UK: MOURNERS QUEUE FOR HOURS IN LONDON TO PAY FINAL RESPECTS TO DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES / PREPARATIONS GET UNDER WAY FOR SATURDAY'S FUNERAL

Record ID: 646170

  • Title: UK: MOURNERS QUEUE FOR HOURS IN LONDON TO PAY FINAL RESPECTS TO DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES / PREPARATIONS GET UNDER WAY FOR SATURDAY'S FUNERAL
  • Date: 2nd September 1997
  • Summary: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (SEPTEMBER 2, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV BUCKINGHAM PALACE, CROWDS IN STREET 0.04 2. SV QUEUE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO SIGN BOOKS OF CONDOLENCES AT ST JAMES'S PALACE 0.10 3. CU PEOPLE WITH FLOWERS 0.16 4. SV SIGN READING "QUEUING TIME 7 HOURS"/ PEOPLE WAITING 0.20 5. SLV WOMAN IN WHEELCHAIR TAKEN PAST QUEUE 0.24 6. SV WOMAN READING NEWSPAPER WITH STORY TITLED "SHE TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES" (3 SHOTS) 0.35 7. SV WOMAN SEATED WITH HER FLOWERS AND DRINK 0.40 8. SLV HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT PILES OF FLOWERS NEAR ST JAMES'S PALACE 0.47 9. SV THREE GIRLS LAYING ROSES ON PILES OF FLOWERS 0.53 10.CU QUEEN OF HEARTS PLAYING CARD ON FLOWERS 0.57 11.SV WOMAN CRYING 12.SV THE PILES OF FLOWERS OUTSIDE BUCKINGHAM PALACE 1.05 13.SCU WOMAN SAYING IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW LONG SHE HAS TO WAIT IN ORDER TO SIGN THE BOOK OF CONDOLENCES (ENGLISH) 1.11 14.SCU WOMAN SAYING SHE WOULD DECIDE WHAT TO WRITE IN THE BOOK WHEN SHE GOT IN THERE (ENGLISH) 1.21 15.SCU AUSTRALIAN TOURIST SAYING HE HAD COME TO PAY SOME TRIBUTE FROM HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY AND FROM THOSE HE REPRESENTS HOME IN AUSTRALIA (ENGLISH) 1.32 16.SV QUEUE OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE BUCKINGHAM PALACE WAITING TO PLACE FLOWERS AT GATES 1.40 17.GV PAN OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE PALACE 1.46 18.SLV PEOPLE PLACING FLOWERS AT GATES 1.48 19.SV POLICE OFFICER PLACING FLOWERS AT GATE OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE 2.03 20.SV PEOPLE READING MESSAGES ON FLOWERS 2.05 21.SV GRAPHIC SEQUENCE SHOWING ROUTE OF FUNERAL PROCESSION 2.36 GREAT BRINGTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM 22.GV EXT OF ST MARY AND VIRGIN CHURCH WITH COUNTRY SETTING (4 SHOTS) 2.55 23.SLV INT OF CHURCH 3.04 24.SV HEADSTONE AND TOMBS FAMILY INSCRIPTIONS 3.31 25.SCU INTERVIEW WITH WITH DR STEPHEN MATTINGLY, LOCAL HISTORIAN TALKING ABOUT THE EFFECTS ANY INCREASE IN VISITORS MIGHT HAVE ON THE LOCAL VILLAGE AND CHURCH (ENGLISH) 4.08 26.GV ALTHORP FAMILY RESIDENCE, FLAG AT HALF MAST 4.15 27.SLV PEOPLE PLACING FLOWERS OUTSIDE FAMILY GATE (4 SHOTS) 4.41 Initials S3 P3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 17th September 1997 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, AND GREAT BRINGTON, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVADMTQ4AF5D7JA7ZK6X165ULBFN
  • Story Text: INTRO: Thousands of people have spent another day in the British capital mourning the death of Britain's Princess Diana.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------- The outpouring of grief so visible over the last few days in London grew in intensity on Tuesday as thousands of people packed Pall Mall to sign books of condolence at St James's Palace and to lay bunches of flowers outside the gates at Buckingham Palace.

    Mourners flocked in their thousands once again to pay their respects to Princess Diana whose body is lying in St James's Palace until Saturday's ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey.

    Handwritten notes, heart-shaped balloons, children's drawings and flowers are piled at the ornamental gates of Buckingham Palace.

    The cards and messages strewn on the gilded gates of the palace bid farewell to an angel, a saint, a goddess. For one mourner she was "simply the best".

    On Tuesday, London's florists were expressing worries over supplies for the rest of the week.

    Shop owner Steve Chivers said he had already received orders for some of Diana's funeral arrangements but that he was worried certain flowers may be in short supply by Saturday's service.

    The outpouring of grief at her death, the accounts of acts of Diana's private kindness and the mountains of flowers show just how much the woman destined never to sit on the British throne captured the affections of ordinary people.

    The body of Diana is to be taken on a funeral procession designed to allow the public a high degree of access, a Buckingham Palace said in statement released on Tuesday (September 2).

    Huge crowds are expected for Saturday's (September 6) funeral, and police have said people will be allowed to stand on the roadways along the route, instead of the pavements.

    Talks, which involve the police, have been taking place amid concerns that the route along which Diana's coffin will be taken is too short to hold the massive throngs of people certain to flood into the area for the occasion.

    The route will start from St James's Palace, where Diana's coffin is lying in the historic Chapel Royal.

    The coffin, mounted on a gun carriage, will be drawn along Marlborough Road, the Mall, Horse Guards Road, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, Parliament Street, the east side of Parliament Square, Broad Sanctuary, to the great west door of Westminster Abbey for the 1200GMT service.

    The Palace said that representatives from all the Princess of Wales' past and present charities are being asked to walk in the procession behind the Princess' coffin.

    Diana will be buried in the Spencer family chapel at Saint Mary the Virgin church in the picture-postcard village of Brington, which overlooks the Spencer estate in Northamptonshire, central England.


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