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LONDON: There are few precedents for what is happening today. It isn't a state funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more...
If Diana was the people's Princess, this is most definitely the people's funeral. Across the country shops will shut, trains will stop, soccer matches and horse races will be cancelled and a two-minute silence will be observed. Westminster Abbey's program combines "traditional and modern elements" ? that...
The palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been...
LONDON: Though Buckingham Palace decided against according Princess Diana a royal state funeral, "everybody feels she's being treated right," reports TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. Gibson says the Westminster Abbey burial, slated for Saturday, is virtually a royal funeral, with a long court procession.
Gibson notes people are waiting in line for hours to sign registers of condolence, and are constantly adding to the deluge of bouquets amassed outside the gates of the palace. Had the Princess of Wales been "lying in state" ? an honor reserved for heads of state and members of the...