American reacts to Princess Diana's Funeral
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2022
- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Princess Diana's Funeral. It's unreal how many people came together to mourn her.
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What you didn't witness on this video is the moment when her coffin went out the gates of the palace, it was so quiet then you suddenly hear at least 2 women wailing. It still gives me shivers to this day.
I was on my way to my holiday in Devon. Even the trains stopped and all passengers went eerily quiet. She was the best thing to happen to that family.
Flying the flag half mast has been a tradition in the UK for many many years, the commentator was referring to the specific flag above Buckingham Palace, the Union Flag is usually flown to signify the Queen being away...the Royal Standard is flown when she was home...to have the flag lowered to half mast for someone other than the monarch is extremely rare.
Until 1997 the only flag to fly from Buckingham Palace was the Royal Standard which is never flown at half mast. Only since her death do you see the union flag fly at Buckingham palace
In Romania the flag goes to half mast when someone of great importance die
Half mast origins: Quote: "Many historians point to a British expedition to Canada in 1612 aboard the ship Heart's Ease. The captain, James Hall, was killed by an Inuit spear, and the crew lowered the ship's flag to half-mast". Perhaps this is the first recorded half mast? Although, pirates had many such unwritten rules & flags were very much a part of their sea lives. Although the Royal navy also has had such a long history, perhaps it does stem from there?
People were VERY angry at the paperazi and newspapers in general. It came out recently that editors launched a campaign to turn the attention away from themselves onto the Queen and demand to know why she was still in Balmoral (looking after the boys). Then they quibbled about why the Queen wasn't in London, how cold she was towards Diana then, finally, that the flag wasn't being flown at half mast ... when the family wasn't there. The anger towards the Queen grew, but people stopped being angry at the newspapers - so it was a win for them.
I am so angry at the paparazzi that I have left a message under the Instagram account of one of the French photographers in the tunnel. It was a link to his mugshot (he was arrested by French police after the crash... )
The Spencers and RF made the funeral unique because they understood how unique Diana was as a human. She was part royal and part celebrity.
6:35 That is the Queen Mother behind the Queen who was 97 at the time.
I still remember it. I was 17 at the time. 1 thing that always stuck with me was when they where taking the coffin at the start of the funeral procession, and all you could hear was anguished sobs and people calling for Diana.
@@EF5Windsit’s called grief, look it up
Did you say you didn't know Diana was married to Charles. I'm speechless that's how she became princess of Wales!!
You will see Prince Harry in interviews saying that he didn't want to walk behind her coffin. He was 12 and had to hold in all his emotions. It all became part of his wild behavior in his 20s.
Exactly. The boys never wanted to walk behind the coffin but the family told them they had to. They really didn't think about their mental health.
I've heard different stories but we cannot know the truth
You can know the truth when you watch it live then see interviews of the boys saying this!
Look for facts, not gossip.
Hey Ryan, watch the Earl Spencer speech for his late Sister Princess Diana and see the crowds reaction. This was a great tragedy for the World and she certainly left a legacy.
Was an amazing speech. I was in work but we all watched & clapped when he did that speech x
I just watched it. Yes it says it all!!
That was the best eulogy I've ever heard 😪
Is on the right of the outline of her, in the memorial of Diana at Althorp (she's buried on the island in the lake). With a message from Diana on the opposite side, she made at some point in her life.
It was shown live on TV in the UK. I didn't intend to watch it at all but I thought I would watch for maybe 10 minutes. Eight hours later I was still watching. It was kind of mesmerising.
This happened before I was born so I’ve never really understood what all the fuss was about (where even my republican family members say they cried), but I actually get it the way you’ve put it.
I was in London when this happened, and I can testify to the fact that the city was incredibly Quiet! It was the most eerie feeling ever! You could almost say that you could hear a pin drop, it was so unbelievably quiet!
I remember watching it live on TV. I cried a lot that day. I still couldn't believe she was gone. That handwritten note made me cry harder when I saw it on her coffin. Sir Elton John's song "Like a candle in the wind" was beautiful. 😢😭💮🌼🌹👑🕯
I remember watching parts of the procession and what stuck with me were the people in the crowd shouting out her name in anguish and sobbing loudly when the cortège passed out of the gates of Buckingham Palace on its way to Westminster Abbey.
The cortege did not pass "out of the gates of Buckingham Palace". It passed by those gates on the way from Kensington Palace,her home.
She was a beautiful person and the world knew that.
The only day in my 40 years walking this earth where my country literally stood still!!!
The Peoples Princess will live forever!
I was glued to my television. Will never forget it.
How could you not know she was married to prince charles? That was how she became a princess.
New Zealand and Australia got to know before the UK even woke up. I knew exactly where I was, in the shower and at that time it was reported as an accident, I sat for the next 8 hours wrapped in a towel. Her brother's eulogy was honest yet heartbreaking.
My Mom and I watched the funeral and cried through out. I got to see Diana when she came to Edmonton with Charles.
What was her energy like?
It was a very tragic time, everyone the world over was in shock, I am from Australia, we watched the funeral on television. Yes you can visit her ancestral home of "Althorp" where she is buried, I have been there in 2013, it was very special to see..... yes the card on her coffin was from the boys William and Harry....
Oh boy this brings back so much memories. I was 17 when she passed. I worked at a recordstore, a few days after her funeral the single of Elton John came out. At 5 in the morning the were put in the store we all had to come in at 6 and within 1 hour all the singles were sold out. Total madness in different times.
I am getting old....
I remember watching this in NZ 😢 I was still in shock these poor boys ❤️
I remember waking up on Sunday morning and hearing the news, woke up my husband to be and we both were crying with shock. It was unbelievable.
I live about 10 minutes away from Althorpe, it is Earl Spencer's private estate. The Earl does open small parts of the estate to the public for a fee at certain times in the year. The lake is off limit.
Princess Diana's family vault is situated a short distance away in the village church in Grest Brington. Locally it is believed that Diana was actually not laid to rest on the island but placed alongside her beloved Father and ancestors in the family vault.
Whether this is actually the case I sure we'll never know.
All we can hope is Princess Diana rests in peace
I think that might be true.
There has been a Westminster Abbey since 1066. The present Westminster Abbey has stood since 1269 & 39 monarchs have been crowned there since 1066. Also 30 kings & queens are buried at Westminster Abbey. Quote: "Westminster Abbey is also the burial place for other famous figures like Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin and many other prominent people of the past".
Actually, the children did not want to walk behind her coffin. They were pushed in doing so, according to people who were involved in her funeral. They said this in a documentary years later.
It was on a saturday. I had to work in that day. The streets in The Netherlands were empty. Nobody came into the shop. We found a very old tv set in the cellar and watched this. I will never forget this day. Everybody, and I mean everybody, was watching this.
Yes its like the world stop for her. I remember watching it live on Tv . She was a major role model for young girls and women all over the world.
It's kind of interesting the impact this event had on the Queen. For the first time in a long time the public was outraged at a sitting monarch. I remember it well, almost everyone was in agreement that her response to Diana's death was insulting, cold, and utterly disrespectful. No doubt a lot of that was caused by lack of communication, she probably was grieving in her own way, but the public perception was that she didn't give a sht, and considering Diana was the most loved of all the royals it led to a tidal wave of anger. It wasn't just the Queen, Charles and Prince Philip were considered with equal disdain for their silence and detached attitudes. This is one of the reasons there are still so many conspiracy theories about Diana's death.
I do think most of it was just due to the Queen still being so trapped in "traditions" and what's considered "protocol", because after this she did break with traditions more frequently and seemed to work a lot harder to modernize and catch up with public perception of the royals. I think she misjudged the public, and she learned from it. I think Charles probably did, too.
As usual the gutter press was taking advantage of everyone's emotions and stirring up trouble. The UK and the USA both have a *huge* problem in this regard. Charles actually took charge of the situation as his parents could not.
The Queen "grieving in her own way"? I think not.
I remember watching the funeral with my grandmother. I was 9 at the time.
I was 12 or 13 years old at the time, mom had recorded the event on vhs (I'm sure she still has the tape today). We all watched as it took place, as did much of the rest of the world. Think of 9/11, this was all over the news, you couldn't escape it.
The Video missed out on the one Thing the queen did on that day that saved the monsrchy. When the car with the coffin passed the queen she did a little bow with her had.
Tjos is very unusual 1st bevause the queen doesnt bow to anybody because she is the Monarch and 2nd because she never Shows emotions.
The lake is on private land, owned by Earl Spencer (Diana's brother) so no, it isn't accessible to the public.
She is buried by her childhood home on the grounds on that beautiful little island in the lake x
It is so sad that her two sons William and Harry lost their mother so young Diana was such a warm hearted mother who loved her sons more than anything.💞
I remember getting up at 4 am to watch this.
I was on holiday in Italy
I can remember travelling with my family on holiday (vacation) that day. It was so sad everyone on the coach was quiet. Some watched the funeral cortege on a television on the way to the Caravan site. When we got there, people had photos of Princess Diana in their caravan windows
Yes please do something on the life of Princess Diana. ❤️👸. You will see how beautiful and dazzling her aura was. An icon of our age, forever missed not only here 🇬🇧 but around the world.
Will do! Thanks for the suggestion
@@ryanwuzer I''m sure tons of us would also love to see your reaction to Elton John's performance at this funeral - truly one of the most poignant moments of history: czcams.com/video/1o9rLDCfO6o/video.html
Saw it with my grandma live on tv. My grandmother was from cuba, and she was even touched and in tears with this tragedy. I was Harry’s age at the time.
She is buried at her family estate I think it is opened once a year for visitors {mourners}
All of us in Europe I am 🇩🇰 was watching from start to the end…… our flag was even lowered as well……everybody was all in mourn and in tears….and when Elton John began to play “goodbye Englands Rose” I just cracked….😢 iI felt so hard for her two beloved songs…..afterwards 🇬🇧 was in a riot …..they almost ended their monarchy back then…..
Sons I mean
Watch candle in the wind during the service. It was unbelievably moving.
I remember her funeral procession, a couple from New York were there taking pictures while everyone was sombre. The wife blares out " Gee honey, didja get one of tha kawfin ?! "
It irked me
Yes you can visit Althorpe House and walk around the lake they also have a memorial in grounds. Everyone can tell you where they were when they heard the news of her death, I was in the shower with my 4 month old son when my now ex husband came in and told me, I just stood there crying in disbelief that someone so young and beautiful could have died leaving behind her precious boys
Diana eas special, pure hearted woman, who was decieved by her husband and found her path. Half mast is grieve everywhere in Europe. God picks tje beautiful flowers first ❤
I remember this and my mom recorded her funeral on vhs. I'm 39 now and i was about 12 and remember the events like it was yesterday.
I remember that day so well no movment what so ever!! Know cars moving at all she Diana our beautiful princess stopped the world to get off sadly missed we loved her!!
Watching this on replay 10 months later. I was at the Funeral in 1997 the atmosphere of peace and love and the perfume of blooms in the atmosphere can not be captured in camera. The Trash British Media now wants to brain wash us into accepting Camilla and rewrite Princess Diana's legacy!! I have been in the presence of Diana she was even more beautiful than the camera could ever capture. Princess Diana will always b3 the Queen of Peoples hearts.💜🌹🙏💔🌹
How can accepting Camilla be rewriting Diana’s legacy, I’d be interested to hear.
@@rebeccaemery4122 Go and do your research!!!!
My eldest daughter got married on that day in the afternoon ,thankfully it all went smoothly
I was there, my son's 17th birthday... we planned to go to Oxford Street to shop and ended up at Diana's funeral, my young daughter was so sad.
Over 4 billion watched the Queen’s funeral, Ryan.
No they didn't. Less people in the UK watched it than the Euro 2021 finals 😂 the estimates were way over
@@tdg6372 rubbish
@@justsayin397 29.95million watched the Euro 2021 final. 26million watched the queen's funeral across all channels. Also less than Diana's funeral watchers.
Diana's funeral had a peak audience of 31 million, the queen's was a peak audience of 37 million
@@tdg6372 I’m taking of global figures not UK figures.
That was a sad day. I had just come out of another knee surgery and was told she had died. The day of her funeral 💔 I was meant to go in for another operation but it was cancelled due to her funeral.
William and Harry didn’t request to walk behind the coffin at all. Prince Philip pushed them to saying he’d be there with them.
Yes as a UK citizen I expected more presence from the Queen not the boys but do understand why she focused on them instead of our expectations of her. I was unhappy to see the boys viewing flowers instead of waiting until the funeral. It was cruel for boys so young who just lost their mum.
I still cried watching the boys. I’m her age.
The Queen for once put her family first. She was a grandmother not a Queen at that moment. Protecting her two grandsons.
That is what I will always believe.
As a grandmother myself now. That is what I would have done.
NB The most important were not in this "the Funeral of Princess Diana". 1. The people insisted that the Union Flag, being on HALF MAST, on Buckingham Palace, and it were
done some day's later.
2. When the funeral coffin, were passing the Royal Family, the Queen Elisabeth, bowed her head, in
respect to Princess Diana.
THIS HAVE NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANY RULER.
AND SO ON AND SO ON. --- THERE ARE SO VERY VERY MUCH, NOT MENTIONED, BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, (I THINK).
I remember wherei was when I heard it on the radio and I went to the memorial at Central Park..
To this day, it’s my humble opinion, that this anger towards Elisabeth II was created by the media. The people couldn’t know, what Diana’s Death caused within the royal family.
The Queen was is a private person brought up in another era and she couldn't understand the public's mood of wearing the grief on your sleeve attitude. She did nothing wrong she was brought up in a different time, world.
That island is in the grounds of her ancestral home,Althorp
Half mast flags have been a thing, here in UK, for eons.
The funeral of Princess Diana was a very sad occasion, she buried at Althorpe House in Northamptonshire on an oval island on the lake you can visit between 1st July until 30th August no one knows where she's buried on the island only family.
5.1 billion watched the Queen's funeral according to the BBC, that's 63% of the world's population!
No mention of Charles Spencors speech, it was a huge kick inthe teath to the RoyalF
There was no one like Diana.
It's said, she is not buried on the island due to the damp ground entering the coffin, there's a chantry on Thorpe estate, it's said, she is buried there. Only the people who dug her grave know the truth. L&P from England.
Lily wreath is from spencer family it has 36 lilies one for every year of her life it's a Spencer family tradition. Yes you are allowed down by the lake but not on the island itself I've been twice beautiful resting place for her
I rember that. I was 17, was out with my best friend back then, Diana, and next morning my wake me up and told me. It was heavy. even here i Germany. Also the funeral was hard, specialy that Mummy note on the coffin.
And Ryan if you want to know the story around this and the queens raction, ou should watch the movie : the Queen, with Helen Mirren. Its all about the queens reaction to dians death why and stuff.
Of course some fiction in it, because no one knows waht the realy spoke, but the facts are there.
One thing i realy liked Charles for, was that he collectet her form Paris and brought her home, even if they where allready divorced and seprated for a long time. Ok maybe he did it for is sons, or because she is the mother of his sons. I think it was a very nice thing.
Was Diana für die Monarchie getan hat, war grandios. Endlich ein Mensch zum anfassen. Charles hat sich ein Küken geholt,daraus wurde ein schöner Schwan. Leider konnte Charles konnte nicht ertragen das Diana die erste Geige 🎻 spielte. Diana ist in ein Haus gezogen welches aus Eis Bestand . Die Art und Weise wie die Familie auf den Tod von Diana reagiert hat, spricht für sich. Ich glaube nicht mehr an Fairy Tales . Es war kein Unfall. RIP Diana, wir sehen uns irgendwie,irgendwo, irgendwann im Paradies 💋💋💋♥️🩸
I’m amazed they didn’t shoe the amount of flowers laid for Diana.
You wondered how many watched the queen’s funeral Ryan, I was told the BBC said it were 5.000.000.000 people watching live or online
Harry and William did not request that they walk behind the coffin that was Philips idea, he later stated that it was not a good idea. For centuries we have flown the flag at half mast for certain occasions.
Half mast origins: Quote: "Many historians point to a British expedition to Canada in 1612 aboard the ship Heart's Ease. The captain, James Hall, was killed by an Inuit spear, and the crew lowered the ship's flag to half-mast." Today virtually every nation on Earth uses half mast as a symbol of respect.
I was 22 at the time of her death, I saw Diana three times twice as she entered Grimsby in 1982 to open Grimsby General Hospital renamed after her death Diana Princess of Wales Hospital and to open something else I can’t remember and the last time in June 1991 on Horseguards Parade for Beating Retreat by the mass bands of HM Royal Marines also present were HM The Queen and Princes William and Harry. Afterwards I was stood on Horseguards Parade I looked up at the big window of the former office of The Duke of Wellington and there was the then Princess of Wales and the young Princes I waved at them and they waved back they then came past in their car and more waving protected by The Diplomatic Protection Group. After the convoy went past I then walked through arch and went out into Whitehall with The Cenotaph a short distance away I saw medical personnel with bags of plasma and other medical kit and other emergency people ambulances etc. At this time the IRA (Irish republican army) were still a big threat.
Dude, that comment where you suggested "brushing up on your history" when you realized Charles was married to Diana makes me feel old.
me too
Strange to think both her sons are older than Diana when she died. Sad day. Such a lonely place for her burial
after being chased as she was in life, a place of solace, with those who loved her nearby, is exactly what she would have wanted, and by goodness, we owe her that at least.
No Englishman has ever called a coffin a cascuet!
Prince William and Harry were told by their father not to cry which has to be such a hard thing to do for children. ❤ I was 19 when she died and I’m 45 now and I still remember it like yesterday.
How can you possibly know this.
5.1 billion people worldwide, 63.2% of the world population, were the figures on the day of the Queen's funeral but that's not accounting for if a household of more than 1 person all watched it together so it's likely more and the people all across the streets.
The Royal
the family almost lost the throne over this one as it is a constitutional monarchy
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when Prince Charles, then Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) married the then Lady Diana Spencer, she was 19 years old and he was 31 years old, 12 years older than Diana.
Never understood the Diana hype myself.
She was with her grandchildren while Charles went to Paris to collect Diana
That was the royal version. Find other videos about her death, her brother's speech and the crowds' flowers. There were NO flowers to be bought in South Africa at that time.EVERY FLOWER WERE exported to England. Treat yourself and see how the Prime Minister made a public televised speech asking the queen to return to London because her people needed her in their time of mourning.
Surely William and Harry needed her more!
It was media hype. Absolutely ridiculous! She was there for her grandchildren as she should.
@@xhogun8578 Exactly! It disgusts me that she was pressured into leaving her shocked and grieving grandchildren because her selfish subjects needed her to prove herself to them. When I hear the fake way people go on about poor WIlliam and Harry yet had little consideration for them at the time and didn't stop to think that the queen had good reason not to return to London as she was more needed at home.
4:05 It's over half because the 1997 population of the UK was only around 58million
The size of Britain and its impact on the world GOOD AND BAD is massively understated these days. You all live in the world us Brits made... FACT🤷♂️🏴🇬🇧
The media were whipping up this hysteria with regard to the Queen. Diana was divorced and therefore the Spencer family should have been responsible for the decisions about the funeral. I am divorced and would not want my mother-in-law getting involved in my funeral!
Why everyone say 2 billion of watchers? That's a number of "viewing times", not "viewers"! One person can watch the same video every day 1000 times and obviously - raise the number of Earth population!
I remember her passing, I was 6 years old (surprisingly)
Look the movie the queen...with Helen Mirren
The boys did not want to follow the coffin
The Queen was actually caring for her grandchildren at Balmoral as any loving grandparent would have done. It was the selfish hysteria of some sections of the public that forced her hand. So shameful!
Exactly, the media didn't help either with their stupid reporting.
It was the media papers that stirred that up
Harry wrote the note. The world's heart was broken to lose her. You could feel a shift in the planet's energy. She was that special.
Actually it was Prince William
The flag is only flown when the queen is in residence she was not but the flag flew that was the great honour and when the casket passed the queen outside Beckenham palace the queen bowed her head the only time the queen ever bowed to someone else and never done again she was the peoples princess and loved dearly
The lake is private but is never open to people you can go and view it and visit the grounds a few months out of the year from Diana bday to get passing day yearly
such a sad thing this. not for all those in the streets. but the fact those poor kids were made to walk in front of crowds wailing there mothers name. while being told to be firm and stoic and royal like.
personally thought that was despicable
Monarchy nearly ended because the people where so angry at the Queensland reaction
Never listen to the audio, unless it's an official clip. Nobody's making clips with their own audio is always full of inaccuracies.
Her death in no way impacted me like The Queens, it was sad obviously. There are figures suggesting the queens funeral has been seen by 4billionworldwide. Its such a hard thing to measure I guess.
That envelope that had Mummy written across it was from Harry