When messages began to filter through from Paris to the Royal Family’s Highland retreat at Balmoral during the small hours of August 31, 1997, that Princess Diana had been involved in a serious car crash, the Queen could barely believe what she was hearing.
At first it was thought that, though the car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel was serious, Diana had not been killed.
According to one witness present when the Queen heard the initial news, she mused out loud: ‘Someone must have greased the brakes.
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