Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 3

Journal and Courier Sunday September? 1997 World a3 4 Princess Diana World salutes a fallen i I Village brother stuns mourners at her service fit SreCIflL REPORT 4 father their grandfather Prince Philip and Spencer their uncle Atop the coffin were three wreaths two from the young princes the smallest bearing a note from Harry reading simply William at 15 already a lanky 6 foot kept his hands clasped in front 12 year old Harry looked up occasionally but his eyes were aimed straight ahead half We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used to drive you to tearful Diana who had shared cus tody of William and Harry with Charles since her divorce railed continually against both the media and the rigid resis tance to innovation by her hus family Spencer whose own family has been hounded by tabloid newspapers has called those publications cal and He personally dis suaded the editors of the coun five largest tabloids from attending funeral service Spencer was gentler but no less obvious in a scarcely veiled criticism of the royal stodgy aloofness and its unwavering adherence to protocol Still addressing his sister whose flag draped cof fin lay before him in West minster Abbey Spencer said he spoke on behalf of their mother rances Shand Kydd and sisters Lady Sarah Mc Corquodale and Lady Jane el lowes pledge that we your blood family will do all we can to con tinue the imaginative and lov ing way in which you were steering these two exception al young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you Spencer said By William Montalbano Los Angeles Times LONDON Spencer the ninth Earl Spencer and younger brother of Princess Diana swore a blood oath on her coffin Sat urday to protect Princes William and Harry from the media and laid claim to her right to share their up bringing with their father Prince Charles controlled but an gry funeral oration had an al most medieval ring signaling unresolved tensions and the likelihood of more trouble ahead between the noble Spencers and the royal Wind sors Heartless hounding by the British media he charged had transformed his sister into most hunted person in the modem And he warned that constrictions of royal life should never be allowed to deny sons the ability to live free lives and open as she would have wanted The antipathy between the Spencers and the Windsors is a fact of aristocratic life com pounded by the painful 1996 divorce of Diana and Charles So too is the way popular sen timent runs evident remarks at the funeral broad cast beyond the abbey won loud applause from huge crowds outside and the clapping could be heard within the abbey By Edith Lederer The Associated Press LONDON In a display of courage that reduced a griev ing nation to tears Princess beloved young princes walked behind her coffin Sat urday with a quiet dignity that would have made her proud By The Associated Press STINGING EULOGY: Princess brother Earl Charles Spencer addresses the congregation Saturday in Westminister Abbey during the funeral service for his sister Spencer condemned the newspapers and the paparazzi which had followed Diana and pledged to protect sons Princes William and Harry from such intrusion He also vowed that his family would take an active role in helping raising the two boys member that in Britain there is a At tennis sta dium players crowded around a television in the lobby fu one mother gently scolded her rambunctious son tennis racket in hand was classy like she said Michelle Lara a shopper at Galle ria mall who woke up hours early to watch the service Across Asia people devot ed hours to watching the rites live on television In the Bangladeshi town of Comilla Liaqat Ali Dulal changed the name of his cafe from Comilla Restaurant to Diana Restaurant then sened up free food to 5000 destitute people saying he sought blessing for the princess Even in India still reeling from Mother death riday state run television and radio were broadcasting the funeral live Indian newspapers carried front page stories comparing the selfless service of Mother Teresa and Diana In the bar at the Ameri can Club in Singapore pa trons watched the funeral on six television sets When Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey asked those around the world to recite the prayer Jesus taught his disciples many in the bar prayed the words aloud In Paris the staff of the swank Ritz Hotel where Di ana spent her last hours ob served a minute of silence at noon Throughout the day in Geneva people placed flow ers at the monument to land mine victims marking Di campaign to ban land mines one of several causes to which she lent her celebri ty memory of Diana Princess of Wales who worked so hard to heal the world to make it a better place for you and for me and for the entire human the tag on one bouquet de clared After the shock of the death and a week of unrelenting mourning pageantry seemed to bring the catharsis that many were waiting for here watching this funeral is like setting everything to said Ted Spate a London born New Yorker watching the funer al at a Greenwich pub Ti By The Associated Press UNERAL OR A PRINCESS: The casket containing the body of Diana Princess of Wales is carried into Westminister Abbey by soldiers of the Welsh Guards during funeral ceremonies Saturday in London uneral caps an emotional week for Lafayette area residents By Lorell leming Journal and Courier Lafayette area residents were among billions worldwide who watched with heavy hearts the televised funeral of Princess Diana on Saturday Some watched the live broad cast of the funeral during the early morning hours Some watched the rebroadcast of the funeral later that day while oth ers videotaped the sad affair Teresa Stapleton 37 Delphi said her family had been keep ing up with all the news re garding the car accident Aug 31 that claimed the lives of Di ana her companion Dodi ayed and their driver The bodyguard who was also in the car is hos pitalized with serious injuries So it seemed natural for Sta pleton to watch the live broad cast of Princess funeral was just the lost of someone Stapleton said watch it on the TV and you think a It reminds you that life is very Elaine Chambers 43 Dar lington said she watched the fu neral because she thinks Diana was a human wanted to see if they would portray her as a real per Chambers said Just slightly older than Di ana Chambers said she was able to identify with the princess in some ways was a mother So am Chambers explained re member seeing (video of her running toward William when he was little and sweeping him up into her arms Then she grabbed little Harry and gave them great big hugs It was ob vious how much she loved her Chambers said seeing Di sons princes William 15 and Harry 12 walking behind their coffin touched her heart Marge Tribbet 64 watched because she thinks the funeral is a part of history But Tribbet was drawn to the funeral broad cast also because she admires many of characteristics was a very caring com passionate Tribbet ex plained though she was supposed to be royalty she kept in touch with the com mon Tribbet said was troubled by the role paparazzi reportedly played in the car accident the real press They were after the side of her we really need to know when they need to deal with her work with AIDS patients and other things she Spencer whose hatred for the British media is well Charles known said Diana had re cently been looking for a new direction in her life talked endlessly of get ting away from England main ly because of the treatment she received at the hands of the newspapers I think she ever understood why her gen uinely good intentions were sneered at by the media why there appeared to be a perma nent quest on their behalf to bring her said Spencer is baffling My own and only explanation is that gen uine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral said the 33 year old aristocrat Diana lost the title her roy al highness with her divorce But Spencer noted tartly that her continued work and suc cess on behalf of the disad vantaged since then proved that needed no royal title to continue to generate her par ticular brand of Of all the ironies about Di ana Spencer said the great est was that a woman chris tened with the name of the an cient goddess of hunting in the end the most hunted person of the modem would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her children William and Har ry from a similar fate And I do this here Diana on your be coffin past crowds standing 10 deep and a watching world Their father Prince Charles had left it until the last minute forthem to decide When the gun carriage bearing her coffin neared Buckingham Palace William and Harry moved in behind They walked the last mile to Their faces solemn their Westminster Abbey with their heads bowed Prince William and Prince Harry kept their composure until Elton John sang a specially rewritten tribute to their mother be ginning There in Westminster Abbey with no cameras film ing them the tears came At the culmination of the most tragic week in their lives the young princes made up their own minds to honor their mother bv following her princess I Estimated 25 billion watch Princess funeral By George Jahn The Associated Press Waking up early staying up late or stopping in their day people around the world tuned in Saturday to join the mourning for a woman whose passing seemed strangely personal to mil lions Estimates for the world wide audience for Princess funeral ranged as high as 25 billion BBC Tele vision transmitted it world wide BBC Radio broadcast it in 44 languages In Singapore in Moscow in Houston viewers spoke not of watching the mourn ing for a British princess but of sharing it see this as a very fam ily said Donata Gi lardi a 60 year old nurse who watched the funeral live in Venice touches the bottom of my heart I feel like participating not just a matter of curiosi is a funeral that has mobilized an entire people even the people of the whole said Louise Berlioz who watched it in Lyon rance In Paris the boss of one of 10 paparazzi under investi gation in fatal car crash insisted he felt the loss of Diana as much as anyone even as much as brother who attacked the prying press in his eulogy Saturday "He say he loved Lady Di more than I loved Lady Goksin Sipahioglu the president of Sipa Press protested cried While hushed throngs in London strained to see the coffin pass to and from West minister Abbey mournersplaced bouquets on the site of the crash in Paris at a monument to land mine vic tims in Geneva and at British embassies around the world At New York Rockefeller Plaza a Union Jack at half staff waved forlornly in the gray morning light Tears streamed down Alex face while he stood watching the funeral in the darkened Britannia Pub in Santa Monica Calif not so much that she was a princess but a real person The circumstances of her death are so tragic and Mahlke said 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