CNN - Princess Diana death - 1997-08-31

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[0:00] for me,

[0:02] possibly a broken arm. When the end

[0:04] came, she died of cardiac arrest at 4:00

[0:07] a.m. Paris time, which would be 10 p.m.

[0:10] Eastern Daylight Time. And in the

[0:13] aftermath, as you've heard from our

[0:15] correspondent in London through Learn,

[0:17] all thoughts now turn to her sons,

[0:20] 15-year-old Prince William, 12-year-old

[0:22] Prince Harry, who apparently had been

[0:25] woken and told of the accident itself.

[0:27] We are not sure if they have been told

[0:29] of their mother's passing at this time,

[0:32] but other members of the royal family,

[0:33] including Queen Elizabeth and Prince

[0:36] Charles, have been informed of her

[0:38] death. Princess Diana dead at the age of

[0:43] 36. In the initial aftermath, it is too

[0:45] early to tell right now because it is in

[0:47] the middle of the morning in London.

[0:50] What the official protocol will be for

[0:52] any funeral arrangements in the days

[0:54] ahead. uh concern now will be focused

[0:58] upon what caused this terrible accident

[1:00] to happen and if there was any

[1:03] involvement by paparazzi photographers

[1:06] obviously there that will be hotly

[1:08] debated in the days ahead. You may have

[1:09] heard CNN's interview with actor Tom

[1:11] Cruz very early on in our coverage of

[1:14] this accident that he himself had been

[1:16] stalked by paparazzi in that very same

[1:19] tunnel in Paris where again the traffic

[1:22] travels at a very high rate of speed. We

[1:25] were told by Scott Mloud of Time

[1:27] magazine that the princess's car

[1:29] apparently was traveling westbound on

[1:31] the right bank of the Saint River toward

[1:33] the Eiffel Tower and it apparently hit

[1:36] the wall, twisted around about 140° or

[1:38] so and en

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