sardinia.
Her compassion is still remembered 23 years on.
I existed 9 years and 4 days (September 4th 2006) after her death
Twenty six years on and I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I can still feel the shock of disbelief and horror of the moment for what her death would mean to her children, family, admirers and the world. Each year that passes this date always creeps up on me. I relive the sorrow of losing someone I admired as a humanitarian who lived the life of a Greek tragedy heroine. As I lost my own Mother under tragic circumstances six months later my grief was compounded and life changed forever. I’ve lost all the “heroes” in my life. Not one has been replaced. Nobody can ever compare to them and nobody ever will. When Diana died my Mom gave me words of comfort to think about…, “you have to thank God that she was given life and came to prominence at all to do the good works she did and give thanks for that.” I remembered those words six months later when I delivered her eulogy.
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hat was beautifully written. I'm sorry for your loss, mate.
I can remember this day like it was yesterday. It was one of those life-defining 'where were you when it happened?' moments that occur throughout history that you never forget. I'm the same age now as Diana was when she died and that is absolutely far too young to pass away. The impact she made on this planet during the short time she was here that will never ever be forgotten.
It shows how times have changed. This happened in the days before Smart phones and social media. The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning. I was on holiday on a camp site in the Black Forest in Germany with my UK registered vehicle and it wasn’t until Monday evening that I found out about the accident. I was wondering why everyone was staring at us but I think they were bemused that we weren’t reacting to the tragic news. In the days that followed the German shops in many of the places we visited had tributes to Princess Diana in their windows and the shock was palpable. We drove home northwards on the motorway in England and the amount of floral tributes was incredible. Very sad!
I was camping that weekend as well with family and friends (Albeit in America). We were swimming in a lake when that was closed off after someone drowned Sunday afternoon and went back to hang out at the campsite and heard the news on the radio. Absolutely shocking.
It was an assassination not an accident.
I was camping in Lake District and didn’t know for 3 days. Saw a paper on train and asked reader. He asked where I had been in complete disbelief, think I was last in U.K. to know
My family were on holiday overseas and on waking that morning couldn’t work out who’d been killed. It simply sad “Diana killed in Paris car crash”. I was shocked to learn it was the Princess of Wales. We flew back to the U.K. on the day of her funeral and the roads from the airport were nearly empty.
Weird and shocking to watch this. I was at work Saturday evening, waiting tables on the west coast of the USA. A man came in and asked if it was too late to have a meal. I told him, of course not, and as I handed him a menu he looked up at me and said, "I don't know if you've heard, but Princess Diana was killed in a car accident today." I still remember the overwhelming sadness and disbelief that swept over me. Clearly he felt the same. It was one of those earth-shaking events where you find yourself really wanting, needing to immediately talk about it--with anyone, even a complete stranger--so profound was the sense of unreality: "is this really real?! how could this happen??"
Its quite incredible to listen to the various people in the media discussing how their behaviour was justified. It seems to me there is a difference between wanting attention and accepting that she couldn't get away from it and trying to make the best of a situation that was inescapable.
Wear a seatbelt people, the only person that survived had his seatbelt on, Trevor Reese Jones, sitting in the passenger seat, admittedly he had some injuries, but he survived.
He was seriously injured too
Never forget she was the people's princess, but her most important role was being a mum. Two young boys lost their mum in a horrible way. I lost my mum at the same age Harry was when Princess diana died. It's not easy to lose such an important and special person from your life at that age
I was just 8 years old when this tragedy took place. 1997 wasn't a good year for me because I also lost my mother that year too. 😢 I felt nothing but heartbreak for all of that year. 😭 Diana was taken away from all us way too soon. I wish that I've could've met her in person.
I was 12 when this happened. I got to meet her when I was 5 in 1990 when our school went to see her when she visited Blackpool. I say “meet” but I was behind railings and I grabbed her red coat by the arm when she walked past us lol. My younger sister got to give her a bouquet of flowers though.
Sorry about your mother, must have been horrific to lose her at such a young age x
@@Simon1985_ Thank you for that. She was 39 and I never really got a chance to know her because she was dealing with her own "personal demons".
I am so sorry for you losing your mum and at such a young age as well. My heart goes out to you.
@@jenniferjones188 Thank you. She would've turned 64 this past August.
That must of been very hard for you to lose your mum so sorry for your loss, she will always be with you in your heart ❤️sending love and light to you ❤️
I was 16 year old, and remember that night clearly. I was watching late night TV in the living room, when the news came on. Didn't think it was serious, even after the news of Dodi's death. Watched for a bit, then went to bed.
Couldn't sleep, so turned on the TV in my bedroom, which I was sharing with my brother. Less than 5 minutes later, confirmation of Diana's death coincided with my brother's sleepy grunt to turn the TV off. I told him Diana had died, and he instantly woke up and watched the news with me until the early morning.
2:22 - BBC World airing on BBC One would be a unique event as by the BBC charter they weren't allow to air BBC World on any of the home BBC channels as BBC World was not funded by the licence fee but was a commercial subsidiary of the BBC funded by advertising, so airing this on BBC One was a one off exemption due to the serious news event.
Yep, they aired it that night and the following night too. This is probably where the seeds of BBC News 24 were sewn.
@@wirhannah nope, bbc had started to discuss plans to launch a home 24 hour news channel in 1996 i believe
The BBC 2 bulletin that was on here for a short while makes its return here I see too. Good upload.
I was marshalling at Brands Hatch that weekend and the meeting went ahead on the Sunday. The weirdest thing happened during a two minute silence at lunchtime. Brands hatch is set in a natural bowl and when things are quiet you can hear any noise from anywhere on the circuit, During that silence NO sound was heard; no children chatting, no babies crying and no birds chirping in the trees; nothing. It was as if the world stopped for those two minutes. My mate I was marshalling with noticed it too
I was driving back from Spa during an extended stay after the Grand Prix and as I got to Boulogne I heard France 1 news on the radio say "Diana est décédée".
I had to pull over, I got out and said a prayer to the heavens.
I'll bet even the M20 went quiet, given that is literally just the other side of Paddock Hill Bend.
@@scsutton1 yes I was at Druid’s and couldn’t hear the traffic. Couldnt even hear the Major complaining
@@stephenbrown4211 surreal silence at a track is eerie
@@stephenbrown4211 same at both druids north and saarff
I was in bed when the news began to break. The radio was on quietly in the background to lull me to sleep when I heard the first very vague report of an accident. I had a sense it was serious so I got up to watch Sky News etc. After an hour or so the reports were that she had seriously injured her thigh and this was repeated a few times. I decided all would likely be well; it didn't sound too serious, and I returned to bed and fell asleep. When I awoke early in the morning my radio was still on and the very first thing I heard was that she'd died. It's hard to describe the sense of shock I felt given I'd felt sure everything would be ok. The sense of shock and grief in my local community was palpable....it completely dominated our thoughts and conversations right up until the point of the funeral.
RIP Diana 🙏
Strange how we never forget where we were or what we were doing when we first hear about events like this. They truly become forever imprinted in our memory. I'm a Canadian, and in 1997 was living and working in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. I had just got home to my flat Sunday morning after working the nightshift at our hospital. As per habit, I turned on the tv for background 'noise'(BBC World, in fact this very broadcast) and without paying any attention, proceeded to the bathroom to take off my scrubs and get ready for bed. While brushing my teeth and over the sound of the running water, I kept hearing vague references from the tv to "Diana's death" and "reaction to the death of Diana", but never made the connection. Wondering what Diana they could possibly be talking about, I stepped back into my sitting room, and standing in front of the tv, saw the breaking news banner at the bottom of the screen announcing that Princess Diana was dead. It was simply surreal. I remember my legs felt like rubber and I had to sit down. As the initial shock of the event wore off, I'll admit that I wept more than once. Funny thing is, I was working the day of her funeral and all our Saudi patients were glued to their tv's watching the live coverage at St. Paul's, this in a country which at that time, was incredibly strict about banning any Christian references. I think they were just fascinated by this glimpse into the ceremony of a religion that they knew very little about.
Yes I remember both places I was at when this and 9 11 happened ❤😊
Bloody hell, I get goosebumps every time I hear about her death like this. I can't imagine how people must have felt when they heard the news, their nerves must have been set right on edge.
I wasn't born at the time, but I do get affected by it, and people ask why because I didn't 'know' her but it's because I knew that she was such a beautiful human being, even though she was going through so much and she was alone, she was giving her love and care to us, the people.
But I know that her legacy will be carried through by William and Harry, and everyone will remember her time and time again.
What a woman she was.
Diana 1961-1997
it was a tremendous shock. So young and vivacious and full of life.
The words "tremendous shock " don't even cover it. It blindsided the entire UK. I have many vivid memories of that week. x
alone ? she was in a car with a multi-billionaire, a driver and bodyguard, she had a life of luxury , she was beautiful and i too fell for that , however i never met her, so i have perspective.
i met lilly allens dad he came to where i worled ,had a good chat with hime about this & he said it was murder ,they shot dodi & diana went mad so they shot her too - he made the doc death of a princess
@@sbutler860 Not everyone, I was certainly surprised and a bit shocked but honestly I wasn't blindsided or freaked out
Thanks very much for this upload; I can already see some footage that hasn't been put up before. Anything more you have from the overnight coverage on ITV into GMTV would be appreciated.
Sorry, went to sleep on the assumption nothing important would happen during the night.
GMTV wasn't a station famous for it's serious news reporting the only other serious news story that happened many years later was War on Saddam
I was 10 when this happened and I remember the look and sadness in my mums face. She absolutely adored Princess Diana. Gone but never forgotten 🙏
I just got in late from a club when it broke,, I sobered up instantly, R.I.P DIANA
Exactly same here! Had been at a hen party all day and night. Immediately sober when I heard. I’d never had that happen before 🤷🏼♀️
@@ashsara9233 lol
Thanks for the upload. The video documents a historical event of a great magnitude.
Why? What did the event change?
I was a single mom who had just enjoyed an adult vacation away leaving my children home with my parents. That day i had come home after my sons were asleep, enjoying talking with my mom about all the fun things i had done. Then the news break came across that Diana had been injured and the attitude changed instantly. My mom and I prayed for Diana and her family. When the news finally came that we had lost Diana i couldn't have asked to be in a better place right in my moms arms. I never met Diana but still admired and loved her no less.
I stayed up that night in America. First night in my college apartment. The whole world was sad that night and ever since.
My Dad was working that night, so he probably would have seen this broadcast live all those years ago. He came in that morning and broke the news to me and my mum. I was 4 years old at the time. We all sat in silence for the rest of the day as the news continued to roll.
I was 8 years old in Ireland. I woke up very early in the morning and heard the tv on and got up because I knew my Dad was up watching TV. I went to him in the living room and asked if I could watch one of my Disney videos. He just said ‘no’ and continued watching in silence ..
I wasn’t born yet, but I still feel a shockwave every time I hear that Princess Diana has died
Now you are 🐒
Thank you for this excellent documentation of the news reports.
Pay the man
In the US I was watching tv when news of the accident began saying Diana had a cut on her leg. I stayed up throughout the night and was stunned hearing she had died. We tried to go shopping the next day and I couldn’t concentrate. The shock was everywhere and it felt unbelievably sad.
Thanks for posting these reports.
I remember driveing on motorway from portsmouth to southampton hearing on the radio diana has died i couldnt believe it! Every 31st of august i remember her ! It was like looseing a sister weird feeling!! God bless Diana x
Yes, and how galling it is, to hear Princess Diana's widower 'husband' now nicely referring to his long-term-mistress-become-spouse as "My Darling Wife". All for our benefit. Everything is fine and dandy now, is it? Quite a handy 'accident', I must say!
Loosing a sister - get a grip !
May Princess Diana rest in peace. She will be missed by all of us 😢🌹⚰️. BBC and ITV had great coverage and this was only a few weeks before the current BBC logo had been updated.
ITV News really did an excellent job with Dermot Murnaghan and Nicholas Owen, much better than the BBC over dramatic "This is BBC Television from London" - end of the world type news announcement.
She's resting in pieces 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💀
Well as she only only married into royal family it is incorrect to refer to her as Princess Diana. The use of a prince or Princess title is reserved for people born in royal family not those who marry into it. She. Was Diana, Princess of Wales not Princess diana
@@jamesmarshall1967 I do wish one day this country and its people grow up and stop believing in princes, princesses and castles. It’s mental
@@BillyHayes79Music true but they do bring in millions in tourism and money earned from crown estate which pays for them with remaining going to treasury
My family were probably the last people in Britain to know, we went out the next day and didn't watch TV. We went in a supermarket and I saw "DI IS DEAD" on the newspapers, but they always had overblown coverage about everything she did, so I didn't think they actually meant that.
I saw a comment by someone saying they didn’t know until 3 days later because they were on a camping trip
Martyn Lewis talked about being awakened at home and being called into Television Centre to give the newsflash, which explains why he looks a little out of sorts in the first two clips. Since BBC1 then picked up the BBC World feed, Lewis then said he was told to go home for a few hours' sleep and then come back at 6AM. He was back on air at 6:30 to officially announce Diana's death.
Many Britishers likely were awakened by phone calls in the middle of the night from friends who were awake telling them "Turn on the Telly! Princess Diana's been in a bad accident! BBC-1 and ITV are on the air with non-stop coverage!"
No
I wish somebody would upload CNN’s late night coverage of Diana’s accident and death. I was up all night watching it. Such a sad night.
Being a Canadian, I would have liked someone to upload coverage of this from CBC News.
my friend was staying with us with her family and her little brother woke up in the small hours and turned the TV on. He came in to tell us and we told him to shove off and to stop winding us up and let us sleep. We didn't for a second think it was true. The shock when we woke up was enormous
I learnt about this about 5-6am on that morning. I was 8yo and the foster family I was living with, we were going on holiday to France on that morning. I don't remember when her death was announced or remember much else about it. But I do remember hearing about the accident and that she was seriously injured.
Thanks for sharing.
I’ll never forget…
I was 8 years old on a family trip in Louisiana. We were in a restaurant that evening when the tragic news broke. We stayed there until after it closed. And that was the first time I ever heard the word “paparazzi”.
Princess Diana was a fantastic beautiful woman and should never be forgotten RIP 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Who?
@@woowah32 Pratt 😠
@@harrolldthebarroll 😘👍🏻🤣
@@woowah32 🦎🤬
We were shocked when we learned the news. It was a holiday weekend in the U.S., we were staying at a B+B in Glen Arbor, MI. Our room had CNN, we wouldn’t normally watch television on vacation, but we had never seen the cable station. We turned on the t.v. by chance after returning from dinner. We couldn’t believe the news, we never thought the world would lose her and were in disbelief when it was confirmed. It was just a sad time for everyone.
I remember it like it was last night. I’d just played a show at Nottingham rock city and was winding down watching it with my mouth wide open. Surreal
Poor Martyn Lewis. He did a good job, but it was obvious he was shocked.
Thank you very much
Sunday morning getting ready to go play football......absolutely shocked.Remember it like yesterday.
It was a Saturday night here in the States.
I had just come home after a day with my then girlfriend at a local fair.
Shortly after coming home, I turned on my radio to catch an hourly newscast, heard about the accident, turned on my TV and watched coverage into the wee hours.
I was working a night shift on the Saturday night & came home at 0630 in the morning, I tried to get a paper but was told they were going to be late as they had been re-pulped due to adverse stories about Diana & Dodi, so basically the newspapers were a bunch of hypocrites till the end ...
Was in Blackpool with my first love and BM. Vans were throwing bails of newspapers out of the back that morning. Informing people of the news. Never seen that before or since.
I was in Greenwich Village, NYC in my apt during a heatwave. I went out to the local Gristedes grocery store and there were all these tabloid mags at checkout "Diana Finds Love!" and I thought wow how nice at long last. Then once home a friend called and broke the news that there had been a bad accident in Paris.
I sat all night glued to the tv like most but thought instantly when I saw that crunched wreck that she most likely had died.
A few hours later they announced this tragic news. I too revisit this coverage as some part of me still finds it difficult to process even after all this time.
I was 25, shocked, but not devastated.
Thanks for the upload.
Do you by any chance have any 9/11 coverage?
Got this, which is the BBC's evening special: czcams.com/video/WOrivD20ndA/video.html (Broadcast 8:30 PM UK time, or 3:30 PM in New York)
Heartbreaking!
She wasn't wearing a seat belt.
I used to fall asleep with my bedroom radio on. One of the speakers was 8” from my head. I was up early on the Sunday to go into work to do an annual stock take at 6am.
The news on the radio was filtering into my ears whilst I was asleep about the death, and it eventually woke me up.
I got up and went into my parents room and woke my mum who was a total royalist, she didn’t believe me at first.
I then went into work and told all the staff and owners about it, non of them turned the Tv or radio on before going into work. Remember like it was yesterday. I was 17 years old.
I was 23 years old and cried like a baby whilst sat on my mums knee! I know it sounds ridiculous but it was a great shock to everyone who grew up seeing her on TV and on newspapers since she got married. I was 6 when she got married so I did practically grew up with her.
23 and sat on your Mams knee ?? I’ll pray for your mother…
@@shanet5604 she was fine I wasn’t that heavy 😀🤣🤣
thanks for this
I'd been out with my first girlfriend and I was driving home when I heard it on the radio. I woke my mum up to tell her that Dodi was dead, then went to bed, she woke me up in the morning to tell me Diana was dead. One quiz question I always get right, what year did Diana die.
I remember waking up and switching the TV on and hearing at the awful news I couldn't believe what had happened I woke my partner up and told him to come and watch the news at first he didn't believe me but we both sat there not moving for a good few hours
I was stopping for gas on my way back home from an amazing long weekend on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Utah when the gas station cashier asked us 'How are the royals?' Someone I was with asked if they were talking about the baseball team, of course they were not. I remember being in complete shock and disbelief the entire 5 hour ride home, anxious to get home and turn on the news to see if it could possibly be true. Inexplicably the radio station we were listening to never mentioned the accident at all. That horrible ride hom was followed by the confirmation of her death. I'll never forget that day. ❤️
Ty for upload
I can remember watching the whole night live, from them originally saying she’d walked away, to the inevitable awful news. James Whitaker knew way before it was announced that we weren’t being told the truth. I still have six hours of this on VHS, that I wish I could convert to digital and upload to CZcams
@DoubleDS9 I’ll get googling, cheers.
I know someone in Kettering who converts videos onto a memory stick
@@Rfoz51 That’s exactly what I need. Probably doesn’t help I recorded it on Longplay (!!) so you got six hours on a 3 hour VHS.
Showing me age now!
Thank you 👍🏻😊
@@tdurb0 yes! Can you please post them?
@@tdurb0DO IT!
We need that other part, its such history any fool would wanna watch it!
Do post it!
It was the afternoon in Australia. It was one of the few news flashes that have ever made me exclaim aloud - I knew immediately how massive this would be.
I was at home on the Sunday afternoon. My parents had come home, parked the car in the carport and walked into the kitchen where I was. My mother was first, followed by my father. Her first words were 'Princess Diana has been killed in a car crash.' She was shocked. My father made a comment I won't repeat (he was not a fan) and my mother told him off.
I was only 6 but ill never forget my mom watching the news coverage here in USA.
Its engraved in my head.
Can remember my dad getting in from work and coming to wake me up and told me, I went downstairs and into the living room and saw it on telly. I ran upstairs and went into my parents bedroom and woke my mum and told her. I remember hearing the neighbours next door screaming when they heard the news. Was horrendous seeing it on telly and thinking she won’t survive that. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Never met her but will never forget her. Rest In Peace Princess Diana, the Queen of our hearts. 😭😭😭😭 xxxxxxxx
I will never forget it, switching on my telly & see blanket coverage on that Sunday morning, I have never cried so much in all my life. The People's Princess a Queen of people's hearts
I cried more when people I actually knew had died. I cried at the loss of pets, love, family. Thankfully I didn't shed a single tear about a pampered princess whom I had never met.
@@sagefields5847 Well, that seems very sane and sensible. Your family, friends, your beloved pets are all part of your life. I must admit I didn't shed a tear about Diana, but for some strange reason cried my eyes out about Prince Philip. Not because I knew him, I think it was tears for the loss of all the people who had died since COVID and all the suffering it had caused..He had always been there, stable and never changing. In the last year it was like living through some horrible nightmare. Nothing was the same.
I will assume you have never suffered a personal loss such as parents, grandparents, other family including pets or close friends. You are either young or lucky.
@@sagefields5847 get a life! We love Diana. Why are you on here to bad mouth a deceased royal!? If you don't like them then bug off!!
I was a young hot thing out & about in London at the time. I was somewhere that had a huge screen playing a music video channel & I remember distinctly my distain when a member of staff changed the channel over to BBC news only to discover what had happened. Diana was only apparently injured at this point but we all kind of stopped what we were doing & followed the updates almost in disbelief. I stayed where I was & waited for the news conference that never came. I knew something was wrong when the foreign secretary who was abroad delayed his flight. I rememeber turning away from the screen for a moment & then turning back & the banner at the bottom said that Diana had died. The utter disbelief. I cancelled my plans of clubbing that night & travelled home on the train, no one spoke, it was surreal. I arrived home, put my bag down & switched on the TV. The message came up that all programes had been suspended & I knew that I was experiencing history right there & then. I know it was a world event but for the UK it was just tragic.
Well where about was you this was all in the early hours of the morning most clubs would be shot by then?
I remember watching breaking news when princess was injured she passed away I was 17 when this happen
Watched it on an overnight shift and couldn't understand the fuss. Sad but man was it overblown.
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overblown like your comment? strange that you clicked on the video here.
Diana lives forever in our hearts ❤
I will never forget this night as long as I live...where I was, what I did and who was present. I had come from the movie theatre...As soon as I walked through the door, mom says 'Princess Diana's been in an accident'. Think about that...an American family glued to the television, genuinely concerned about a woman who married into the royal family and wanting her to be okay. At the time of the first news announcements, I said 'I hope it was minor injuries - perhaps a broken arm or leg only. Then, the unthinkable was announced. Her loss was deeply saddening. I felt like I had lost another family member (I had lost my grandmother just 2 weeks earlier). Princess Diana touched people's hearts. Never forget that...her light and legacy will never be distinguished.
It was a sunny ish day and I was on the drive of my olds house polishing my Astra Gte 16v when I heard the bad news on the car stereo. I split up with my girlfriend a few weeks before and she had just went passed my drive walking up the road and I ignored her. I was listening to empty rooms on the stereo and I just ejected the tape and the news had just started stating that she had died. People remember and never forget things like this, it's a fixed point in time.
There was a documentary about breaking news in which Martyn Lewis said he had to go drom his home to BBC studios twice. He was woken up by his daughters who had a BBC colleague on the phone.
Is it cut off at the end? I remember that this news compilation was longer or am I wrong?
It ends where the tape ran out.
What a night that must have been for all of them. Awful, unprecedented. We'll all remember where we were when we heard
She was a fast reckless driver? What an awful thing to say during a terrible shocking situation. Press people really are arsholes
She wasnt even driving!
A bit of an understatement:- 'concussion; broken arm and serious cuts to thigh'
I watched this live as it unfolded. Was 16 and holiday with my family on the South coast. Couldn't sleep so had nothing better to do.
Ashamed to admit this but, as you can see from this coverage, it wasn't known that she was dead initially, and to my shame I 'pranked' my father, telling him that she'd died when he got up from bed to go to the toilet.
She still hadn't been reported dead when I fell asleep. Got up in the morning and my old man told me she actually was dead. Felt terrible.
Hey, I was 16.
Spent the rest of the day driving home in the rain (after it had been hot and sunny all week) listening to tributes on the radio. Very long, quiet and depressing drive home.
I was 11 and at a slumber party with my friends in the US so we got word before it was past our bedtime. Around 8 or so maybe?
I remember this day very well when Princess Diana was killed as it was 31st August 1997. RIP Princess Diana. I was 15 when it happened.
Summer night in a packed bar at the South Jersey Shore........you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone in the car, especially the driver, was at fault for Di’s death. In 1999, a French investigation found that the driver Henri Paul, who lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs, was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel. Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood may have worsened Paul's inebriation. In 2008, the jury at a British inquest returned a verdict of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving by Paul and the paparazzi for following vehicles. Early media reports claimed bodyguard Rees-Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt, but further investigations revealed that none of the occupants of the car were wearing their seat belts.
Careless and drunk. Sorry.
I agree it was the drunk driver but Diana herself chose not to put her seatbelt on. Trevor Jones was the only one who was wearing one. Seat Belts SAVE LIVES.
Treaver Reese Jones,the only survivor said,that Henri Paul,the driver,was not drunk!! And since he was there,i believe him!! There were several bodies in the morgue that night,and i truly believe,that was someones blood toxicology,but it was not Henri Paul's!!
And if you believe that then I’m sorry, you’ve been brainwashed. He wasn’t drunk at all
There are issues with his results - he certainly didn't appear drunk on cctv and I can't see her - or Dodi- getting in a car for planned evasive action, if he were.
@Chrissy Cuts
What a evil witch you are. And had the audacity to say sorry after your demonic rant. You most likely do not the detail of anything. Learn first.
I was 12 years old at the time, watching the reports from the US 😔
Same here, turned 12 that July
sky news breaking report was that she had a broken arm and was not seriously injured whilst shortly afterwards reporting diana was deceased whilst the bbc continued reporting she was injured
I was sitting on the living room floor with my then husband and our two children playing Jenga when my daughter said Mom, look Princess Diana had a car wreck...😢the beginning of a week of pure agony
25 years ago today. That sad Sunday morning.
Then Elizabeth dies