24 years have gone by and I still shed a tear. I'm not even British.

That moment when the car drives and the people start clapping is very heart touching . Diana is the best princess the world has ever known. I still remember how my mother cried for her death. I was only 10

Ringing half muffled bells for mourning or funerals is a long-standing tradition in English bell ringing.

I found his words comforting in 1997, I was in tears at this point and to hear his voice speak those moving words was far better than hearing the bells in silence. It was a form of human contact at a deeply sad and distressing moment.

They were paying their respects to her, applauding her well-lived life and saying thank-you for all she did, kind of like when people applaud when an athlete gets injured. They are not happy that he is injured, they are supporting him and telling him he played well. I actually find the applause to be quite moving, though I can see how you may think it to be too happy for such a somber event. RIP Princess Diana, from across the pond.

i was in buckingham palace that day as a guardsman was very weird nobody believed it everyone was crying at the gates on guard mount i saw the boxer prince nassem bringing flowers up 2 the gates crying when i was collecting the bandstands

I watched and I will never forget those tolling bells, how beautiful, and what a tribute to this amazing Princess

The Bells are absolutely beautiful.

The sound of the bells are extremely beautiful and mark the day in memory of our beloved Diana. They ring from the heavens.

I love the organ with the bells. It's beautiful!!! RIP princess Diana. 💔💔💔

Will never forget the peal of those bells, the sound of them was other-worldly like nothing Id ever heard before, intensely moving....

she is still alive in our heart and memories..

I was 10 when the Princess died and I still remember that Sunday morning . My mom took the newspaper and started crying... she was too shocked

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+Maria Alcocia just to say she was the princess of wales

I'm with stryker4511 the sound of the bells still haunts me.. and the fact that 10 years later I can still remember the sound of it..

All these years later 2022 my heart still breaks for Dianna. She never had a chance. Prince Charles I pray you never find joy.

I love Princess Diana. I like the scripture read by Tony Blair, the song by Elton John, the poem about love and her brothers speech..I am moved so thank you for putting it up

I always felt the bells sounded like an angry shout that our hearts did not want to hear or feel but did. Thanks you for this footage. I cried again but this time in gratitude for a lovely lady who touched us all. ❤

I think these bells are a great mark of respect for the life of Diana. Not scary at all.

I agree, Tom Fleming was a British broadcasting legend.

Those bells with the J.S. Bach music are just amazing.

I will never forget the Queen of Hearts.

I had a lump in my throat during Tom Flemings moving tribute, and the final fairwell to Lady Diana Spencer, as she is taken to her final resting place. God bless you

the most beautiful service I've been witness to other than my mothers. rest in peace to both Diana and my mother ethel, both of their passings have left my world a little bit more darker.

The bells were unforgettable as the People's Princess, Diana, was carried from the church and out into the sunshine one last time. 💗

same here, i watched the whole thing but couldnt forget the bells, think about them from time to time, so glad i found this clip.

she was the only one with heart and soul in that family, the day she died was a sad day.

it's a good thing she was allowed to wear her Royal Standard over her coffin.

Rest in Peace Diana, your sons are doing fine!

The most moving funeral procession.

Such an amazing, historical, one and only princess of people's hearts!Lord Jesus Christ embrace you in heaven lady d!

We never really let go of people we love for they are with us... still...and they know...

The beautiful sound of a funeral decades ago.

Ten years later and watchig ths reminds me of the terrible loss we the liing have experienced. Diana was an inspiration to all of us to never forget those who suffer, who are in pain, and who know cruel discrimination. In that message and countless others SHE LIVES STILL.

that applause...says it all

It's 2020 and i'm still watching it. Ive been a follower of Princess Diana since day 1 before her wedding until today. I admired you so much my princess. Because you stand by the truth until your last day. We love you until now. Watching here from the Philippines.

There was an album published of the funeral that has the entire service without any narration. This includes Tavener's piece and the bells, which go on for many minutes afterward.

beautiful half muffled bells :), RIP diana

Diana was an angel she was one of the few good people left in this world proof that the good die young it's sad and not fair but her spirit will always live on R.I.P

If you read the description, it was the first time there had been applause at a British funeral and it's kind of become custom in this country to applaud at the funerals of public figures since then. It stands as testimony to the remarkable person Diana was. I'm not sure if people clap at funerals in other European countries.

Grief does not last forever, but love does. RIP, sweet Diana.

God Bless the wonderful, brave home of my ancestors.

Thank you tribecatom for posting the funeral in its entirety. It provides solace on this day, fifteen years after her passing, as I also have read today the poem: Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye

It's called change ringing. It's common at the conclusion of religious services. For funerals, the bells are half muffled, allowing them to sound for only one half of their rotation.

In a world full of Kardashians, *BE A DIANA.*

the day princess Diana Died is the very day i moved in to London from Australia

R.I.P Princess Diana...gone but NEVER FORGOTTEN..you will always live on in our hearts

The pealing Bells of westminster abbey are crying and beautifully accompanied by the organ playing inside the Abbey while the hearse makes it way through the streets of London 😢

It, and everything else, had just paused for one minute for the public to reflect on their thoughts (amoung other things). The commentary was appropriate and touching.

J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Minor BWV 546, which was requested by Diana's mother.

The applause is a good counter-point to the bells; they always stuck me as sounding as though they were crying. :'-(

The eerie sound of these bells never left me in this memory. There was something about how thw bells never calles for a wedding, but funural. Still they chime for a relief after the tens funural.

I miss Diana and am still in shock all these years later. (See if Camilla gets this send off and public reaction.) Di will always get the last laugh! :-)

In America, it depends on the funeral, the person, & the method people chose to express their appreciation for the Life of the person. I completely understand the clapping in this instance as how else can the people truly get their point across to the family & the World of what high esteem they held for the Life of Diana; the appreciation for how she used her celebrity to bring the plight of the downtrodden, & sick to the forefront, enabling many to receive the help they so desperately needed.

The Abbey tenor is actually 1.5tons. They're ringing Stedman Caters. There is something about the Abbey bells that always makes me stop and listen. Not often you hear half-muffled ringing to that standard.

This was so very sad but befitting the People's Princess...

@snazzzzz I have always been haunted by that sound; it was like the antipode of the joyous peal of 1981 when she married, like the happy peal was reversed & now sounded sad, sorrowful, like the closing of a circle...

Took me a while to find, but later realized that the organ pieces is called "Prelude and Fugue in C minor BMV 546". According to BBC news regarding Baroness Thatcher's funeral: you will hear it again.

@snazzzzz I think it is the fact of the ''Half muffling'' which gives an ''echo'', like a faint repeat...Heard some fantastic ones from Worcester Cathedral played on Remembrance Sunday..it is the ''Echo'' which gives the other worldly feel, which is quite wonderful. I met Princess Diana, and she was an extremely sensitive person...her eyes reflected her soul...a lovely woman. Rest in Peace, Diana.

As I say below, in 1997, most people would have been very sad at this moment and it was comforting to hear Tom Fleming's (who's voice is familiar to British TV audiences on state occasions) warm words. You should get the CD of the fineral if you want to hear it without commentary. Personally, as I've said before, I think what he had to say was very poignant and touching and a fitting tribute to Diana.

Diana forever

@tribecatom I could not agree with you more, and I am from the US, not England. I've watched this coverage of Diana's funeral, and can see why it was a comfort for so many of you. He did an amazing job and I wish we had someone like this in the US.....

I think I understand why people applaud at funerals but at 62 I'm more used to a respectful silence. So quiet, no shuffling coughing or anything. To hear applause, to me, an old fart traditional Englishman, is quite shocking.

RIP Princess Diana, love from USA.

May you rest i peace. Your grand son George Alexander Louis will grow up knowing you as a great Mom for his dad, William.

Only in these pagan times, when some call the beautiful ugly and the ugly beautiful, would anyone think of church bells as being "scary."

13 years and I feel like it was yesterday.

Up to that point, there was never a funeral like that one, and it would not be topped until Pope John Paul II died. But the senselessness of Diana's death lent to the proceedings a certain pungency the late pontiff's service naturally lacked. She died young and unexpectedly. He expectedly died in old age and after years of Parkinson's Disease.

Fantastic bells - just spoilt by the commentry and applause in this clip.

I know the bit I find Terrifying is actually the clash between the begining of the Organ Voluntary, the Bells, and the fact that the Cortege passes through the Great West Doors and into the outside world. Remember the last scene of the video before was the catafalgue pausing before the door, the light silhouetting the Dean infront of it, perfectly choreographed to reach the exit at the climax of Taveners music. :) Course I can only speak for myself lol

R.I.P. Diana :( 💔

Foi belíssimo o funeral de Daiana!!! Dar vontade de assistir umas 40 vezes seguida, é lindo demais!!! e ao mesmo tempo emocionante!!!

Thank goodness for that. It would have sounded terrible on camera, especially with them being half muffled!

The People Princess

well that is because Americans are not famous for their elegant culture. Is there a greater most respectable,honourable way to leave the world than when you are applauded by thousands. Right for Kings and Popes, Princesses as sweet as her.

@Brenda2OOO Bells are the only thing, besides humans, that can be baptized. They are named, and they raise their voices in a joyful (and as here, sometimes mournful) song to the Lord.

We miss you Diana

@szqsk8 other ppl have commented on this over the two and a half years or so. My own thoughts are that when this was being broadcast live in 1997, many people watching would have been very upset and I think the words Tom Fleming spoke were very touching and would have provided some comfort to those who were crying. For myself, I was totally devastated at this moment and I think it was better to hear someone's voice than the bells and solemn organ music on their own.

Yes - the peal of bells is half - muffled. this is a funerary tradition, the bells in this world reflected in the next.

Thanks for that. I suppose I should know more about bell ringing, living next to a Cathedral and all!

Diana Prinzessin der Herzen.Du warst ein wunderbarer Mensch.Ich werde Dich nie vergessen!

rip diana

I disagree. I think what Tom Fleming said was very touching and he did a superb job of commentating. Fleming is rarely seen and he made fewer mistakes that David Dimbleby who's never off the telly.

Hear! Hear!

Lovely cars, the Daimler DS420 hearse and limousine. Very British.

Well at least you're not saying it was because the French doctors didn't do it like the Americans and I'm thankful for that.

If Charles didn’t cheat on her and divorced her, she wouldn’t have been with Dodi, and none of this would have happened, she would have been alive today.

It's the English people! God bless em!

I can See Charles as King, but his Camilla, I just do not see her as a Queen. You cannot wipe away scares over night and through the years. I think the tapes of her true feelings released this year around her death anniversary, told the truth what broke up her love for Charles, and yet he was still even during the wedding ceremony, Camilla was in the church for his wedding. A surrounding moment of hypocrisy with Charles and Camilla. His mother will die being the Queen. She will not relinquish that title (King) anytime soon.

Nancy Reagan must have loved the sounds of Westminster's Bells ringing because the bells at the National Cathedral put out the same notes at the end of Ronald Reagan's funeral.

You're welcome!

J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Minor BWV 546

The flag given back to the Royal Family bcs that's a Queen Flag. Not only British have a custom for clapping after funerals. Italian have a same custom. After the Requiem Mass of Pope John Paul II all the people at St. Peter's Square applaud to the coffin.

very sad ...

Definitely not right. The Metropolitan police spent three years investigating it and it's been conclusively proven that she wasn't murdered. I intend to make a video on my thoughts about this in the near future

I remember reading that the hearse was sold for £90,000 not so long after this, without the royal connection it would have only been worth about £4,000.

And now it'll ring for the late Prince's death, right?

R.I.P Tom Fleming

Does any one no the words what tom fleming reads out at the end or if you no where I can find them please

Elle ne mériter pas ce destin ci tragique.........c'est vraiment injuste.......

Stedman Caters - and yes, as I understand it it was mis-called. :-) It was a quarter-peal as I recall, and it lasted for about an hour. It was followed by a four-bell quick thing that lasted a very short duration.