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knees. >> diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. >> diana seems to have defied her critics, people who wanted her to shut up and go away. >> we will all feel cheated always, but you were taken from ul us so young. >> diana was a pioneer. she was ahead of her time. >> she haunted the royal family, and she still haunts the royal family to this day. dianas never far away. >> i had dreams as a young girl if i want this, that and the other. not want. hoped. ...

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>> the note, its so heartbreaking. something that you feel you are not supposed to see. it was just such a reminder of what has been lost here. >> i believe it was prince philip that said to the boys if i do it will you do it? but i remember watching that funeral at home and i remember i did actually start weeping. >> there was clearly for charles, if there were st. louis any sort of residual doubts about his security, there would be enormous safety in the fact he was walking behind his sons. an...

They thought that people might shout at him, someone might throw something, a rotten tomato or turn their back on him, something that would be devastating for the monarchy and for charles personally and would greatly hurt william and harry. >> for them in that moment it was a huge foreshadowing of what the rest of their lives would be like and there was an expectation i think that even as young children there would be mourning in this dignified way and they would be meeting people from all walks...

Tunnel near the eiffel tower. the princess died in hospital a few hours later. >> our royal correspondent nicholas stone is with me now. nicholas, ones heart goes out especially to the young princes, william and harry. >> william and harry indeed. i dont know whether the princes themselves would have been told yet, but certainly the prince of wales has been informed and im sure the queen will have been told about it as well. >> the news came through to balmoral directly from paris through our am...

People that they stayed in balmoral. but this is a family thats trying to come to terms with the loss of the mother of these two boys. >> princess diana doted on her sons. she was incredibly close to william and harry. for them the loss of her must have been unimaginable. >> we had seen diana as in one sense the mother who hugged, who loved, who smiled at her boys. diana has changed the boys from what royals really have been before. >> when you saw other royals with their children it was always ...

>> it really was unprecedented for the queen to bow to public pressure and address us live from buckingham palace. >> what i say to you now as your queen and as a grandmother, i say from my heart. first, i want to pay tribute to diana myself. she was an exceptional and gifted human being. in good times and bad she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. i admired and respected her for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for ...

So telling, this is what people really think about us, were going to have to do things differently. even william and harry i believe joined in with that applause. the queen certainly did not. i imagine at that stage she was sitting in quite a state of shock. one by one the unwritten rules surrounding the royal family are falling away. royal protocol is out of the window. and the diana effect only grows stronger from here. (customer) save yourself?! money with farmers. (burke) thats not wrong. wh...

Just a few yards away. >> the queen and prince charles got up and talked together, discussed whether they should tell the boys, and i think quite rightly charles decided that what was the point of waking up the boys right now, we dont know the truth of it, well wait till the morning. he chose i believe to talk to william first, his eldest, which is understandable. and together they then went and told prince harry, who was just 12. i think charless decisions that night came from the heart, actual...

On a knife edge. >> 2 1/2 billion people tuned in. >> william is thinking why are they crying but i cant? >> its just such a reminder of what has been lost here. >> diana, whose bud beauty both internal and external will never be extinguished from our minds. i stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning, before a world in shock. >> dianas death really did bring the royal family to its