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
The Murder of Princess Diana (book) The Murder of Princess Diana (book) The Murder of Princess Diana is a bestselling 2007 book by British journalist Noel Botham. Botham's book disputes the official account that the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales was an accident. The publisher claims the book "firmly lays to rest the theory that Diana's death was mere accident, and finally gives the people of Britain the explanation they deserve." The book was reissued for the 20th anniversary of Diana's death in 2017. Botham, a newspaper journalist attempts to put forward an alternative version of the events surrounding Diana's death, reportedly citing intelligence and