Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales The public funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales started on 6 September 1997 at 9:08am in London, when the tenor bell sounded to signal the departure of the cortège from Kensington Palace. The coffin was carried from the palace on a gun carriage, along Hyde Park to St. James's Palace, where Diana's body had remained for five days before being taken to Kensington Palace. The Union Flag on top of the palace was lowered to half mast. The official ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey in London and finished at the resting place in
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