Princess Diana 20 years later documentary. The mystery of the death of Princess Diana: Unexpected details two decades later

21 years ago, on the night of August 31, 1997, she died in a car accident in the center of Paris princess Diana. She was so popular and beloved among the people that she earned the nickname “Queen of Hearts,” and her tragic death haunts the British to this day. The circumstances of this car accident were so strange that they raise doubts about official version what happened. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, several scandalous investigations were made public, causing a lot of noise not only in Great Britain, but also abroad.

The results of the official investigations carried out in France in the UK were identical: the accident occurred for several reasons. Princess Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed were chased by paparazzi, causing the driver of the car, Henri Paul, to speed. In addition, alcohol was found in his blood, and the seat belts were faulty. This version was later refuted: the driver was not drunk, and the results of the examination were deliberately or accidentally mixed up with others. It also seemed strange that 3 years after the accident, the same paparazzi who was accused of stalking Diana was found dead in a burnt car.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, on August 6, the film “Diana: The Story in Her Words” was released in the UK, which became the cause loud scandal– it was immediately called an attempt to make “money from blood.” On video recordings made in 1992-1993. Her teacher of speech techniques during classes, the Princess of Wales spoke extremely frankly about what Buckingham Palace preferred to remain silent about. The tapes were kept by teacher Peter Settelen; he promised not to publish them, but in the end he sold them to television people. He filmed Diana so that later he could sort out the mistakes in her speech, and did not expect that the conversation would turn out to be so frank.

In the film, Diana said that she was in love with Charles, and on the day of their engagement, when asked by a journalist whether there were feelings between them, she answered without hesitation: “ Yes" And the prince said: “ You can say that" She was very offended by this then. And later she became convinced that her husband had loved another woman all his life - Camilla Parker Bowles. Even the birth of sons did not save this marriage. When Diana turned to the Queen for advice, she only said: “ I don't know what to do. Charles is hopeless" Divorce was inevitable.

She felt like an outcast at the royal court. " I was rejected, and therefore I considered myself unworthy of this family. I could start drinking, but it would be noticeable, and anorexia would be even more noticeable. I decided to choose something that would be less noticeable: harming myself rather than others."- admits Diana. She suffered from bulimia for some time, and then began having affairs. Diana told her teacher that the biggest shock in her life was the death of Barry Manaka, her bodyguard, who, in her opinion, was fired and killed after their affair became known.

Journalist Mikhail Ozerov, who talked with Princess Diana 3 days before her death, claimed that she told him her intention to go to Paris, despite the reaction Buckingham Palace, about the desire to build life the way she wants, and added: “ Don't pay attention to my outburst of emotions. Next time I'll be calmer. Or they will calm me down. It's unlikely that we'll see each other again».

Special services historian Gennady Sokolov conducted his own investigation and came to the conclusion that it was a staged accident, behind which the British secret services stood. Witnesses claimed that on the night of the incident they saw a bright flash in the tunnel, which could have blinded the driver, after which he crashed into a concrete bridge support. If Diana had been wearing a seat belt, she would have had a chance to survive, but the seat belts, according to Sokolov, were blocked. For some reason, the video cameras were not working in this tunnel that night. Immediately after her death, her body was embalmed - according to Sokolov, in order to hide Diana's pregnancy from the Muslim Dodi al-Fayed, whom she was supposedly going to marry. Therefore royal family there were reasons to want her death.

Egyptian billionaire Mohammed al-Fayed also conducted his own investigation, during which it turned out that Princess Diana called this period of her life the most dangerous and was afraid that the royal family would want to get rid of her. Mohammed Al-Fayed is confident that the death of his son Dodi and Princess Diana was a planned murder.

No one has ever proven the version that the royal family and British intelligence services were involved in Diana’s death. Over time in this mysterious story More and more questions are emerging, and still no one can say with certainty whether the death of Princess Diana was a tragic accident or the result of a planned crime.
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Princess Diana was the fourth child in the family. She has two older sisters and younger brother: Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes and younger brother Charles Spencer. She also had an older brother, John Spencer, who died shortly after birth.

Her parents divorced when Diana was 7 years old.

Diana grew up on the Sandringham estate, which belongs to the royal family.

She became known as Lady Diana after her father was given the title of Earl. The nickname “Lady Di” stuck to her even after her marriage.

Before marrying Prince Charles and becoming a princess, Diana worked as a nanny and teacher in kindergarten. Her wage was $5 per hour.

Diana's grandmother Ruth Roche was a lady-in-waiting and close friend of the Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Surprisingly, she could become a princess elder sister Diana Sarah McCorquodale. Sarah and Prince Charles had an affair in the late 70s. It was thanks to her that Lady Di met her future husband. “I introduced them. “I guess you can call me Cupid,” Sarah later said.

Before their engagement in 1981, the future spouses saw each other only 12 times. Diana was 19 years old, and Charles was 32. “Charles’ father Philip put pressure on his son and insisted on the wedding so as not to discredit the girl’s name,” said Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of the documentary “Princess Diana: Her Life, Her Death, Her Truth.”

Diana's wedding dress broke all records. The outfit was embroidered with 10,000 pearls, and the length of the train was almost 8 meters. Designed by married couple David and Elizabeth Emmanuel

The engagement ring with a 12-carat sapphire and diamonds was chosen from the Garrard jewelry catalog. And such an atypical step in the then conservative royal palace caused a lot of gossip behind their backs. After all, most members of the royal family choose custom jewelry. Now the ring is on Kate Middleton's hand.

She broke with the royal family's wedding tradition by changing the bride's vows. So, instead of “loving, comforting and obeying her husband,” Diana promised to “love, comforting, respecting and supporting her husband.” Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle followed suit.

Diana became the first member of the royal family to give birth in a hospital. Before Prince William was born in 1982, heirs to the crown were born at home.

Lady Di was a big fan of the Swedish group ABBA. To honor her memory, Kate Middleton and Prince William played the quartet's songs at their wedding party in 2011.

A few months before her death, Princess Diana sold 79 dresses at a charity auction Christie. She sent all the proceeds to the fund to fight cancer and AIDS.

She called her eldest son "Wombat". According to the recollections of William himself, he got the nickname after a trip to Australia, where they met this local cute animal. She called Prince Harry "Ginger".

As a child, Diana dreamed of becoming a ballerina. She attended ballet class. But her height, which was 178 centimeters, prevented her from building a career.

Among Diana's friends there were many world stars: Elton John, George Michael, Tilda Swinton and Liza Minnelli. She was also friends with the famous Hollywood couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn and visited them with their sons at their ranch in Colorado.

20 years ago, on the night of August 31, 1997. Princess Diana died in a car accident in the center of Paris. She was so popular and beloved among the people that she earned the nickname “Queen of Hearts,” and her tragic death haunts the British to this day. The circumstances of this car accident were so strange that they raise doubts about the official version of what happened. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, several scandalous investigations were made public, causing a lot of noise not only in Great Britain, but also abroad.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, on August 6, the film “Diana: The Story in Her Words” was released in the UK, which caused a loud scandal - it was immediately called an attempt to make “money from blood.” On video recordings made in 1992-1993. Her teacher of speech techniques during classes, the Princess of Wales spoke extremely frankly about what Buckingham Palace preferred to remain silent about. The tapes were kept by teacher Peter Settelen; he promised not to publish them, but in the end he sold them to television people. He filmed Diana so that later he could sort out the mistakes in her speech, and did not expect that the conversation would turn out to be so frank.

In the film, Diana said that she was in love with Charles, and on the day of their engagement, when asked by a journalist whether there were feelings between them, she answered without hesitation: “Yes.” And the prince said: “You can say that.” She was very offended by this then. And later she became convinced that her husband had loved another woman all his life - Camilla Parker Bowles. Even the birth of sons did not save this marriage. When Diana turned to the Queen for advice, she only said: “I don’t know what to do. Charles is hopeless." Divorce was inevitable.

She felt like an outcast at the royal court. “I was rejected, and therefore I considered myself unworthy of this family. I could start drinking, but it would be noticeable, and anorexia would be even more noticeable. I decided to choose something that would be less noticeable: to harm myself, not others,” admits Diana. She suffered from bulimia for some time, and then began having affairs. Diana told her teacher that the biggest shock in her life was the death of Barry Manaka, her bodyguard, who, in her opinion, was fired and killed after their affair became known.

Journalist Mikhail Ozerov, who spoke with Princess Diana 3 days before her death, claimed that she told him of her intention to go to Paris, despite the reaction of Buckingham Palace, of her desire to build life the way she wanted, and added: “Don’t worry attention to my outburst of emotions. Next time I'll be calmer. Or they will calm me down. It’s unlikely that we’ll see each other again.”

No one has ever proven the version that the royal family and British intelligence services were involved in Diana’s death. Over time, more and more questions appear in this mysterious story, and still no one can say with certainty whether the death of Princess Diana was a tragic accident or the result of a planned crime.

20 years ago, on the night of August 31, 1997, she died in a car accident in the center of Paris princess Diana.

She was so popular and loved by the people that she earned the nickname “Queen of Hearts”

and her tragic death haunts the British to this day.

The circumstances of this car accident were so strange that they raise doubts about the official version of what happened.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, several scandalous investigations were made public, causing a lot of noise not only in Great Britain, but also abroad.

Princess Diana

*Queen of Hearts*

Prince Charles and Princess Diana

Princess Diana with sons William and Harry

Barry Manaki and Princess Diana

*Queen of Hearts*

Journalist Mikhail Ozerov, who spoke with Princess Diana 3 days before her death, claimed that she told him of her intention to go to Paris, despite the reaction of Buckingham Palace, of her desire to build life the way she wanted, and added: “ Don't pay attention to my outburst of emotions. Next time I'll be calmer. Or they will calm me down. It's unlikely that we'll see each other again».

Princess Diana

*People's Princess*

*Queen of Hearts*

Princess Diana

*People's Princess*

Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed

Bridge over the tunnel where Princess Diana died

The Airplane observer reflects on how from an ordinary aristocratic girl, through the joint efforts of the media and a significant part of the female population of many countries, who passionately desire to have just such an idol, a myth was created, forever captured by a paparazzi flash on August 31, 1997 in the tunnel in front of the Pont Alma on the Seine embankment in Paris...

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It was here that Princess Diana fell to her death 20 years ago. And the whole last week was dedicated to this memorable and mournful date. They talked about it in the news, wrote about it on the Internet, filmed it and showed it to viewers several times. documentaries. The leitmotif of the overwhelming number of messages is “ mysterious death Lady Di cast a shameful stain on the representatives of the world’s oldest monarchy,” “Diana’s happiness was short-lived, she, sincerely loving husband, years of disappointments, jealousy, tears, fruitless attempts to save the family awaited”, “the only joy of the Princess of Wales was her sons - William and Henry”, “Candle in the wind”, as he called Diana in his song Elton John, - a woman with a warped fate and a tireless warrior with the troubles of ordinary people."...

And all this “food for the mind and heart” was greedily consumed by representatives of the “beautiful half” of humanity. Moreover, it seems to me that the Russian ladies did this with no less enthusiasm than the British ones. It's an amazing phenomenon. What is its nature? In the uniqueness of Diana's personality? Or in the unique coincidence of the image of the “Cinderella princess” created by the media and the mass demand for such a character that has matured in society?

I asked my friends: how do you feel about the English princess?

Irina Mekhanoshina, notary:“I perceive Diana as a victim of a tragic coincidence. She was a deeply unhappy person. Because I didn’t get what I hoped and expected. But she was not naive...”

Alexandra Antushevich, TV journalist:“How naive? She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, into an aristocratic family of blue blood. She entered the society of the English aristocracy. She knew what she was getting into."

Natalya Grigorieva, journalist:"Complicated feelings and complicated attitude to the legend of Diana. I don't agree that she is a victim. She was a strong and willful woman. What she did wasn't always good."

Natalya Kukushkina, trade union leader:“In a purely feminine way, I sympathize with her. On the other hand, she knew what she was getting into. It was a deal. Nobody deceived her."

Elena Beglyak, editor:"Certainly she was Strong woman. She looked quiet and modest, but she acted completely different. This is what attracted people. I believe that this is a manner of behavior found by some instinct, a natural quality, not calculation.”

Galina Mavrina, entrepreneur:“The Russians have a saying: it’s either good or nothing about the dead.” She was an extraordinary person. Various. Look how many people in the world loved her. To conquer like this public opinion, you need a strong character. What right do those who never knew her personally have to discuss her?

Nadezhda Paramonova, manager:“Everyone is not an angel. All are not white and not fluffy. She was probably not quite the same as they tell us about her. But, by the way, the proverb that is often quoted goes like this: it’s either good about the dead, or nothing but the truth.”

Yes. That's probably true. When a young woman dies (princess or not) it is always very unfair and wrong. What remains are small children, unrealized opportunities, elderly parents... And after each such departure, a fairy tale is almost always born: how kind, beautiful, smart, simple she was... Such a fairy tale is needed by those who remained to live. Another thing is to whom, with what pressure and who tells this tale.

Princess Diana was born in 1961, my friend - the same age as her - died of cancer the same twenty years ago. She left behind a daughter, a husband, inconsolable parents and several friends who remember her. She was kind, beautiful, smart, simple...

I understand that these are probably two difficult cases to compare. Who is Tatiana and who is Lady Di? But for some reason I feel more sorry for Tatyana. And all the “Tatyans” who passed away ahead of schedule. For some reason, I feel somehow awkward when they tell me with great emphasis that Diana was “like a child,” “naive,” “modest”... For some reason, I don’t really believe it...

A few facts from the biography of Lady Diana

Why did Diana break up with Prince Charles?

In 1981, the wedding of 20-year-old Diana Spencer and 32-year-old Prince Charles was watched in live 750 million people. Young Diana saw Charles only a few times before the wedding, but she seemed like a suitable bride for him: from a noble family, with an unblemished reputation, beautiful, modest, well-mannered. The formal reasons for the separation, as Diana said, were that Charles treated her coldly, they could not see each other for weeks, and soon after the birth of their second child in 1984, she learned that her husband had resumed his relationship with the married Camilla Parker-Bowles. In fact, the spouses had few common interests, and the significant difference in age also affected them.

Why was Diana so loved?

Diana Spencer bore little resemblance to any member of the British royal family. Quite open, spontaneous and relaxed, not at all like her prim husband or Elizabeth II, who is perceived as a state symbol. In many ways, Diana managed to create the image that remained in the memory of her admirers thanks to her charitable activities. And, yes, the way Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton behaves now is a direct imitation of Diana.

Is it true that the royal family did not want Diana's lavish funeral?

Diana's death on August 31, 1997 led to one of the most serious crises in the history of Buckingham Palace. By that time, Diana was already divorced from Charles and was not formally part of the royal family (and also did not hold the title). Diana's funeral was watched live by 2.5 billion people - still one of the most watched broadcasts in television history. National flags in Great Britain were flown at half-mast, Diana was buried with the honors due to a royal person.

But everything could have been different. As Britain's Channel 4 reported in September 1997, Queen Elizabeth II wanted Diana to be buried as an ordinary British citizen. According to these reports, Prince Charles insisted on a lavish funeral befitting a member of the royal family.

How did Princes William and Harry cope with their mother's death?

On the day of Diana's death, Harry and William were with their grandmother at Balmoral Castle. William was 15, Harry was 12. Teenagers were protected from detailed information about a car accident (at first they only knew about the fact of death) - they even hid televisions and radios in the castle. Shortly before the twentieth anniversary of their mother's death, the sons gave several interviews at once. William admitted that he did not understand why so many people were condoling Diana's death - after all, they did not even know her. As he grew older, he realized what important role The Princess of Wales played in British society, and admitted that he was sincerely sorry that Diana could not meet his wife Kate Middleton and see their children. Harry said he tried to “bury his head in the sand” and force himself not to think about his mother. He believed that if he could ignore thoughts of her, he would cope with the loss faster. Almost 20 years after her death, at the insistence of his brother, he turned to psychotherapists, and only then was he able to understand his feelings.

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