Princess Diana's Last Day
Princess Diana's last day began in the Mediterranean on August 30, 1997, a Saturday. Diana and Dodi were on vacation in Sardinia, and they were going to finish it, but last minute they decided to go to Paris before going to England where William and Harry were. Their engagement was going to be announced on Thursday. It was 3:45 PM and they had just arrived at Windsor Place (in Bois de Boulogne). Dodi gave Di a tour and then they went to the Ritz until 7:00 PM. They were going to go to Dodi's apartment so a Mercedes and Range Rover pulled up in front so that everyone would think that that was where they were going to leave. Diana and Dodi finally escaped into a different Mercedes that Henri Paul was driving. It was 12:20 and supposedly, Henri had been drinking. They sped off and at the end of Cours Albert ler there was a dip and hump and they did a very sharp left turn. This shot them across two westbound traffic lanes and hit a column. This car (a Mercedes S280) was meant to have the airbags in the front deploy and the whole front of the car is meant to crumple also. This happened. But Henri was forced to push the break and the impact threw them backwards and upwards and the crushed the front part of the roof. All of the momentum made the car spin many times. Dodi and the driver were dead. Diana was unconscious and stuck in a gap between the front and rear seats. She also had very bad head and chest injuries. After an hour of getting her out they rushed her to the hospital. At 4 AM she died. The world was about to go into shock.