Diana's final moments · 2007-06-07 11:07
British television channel said yesterday it will show photographs taken immediately after the car crash that killed Princess Diana.
Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, had protested that showing the images in a documentary scheduled to air tonight would be a "gross disrespect to their mother's memory" and "deeply distressing" to them.
"If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel, would we want the scene broadcast to the nation"? the princes' private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, asked in a letter to Channel 4 released to the media.
The documentary, "Diana: The Witness in the Tunnel," focuses on the photographers' role at, before and after the crash that killed the princess, her friend Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, Newsday.com reports.
Channel 4 has said it has dealt carefully with the photographs. "We acknowledge that there is great public sensitivity surrounding pictures of the victims and these have not been included. Some photographs will be of the scene inside the tunnel but in none of the pictures is it possible to identify Diana or indeed any of the crash victims," it said. "We do not show, nor have we ever considered showing, Diana's final moments."
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