| rdfs:comment | - Princess Diana narrowly escaped her fate on the night of August 30, 1997. By some circumstance, her driver, Henri Paul, had decided he was intoxicated, and refused to drive Diana and her company to the apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. In order to avoid the paparazzi, Dodi Fayed decided to stay at the Hôtel Ritz, and arrange for a special escort. At 1:30 a.m., their car arrived, Diana and Fayed where accompanied by Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family's personal protection team, who sat in the front passenger seat. they proceed down the Place de l’Alma underpass, where a white van cut them off, nearly sending them into the side wall. The driver, Joesph Courimer, managed to regain control over the vechile in time to prevent a head-on collision. The car was damaged on the side whe
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| abstract | - Princess Diana narrowly escaped her fate on the night of August 30, 1997. By some circumstance, her driver, Henri Paul, had decided he was intoxicated, and refused to drive Diana and her company to the apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. In order to avoid the paparazzi, Dodi Fayed decided to stay at the Hôtel Ritz, and arrange for a special escort. At 1:30 a.m., their car arrived, Diana and Fayed where accompanied by Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family's personal protection team, who sat in the front passenger seat. they proceed down the Place de l’Alma underpass, where a white van cut them off, nearly sending them into the side wall. The driver, Joesph Courimer, managed to regain control over the vechile in time to prevent a head-on collision. The car was damaged on the side where diana sat, after the car slid along the side of the wall. A black car behind them, carrying paparazzi photographers, hit the car on the rear, sending the car 30 feet from where it stop. Diana suffered a broken ankle, and two broken ribs. The driver was left unscrached, and Dodi Fayed suffered from a fractured femur and two broken fingers. Emergency services arrived and took Diana and Foyed from the vehicle, and they were driven to Hôpital des Invalides. She was treated for her injuries, yet had suffered mental and emotional damage. She receive numerous session of therapy, for her injuries and her mental state. In March of 1998, she decided to leave Europe, and moved to New York City, where she made fewer public appearances. She had stopped seeing Fayed two months after the crash. During her time in New York, she would frequently spend time writing her autobiography and eating health foods, exercise regularly, and shop at Macy's once a week. Her sons, , Princes William and Harry, would visit her regularly once every month for three days. When the September 12 attacks of 2001 occurred in New York, she made her first public appearance for 15 months. She had decided to visit the survivours and the workers at the World Trade Center site, along with the Mayor of New York, Rudi Giannani, Irish musician Bono, and President Al Gore, whom Diana had supported in the 2000 presidential election. Diana currently lives. Diana has inherited money of her own and collected more than £25 million, tax-free, from her two divorce settlements, but her lifestyle is expensive to maintain. She requires extensive security and travels by chauffeured limousine and private jet, to avoid certain journalists and paparazzi that follow her on scheduled flights. Her autobiography, Queen Of Hearts, is was published on May 2007.
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