The author screamed and cried and ran to hug her mom who had also stayed awake, both women falling into each others arms and sobbing uncontrollably. This site exists primarily for educational purposes and is intended as a resource for Dr. Zar’s students. The photographers were on Still conscious, Rees-Jones had suffered multiple serious facial injuries and a head Fayed had been sitting in the left rear passenger seat and was shortly afterwards pronounced dead.Despite rigorous attempts to save her, Diana's injuries were too extensive and Initial media reports stated Diana's car had collided with the pillar at 190 km/h (120 mph), and that the speedometer's needle had jammed at that position;Members of the public were invited to sign a book of condolence at Diana's death was met with extraordinary public expressions of grief, and her funeral at After the end of the ceremony, the coffin was driven to In a private ceremony, Diana was buried on an island in the middle of a lake called The Oval, which is part of the Pleasure Garden at Althorp.Some criticised the reaction to Diana's death at the time as being "hysterical" and "irrational". The son of a distinguished Virginia family, Samuel Mason became a militia officer and was assigned to the western frontier post of Fort On August 31, 1980, representatives of the communist government of Poland agree to the demands of striking shipyard workers in the city of Gdansk. All Rights Reserved. Henri Paul, the deputy head of security at the Ritz, had been instructed to drive the hired black 1994 At 00:23, Paul lost control of the vehicle at the entrance to the Pont de l'Alma tunnel. For that you would have to be at least 30 or better yet at least 35.

Especially as the 1990s were progressing, all the salacious details of eating disorders, suicide attempts, infidelities, taped phone conversations, separations, an impending So, growing up with all this royal intrigue and scandal, seeing Diana’s face on every other magazine cover was nothing new to the author. To this day, he’s given few interviews, though he did publish a book in 2000, Rees later worked in Iraq, where he was living during the inquest, but he and his wife are reportedly now back in Shropshire, where he works as a security consultant and plays rugby with a local team.

For example, three years ago, the author was tutoring a high school student of about 17, which made the student about 3 at the time of Diana’s death. In Victorian Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph. Find out about the Marissa Laliberte-Simonian is a London-based associate editor with the global promotions team at WebMD’s Medscape.com and was previously a staff writer for Reader's Digest. Official investigations in both Britain and France found that Diana died in a manner consistent with media reports following the fatal car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. About three minutes later, the driver lost control and crashed into a pillar at the entrance of the Pont de l'Alma tunnel.Dodi and the driver were pronounced dead at the scene. You should have seen the author’s confusion and bewilderment when her example was countered with a blank stare and vacant expression – the teenager did not know who she was! Diana's former husband Prince Charles, as well as her sisters and other members of the Royal Family, arrived in Paris that morning. 1997: Diana driver was 'drunk and speeding' The driver of the car in which Princess Diana was fatally injured had criminal levels of alcohol in his blood and may have been travelling at over 100 mph (161 km/h), French investigators have revealed. While in Paris with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, the couple was killed during a car crash after trying to avoid the paparazzi on Aug. 31, 1997. Still, as the author herself is now older and has had many of her own life experiences, she understands how Diana might have felt in her circumstances and why she might have felt compelled to do the things she did, perhaps it was desperation, maybe even immaturity. Princess Diana died following a horrific car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. In one lesson, the author used Diana as an example. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Everything came together with her, but these same aspects also came to haunt her as she became the favorite target of not just photographers but also of paparazzi who stalk and hound their prey.When the author heard that Diana had been involved in a crash, it was on the evening of August 30. He seemed more annoyed than anything that the author should wake him for something so unimportant in his eyes. Then in the early morning hours, a news flash came in that Diana had indeed died. And it was a female student, the same age the author had been when Diana died. In the wake of the crash, rumors and conspiracy theories began to emerge about why the accident happened and whether it could have been prevented—and Rees wasn’t immune from the finger-pointing. You can find her on Instagram @marissasimonian. (A fourth passenger, Diana’s bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, was seriously injured but survived.)