On August 31, 1997, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris sent shockwaves across the globe, prompting an immense and spontaneous outpouring of public grief. In the days that followed, millions of mourners traveled to London to lay flowers and tributes at the gates of her home, Kensington Palace, creating a vast and poignant public memorial. Her funeral on September 6 was a global event, watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people, and it produced some of the most enduring