12/18/2023 0 Comments Paparazzi going live at 8pm![]() ![]() ![]() When they arrived, both the driver, Henri Paul, and Dodi were pronounced dead at the scene. Princess Diana was taken to the Pitié-Salpêtrière HospitalĪt 12:27 a.m., firefighters received a call for help, and police and firefighters arrived at 12:40 a.m. French Doctor Recalls Diana's Last Moments.she regained a little bit more energy, but she couldn’t say anything." He ran to his car, called emergency services, and grabbed a respiratory bag. And the female passenger, the young lady, was on her knees on the floor of the Mercedes, she had her head down. The front passenger was screaming, he was breathing. He saw "four people, two of them were apparently dead, no reaction, no breathing, and the two others, on the right side, were living but in severe condition. I opened the door, and I looked inside," he recalled years later. ![]() Witnessing the crash, he quickly rushed to the scene. Frederic Mailliez, was driving through the tunnel. ![]() When the car stops, it is facing east - the direction it came from." An account from a doctor at the scene:Īt the same time as the crash, a French doctor, Dr. As the AP reports, " Seconds after the car enters the tunnel in the left westbound lane, it goes out of control, striking the 13th concrete pillar dividing the tunnel, rolls over and rebounds into the right wall. In the car, neither Princess Diana nor Dodi were wearing seat belts Rees-Jones, sitting in the passenger seat, was reportedly wearing one.Īround 12:25 a.m., the car entered the Pont de l'Alma tunnel at dangerously high speeds. Though they had attempted to use a decoy car at the Ritz, paparazzi quickly picked up their tail. (Autopsy results later revealed that Paul was drunk.) They left around 12:20 a.m. Henri Paul, the head of the Ritz security, drove them in a Mercedes S280 car. Shortly after midnight, they decided to leave the hotel to go to Dodi's apartment. According to the Associated Press, "Diana is reported to have ordered an appetizer of mushrooms and asparagus, and then sole for Dodi, turbot." The fatal drive began just after midnight They first tried to eat at the L'Espadon restaurant, but 10 minutes later, went to dine in private in the Imperial Suite. The couple planned to eat dinner at Chez Benoit around 9:30 p.m., but due to paparazzi attention, ended up back at the Ritz. While at the Ritz, Dodi visited the Repossi jewelry shop in Place Vendôme.Įarly in the evening, they left the Ritz for Dodi's apartment on Rue Arsène Houssaye. During this time, Princess Diana spoke to her sons on the phone. From there, they went to the Ritz Paris, owned by the Fayed family. The two arrived in Paris around 3 p.m., and went from the airport to Villa Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's former home that Mohammed Al Fayed purchased. She was due back in London on August 31, 1997, where her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were returning from Balmoral Castle. Here's the true story of Princess Diana's death: Princess Diana and Dodi planned to be in Paris for less than 24 hoursĭiana and Dodi had spent 10 days together on board Mohamed Al Fayed's yacht, the Jonikal, and then flew from Sardinia to Paris on August 30, 1997. In the car with her was her current boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed Henri Paul, the driver of the car and Trevor Rees-Jones, her bodyguard. In the early hours of the morning on Sunday, August 31, 1997, Princess Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. ![]()
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