Hubby and I were watching it on our very first color TV.
1997 A funeral was held for Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died in a Paris car accident the previous week. The royal family arranged for a state funeral to be held for Diana at Westminster Abbey. Diana's coffin was taken from Kensington Palace to the Abbey on a horse-drawn gun carriage, and an estimated one million mourners lined the route. Diana's sons, William, 15, and Harry, 12, joined their father, Prince Charles, grandfather Prince Philip, and uncle Charles, the Earl of Spencer, to walk the final stretch of the procession with the casket. The only sound was the clatter of the horses' hooves and the peal of a church bell. The service was watched by an estimated two billion people worldwide. After the service, Diana's body was taken by hearse to her family's ancestral estate near Althorp, north of London. In a private ceremony, she was laid to rest on a tree-shaded island in a small lake
I cried buckets because of all those flowers stacked up and watching her two boys keeping their emotions hidden walking behind her coffin. The little flower arrangement on top with a card that read "Mummy". I couldn't help but hate Charles too. In my estimation, he had no right to walk with the others. My opinion only.
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