Princess
Diana - The First Anniversary
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Princes lead Diana remembrance
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The Royal Family have attended a private service at Crathie Church near Balmoral on the first anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Princes William and Harry, the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and his two daughters, were joined by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and his wife.
Princes attend service
Princes William and Harry said private prayers for their mother Diana at Crathie Kirk in a short service.
The young princes looked sombre as they travelled from Balmoral to the nearby church accompanied by the Queen and 10 other senior members of the Royal Family.
Inside, local minister, the Rev Robert Sloan, read Psalm 23 - The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want - and verses 28 to 31 from chapter 40 of Isaiah - Comfort Ye My People Sayeth Your God.
Princes William and Harry have already thanked the nation for sharing in their grief over their mother's death.
They have asked for privacy to be alone with their thoughts.
The Queen's spokeswoman added: "The Queen and the Royal Family, particularly the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry, would like to thank people for their messages and kind gestures of sympathy at this sad time and for sharing their remembrance of the Princess of Wales."
Many messages of sympathy have been received, some on the Royal website.
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the Princess's home at Kensington Palace, and her burial site - at Althorp House, crowds gathered and laid flowers at the gates. The number of bouquets
- of flowers outside the Princess's London home, Kensington Palace, has been building up
- over the course of the Bank Holiday weekend. Many people who laid tributes last year
- said they wanted to return to the Palace to remember the Princess.
Flowers threaded into the gates of Buckingham Palace last year Mourners from around the globe have arrived in London to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Flowers have been laid outside the princess's former home, Kensington Palace, as well as poems and toys. Although the tributes cannot compete in volume with those left in the immediate aftermath of the fatal car crash, many say they still feel emotional about the anniversary.
Mother and daughter Sheila and Amy Lanza, from Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, came to the palace early to avoid the crowds on Monday. "It was Amy's idea," said mother Sheila, 28. "She was only five when Diana died but loved watching her on the television." Amy, now aged six, explained her love for the princess stemmed from "her really pretty dresses".
Other have travelled from as far afield as New Zealand and America. Heather Pritchard, from Arizona, said: "Last year it was all so unreal - now I know it's real and it hurts more than ever."
Diana Tanner, from Olympia in Washington state, USA, said Diana had influenced her life.
Mentor and inspiration
"I worked with teenage girls, battered women and victims of sexual assault. "Diana was an amazing mentor and inspiration," she said.
Two brothers from Munich, Thomas Buettner, 36, and Oliver, 27, laid red roses at the gates. "There is a special feeling today but no logical reason behind it," they said.
But not everyone appreciated the displays of grief, even though they are somewhat muted compared with those seen 12 months ago.
A 70-year-old woman from London said: "It's ghoulish. Look at all these flowers - how many of these people last visited their own dead relatives to put flowers on their graves?"
The woman, who was afraid to be named because her opinion was "different than most other people's", added: "Look at the starving in Uganda, shouldn't they be spending their money on those people instead?"
Sculpture unveiled
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The
biggest memorial was unveiled at Harrods, owned by Mohammad al-Fayed, father
of Dodi Fayed who died with Diana, where an 8ft-high shrine has been built.
At Harrods, an 8ft-high bronze sculpture was put up in one of the front facing windows.
Two bronze framed photographs of Diana and Dodi, encrusted with seagulls and other birds, are mounted on a plinth above a slowly trickling waterfall surrounded by foliage and four everlasting candles.
Mr al-Fayed's spokesman said: "We decided simply to set the shrine up overnight rather than have it unveiled because we didn't want accusations of trying to compete with other memorials.
"The shrine symbolises Diana and Dodi's last holiday together, when they were both very happy."
Private day
This year's first anniversary will be a mainly private affair although some events are planned around the country and across the world.
The princess's sons, William and Harry, will remember their mother in private prayer on the first anniversary of her death.
The teenage princes will be with their father, Prince Charles, and other senior members of the royal family when they attend Crathie Church on the Queen's Scottish estate at Balmoral on Monday.
Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie will join the royals.
Meanwhile, at Althorp, the princess's ancestral home in Northamptonshire, the Spencers will hold a family service overlooking the island where Diana was laid to rest.
In Paris, the life of Diana will be commemorated with a candlelit vigil at the scene of the fatal car crash.
At Harrods, in central London, owner Mohamed al-Fayed will unveil a statue in memory of Diana and his son Dodi, who died with the princess in the crash.
A private requiem service for members of the royal household and Diana's former staff will be held in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace where the princess's body lay before her funeral.
The Queen has called for low key commemorations.
Flags are being flown at half mast and the princess's sons William, 16, and Harry, 13, will spend the weekend at Balmoral with their father.
The royal family is due to attend its normal Sunday service at Crathie church, near Balmoral. There will be a special service at the church on Monday, the anniversary of Diana's death.
They will be accompanied by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie.
At Althorp, the princess's childhood home where she has been laid to rest on an island, the Spencers will hold a private service in the grounds.
Sunday is also the last day for the public to visit Diana's grave at the Spencer family home in Northamptonshire,
Later in the day a service in memory of Diana will be
held in Westminster Cathedral. The catholic cathedral will remain open
until 11pm for private prayer and reflection.
BBC
World: Europe Paris tributes
At the crash site in Paris French police are preparing for further large crowds to congregate above the Paris underpass where Diana died.
A small crowd kept an all night candlelit vigil to mark her death above the Pont d'Alma, and Britons joined by tourists from around the world are expected to lay more flowers at the unofficial shrine of the statue of liberty flame above the tunnel.
As Parisians began a normal day's work the only formal indication marking the Princess's death is the Union flag being flown at half-mast at the British Embassy.
Paris remembers Diana
Makeshift memorial on the Alma bridge: a focus for mourners
There is to be only a muted commemoration in Paris of the anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. An exhaustive investigation into the fatal crash is expected to conclude within the next two months that the driver of the car was drunk and driving too fast. From Paris, Stephen Jessel reports:
There is to be no official commemoration by either the British or French authorities of the anniversary of the death of the princess.
She was declared dead three-and-a-half hours after the Mercedes car in which she was travelling smashed into a concrete pillar in an underpass near the Pont de l'Alma in central Paris in the early hours of Sunday, August 31st.
Admirers of the princess are planning to hold a vigil near the site of the accident at a bronze monument in the form of a flame that has become a shrine to her memory.
The city of Paris is to name a children's garden, to be inaugurated next spring, after the late princess, but there are no plans to commemorate her by renaming a street or a square.
The long enquiry into the circumstances of her death is expected to be completed by the end of October.
It is almost certain that it will conclude that the crash occurred because the driver, Henri Paul, was driving too fast with a level of alcohol in his blood three times over the legal limit.
Questions surround the roadworthiness of the car and the treatment given to the dying Princess, but they will not change the basic finding.
Of the 10 photographers detained after the crash, one or two may face relatively minor charges of failing to help a person in danger.
The Fiat car that may have been in glancing collision with the Mercedes has never been found.
The
many conspiracy theories have been ruled out. 
Al Fayed to unveil new Diana and Dodi memorial
Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has erected a permanent memorial to his son Dodi and Princess Diana, who were killed together in Paris almost a year ago. Mr Al Fayed plans to unveil the tribute - replacing the temporary shrine at his world-famous store - on Monday, the anniversary of the couple's deaths.
The memorial includes portraits of the Princess and Dodi above a bronze fountain and pools of water. Mr Al Fayed told the Evening Standard: 'I believe anyone who looks upon this memorial will find comfort and peace. 'I pray my beloved son and his dearest Diana have found peace and comfort in heaven. I am sure they are very happy together.' The Union Flag will fly at half-mast above Harrods on Monday and the usually illuminated store will be in darkness that evening.
