knees. diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. diana seems to have defied her critics, people who wanted her to shut up and go away. we will all feel cheated always, but you were taken from ul us so young. diana was a pioneer. she was ahead of her time. she haunted the royal family, and she still haunts the royal family to this day. diana s never far away. i had dreams as a young girl if i want this, that and the other. not want. hoped. this is cnn breaking news. i m jean meserve in washington. in paris, france a tragedy. britain s princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she has been injured. her companion dodi al fayed with whom she has been romantically linked over the last month or so, reportedly was killed. i saw there was a message on the phone answering machine, and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana. and did i want to say anything. we have reports from paris th
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the note, it s so heartbreaking. something that you feel you are not supposed to see. it was just such a reminder of what has been lost here. i believe it was prince philip that said to the boys if i do it will you do it? but i remember watching that funeral at home and i remember i did actually start weeping. there was clearly for charles, if there were st. louis any sort of residual doubts about his security, there would be enormous safety in the fact he was walking behind his sons. and no one was going to do anything to the prince while he was there as the father of those two boys. a few years ago i interviewed william and he was saying on the day of the funeral itself all he could hear was people crying.
they thought that people might shout at him, someone might throw something, a rotten tomato or turn their back on him, something that would be devastating for the monarchy and for charles personally and would greatly hurt william and harry. for them in that moment it was a huge foreshadowing of what the rest of their lives would be like and there was an expectation i think that even as young children there would be mourning in this dignified way and they would be meeting people from all walks of life. one of them said later that many of the hands they shook were wet, wet from tears. i think many of us feel that is the first time we have seen charles be a father. charles. thank you. once diana died he really did step up to the plate. you know, he was there for him.
tunnel near the eiffel tower. the princess died in hospital a few hours later. our royal correspondent nicholas stone is with me now. nicholas, one s heart goes out especially to the young princes, william and harry. william and harry indeed. i don t know whether the princes themselves would have been told yet, but certainly the prince of wales has been informed and i m sure the queen will have been told about it as well. the news came through to balmoral directly from paris through our ambassador out there, sir michael jay. i think charles was in absolute shock that this had happened. he felt immediately for his sons obviously, and there was personal grief as well. this is a woman he had loved. but it was also this feeling oh, my god, i am going to get blamed for this. the marriage was over, but he still felt a huge obligation toward her, mainly in the shape of his sons, who were sleeping