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Let's move on....we should be focusing on the the aspects of Diana's accident and death....not the What If's regarding the Charles and Diana marriage.
But her will clearly says it was her wish to be buried - nothing about being near her father - so she was buried.
A cremation would have gone against her written instructions in her will.
Survivors do not have to follow burial instructions in a will.
No they don't, because the body essentially "belongs" to the executor, or to the next of kin in the case of an intestacy, but it's rather rude and very insensitive to disregard your deceased loved one's express wishes.
The cremation-theorists (and I don't believe it either) apparently think it was an empty coffin, that the body was cremated in between its initial coffin (from France) and the obtaining of the for-show coffin.
Jaya said:The coffin did appear "heavy" as it almost toppled the pallbearers.
Hard to speculate about cremation.
Didn't I read somewhere that there was an oval piece of glass in the lid so people could see her face.
I agree. She's buried on an island at Althrop, which seems a terribly lonely place for a woman who loved people of all walks of life.
I've always thought she should have been buried in the heart of London, where people could visit her grave and leave flowers. I believe she'd have liked that.
She was a city type who never cared much for the country.
(I felt that room could have been made in Westminster Abbey or perhaps St. Paul's...someplace in London, anyway.)
I am wondering as William's big day approaches will he go and visit her grave? I know that a lot of people do this when big milestones arrive in their lives. I suppose its all how William looks at things personally.
Didn't I read somewhere that there was an oval piece of glass in the lid so people could see her face. (Which I aways thought was weird.) I know there was always a flag covering the coffin so the average person couldn't see. But the close family, and the funeral burial attendants would have been able to see her face.
I guess this is a question we will never know the answer to. Should he choose to make a trip, it will be a completely private trip with very few people in the know.
Didn't I read somewhere that there was an oval piece of glass in the lid so people could see her face. (Which I aways thought was weird.) I know there was always a flag covering the coffin so the average person couldn't see. But the close family, and the funeral burial attendants would have been able to see her face.
Why do I remember reading something along the lines of her coffin had a little window and they turned her head so it was facing towards the window. I hope I'm not going crazy and mixing it up with someone else.Diana had a terror of the dark, she is said to have always hated it. So Prince Charles specifically requested that type of coffin for her.
I wept when I read that in one of the princess's biographies.
The coffin was also lined with lead-why I don't know. But that is probably why it was so heavy...the pallbearers seemed to be struggling at one point.