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...death between the Queen and Prince Charles, over the nature of her funeral. London's Channel 4 News said late Monday that Queen Elizabeth wanted a private funeral that would have excluded the Princess' body from Royal palaces, and refused to fly the flag at half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story is rubbish," although Channel 4 ? a respected high-brow network in Britain ? says...
...dunked last week by the tabloid press. Prince Charles is pleading for the British media to give his sons space to deal with their mother's death. "The last thing they need is to face a blast of flashguns," said a palace spokeswoman. Meanwhile, mourners continue their pilgrimage to Buckingham Palace; Sunday's crowd appeared to be the largest of the week. The only survivor of the deadly crash, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, has emerged from his coma, but police say it will be some time before he can talk to them...
LONDON: Her back was to the crowd below. But as she stood for the BBC camera, Queen Elizabeth II spoke as she never had before: live for the British people from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. This was about as accessible as Her Majesty gets. Indeed, after 40 years of opening Parliament and pre-taping her Christmas broadcasts, the Queen was now making an extraordinary attempt to return to her people's hearts ? by expressing grief over the death of Diana...
...funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated two million Britons who lined the route of the cortege in London...
...palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been tripled to accommodate the anticipated huge crowd...