Overview

• Earl Charles Spencer shared photos from Althorp and laid flowers at his sister’s gravesite, writing, “Flowers we cut this morning from Althorp’s gardens for the Island. Always an impossible day.”
• A Channel 5 documentary recounted Tina Brown’s claim that Queen Elizabeth II had TVs and radios removed at Balmoral so the princes would learn of their mother’s death directly from their father.
• First responder Xavier Gourmelon recalled holding Diana’s hand at the crash scene, performing chest compressions after a cardiac arrest, and later learning she had died in hospital.
• News reconstructions reiterated established details of the 1997 crash, reporting that driver Henri Paul was intoxicated and speeding when the Mercedes clipped a Fiat Uno and hit a pillar, with bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones the sole survivor.
• Separate coverage revisited documentary-driven claims tied to the so-called Mishcon Note suggesting Diana feared a staged car accident, which continue to fuel disputed conspiracy theories.