Princess Diana and the Paparazzi | 41
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When Princess Diana, along with her boyfriend and driver were killed in a car crash on August 31, 1997, the course of history changed. The ‘People’s Princess’ and the mother to a future King was dead and a reckoning with the paparazzi was about to begin. From the moment Diana began dating Prince Charles she was stalked by aggressive photographers who she would later say made her life unbearable. Diana’s brother said at her funeral that every editor in the UK who paid for intrusive photographs of the princess had blood on their hands following her death. On this episode of History of the 90s we are looking back at the relationship between Princess Diana and the paparazzi and the changes that followed her tragic death.
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Mark Karloff, Los Angeles Photographer, and co-host of Paparazzi Podcast
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| 0:10.5 | Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana and Doty Al-Faed had just |
| 0:17.8 | finished a late-night dinner at the Hotel Ritz in Paris when they began planning |
| 0:22.4 | how to exit the building. |
| 0:24.5 | Dozens of photographers had gathered outside the Ritz while the couple dined. |
| 0:29.6 | Eventually, it was decided Diana and Doty would slip out the back door with bodyguard |
| 0:35.0 | Trevor Reese Jones and jump in a black Mercedes driven by Henri Paul, |
| 0:39.9 | who was the acting head of security at the Ritz. |
| 0:42.9 | As the Mercedes pulled away, photographers were ready. |
| 0:46.2 | The ploy hadn't worked. |
| 0:47.9 | They began to follow Diana and Doty, some in cars, others on the backs of motorcycles. |
| 0:54.0 | Their long-lens cameras ready to snap pictures of the princess and her new boyfriend. |
| 0:59.3 | The chase was on, through darkened Paris streets, speeds reaching 110 kilometers per hour. |
| 1:06.1 | A dangerous game of cat and mouse. |
| 1:09.0 | But it was about to become clear this wasn't a game. |
| 1:12.9 | Lives were on the line. |
| 1:15.5 | Just minutes after leaving the hotel, the people's princess, the mother of a future king, was dead, |
| 1:21.9 | along with her boyfriend and driver. |
| 1:24.5 | The crash changed the course of history and brought about a reckoning with the invasive |
| 1:29.2 | photographers known as the paparazzi. |
| 1:32.5 | I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed |
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