Video: 'The Funeral of Princess Diana 1997'

(Saturday, September 6, 1997, 9:08 a.m.–3:32 p.m. BST) — Britain bid farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, on a sparkling morning today with a grand tribute as rich in popular pageantry as it was in regal pomp.

Her coffin, wrapped in the maroon and gold royal standard and borne by Welsh guards in their scarlet tunics, rested on a catafalque in Westminster Abbey, scene of coronations and burials of Britain’s leaders, while the soaring heights of the Gothic nave rang with the heraldic sounds of high church ceremony.

Earlier, Diana’s sons, William, 15, and Harry, 12, walked behind the gun carriage carrying the coffin from Kensington Palace, joined by their father, Prince Charles, their grandfather Prince Philip, and Earl Spencer, Diana’s 33-year-old brother.

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