With the media scandals taking place about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle the pressure pushed Prince Harry to speak openly for the first time about his mother’s death and how he sees the event today with a different perspective being sort of alienated from the Royal Family.
Prince Harry even mentioned that the traditions within the Royal Family always made him keep quiet about the event and move on. In one of his recent interviews, he mentioned the regret he has for not opening up sooner about his mother’s death and how this affected him as a child since he was only 12 years old when she died.
Princess Diana of Wales and her battle with the paparazzi
威爾士的戴安娜王妃與狗仔隊(duì)的斗爭(zhēng)
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Princess Diana was one of the most loved royals not only in the United Kingdom but around the world. Her openness to the public, her kindness, and her lifestyle was something really appealing to everyone although in many instances she mentioned that her public life became quite stressful, especially when she had to beg paparazzi to leave her alone.
People all around loved her for who she was and the way she embraced being royalty in a time when the monarchy was somewhat falling from power. If you ask anyone who knew about her there would only be praises. She embraced all the publicity that comes with being royalty, however, even she had her moments when enough was enough, especially after giving birth to Prince Harry and Prince William.
Prince Harry mentioned that he hates being a royal primarily because of all the public attention and that, in all honesty, isn’t a good life. He also mentioned that this is something he always hated, especially when he went on holiday.
In the video below you can see a moment when Diana kindly asked the paparazzi to leave her family alone as she was afraid for the safety of her children, not as royalty but as a mother.
This constant battle with the paparazzi is a very important factor in her life and potentially in her death. Even public figures get fed up with all the popularity, especially royals that aren’t dependent on fame for some sort of success in life.
Paparazzi have their own job it is true but during the 90s they became very vicious and would go beyond that line of respect just to get a picture as if they didn’t have families. This profession was never able to comprehend how they were affecting the mental health of each celebrity or in this case royalty they were hunting.
Just because a person is popular that does not mean they like to be popular as stated by Prince Harry.
一個(gè)人受歡迎并不意味著他像哈里王子說的那樣喜歡受歡迎。
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The “Accident”
In 1997, Princess Diana was in a relationship with Dodi Fayed, the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. Since the public announcement of their relationship different media outlets from around the world were offering very high bids up to £500,000 for a picture of the couple kissing.
The two were being hunted by paparazzi everywhere they went, even if they were far at sea on a private yacht the paparazzi would be right on their tail. They were not able to catch a break from them and this affected Princess Diana immensely even if she never spoke about it publicly but it was something Prince Harry always picked up on.
On the 30th of August 1997, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed arrived in Paris where they were taken to the hotel by Henry Paul, the driver. Annoyed by the paparazzi, Princess Diana told Henry to evade the paparazzi who awaited their arrival at the airport.
This just shows that she wanted to have some peace and quiet time with her partner in Paris.
這表明她想和她的伴侶在巴黎度過一段平靜的時(shí)光。
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After their arrival, the couple wanted to dine out but they would never be able to escape the paparazzi as they were lined up right out of the Ritz Hotel where a limousine was waiting for them. A backup car was brought by Henry Paul behind the hotel which the couple as well as Trevor Rees-Jone (the royal bodyguard of the princess) embarked and escaped. Even with this good plan, the paparazzi were prepared for something like this so they started chasing them on motorcycles.
Henry tried to lose the paparazzi by not respecting the speed limits. In an attempt to lose the paparazzi chasing them, Henry entered the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris at 70 miles per hour when the limit was only 30. The driver lost control of the car and crashed into a pillar.
The Mercedes at the scene after all the victims were taken to the hospital (Source: Mirror)
在所有受害者被送往醫(yī)院后,現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的奔馳車
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One of the paparazzi chasing them was Romuald Rat accompanied by the motorcycle driver Stephane Darmon who was an important witness. Based on Darmon’s recollection, Romuald Rat got off the bike and ran to the car where he opened the door and mentioned that Princess Diana was still alive.
Rather than being a decent human being and calling an ambulance, what followed was Romuald Rat taking pictures of the victims. Another two witnesses that stopped at the scene of the accident Antonio Lopes-Borges and Ana Sim?o testified that the paparazzi were taking pictures of the victims rather than helping them.
Prince Harry discussed the same thing in an interview taken by Good Morning America where he blamed the paparazzi in general for the death of his mother.
Princess Diana and Trevor Rees-Jones were the only ones still alive at the time of the accident. Henry Paul and Dodi Fayed had died right on impact. Although alive, Princess Diana was in urgent need of medical assistance as she was severely injured. Every second mattered, especially those when the paparazzi took photos rather than calling for help.
Paparazzi photographers Romuald Rat, Serge Arnal, Jacques Langevin, Nikola Arsov, Laslo Veres, Christian Martinez, and Stephane Darmon, who were taken into custody after the crash killed Diana. (Source: TheGuardian)
Apart from Romuald Rat and Stephane Darmon other paparazzi soon came to the scene. These were Serge Arnal, Jacques Langevin, Nikola Arsov, Laslo Veres, Christian Martinez neither of which helped Princess Diana.
After she was declared dead, all of the paparazzi at the scene were accused of manslaughter, however, in the following days, their charges were cleared. All the paparazzi got was a one euro symbolic fine so that the media could at least say they were fined.
Princess Diana was rushed to the University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière — Charles Foix, Paris, France, where she was operated on but sadly she suffered major internal bleeding and she passed away at 4:53 GMT on the 31st of August 1997.
戴安娜王妃被緊急送往法國(guó)巴黎的大學(xué)醫(yī)院ーー查爾斯 · 福??怂?Charles Foix) ,在那里做了手術(shù),但不幸的是,她出現(xiàn)了嚴(yán)重的內(nèi)出血,并于1997年8月31日4:53 GMT去世。
There is another theory saying that Princess Diana in fact died because of a badly placed tear in the vein of her lung. This was mentioned in a book entitled Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd, a famous forensic pathologist in Britain who also stated that such an injury was so rare that he never encountered it in his career.
Front cover of Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd (Source: Amazon)
《 非自然因素》封面 理查德·謝潑德(來源:亞馬遜)
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On the same date, the whole world had been told of the death of Princess Diana. I do not know about the whole world, but I can assure you that the whole population of the United Kingdom fell into a depression upon hearing this news. Over 2.5 billion people around the world watched her funeral procession!
The most affected person by this news although he never said anything until now was Prince Harry. It was difficult enough for him as a 12-year-old to process the divorce between Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1996, but with the death of his mother, it was something that he could not cope with and something that affects him even to this day as he mentioned in many of the recent interviews.
Funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, past St. James Park. The coffin is transported by the Royal Force, Royal Horse Artillery, escorted by a group of Welsh guards. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
For years, people kept thinking that Prince Harry was too young to understand exactly what happened, but I think he knows better than anyone else exactly what happened and who should be actually blamed for Princess Diana’s death.
Who is to blame?
The paparazzi are the ones who provoked the driver to drive at high speeds in order to escape from the media. The paparazzi are the ones who pushed those looking after Princess Diana towards such dangerous actions.
There have been many debates, especially after Channel 4 (a popular British television channel) released a documentary entitled Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel which looks exactly at what happened on that tragic night.
In 2004, the British Metropolitan Police launched an investigation, looking at all the rumors and theories that gathered over the years on French soil but this operation named “Operation Paget” was terminated in 2006 as no results came up.
Another important factor to mention is that so people say Princess Diana did not have her seatbelt on upon impact, although no one will know as she might have taken it off after the impact. With the seatbelt on, she might have survived.
However, Prince Harry sees things from a different perspective, such that ultimately it is the paparazzi who simply went too far and those who chased them should have called for help rather than taking photos of a dying woman.
What is very interesting in this whole case is how a handful of people goes from being charged with manslaughter to only being fined one euro. Especially when there were at least three witnesses who confessed that the paparazzi at the scene were taking photos rather than helping.
I wonder what would have happened to them if those photos that were taken right at the scene with the victims inside the car would have been made public. Whatever the truth may have been in this whole story, it is clear that the paparazzi play an important indirect role in the whole event, to say the least.
It is imperative to understand that I am only presenting the facts, everyone is their own judge, but it would be interesting to hear some of your thoughts on this matter.
Maude Pagan
Of all those people, I was one who watched her funeral. Her grace always shined through.
As I recall, The Firm was as harsh to Diana after her death as they have been to Meghan.
It was definitely the photographers who caused the crash.
Andrei Tapalaga
I see it the same way, but at the same time I think there is much more to this story than publicised by the media in that period, something only the people who were there know. God rest her soul.
Audrey Malone
The paparazzi are the ones who provoked the driver to drive at high speeds in order to escape from the media. The paparazzi are the ones who pushed those looking after Princess Diana to...
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard this awful news. I was at a restaurant working the evening shift as a server.
But as far as it being the paparazzi's fault, I don't think so. Yes, they're pests that cause celebrities to want to escape their clicking cameras all the time. But, really it was Henry's fault for driving like a fool. Why would anyone go flying into a tunnel at 70mph in a 30mph zone? Why try to out run the paparazzi? They would just be at the next destination. I wonder if either of the passengers told him to slow down. I would have.
Pat
Even if the UK is comfortable about carrying on a fiction of a thousand years before it could be established that there is no such thing as Devine Rule of Kings, the result of encouraging other people to live their lives in some relational reference to that fiction can produce the unnatural outcome of an industry of papperazzi preying upon a person or family to capture photos from which they can earn money “to the highest bidder”. It’s intimidating, dangerous, and inconsiderate even if not disrespectful. Not designating a photographer or a few trusted and vetted persons is a dangerous process that is risky for the obxts sought to be photographed. Treating royals as obxts, not persons with private lives is unnatural, and unnecessary. Limiting the industry with rules is certainly negligent and fuels a predatory and risky industry.
kachinkie 10 March, 2021
I was in my mid 20s on that night...I was at my BF's parent's house and we were just in shock. My friends were actually IN Paris that week and we heard how chaotic things were. Such a deep loss and deep tragedy. The world truly loved Diana.
Einez Crespo
You could say yes the papparazzi played a part because they were chasing the Mercedes Diana and Dodi was in. The main factor was a drunk and doped up driver was behind the wheel of a car and was told to speed up. Both Dodi and Diana didn’t wear any seatbelts. Had the manager of The Ritz called the police to escort the papps out of the premises maybe the events that August night could’ve been avoided or at least inform Dodi there wasn’t an available driver that night because of doubts on Henri Paul’s sobriety. I don’t think staying at The Ritz overnight would’ve been an issue since his father owned the hotel. They could’ve left early to get whatever stuff Diana needed to pick up from Dodi’s place and catch their flight back to England. It’s a case of lack of common sense that if a driver is not in the position to drive they shouldn’t.
Fred Landis
There are 80 million people who visit France each year and the reaction of the French government, for the next 10 years, was to make it more difficult for them to photograph.
It was not so much the passage of new laws as the enforcement of 40 year old laws protecting privacy.
If you photographed anything in a public place and a single person in the area obxted (including people hundreds of feet away) you could be arrested. Hundreds of police were mobilized in Paris to do just that.
A flower vendor who had been proud to be on the cover of a national magazine 30 years ago sued the magazine retroactively for abusing her rights to privacy. She won a large amount.
Tripods and certain professional cameras were prohibited. The owners of the luxury shops prevented tourists from filming the shop window.
I was walking inside the largest department store, Au Printemps, talking to my brother and I had a salegirl obxt to the fact I was carruing a camera.
Obviously enforcement went away with the cell phone, but unlike the US nonsense about Freedom of the Press, the French government was absolutely clear that the paparazzi were at fault and made them and anyone like them pay for it.
Jessie Walls
The largest sedan Mercedes built was that S-Series 320 vehicle Diana & Dodi traveled in. This overly weighted & powered Mercedes was being followed by 3–4 photographers on scooters (even 2 people sharing one moped). How can the combined power & weight of those photographers influence a millionaire’s super luxury vehicle? The pursuers had no chance.
The Mercedes crashed into no other vehicle but a concrete pillar with its speedometer stuck at over 110MPH. Top speed for a powerful scooter or small motorcycle is 55MPH. With 2 males sitting on the scooter it would have been 45 max. City traffic made tiny transportation ideal to manuvere.
No one knew the photographers or moped drivers so it’s much easier to write the lead character as: Beautiful, Helpless Princess than …. Divorced Princess and Her Lover enters car with Drunk Driver at the Helm.
It’s easier to write a questionable drama that SELLS more stories/magazines/papers than the truth from experience as a Paparazzi photographer. Police charged none of the photographers or agencies involved. They would have charged the driver for being overly intoxicated but he died.
Of all those people, I was one who watched her funeral. Her grace always shined through.
As I recall, The Firm was as harsh to Diana after her death as they have been to Meghan.
It was definitely the photographers who caused the crash.
在所有這些人中,我是其中一個(gè)觀看過她葬禮的人,她的優(yōu)雅總是閃耀著光芒。
我記得,戴安娜去世后,事務(wù)所對(duì)她的態(tài)度就像他們對(duì)梅根一樣嚴(yán)厲。
絕對(duì)是攝影師造成了這次撞車。
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I see it the same way, but at the same time I think there is much more to this story than publicised by the media in that period, something only the people who were there know. God rest her soul.
我也是這么認(rèn)為的,但同時(shí)我認(rèn)為這個(gè)故事還有更多的內(nèi)容,遠(yuǎn)比那個(gè)時(shí)期的媒體宣傳的要多得多,只有當(dāng)時(shí)在場(chǎng)的人才知道。愿她的靈魂安息。
I thought that it was established that the car's driver was drunk? You didn't mention that. Was that not the case?
我以為駕駛那輛車的司機(jī)喝醉了是很確定的事 ?你沒提過,難道不是這樣嗎?
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The paparazzi are the ones who provoked the driver to drive at high speeds in order to escape from the media. The paparazzi are the ones who pushed those looking after Princess Diana to...
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard this awful news. I was at a restaurant working the evening shift as a server.
But as far as it being the paparazzi's fault, I don't think so. Yes, they're pests that cause celebrities to want to escape their clicking cameras all the time. But, really it was Henry's fault for driving like a fool. Why would anyone go flying into a tunnel at 70mph in a 30mph zone? Why try to out run the paparazzi? They would just be at the next destination. I wonder if either of the passengers told him to slow down. I would have.
“是狗仔隊(duì)使得司機(jī)為了躲避媒體,挑動(dòng)其高速行駛,正是狗仔隊(duì)把那些照顧戴安娜王妃的人推向了如此危險(xiǎn)的境地?!?br /> 我聽到這個(gè)可怕的消息時(shí),我清楚地記得我在哪里,在做什么,我在一家餐廳上夜班,當(dāng)服務(wù)員。
但是至于是不是狗仔隊(duì)的錯(cuò),我不這么認(rèn)為,是的,他們是害蟲,導(dǎo)致名人想要逃避他們相機(jī),但是,主要還是亨利 · 保羅愚蠢駕車的錯(cuò),為什么會(huì)有人在限速30英里的區(qū)域以70英里每小時(shí)的速度飛馳進(jìn)隧道?什么非要比狗仔隊(duì)跑得快?在下一個(gè)目的地,他們還是會(huì)出現(xiàn),我不知道車上的乘客是否有告訴他應(yīng)該減速,如果是我,我會(huì)的。
Even if the UK is comfortable about carrying on a fiction of a thousand years before it could be established that there is no such thing as Devine Rule of Kings, the result of encouraging other people to live their lives in some relational reference to that fiction can produce the unnatural outcome of an industry of papperazzi preying upon a person or family to capture photos from which they can earn money “to the highest bidder”. It’s intimidating, dangerous, and inconsiderate even if not disrespectful. Not designating a photographer or a few trusted and vetted persons is a dangerous process that is risky for the obxts sought to be photographed. Treating royals as obxts, not persons with private lives is unnatural, and unnecessary. Limiting the industry with rules is certainly negligent and fuels a predatory and risky industry.
即便英國(guó)愿意延續(xù)一千年前的虛構(gòu)故事,可以確定的是,世上根本不存在神圣的王權(quán)這種東西,鼓勵(lì)他人以某種虛構(gòu)的方式生活的結(jié)果,可能產(chǎn)生的只會(huì)是一個(gè)不自然的結(jié)果。
狗仔隊(duì)利用某人或其家人來拍攝照片,兜售給“出價(jià)最高的人”賺錢,這很嚇人,很危險(xiǎn),甚至是不尊重人,也很不體諒人。
但不指定一個(gè)攝影師或幾個(gè)值得信賴和經(jīng)過審查的人也是一個(gè)危險(xiǎn)的過程,這對(duì)被拍攝對(duì)象是有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的。
把皇室成員當(dāng)作物品,而不是有私生活的人,是不自然的,也是不必要的,沒有用規(guī)則來限制這個(gè)行業(yè),無疑是一種疏忽,助長(zhǎng)了這個(gè)掠奪性的高風(fēng)險(xiǎn)行業(yè)。
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I was in my mid 20s on that night...I was at my BF's parent's house and we were just in shock. My friends were actually IN Paris that week and we heard how chaotic things were. Such a deep loss and deep tragedy. The world truly loved Diana.
事故發(fā)生的那天晚上我才20多歲......我在我男朋友的父母家,我們都很震驚,我有朋友那個(gè)星期在巴黎,我們聽說了事情是多么混亂,巨大的損失和深深的悲劇,這個(gè)世界真的很愛戴安娜。
You could say yes the papparazzi played a part because they were chasing the Mercedes Diana and Dodi was in. The main factor was a drunk and doped up driver was behind the wheel of a car and was told to speed up. Both Dodi and Diana didn’t wear any seatbelts. Had the manager of The Ritz called the police to escort the papps out of the premises maybe the events that August night could’ve been avoided or at least inform Dodi there wasn’t an available driver that night because of doubts on Henri Paul’s sobriety. I don’t think staying at The Ritz overnight would’ve been an issue since his father owned the hotel. They could’ve left early to get whatever stuff Diana needed to pick up from Dodi’s place and catch their flight back to England. It’s a case of lack of common sense that if a driver is not in the position to drive they shouldn’t.
你可以狗仔隊(duì)起到了一定的作用,因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)谧汾s戴安娜和多迪所在的奔馳車,但最主要的因素是一個(gè)喝醉了酒和打了興奮劑的司機(jī)在開車,并被告知要加速,多迪和戴安娜都沒有系安全帶,如果麗茲酒店的經(jīng)理叫來警察護(hù)送他們離開酒店,也許8月那晚的事件就可以避免,或者至少通知多迪那晚沒有可用的司機(jī),因?yàn)樗鴳岩珊嗬A_的清醒程度,我不認(rèn)為在麗茲酒店過夜是個(gè)問題,因?yàn)樗赣H是酒店的老板,他們可以早早離開,去多迪家拿戴安娜需要的東西,然后趕飛機(jī)回英國(guó),這很明顯是缺乏常識(shí),如果司機(jī)沒有能力駕車,他們就不應(yīng)該開車。
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There are 80 million people who visit France each year and the reaction of the French government, for the next 10 years, was to make it more difficult for them to photograph.
It was not so much the passage of new laws as the enforcement of 40 year old laws protecting privacy.
If you photographed anything in a public place and a single person in the area obxted (including people hundreds of feet away) you could be arrested. Hundreds of police were mobilized in Paris to do just that.
A flower vendor who had been proud to be on the cover of a national magazine 30 years ago sued the magazine retroactively for abusing her rights to privacy. She won a large amount.
Tripods and certain professional cameras were prohibited. The owners of the luxury shops prevented tourists from filming the shop window.
I was walking inside the largest department store, Au Printemps, talking to my brother and I had a salegirl obxt to the fact I was carruing a camera.
Obviously enforcement went away with the cell phone, but unlike the US nonsense about Freedom of the Press, the French government was absolutely clear that the paparazzi were at fault and made them and anyone like them pay for it.
每年有8000萬人訪問法國(guó),而法國(guó)政府的反應(yīng)是,在未來10年里,讓他們更難拍照,與其說是通過新的法律,不如說是執(zhí)行40年前保護(hù)隱私的法律。
如果你在公共場(chǎng)所拍攝任何東西,而該地區(qū)有一個(gè)人反對(duì)(包括數(shù)百英尺外的人),你就可能被逮捕,巴黎動(dòng)員了數(shù)百名警察來做這件事。
30年前,一位曾以登上某全國(guó)性雜志封面為榮的花商,追溯起訴雜志濫用其隱私權(quán),她贏了一大筆錢。
三角架和某些專業(yè)相機(jī)被禁止使用,奢侈品商店的老板阻止游客拍攝商店的櫥窗。
我走在最大的百貨公司Au Printemps里,和我的兄弟說話,一個(gè)賣場(chǎng)姑娘當(dāng)場(chǎng)反對(duì)我攜帶相機(jī)。
執(zhí)法部門取消了對(duì)手機(jī)的限制,但很明顯,與美國(guó)關(guān)于新聞自由的無稽之談不同的是,法國(guó)政府非常清楚,狗仔隊(duì)是錯(cuò)誤的,并讓他們以及類似他們的人為此付出了代價(jià)。
The largest sedan Mercedes built was that S-Series 320 vehicle Diana & Dodi traveled in. This overly weighted & powered Mercedes was being followed by 3–4 photographers on scooters (even 2 people sharing one moped). How can the combined power & weight of those photographers influence a millionaire’s super luxury vehicle? The pursuers had no chance.
The Mercedes crashed into no other vehicle but a concrete pillar with its speedometer stuck at over 110MPH. Top speed for a powerful scooter or small motorcycle is 55MPH. With 2 males sitting on the scooter it would have been 45 max. City traffic made tiny transportation ideal to manuvere.
No one knew the photographers or moped drivers so it’s much easier to write the lead character as: Beautiful, Helpless Princess than …. Divorced Princess and Her Lover enters car with Drunk Driver at the Helm.
It’s easier to write a questionable drama that SELLS more stories/magazines/papers than the truth from experience as a Paparazzi photographer. Police charged none of the photographers or agencies involved. They would have charged the driver for being overly intoxicated but he died.
奔馳生產(chǎn)的最大的轎車是戴安娜和多迪乘坐的那輛S320,這輛超重&動(dòng)力十足的奔馳車后面跟著3-4名騎摩托車的攝影師(甚至2人共用一輛輕便摩托車),這些攝影師的摩托車的馬力和重量哪怕加起來,又怎么可能影響到一個(gè)百萬富翁的超級(jí)豪車?追蹤者根本沒有機(jī)會(huì)。
奔馳車除了撞上一根水泥柱外,沒有撞上其他車輛,車速表卡在110MPH以上,大馬力摩托車或小型摩托車的最高時(shí)速是55MPH,如果有2名男性坐在摩托車上,最高時(shí)速應(yīng)該是45英里,城市交通使微小的交通工具成為理想的選擇。
沒有人認(rèn)識(shí)攝影師和輕便摩托車司機(jī),主角是美麗無助的王妃,離婚的王妃和她的情人進(jìn)入車內(nèi),醉酒的司機(jī)掌握著方向盤。。。
寫一部有問題的劇本,賣出更多的故事/雜志/報(bào)紙,要比一個(gè)狗仔隊(duì)攝影師的經(jīng)歷更容易,警方?jīng)]有指控任何一個(gè)攝影師或機(jī)構(gòu),他們本可以控告司機(jī)醉酒駕車,但是他死了。