World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-08-31

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-08-31
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[0:01] Are you having

[0:04] Thanks for watching Channel 2 News, the

[0:07] Northwest news leader. Stay with the

[0:09] Channel 2 News team for news throughout

[0:11] the

[0:12] [Music]

[0:16] weekend. It will soon be midnight at

[0:19] Kensington Palace in downtown London

[0:20] where Diana, Princess of Wales, lived

[0:23] after her divorce from Prince Charles a

[0:25] year ago. People have been gathering

[0:27] there throughout the day and they are

[0:29] still gathering to pay their respects

[0:31] and to talk with one another about one

[0:33] of the world's most glamorous women,

[0:35] Diana, Princess of Wales.

[0:41] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:45] Sunday. Here's Peter Jennings. Good

[0:48] evening. The body of Diana, the Princess

[0:49] of Wales, is back in Britain tonight at

[0:52] a private funeral home. And Buckingham

[0:54] Palace is expected to announce funeral

[0:56] plans tomorrow. Diana and her friend

[0:59] Dodi Aliad, as you have undoubtedly

[1:01] heard, were killed last night when their

[1:03] car going very, very fast, crashed in a

[1:05] Paris tunnel. At the time, they were

[1:08] being followed by photographers. And

[1:09] there is no doubt that today in many

[1:12] different countries, many people blame

[1:14] the media for Diana's death.

[1:17] Diana's body was returned to Britain

[1:20] today by the Royal Air Force accompanied

[1:22] by the Prince of Wales and her two

[1:24] sisters. They were met by an honor guard

[1:26] of the Royal Air Force. Diana's coffin

[1:28] was covered in the Royal Standard, the

[1:31] Queen's flag. This taken as a very

[1:33] public display of the Queen's sympathy.

[1:36] There was no ceremony, but the new

[1:38] British Prime Minister Tony Blair was

[1:40] there to extend the government's

[1:41] sympathy to