Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming," as she tried to sit up and get out of the car. Another early arrival, a Portuguese cleaning woman, told TIME that "Diana's head and bust were leaning on the window. She was moaning very loudly, saying, 'Aye! Aye! Aye!' Her cries reverberated through the tunnel." The princess tried to speak and was once heard to murmur, "My God." But no direct witness reports her saying anything coherent. The first two policemen on the scene found her semiconscious. One of them tried to keep her awake by "talking to her and tapping on her cheek...
...placed in an ambulance. At the doctor's insistence, the ambulance proceeded slowly so as not to aggravate the injuries. Thus it took some 40 minutes to reach the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital instead of the usual 10 minutes. On arrival at 2:05 a.m., the princess was in cardiac arrest. Doctors opened her chest and found massive internal bleeding from the ruptured vein. Although they sutured the wound and administered heart massage, no cardiac activity could be re-established. She was pronounced dead...
...investigators is done--whatever the attendant circumstances, whatever the role of the paparazzi, whatever the truth about the second car--they are likely to determine that this was a road accident caused by very familiar villains: speed, alcohol and bad judgment. An all-too-ordinary tragedy for an uncommon princess...
...future of the British monarchy lies not in the hands of the princess' people but in the royal family. To expect radical and immediate reform is an attempt to hold on to the memory of one person--as remarkable as she was. Much will happen before we are able to say the Princess of Wales changed the face of the monarchy forever. SEAN FRASER Cape Town...
...Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia created E to evoke the perfume of her grandmother Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. This "scent once known only to nobility" is now available to commoners--on the QVC home-shopping network...