How did the Queen react to Diana's death?

That evening, she gave an address live on television — another departure from protocol for the death of woman with no official role. The queen appeared nervous, and while paying tribute to the princess, she hinted at the public anger at her silence and stoicism.
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How did Queen Elizabeth reaction to Diana's death?

"The Queen Mother was baffled by the outpouring of grief at the Princess's death, which she thought more effusive than anything she had seen when the city was being pummelled nightly by Nazi bombs during the Blitz."
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How did the Queen feel about Diana?

Arbiter said: “Diana and the Queen shared a warm relationship. The Queen found emotional problems difficult – that's her generation.” She also explained that the Queen had asked the press to give Diana her space.
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Did the Queen go to Diana's funeral?

Late Queen at Diana's funeral

Respecting the feelings that the public had for Diana, Queen Elizabeth walked out of the palace with her husband Prince Philip and saw the flowers and messages that people left outside the palace.
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What were Princess Diana's last dying words?

What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
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Was Diana wearing a seatbelt when she died?

Additionally, Diana, Fayed and Paul were not wearing seat belts, CNN reports. Whether Rees-Jones was wearing a seatbelt remained a question. Rees-Jones told “60 Minutes” in 2000 he did not remember anything from the crash.
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What did Diana call Camilla?

However, Diana dubbed Camilla "the Rottweiler" and blamed her for the break-up. As her relationship with Charles collapsed, she remarked in a 1995 TV interview: "There were three of us in this marriage - so it was a bit crowded."
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Who refused bow to Diana's funeral?

Sure enough, the queen bowed her head, the rest of the royal family bowed their heads, but the one person who remained ram-rod straight and barely acknowledged the passing of Diana's coffin was Princess Margaret, so even in death she would not forgive her.”
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Did the Queen bow to Diana's casket?

The queen stood with her family, and as Diana's funeral cortege passed by, she bowed her head. It was not a quick bow, nor a shallow one. The woman accustomed to being bowed by the world now lowered her head and humbly honored the princess.
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Was Camilla at Diana's funeral?

Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall.
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Was the Queen nice to Diana?

According to Andrew Morton's 1992 biography, Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words, Diana's relationship with the queen was friendly—at least in comparison to her relationship with the Queen Mother, who kept her at arm's length.
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Why did the Queen not support Diana?

According to Seward in The Queen & Di, although Elizabeth was initially sympathetic to Diana, eventually the stoic monarch felt that the emotional Princess was simply too much to handle.
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Did the royal family approve Diana?

“ The headlines and media attention Diana generated “was not approved by the Queen and the Royal establishment,” he says. But, 25 years later, Diana's impact on the royal family endures, in ways both big and small.
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How did Prince Charles feel about Diana's death?

King Charles III's reaction to the death of his former wife Princess Diana in 1997 reportedly shocked royal aides, with an expert claiming that he 'collapsed' and cried uncontrollably despite his differences with Diana.
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What did Prince Philip think Diana?

Diana, meanwhile, "came to dislike Prince Philip as she found him impossible to deal with," Seward continues. "He might be entertaining as a dinner guest" (Diana) explained, "but as a father-in-law he was too judgmental."
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Does The Crown talk about Diana's death?

The Netflix drama won't show the “exact moment of the crash impact” that led to Princess Diana's fatal injuries, but it may show similarly grim season six scenes. The Crown has already fielded questions about how it will handle Princess Diana's death when the Netflix period drama reaches August 1997 in its timeline.
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Did Princess Diana have a maid who loved her?

But it doesn't appear that any of them were in love with her. The Maggie character seems not necessarily based on a real person but based on a job that did exist within the royal family. Appleby was married to a man, FWIW, and there's no proof that any of Diana's maids ever confessed that they loved her.
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Did Prince Charles ever love Lady Diana?

During Diana and Charles's Australia tour – their immensely successful royal tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1983 – the couple appeared to be very much in love.
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Why did the Queen always carry a purse?

Queen Elizabeth II's handbags served as both practical fashion statements and a means of communicating with her servants in secret about when she wanted conversations to finish, according to a number of Royal specialists. The Queen always carried a handbag on her arm to match her extravagant attire or the occasion.
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Why did the ambulance take so long to take Diana to hospital?

The ambulance carrying the dying Diana, Princess of Wales to hospital was deliberately driven slowly due to the severity of her injuries, an inquest heard today. The ambulance driver told the inquest jury that the onboard doctor ordered him to drive slowly in an attempt to save the princess's life.
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Who was Diana's soulmate?

Diana was "madly in love" with Hasnat and called him her soulmate and "Mr. Wonderful." During their relationship, Diana introduced Khan to her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
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Does Kate have to curtsy to William?

. Because William is due to be the future King of England, he also receives a curtsy, and by extension so does Kate Middleton.
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Did Charles give Camilla the same pearls as Diana?

In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
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Why did Diana call Camilla a Rottweiler?

How did Camilla get from Rottweiler to Queen Consort? “The Rottweiler” was reportedly one of Princess Diana's more polite nicknames for her husband's mistress, to use the term of the time. She was the woman Diana also referenced as “the third person in her marriage” to the then prince of Wales.
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Why was Diana called princess and not Camilla?

6. Camilla was supposed to be the Princess of Wales, like Princess Diana. Duke of Cornwall is a title given to a reigning British monarch's oldest son, per Town & Country. When Camilla married Charles, she took on the feminine version of the title as the Duchess of Cornwall instead of the Princess of Wales.
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