The story of Princess Diana’s death at age 36 in that catastrophic crash in a Paris traffic tunnel continues to shock, even after a quarter-century.
Princes William and Harry unveiled the statue for their mother, the late Princess Diana, at Kensington Palace in London on what would have been Diana's 60th birthday. Diana tragically died on Aug. 31, 1997, in a car crash in Paris, France.
The tower’s lights go off every night at 1 a.m. By that time on Sunday, Aug. 31, a dying Diana lay trapped in a crumpled wreck of a Mercedes, with rescuers trying frantically to treat her while they cut through the metal roof. Seconds later, there was a huge crash — witnesses said it was like an explosion. It would soon reverberate around the world, but for a few minutes in the still night, there was only the insistent blare of a car horn set off by the driver’s slumped body, and then the clicking of camera shutters.FILE - The wreckage of Princess Diana's car lies in a Paris tunnel Aug. 31.10 p.m.: The evening begins for Diana and Dodi Fayed with dinner in the sitting room of the Imperial Suite at the Ritz.
Then, an attempt to have a 9:30 p.m. dinner at the chic Paris bistro Chez Benoit failed, when paparazzi again picked up the trail. Giving up, Diana and Dodi decide to dine at the Ritz, where there is better security. Paul spends the next two hours in the lobby area. At one point, he goes into the hotel bar and sits with two other security people at a table on the edge of the bar area. There is no security camera in the bar, but both Handley-Greaves and Michael Cole, an Al Fayed family spokesman, said interviews with hotel personnel showed no evidence that Paul was drinking.
Diana and Dodi need a driver, too, and that’s why Paul has been called back in from home. Paul, 41, a native of France’s Brittany region, is reported to have received special training in Germany to drive the armored Mercedes. Police say Paul lacked the special license to drive the car; the Al Fayed family denies it.
"I never saw him extremely drunk," says Poer, now manager of a San Francisco nightclub. "He even gave me a ride home a few times. I wasn’t worried or anything." The hotel video shows no paparazzi outside the back entrance, but the decoy ruse clearly hasn’t worked. Neither Diana nor Fayed are wearing seat belts; only bodyguard Rees-Jones, sitting in the front passenger seat, is wearing one.
The speed limit is 30 mph. A cab driver says he once tried the tunnel at 70 mph and was scared. "That thing is narrow and dangerous," said Jacques Gaulthier. "You’d have to be crazy to take it fast."Police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the car’s speedometer was found frozen at 196 kilometers per hour, or 121 mph.
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