Lady Diana 28 years after her death: the last moments and last words of the Royal most loved by the people

At just 36 years old, the Lady Dianadied in a accident to Paris. It was August 31, 1997 and today 28 years have passed, but the legacy of his memory is still alive. Diana It was undoubtedly the Windsor’s most loved princess and beyond. Sweet, active in the social, caring mother, still today the United Kingdom (and not only) honor his memory.

The facts remember them all those: in 1997 Lady Diana He had started to have one relationship with Dodi al-Fayed And and after a dinner at the Ritz in Paris, the car they traveled together, chased by the paparazzi, crashed into a paparazzi against a pylon of the Alma tunnel. Dodi and the driver Henri Paul died instantly, while Lady Diana was urgently transported to the hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, where the doctors attempted for hours to save it.

The last words of Lady Diana

To tell what happened in those Last moments of life It was, years later, one of the first rescuers present on the spot. The Xavier gourmelon firefighter Years later (in an interview with the newspaper The Independent, in 2015) he remembered how Lady Diana, still conscious, had asked: “My God, what happened?”. A few words that revealed the shock and probably also the awareness that something tragic had happened.

Gourmelon also said he believed, in that instant, that the princess would be saved. Only later did the doctors see the gravity of the internal wounds And the firefighter discovered only the following day that Lady D was dead: “I was upset – he said -. Now I know he had reported serious internal injuries, but the entire episode is still very alive in my mind. The memory of that night will remain with me forever».

Shortly before the accident, Princess Diana had also spoken on the phone with her children, William and Harry. The phone call told in the sixth season of The Crown It is imaginary, but it refers to a real, told by the same children years later in the 2017 documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. They were located at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and according to the memories of Prince William and of the Prince Harry The phone call was very short: “Harry and I greeted it quickly,” See you later “. If I had known then what would have happened, I would not have been so indifferent about it and to everything else ». Harry added: “I don’t remember what I said, but I only remember that I will probably regret the rest of my life how short that phone call was.”