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DEATH OF A PRINCESS A8 THE NEWS JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1 997 Famous, the obscure will attend funeral i Length of the funeral procession is tripled A palace spokeswoman said Wednesday the full roster of atten dees probably would not be re leased before the funeral. This much is known: 1 1 i.iju:n a- u.D. nrst lauy ninary bunion is fi-i iPKtNntan i von Associated Press LONDON Buckingham Palace has not released a guest list for Princess Diana's funeral, but organizers hope attendees will range from the world-famous to the obscure. The mix reflects Buckingham Palace's stated goal of staging a "unique funeral for a unique person." Prime Minister Tony Blair will attend Saturday's ceremony in Westminster Abbey, and former premiers John Major, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan and Edward Heath have been invited.

The list of 2,000 people certainly will include dignitaries. But it promises to be less stacked than usual with the politicians and royalty generally invited to the funerals of major figures. It is not a state funeral, so the usual protocol does not apply. Organizers said they wanted to keep the number of politicians down to have more room for Diana's friends and those involved in the charities she supported. Crowds line up Wednesday and look at mementos left by others in London at Kensington Palace, Princess Diana's official residence.

to attend, as is U.S. Ambassador William Crowe and Bernadette Chirac, the wife of French President Jacques Chirac. Elton John, a close friend oi the princess's, plans to be at the funeral, but denied newspaper re ports he had been invited to sing, saying that was still "up in th( air." The Italian news agency ANSA said the designer Valentino, who had worked with Diana on AIDS projects, would attend. The Spanish royal family said it had received an invitation but had not decided whom to send. The royal families of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which do not have close contacts with the British royals, will not send anyone.

A Dutch government spokesman said it was unclear if anyone from the government or royal family would go. All week, relatives, close friends and staff quietly have been visiting Diana's coffin, which lies before the altar in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace. Diana's brother Charles, the ninth Earl Spencer, looked distressed and covered his face as he was driven into the palace grounds Wednesday afternoon. "There is a constant, loving, prayerful presence in the chapel," one of Queen Elizabeth II's chaplains said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Diana's sons, 15-year-old Prince William and Prince Harry, 12, will return to London with their father Friday and will go to the chapel. Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, left her home on Scotland's Isle of Seil Wednesday to travel to London. "I thank God for the gift of Diana and for all her loving and giving. I give her back to Him, with my love, pride and admiration to rest in peace," she said in a statement. Accused by some of rigidly clinging to formality while the nation vents its grief, the royal family said Wednesday it was "deeply touched and enormously grateful" for the public outpouring of love.

"All the royal family, especially the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry, are taking strength from the overwhelm- By SUE LEEMAN Associated Press LONDON Fearing that mourners could be crushed in the throng, Buckingham Palace decided Wednesday to more than triple the length of the route for Princess Diana's funeral procession through London. The royal family said it was "deeply touched" by the public outpouring of grief over the princess's death in a high-speed car crash in Paris early Sunday. The coffin, borne aboard a gun carriage, will leave Saturday from Diana's Kensington Palace home instead of St. James's Palace as planned, adding 24 miles to the original one-mile route to Westminster Abbey, palace officials said. "It is important there is a longer route so we can have as many people able to participate," said Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spoke by telephone Wednesday to Diana's ex-husband, Prince Charles.

"We want it to be something of which Princess Diana would have been proud." The funeral proceedings at Westminster Abbey will be shown live on two TV screens about 16 feet high and 22 feet wide in Hyde Park. Diana's coffin then will travel a 77-mile route to the princess's home village for burial. thousands of mourners converged on London palaces and queued for up to 12 hours to sign condolence books at St. James's Palace. News reports said some 750,000 people already have signed books of condolence around the country and at British embassies worldwide.

Diana will be interred privately with 20 generations of her forebears in the Spencer family vault in the village church of St. Mary the Virgin. ing support of the public, who are sharing their tremendous sense of loss and grief," a statement from the palace said. It was the palace's first formal statement on the family's feelings since Sunday. Later Wednesday, Charles and his sons sent a bouquet of white lilies in her memory to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, where Diana was a frequent visitor.

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