To ask if any of you went to London for Princess Diana's funeral?

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Just watching a documentary about the week following Princess Diana's death and the overwhelming outpouring of grief that crossed the country. We were living overseas at the time so had no idea of the effect it had.

Did anyone on here go down to London during that week for the funeral or to sign the condolence books?

Personally I think your demands for answers and explanations are a bit hectoring and really make you sound as if you think you’re much better and more intelligent than those who got involved. You’re not. You’re just different.

Demands for answers? Can you please point out the post where I demanded answers? You do know I’m not the only person who finds it baffling?

I haven’t mentioned my own intelligence or anyone else’s, but by all means If you feel the need to point out that I’m not more intelligent than everyone else on the thread, go right ahead. You couldn’t possibly know that, but don’t let that stop you :)

If continuing to be involved in the discussion is hectoring, I do wonder at you repeatedly answering my posts to tell me that nobody is going to answer my posts 😂😂

Demands for answers? Can you please point out the post where I demanded answers? You do know I’m not the only person who finds it baffling?

I didn't want to say, but you don't half go on a bit IvanaPee. You]'re beginning to sound like Lady Di at her most paranoid.

I am not understanding your investment in this tbh. You’ve been posting on this thread for hours trying to understand. You actually seem hugely more invested in the subject matter than pretty much any other person on here; it really seems to be bothering you. An event that happened decades ago that most people have posted vague reminiscences about because they were asked to has had you in a lather for a whole evening. What’s that about?

We have very different ideas of what being in a lather is. 😂😂

As for you not wanting to say, limited, you have been saying. For almost the entire thread!

You English. You’re like aliens! 😂😂

What's with all the 😂😂😂😂😂 emojis? And the !!!!!!!!

You seem thoroughly overexcited by the entire thread tbh...

i dont think shes been in a lather the whole evening. nor hugely 'invested' nor 'hectoring' nor really 'bothered'

you got involved in the funeral - you'd rather not say or you cant say why - thats a shame - but your prerogative obvs.

Carol, calm down dear. Seriously. The exclamation points are a bit OTT.

Maybe it’s all the reminiscing about how involved you were in Di’s funeral. 😊

And to clarify, I used two exclamation points in my last post to you. Perhaps your finger got stuck on the key?

Oh I really don't think it's me that needs to calm down. Fortunately all our posts stand so it's quite clear who's being overexcitable on this thread, and also who's overusing the !!!.

I didn't get involved in the funeral though . Are you confusing me with someone else on here perhaps?

Honestly, you’re being very weird. Why have you taken such exception to my posts?

It’s slightly odd, tbh. U ok hun?

i dont know who exactly was involved and who wasn't. i certainly don't think theres anything terrible with asking those who were involved why they got involved though.
it was interesting behaviour.

Again, all our posts stand so people can make up there own mind who's being weird and, well, actually making stuff up on this thread. You do realise that all your posts are still here don't you and that pretending I am doing and saying things I am not makes you look a bit nuts? Because it kind of seems like you don't.

Ok, dear. Settle down. You win. 😂

You're right helmet. There's nothing wrong with asking, nothing at all and some people are trying to explain but being judged and ridiculed by certain posters when they do. No one owes anyone on here an explanation and presenting yourself as superior because you just don't get it is a bit twatty. That's all

Thank you! I will take that win

I don't think IvanaPee has made things up or demanded answers. Expressed bewilderment, sure, but I think there are probably a fair few of us out here who share those sentiments.

But, what do I know? I got reported by the (very silly) lady I sat next to in work at the time, on the grounds of "not being sad enough about Diana dying"

Probably because, whilst very sad for the family and her children, I didn't know her at all. I felt, along with a fair few others I imagine, that she was quite manipulative and wasn't overly keen on her, so was bemused by the Sainthood instantly bestowed upon her.

The public outpouring of grief was grim and hypocritical. The paparazzi only made their money because they knew the public would buy papers with Diana's picture in.

Anyone who takes a three year old out on The Mall overnight, for a strangers funeral does sound a bit as though they had questionable priorities tbh.

No and the pressure on the royal family to expose to grieving boys the the crowds was disgusting also the thought that the boys would have read some of the cards left saying the queen and Prince Charles has blood on their hands was disgusting.
The media turned on the royal family to take the heat off themselves.

I was in Australia. If I’d been in London I would have gone. It really interested me as a historical event.

I don’t really understand the argument that seeing it this way is distasteful - people who think like that must find it impossible to visit museums, given they’re full of personal tragedies. I’ve been to various exhibits of artefacts from tombs all over the world, each one containing items of personal significance to someone who once lived and breathed and who was presumably missed by someone. There are plenty of museums exhibiting items that belonged to people who died recently enough for their relatives to still be alive, too.

I was living in London and tried to get out.

It wasn't everyone mourning.

I thought it was sad that two children lost their mother so suddenly but no more sad than if I had read about any other children.

I thought it was hideous, lots of people who had never met her crying and bringing flowers.Why?

And the demand from a tabloid for the Queen to come 'home' just so they could pap some pictures of bereaved children.

I got reported by the (very silly) lady I sat next to in work at the time, on the grounds of "not being sad enough about Diana

That's seriously nutty.

It was terribly sad that a young mother died in such an awful way but I was baffled by the over the top collective outpouring of public grief. I watched it all in morbid fascination and did find it fascinating that people reacted the way they did. What was that all about?

Went to a wedding on the day of the funeral - not that I would have gone to the funeral anyway even though I lived close enough to have done so.

I only knew one person who went to see the flowers and didn't know anyone who went to see the funeral and we only lived 15 miles away.

I lived the opposite end of the county and the local media were out at the train stations interviewing people getting on the London trains to go and lay flowers. I remember thinking that was a lot of effort to go to and being a bit non-plussed by it.
I think a lot of people went because they wanted to be present at a historical event as opposed to being consumed by grief or whatever.
I cried watching the funeral when I saw the card with the word Mummy on it. Whatever your views of Diana there were two young boys who'd lost their mother in the most shocking way and I felt deeply sorry for them.
One of the things I remember from the funeral was the microphones picking up anguished howling from some people in the crowd as the coffin passed by and crying out Diana's name. I thought those people were batshit crazy and were frankly doing it for attention. The juxtaposition of this with the two boys stoically walking along behind the coffin really stayed with me.

Living overseas at the time we missed just how much hysteria there was in UK. We watched the funeral on TV but reception in those days was crap so it was pretty fuzzy. It wasn't until I watched the documentary that I realised how many people were weeping and wailing with grief (?) during that time. Thousands of men, women and children - it was quite bizarre.

But also interesting in how a crowd can get swept along with emotion - I am pretty sure people went to watch an historic event and then got swept up in the emotion of the people around them and thus the weeping and wailing gathers momentum - the same as the throwing of the flowers at the hearse as it headed for Althorp.

I have been to company events where people who are on a day to day basis quite level headed get swept away with the company ethos being ramped up by over enthusiastic leaders at the front. It's an interesting insight into the workings of crowd mentality.

Add in the hysteria inducing media and all of a sudden you have grief being displayed on a huge level.

The Iraq war was a historic event
I didn't hop on a plane to spectate

most people at the nuremberg rallies just went a long for 'a bit of history'