Queen Elizabeth II did give a powerful speech on the night before Princess Diana's funeral. "Quickly we called in blankets and I standing on the chair put blankets up on the windows which made the room twice as hot. "We went up and down but you could feel with each step it slipping and you had to be careful. They’d stayed in Scotland, it was explained, to shield William and Harry from the impact of the nation’s grief. It was a private funeral, not a state funeral, with just family and invited friends. ""I was getting very worried about the room, which was getting very hot and we looked up above the Princesses' bed and their were people on roofs trying to take photographs not knowing where the room was.
What It Was Like at Princess Diana's Funeral, With Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. The Queen, he says, “was obviously very sad about Diana, she was concerned about the monarchy itself”. A week after Princess Diana’s tragic death, she was honored with a public funeral. She didn’t shy away from it. And we understand that a suggestion emanating from Whitehall for a ‘Princess Diana Day’ was vetoed by the Queen’s advisors.It was certainly love that spilled out as the princess was borne away to be laid at Althorp, 76 miles away, as people tossed flowers onto the hearse along the route. The visiting preacher, the Rev Dr Adrian Varwell, altered not a word of his sermon, which included Billy Connolly jokes. Diana’s mother Frances also met them, at one of the court hearings at the Palais de Justice. A cleric who was there recalls that the applause ‘cut through the royals like an icy wind’.
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