Life Line (Royal family)

Mummy's Funeral

Mummy's Funeral...

Sitting in the corner dressed in black while looking out of the window. Before her stood her mother's casket.

"DeAnn it's time to go." Charles told his daughter. Instead of replying she walked pass him to her mother's mother, her grandmother Frances.

"Would you like to accompany me to the church?" The girl just shrugged. Lady Frances lead DeAnn out of the Kensington Castle to the car that was waiting to take her to Windshor church.

"DeAnn you will be traveling with this car." She heard the Queen say.

"I thought she would be driving with me?" Lady Frances did not like the though of her daughter's two boy's walking behind their mother's casket. The idea of DeAnn driving alone to the church she disliked even more.

"She has to be strong and independent. The people want to see DeAnn carry herself with grace and dignity..." The young girl knew a argument was about to happen so she just got in the car like the Queen request and told them driver to start the car so the two women could stop arguing.

"How are you feeling DeAnn?" Her bodyguard Jones asked.

"I'm not allowed to feel because the grown-ups can't keep their feelings in check."

Earl Spencer Tribute speech

I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.

"We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today.

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.

"Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now that you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.

"We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.

"There is a temptation to rush to canonise your memory, there is no need to do so. You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humour with a laugh that bent you double.

"Your joy for life transmitted where ever you took your smile and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes. Your boundless energy which you could barely contain.

"But your greatest gift was your intuition and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyse what it was about you that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives.