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LIVING F1-F6 Get ready for Fall 3W 19th Annual Record numbers start new school year "3 Bp Computer-friendly solutions SMALL BUSINESS CI gfELLOS, 5 Evcrcjdhiy: '1 TT ji M1(D HoUdaybonus Jjaperj CALGARY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1883 www.calgaryherald.com MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 T7V kViT 72 Is ,0 1 the coffin bearing the body of Princess Diana at RAF Northolt on Sunday 7 BORNE HOME TO BRITAIN: A sombre People's princess mourned DAN BALZ Washington Post LONDON The body of Diana, Princess of Wales, was returned to Britain Sunday night amid a worldwide outpouring of grief for the glamorous but vulnerable young woman who was killed with her male companion and a chauffeur in an automobile accident in Paris. Her body was accompanied aboard a Royal Air Force plane from Paris by her former husband, Charles, Prince of Wales, and her two sisters. The coffin, draped with a Royal standard, was met by Prime Minister Tony Blair and other dignitaries. With military precision, it was placed in a waiting hearse and taken to a private mortuary in downtown London. Funeral arrangements remained under discussion Sunday night, and offi- 1 I It JUcpJuLIqJ 4 4.

it Royal Air Force guard of honor carries i SAD JOURNEY: Prince Charles leaves sisters, Lady Jane Fellowes, left, and cials at Buckingham Palace said details likely would be announced Monday morning. Meanwhile, thousands of mourners streamed to the site of the crash, to the Paris hospital where Diana died, IJHK THE TELEGRAPH LONDON Diana, Princess of Wales, who died at 36, exemplified in her life the crisis in which the Royal Family, and ultimately the monarchy itself, has found itself in the past two decades. What will remain in the memory is her unhappiness, shyness, concern for the suffering, but more than anything her beauty. The photographs that will always come to mind are of her with the toddlers at the nursery where she worked at the time of her engagement, the official engagement photograph of her and the prince of Wales, and their kiss on the palace balcony after their wedding (perhaps even that other kiss aboard the Fayed yacht) and later her tearful Panorama interview, or her heavily made-up eyes looking over a surgical mask as she witnessed a heart 'A Russell Boyce, Reuters as the world mourns The photographers' role in the accident touched off a backlash in Britain and around the world against intrusive celebrity cameramen and the media's voracious appetite for their product. Diana's brother, the ninth Earl Spencer, was among the most forceful of the critics, declaring: "I always believed the press would kill (Diana) in the end, but not even I could imagine that they would take such a direct hand in her death as seems to be the case." Earlier, Blair expressed the pain his fellow countryman were feeling over the sudden death of a princess who had touched the people of this country as no one else in this generation.

"We are today a nation in Britain in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us," Blah-said. He added: "We know how difficult things were for her from time to time. I am sure we can only guess that. But people everywhere, not just here in Britain, kept faith with Princess Diana She was the people's princess, and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories forever." See CLINTON, Page A2 ropKy among her family and friends. Instead she took on the mantle of royalty, still shrouded in the traditions and principles of past generations.

It was presumed that her life would revolve around the three fixed points of public work, formal court life and the privacy of home life and friends. None turned out as expected. Public and court life presented a greater burden than imagined; the princess's relations with the court varied from unsatisfactory to hostile. The most unexpected and bitter blow came with the failure of her home life to provide the support that comes from a contented marriage. Relations with most friends were continually strained by her royal status.

See OBITUARY, Page A2 PRINCESS DIANA: The Paris Tragedy Complete news coverage A2 -A7 Comment and opinion A8, A9 Teresa, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and singer Elton John, whom Diana was seen comforting recently at the funeral of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace. Professional soccer games were cancelled across Britain; at the U.S. Open tennis tournment in New York, spectators and players observed a moment of silence. Details of the fatal crash remained sketchy Sunday as Paris police continued their investigation. What seemed clear is that the car in which Diana and companion Dodi Fayed were riding, a Mercedes 600 sedan, was travelling at high speed when it veered out of control in a tunnel under bridge on the right bank of the Seine River.

Media reports quoted Paris police as saying the Mercedes was travelling as fast as 150 km-h in a 50-km-h zone, pursued by a number of photographers on motorcyles and in cars. Police were holding seven photographers as part of their investigation. mnKOxteiifl princess feels totally beleaguered." The rest of the princess's life demonstrated the futility of such announcements. In the circumstances the princess's greatest achievement was to become an internationally famous figure of extraordinary success and popularity Her human touch endeared her to those she met. This public facade concealed, until the announcement of her separation from the Prince of Wales in 1992, the difficulties that she bore in private.

Her later appearances had to be made with the knowledge that much of her private life was publicly discussed: the long-established tensions in her marriage, her health problems and loneliness all exaggerated by a welter of speculation. By marrying the heir to the throne she had given up anonymity, and with it the prospect of private fulfilment onteppy Doff told ttsille if Hi Laurent Rebours, The Associated Press Salpetriere hospital with Diana's Lady Sarah McCorquodale and to Buckingham and Kensington palaces in London to leave flowers and handwritten remembrances. Other tributes poured into Britain from all over the globe from U.S. President Bill Clinton and Mother In the 16 years left to her after her marriage to the heir to the throne, her story changed from one of a fairytale princess into that of a woman who felt a captive of circumstances and made increasingly desperate attempts to escape unhappiness. An unlikely friendship with Dodi Fayed, the playboy son of the owner of Harrods department store, was the last, surprising twist in the increasingly dizzy trend in her life since her separation from the Prince of Wales.

No one could have predicted its tragic conclusion. The scrutiny under which the princess led her life after her marriage was without precedent. In the early days it was condemned as un- acceptable, and measures of control were sought; in December 1981 the Queen summoned Fleet Street editors to Buckingham Palace as her press secretary announced that "the 1 File photo NIAGARA FALLS: With sons Prince William, left, Prince Harry in 1991 LrU UHri.