"I was in bits, he said. Seeking someone fit to eulogize his sister, Spencer was stumped after rummaging through his big thick address book and called his mother from Heathrow Airport to admit defeat, saying, I've got an awful feeling it's going to have to be me. He said his mother noted the hunch was correct, and that he'd been chosen in absentia."
"Once he realized he needed to speak for her rather than about her, I wrote it in an hour and a half. Spencer celebrated Diana's life and loves at her September 6, 1997, funeral at Westminster Abbey and excoriated the paparazzi for their role in the crash that took her life when she was just 36. He called the tabloids' fixation on her life baffling in its ferocity, especially when it came to Rupert Murdoch's Fleet Street flock."
Earl Charles Spencer flew from South Africa to the U.K. after Diana died in a Paris car crash in August 1997. He searched for someone to deliver her eulogy, called his mother from Heathrow, and realized he had been chosen. He initially drafted a conventional tribute but abandoned it as unrepresentative and instead wrote a eulogy in about ninety minutes that spoke for Diana. The funeral at Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997, celebrated Diana's life and loves and blamed aggressive paparazzi and Fleet Street tabloids for their role in the crash that killed her at 36.
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