Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales Althorp. Two thousand people attended the ceremony in Westminster Abbey while the British television audience peaked at 32.10 million, one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever. An estimated 2.5 billion people watched the event worldwide, making it one of the biggest televised events in history. Diana's coffin, draped with the royal standard with an ermine border (i.e. the Other Members' standard), was brought to London from the Salpêtrière Hospital, via Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base, Paris, by Diana's former husband Charles, Prince of Wales and her two sisters on 31 August 1997. After being taken to a private
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales conspiracy theories Trevor Rees-Jones in their statements to Operation Paget. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary, "The Diana Conspiracy", claimed that the butler at the villa who, in a June 1998 interview with the ITV documentary "Diana: Secrets Behind the Crash," claimed to have shown the couple around with their intent being to live there, was not even present at the villa on that day as he was on vacation. Al-Fayed first claimed that the Princess of Wales was pregnant at the time of her death to the "Daily Express" in May 2001. "If it is true, it is strange that he