AP Was There: A sea of tears for Princess Diana’s funeral
LONDON — Princess Diana’s funeral, held less than a week after her shocking death in a high-speed Paris car crash, drew more than a million people to London. Millions more watched on TV.
Nearly two decades after its original publication, The Associated Press is making available correspondent Maureen Johnson’s Sept. 6, 1997, report on the event.
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With timeless splendor, a sea of tears and a brother’s rage, Britain bade farewell today to its “Queen of Hearts,” a million mourners or more seeing Diana, Princess of Wales, to her final rest after a life of golden days, heartache and too few years.