BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| ROYAL NEWS
Princess Diana past away on August 31, 1997 - has it really been 28 years? And, after almost 3 decades later, questions remain.
The Princess died in a horrific car accident in Paris, along with companion Dodi Fayed and the vehicles driver. While travelling at high speed to evade the press, her car crashed into the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in the French Capital, and she died shortly after the vehicle stopped.
Firefighter Xavier Gourmelon raced to help her. Dazed, all she could say was 'My God, what's happened?" and then went into cardiac arrest.
via The Mirror:
Mr Gourmelon previously told The Sun: "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again. It was a relief of course because, as a first responder, you want to save lives — and that's what I thought I had done.
"To be honest I thought she would live. As far as I knew when she was in the ambulance she was alive and I expected her to live. But I found out later she had died in hospital. It was very upsetting. I know now that there were serious internal injuries, but the whole episode is still very much in my mind.
"The memory of that night will stay with me forever. I had no idea then that it was Princess Diana. It was only when she had been put into the ambulance that one of the paramedics told me it was her."
Despite doctors' best efforts, Diana was declared dead at 4am local time, 3am in the UK, at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris.
Tens of thousands came to pay their respects to the princess at her home in Kensington Palace, mourning the loss of a woman many of whom had never met. This cemented her legacy and forced the royals to recognise that she had connected with people in ways many of them had never been able to before.
Princess Diana will forever be missed and adored.
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