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| C4 rebuffs Diana photographs plea | |
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| Channel 4 will broadcast photos of the crash that killed Princess Diana despite a plea from her sons. | |
| Prince William and Prince Harry's private secretary wrote to the channel saying they felt it would be a "gross disrespect" to their mother's memory. | |
| Channel 4 said it decided to run the images in the documentary on Wednesday after considering the princes' concerns against wider public interest. | |
| The pictures by French photographers are of the August 1997 crash in Paris. | |
| Diana, 36, Dodi Al Fayed, 42, and driver Henri Paul were killed when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris as they drove away from paparazzi after leaving the Ritz Hotel. | |
| 'Inappropriate' | |
| The letter from the princes' private secretary, Lowther-Pinkerton, was sent to Hamish Mykura at Channel 4 last Friday. | |
| Mr Lowther-Pinkerton wrote: "If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel, would we want the scene broadcast to the nation? Indeed, would the nation so want it?" | |
| Clarence House said William and Harry felt they had no choice but to make their feelings public. | Clarence House said William and Harry felt they had no choice but to make their feelings public. |
| The statement from the household said: "In publishing the letter, the princes reluctantly feel that they have been left no choice but to make it clear publicly that they believe the broadcast of these photographs to be wholly inappropriate, deeply distressing to them and to the relatives of the others who died that night, and a gross disrespect to their mother's memory." | The statement from the household said: "In publishing the letter, the princes reluctantly feel that they have been left no choice but to make it clear publicly that they believe the broadcast of these photographs to be wholly inappropriate, deeply distressing to them and to the relatives of the others who died that night, and a gross disrespect to their mother's memory." |
| In particular, the letter asked Channel 4 to remove several images of the crashed car with Diana still inside and of a medic treating her. | |
| "These photographs, regardless of the fact that they do not actually show the princess's features, are redolent with the atmosphere and tragedy of the closing moments of her life," Mr Lowther-Pinkerton added. |