“Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel”

U.K.’s Channel 4 is to broadcast a movie showing previously unseen photos of Princess Diana in the car crash that killed her in 1997, along with her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul. Channel 4 said described the movie as “responsible”, marking the 10 years from Diana’s violent death. The British newspapers have already reported that the film will feature previously unpublished photos of Diana receiving medical attention from a doctor, as she lay dying in the back of the black Mercedes S-class vehicle in which the three persons eventually died.
The film was made thanks to the witnesses of the car crash who escaped the French legal authorities in not having their photos confiscated.
The broadcasting of the movie, however, angered some people in the U.K. The Conservatives said that the documentary should not be shown because of the distress that it will cause Princess Diana’s family. Although the broadcaster said that all the insensitive materials have been ejected from the documentary, the Conservatives said that the film would be insensitive to Prince William and Harry, Diana’s sons. “We would expect more from a public service broadcaster than showing sensationalist material in this way.” – said Hugo Swire, a spokesman of the Conservative Party.

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