Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

1997 funeral ceremony in London

Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

The funeral cortège passing the Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner

Date| 6 September 1997 (1997-09-06)
Time| 9:08–15:32 BST (UTC+01:00)
Duration| 384 minutes
Venue|

* Westminster Abbey, London (funeral ceremony)
* Althorp, Northamptonshire (resting place)

Coordinates| 51°29′58″N 00°07′39″W﻿ / ﻿51.49944°N 0.12750°W﻿ / 51.49944; -0.12750
Type| Royal ceremonial funeral
Participants|

* British royal family
* Spencer family

The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, started on Saturday 6 September 1997 at 9:08 am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey started tolling to signal the departure of the cortège from Kensington Palace. The coffin was carried from the palace on a gun carriage by riders of the King's Troop and escorted by mounted police along Hyde Park to St James's Palace, where Diana's body had remained for five days before being taken to Kensington Palace.[1] The Union Flag on top of the palace was lowered to half mast.[2] The official ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey in London and finished at the resting place in Althorp.[3]

Two thousand people attended the ceremony in Westminster Abbey[4] while the British television audience was 32.10 million on average, one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever.[5] An estimated 2 to 2.5 billion people watched the event worldwide,[6][7][8] making it one of the biggest televised events in history.

## Funeral

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Diana's coffin borne through the streets of London on its way to Westminster Abbey. Her coffin was draped in a pall depicting the royal standard with an ermine border.

Diana's coffin, draped with the royal standard with an ermine border (i.e. the Other Members' standard), was brought to London from the Salpêtrière Hospital, via Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base, Paris, to RAF Northolt by Diana's former husband Charles, Prince of Wales, and her two sisters on 31 August 1997.[9] After being taken to a private mortuary it was placed at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, and later taken to Kensington Palace the night before the funeral.[9]

The funeral plan for the Queen Mother, codenamed Operation Tay Bridge, had been rehearsed for 22 years and was used as the basis for Diana's funeral.[10] However, the event was not a state funeral; instead, it was a royal ceremonial funeral that included royal pageantry and Anglican funeral liturgy.[11] A large display of flowers was installed at the gates of Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace. Eight members of the Welsh Guards accompanied Diana's coffin on the one-hour-forty-seven-minute ride through London streets. On top of the coffin were three wreaths of white flowers from her brother, the Earl Spencer, and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.[12][13] There was also a letter from Prince Harry on her coffin addressed to "Mummy".[14] The coffin bared a weight of a quarter of a tonne (250 kg / approx 550 lb) as it was lined with lead,[15] as is tradition with British royalty.[16]

At St James's Palace, Prince Philip, the Prince of Wales, her sons, and her brother joined to walk behind.[17] Five hundred representatives of various charities the Princess had been involved with joined behind them in the funeral cortège.[18] Alastair Campbell later revealed in his diaries that the government and the royal household feared for the security of Prince Charles, believing that he would possibly get attacked by the crowd, thus they ensured that he would be accompanied by his sons.[19][20] Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, initially opposed the idea of William and Harry taking part in the funeral procession, but ultimately decided to walk besides them, telling his grandsons "I'll walk if you walk."[21] William later described the experience as "one of the hardest things I've ever done", and Harry mentioned no child "should be asked to do" what they did. Nevertheless, William saw the act as a necessity to maintain "balance between duty and family" and Harry said that he was "very glad" that he took part in the procession.[22] In his 2023 memoir Spare, Harry claimed that the idea of having the boys walk behind their mother's coffin horrified several adults, in particular their uncle Lord Spencer who described it "a barbarity."[23] Spencer has previously stated that he felt he was lied to about the boys' desire to do the task.[23] Harry also claimed that there were suggestions that William should walk behind the coffin alone, but Harry refused to allow it as had the roles been reversed William would have done the same.[23]

The coffin then passed Buckingham Palace where members of the royal family were waiting outside. Queen Elizabeth II bowed her head as it went by.[24] More than one million people lined the streets of London, and flowers rained down onto the cortège from bystanders.[12][25][26] Two screens were erected to relay the Westminster Abbey service in Hyde Park.[27]

The west towers and main door of Westminster Abbey, venue of the funeral

The ceremony at Westminster Abbey opened at 11:00 BST and lasted one hour and ten minutes. The royal family placed wreaths alongside Diana's coffin in the presence of Britain's living former prime ministers - John Major, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan and Edward Heath - and former Conservative MP Winston Churchill, the grandson of World War II-era Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.[28] British personalities who attended included Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Elton John, George Michael, Chris de Burgh, Michael Barrymore, Richard Branson, and Richard Attenborough; international guests included US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, William J. Crowe, French First Lady Bernadette Chirac, Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, Queen Noor of Jordan, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Mariah Carey, Luciano Pavarotti, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Ruby Wax, Imran Khan and his then wife, Jemima Goldsmith.[28][29] The prime minister, Tony Blair, read an excerpt from First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13: "And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love".[30] Among other invitees were the King of Spain, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Japan, the deposed King Constantine II of Greece, and South Africa president Nelson Mandela.[31]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and the Dean of Westminster, Wesley Carr, were also present in the abbey and delivered the bidding, the prayers, and the commendation.[32] The service was sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey and conducted by Organist and Master of the Choristers, Martin Neary; the organist was Martin Baker.[32] Music before the service included the hymn tune "Eventide", "Adagio in E", the hymn tune "Rhosymedre", Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639, "Fantasia in C minor, BWV 537", "Adagio in G minor", "Symphony No. 9", Pachelbel's Canon (which was misidentified by the commentator as "Albinoni's Adagio"), and Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod".[32] The Anglican service opened with the traditional singing of "God Save the Queen". The funeral started with the choir singing the Funeral Sentences, composed by William Croft and Henry Purcell. Pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonín Dvořák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gustav Holst, and other composers were played throughout the ceremony.[32][33][34] The hymns were I Vow to Thee, My Country, by Sir Cecil Spring Rice to the tune by Gustav Holst; The King of Love My Shepherd Is by Henry Baker to the tune Dominus Regit Me by John Bacchus Dykes; Make Me a Channel of Your Peace to the tune by Sebastian Temple and Guide me, O thou great Redeemer, by William Williams to the tune Cwm Rhondda by John Hughes.[32] The chant Libera me was sung by the BBC Singers, together with Lynne Dawson, to the tune by Giuseppe Verdi.[32]

> I thought it was very important to project it from a nation's standpoint. I wanted to make it sound like a country singing it. From the first couple of lines I wrote [which began "Goodbye England's Rose"], the rest sort of fell into place

Bernie Taupin on writing the lyrics for "Candle in the Wind 1997"[35]

During the service, Elton John sang a 1997 rendition of "Candle in the Wind", with new lyrics written as a tribute to Diana.[36] He had contacted his writing partner Bernie Taupin, asking him to revise the lyrics of his 1973 Marilyn Monroe tribute song "Candle in the Wind" to honour Diana, and Taupin rewrote the song accordingly.[35][32] Only a month before Diana's death she had been photographed comforting John at the funeral of their mutual friend Gianni Versace.[37][38] Files released by The National Archives showed that the Dean of Westminster, Wesley Carr, had personally appealed to senior aides at the palace to secure John's performance at the funeral, insisting on the "inclusion of something of the modern world that the princess represented".[39] A solo performance by a saxophonist had been considered as a second option.[39]

Diana's sister Sarah gave the first reading, a poem titled Turn Again To Life by Mary Lee Hall, and her other sister Jane gave the second reading, a poem titled Time Is taken from Music and Other Poems by Henry van Dyke Jr.[32] Her brother Charles gave the eulogy, in which he rebuked both the royal family and the press for their treatment of his sister.[40][41] "It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this – a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age," Spencer said during his speech.[42]

"Song for Athene" by British composer John Tavener, with text by Mother Thekla, a Greek Orthodox nun, drawn from the Orthodox liturgy and Shakespeare's Hamlet, was sung as Diana's cortège departed from the main nave of Westminster Abbey.[32] This was followed after a one-minute silence by half-muffled change ringing on the abbey's ten bells.[32]

## Burial

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See also: Althorp § Diana grave, memorial, and exhibition

Aerial view of Althorp; the house is at top right. Diana is buried on the small tree-covered island in the middle of the ornamental Round Oval lake.

The burial occurred privately later the same day. Diana's former husband, sons, mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman were present. Diana's body was clothed in a black long-sleeved, three-quarter length woollen cocktail dress designed by Catherine Walker which she had chosen some weeks before, a pair of black pantyhose, and a pair of black shoes. A set of rosary beads was placed in her hands, a gift she had received from Mother Teresa, who died the same week as Diana. In her hands there was also a photograph of her sons, which travelled around with her and had been found in her handbag.[43] Her grave is on an island (52°16′59″N 1°00′01″W﻿ / ﻿52.283082°N 1.000278°W﻿ / 52.283082; -1.000278) within the grounds of Althorp Park, the Spencer family home for centuries.[44] The ground was consecrated by the Bishop of Peterborough prior to the burial.[45]

At the ceremony, the Royal Standard which had covered the coffin was removed. Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, claimed that the standard had been removed by Diana's brother moments before she was buried, and replaced with the Spencer family flag. He claimed the Earl said that "She (Diana) is a Spencer now." Burrell also condemned the move, telling the Daily Mirror that "It had more to do with his Spencer v Windsor war than doing what Diana would have wanted. It was inappropriate and disrespectful. I knew it was not what Diana would have wanted. With that act, her brother was depriving the Princess of her proper status in life – a status of which she was proud." Lord Spencer called Burrell's comments "hurtful lies" and said in a statement: "The Queen's standard was removed as part of the ceremony by her own officer in a dignified and pre-agreed manner".[46][47]

The original plan was for Diana to be buried in the Spencer family vault at the local church in nearby Great Brington, but Lord Spencer said that he was concerned about public safety and security and the onslaught of visitors that might overwhelm Great Brington. He decided that Diana would be buried where her grave could be easily cared for and visited in privacy by William, Harry, and other Spencer relatives.[48]

The island is in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Park's gardens.[49] A path with thirty-six oak trees, marking each year of her life, leads to the Oval. Four black swans swim in the lake. In the water there are water lilies, which, in addition to white roses, were Diana's favourite flowers. On the southern verge of the Round Oval sits the Summerhouse, previously in the gardens of Admiralty House, London, and now adapted to serve as a memorial to Diana.[50] An ancient arboretum stands nearby, which contains trees planted by the family.[48] The Spencer family's decision to bury the Princess in this secluded – and private – location has enabled them to visit her grave in private.[51]

The burial party was provided by the 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires), who were given the honour of carrying the Princess across to the island and laying her to rest. Diana was the Regiment's Colonel-in-Chief from 1992 to 1996.[52]

## Services elsewhere

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On the same day, services of commemoration and events honouring the Princess were held in various cities and towns across the United Kingdom and many streets remained deserted with the population watching the funeral broadcast at their homes.[53] In Manchester the national minute's silence started with "a maroon flare fired by mortar from the roof of the Victorian Town Hall" and ended "by the pealing of a single muffled bell". People gathered in the Albert Square and visited the Town Hall to sign the book of condolences.[53] The Lord Mayor, Gerry Carroll, laid a bouquet as a tribute to the Princess on behalf of the city.[53] In Bolton a memorial service was held with leaders from all churches in attendance, followed by another memorial service in Blackburn Cathedral.[53] In Liverpool people came together at the Parish Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas to pay their respects.[53] In Scotland, the funeral was broadcast to mourners on screens set up at the Ross Theatre in Edinburgh.[53] A memorial service was held in Diana's honour, at which the Queen's chaplain in Scotland, Charles Robertson, officiated.[53] In Derry, the mayor and deputy mayor laid a wreath at the city Cenotaph.[53] Large crowds showed up in the streets of Cardiff to watch the funeral on screens.[53] A service was held at Llandaff Cathedral, attended by 700 guests, including the Secretary of State for Wales Ron Davies, Cardiff's Lord Mayor Max Phillips, as well as MPs and volunteers from Diana's charities.[53] Toll booths on Severn Bridges remained closed during the national minute's silence.[53] On Sunday, 7 September, an additional service for Diana was held at Westminster Abbey in response to popular demand.[54]

### Outside of Britain

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The Irish national flag was also flown at half-mast on all state buildings on the day of Diana's funeral.[55] On the same day, a memorial service was held at Washington National Cathedral and was attended by 2,170 people including the British ambassador John Kerr, the US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, and chairman of The Washington Post Co. executive committee Katharine Graham.[56] In Tonga, a group of mourners organised a traditional wake, or pongipongi, after the funeral.[8]

## Media coverage

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David Dimbleby presented the coverage on the BBC while Trevor McDonald did at ITN and was joined by a team of correspondents, including John Suchet and Julia Somerville.[57]

Dimbleby began to follow the footsteps of his father, Richard, in leading the BBC during their coverage of big television events and state occasions.[58] By coincidence, the elder Dimbleby presented the previous great state occasion, the state funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965.[59]

The world-wide television audience for the event has been estimated between 2 and 2.5 billion people,[6][60] In the United Kingdom, the funeral was watched by 31 million, making it one of the most watched live broadcasts to date (second only to the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final).[61]

In North America, which is five to nine hours behind British Summer Time, the funeral occurred during the time usually taken up by network breakfast television programmes, but the networks in the United States and Canada sent their top presenters. The funeral took place in the early morning hours of a Saturday, a time that the networks air cartoons, but nevertheless, the main networks in the United States (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) and Canada (CBC, CTV, and Global) broadcast the funeral.[62] The funeral attracted 33.2 million viewers in United States.[63]

In Australia, which is eight to eleven hours ahead of British Summer Time, the funeral took place on a Saturday night their time, which meant Australians were at home watching television.[64] All four television networks (ABC, Seven Network, Nine Network, and Network 10) carried coverage of the funeral,[65] with Nine Network having the highest ratings, with 1.65 million viewers.[64]

BBC Radio broadcast the funeral in 44 languages around the world.[66]

## See also

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* London portal
* 1990s portal

* Concert for Diana
* List of largest funerals

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## Further reading

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* Dacre, Nigel (2003). "The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales". Court Historian. 8 (1): 85–90. doi:10.1179/cou.2003.8.1.008. S2CID 160379004.
* Kear, Adrian; Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (1999). Mourning Diana: nation, culture, and the performance of grief. Routledge.
* Walter, Tony (1999). The mourning for Diana. Berg Publishers.
* Range, Matthias (2016). British Royal and State Funerals. Boydell Press.

## External links

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* Order of Service for the funeral Archived 23 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine
* Farewell to Diana - BBC
* The Funeral Service of Diana, Princess Wales - BBC
* Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales - The Washington Post
* Order of Service for the 2007 thanksgiving service

* v
* t
* e

Ceremonial and state funerals in the United Kingdom since 1901

State funerals|

| Members of the Royal Family|

* 1901: Queen Victoria
* 1910: King Edward VII
* 1936: King George V
* 1952: King George VI (Hyde Park Corner)
* 2022: Queen Elizabeth II
* Operation London Bridge
* Dignitaries

| Planned|

* King Charles III
* Operation Menai Bridge

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Outside the Royal Family|

* 1914: The Earl Roberts of Kandahar
* 1919: Edith Cavell
* 1920: The Unknown Warrior
* 1928: The Earl Haig
* 1935: The Lord Carson
* 1965: Sir Winston Churchill
* Operation Hope Not

Ceremonial funerals|

| Members of the Royal Family|

* 1904: The Duke of Cambridge
* 1921: The Marquess of Milford Haven
* 1925: Queen Alexandra
* 1953: Queen Mary
* 1974: The Duke of Gloucester
* 1979: The Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Operation Freeman)
* 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales
* 2002: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Operation Tay Bridge)
* 2015: King Richard III (exhumation and reburial)
* 2021: The Duke of Edinburgh (Operation Forth Bridge)

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Outside the Royal Family|

* 1919: The Lord Beresford
* 1920: The Lord Fisher
* 1925: The Earl of Ypres
* 2013: The Baroness Thatcher

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* t
* e

Diana, Princess of Wales

1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997 (1961-07-01 – 1997-08-31)

Titles
(1981–1996)|

* Princess of Wales
* Duchess of Cornwall
* Duchess of Rothesay
* Countess of Chester
* Baroness of Renfrew

Family|

* Charles III (former husband)
* William, Prince of Wales (elder son)
* Harry, Duke of Sussex (younger son)
* John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (father)
* Frances Shand Kydd (mother)
* Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (stepmother)
* Lady Sarah McCorquodale (sister)
* Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes (sister)
* Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (brother)
* Spencer family

Life events|

* Wedding
* guest list
* Squidgygate
* Panorama interview

Fashion|

* Wedding dress
* Jewels
* Travolta dress
* Revenge dress
* Lady Dior
* Gucci Diana

Charities|

* International Campaign to Ban Landmines
* Landmine Survivors Network
* Barnardo's
* Centrepoint
* Turning Point
* National AIDS Trust
* The Leprosy Mission
* English National Ballet
* The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
* Great Ormond Street Hospital

Death|

* People's princess
* Funeral
* Operation Paget
* Conspiracy theories

People|

* Dodi Fayed (romantic partner)
* Henri Paul (driver)
* Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard)

Memorials and
namesakes|

* Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend (1986)
* Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely (renamed 1987)
* Princess of Wales Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees (1992)
* Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto (1993)
* Rosa 'Princess of Wales' (1997)
* Memorial fund (1997)
* "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Tribute album (1997)
* Rosa 'Diana, Princess of Wales' (1998)
* Tribute concerts
* 1998
* 2007
* Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby (renamed 1999)
* Diana Award (1999–)
* Memorial playground (2000)
* Memorial walk (2000)
* Memorial fountain (2004)
* Innocent Victims (2005)
* Memorial in Vienna (2013)
* Place Diana, Paris (renamed 2018)
* Memorial in Kensington Palace (2021)

Popular
culture|

| Books|

* Diana: Her True Story (1992)
* Diana in Search of Herself (1999)
* 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (2002)
* If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002)
* Diana: Closely Guarded Secret (2002)
* The Little White Car (2004)
* The Murder of Princess Diana (2004)
* Princess Diana's Revenge (2006)
* The Diana Chronicles (2007)
* The Accident Man (2011)
* Untold Story (2011)

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Film and
television|

* Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982)
* The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982)
* Spitting Image (1984–1996)
* Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992)
* Willi und die Windzors (1996)
* Diana: Her True Story (1993)
* Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998)
* Diana: The Rose Conspiracy (2005)
* Whatever Love Means (2005)
* The Queen (2006)
* Diana: Last Days of a Princess (2007)
* The Murder of Princess Diana (2007)
* Diana (2013)
* The Crown (2020–2023)
* Spencer (2021)

Documentaries|

* The Queen (2009 TV serial)
* Unlawful Killing (2011)
* Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy (2017)
* The Story of Diana (2017)
* Diana: In Her Own Words (2017)
* Diana, 7 Days (2017)
* The Princess (2022)

Plays and
musicals|

* Her Royal Highness..? (1981)
* Diana (2019)

Songs|

* "Buckingham Blues"
* "Diana" (Bryan Adams song)
* "Ain't Nuttin' But Music"
* "Dance in the Dark"

Portraits|

* Diana, Princess of Wales (Bryan Organ portrait)

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