Diana Princess Of Wales

More than 10 years after the deaths of Britain's "people's princess" and her lover in a Paris car crash, the few who believe Princess Diana was deliberately killed continue to press their case in a coroner's inquest now in its fifth month. The inquiry, highlighted by a series of new details about Diana's loves and the last minutes of her life, has riveted a nation that after a decade had seemingly sated itself on Diana headlines.

Defying royal wishes, a British television channel said Tuesday that it would show photographs taken immediately after the car crash that killed Princess Diana nearly 10 years ago. Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, had protested that showing the images in a documentary scheduled to air today would be a "gross disrespect to their mother's memory" and "deeply distressing" to them. "If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel, would we want the scene broadcast to the nation?"

When Brits got up in arms recently about the television documentary on Princess Diana that included photographs at the crash scene (disturbing enough to provoke protests from Princes William and Harry), Americans were quick to join the fray. Why? Because the pumps already have been primed for the 10th anniversary of the death of "the people's princess," who was killed along with boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul, on Aug. 31, 1997.

It was a balmy summer evening, but Tina Brown kept her jacket on all through the launch party held at Spago on Tuesday for her new tell-all biography of Princess Diana, "The Diana Chronicles. "This isn't very glamorous, I'm afraid," she said, lifting her sleeve to reveal the cast on her left arm. "What happened?" asked Warren Beatty. He reached for the injured hand and inspected it with the exaggerated tenderness of a silent film star until Brown pulled away, laughing girlishly.

Waving their arms in the air with 70,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, princes William and Harry celebrated the life of their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 46th birthday Sunday at a concert they organized. William, 25, rocked his hips as Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado belted out her song "Man Eater" -- to the embarrassment of younger brother Harry, who shook his head and laughed.

There were the familiar clusters of wilting flowers propped against the fence, the poems, the sniffles, yet another replaying of Elton John's reworked "Candle in the Wind." But in the end, a nation still fractured by 10 years of grief and accusations over a dead princess showed signs Friday of moving on. There were two memorial tributes to commemorate the death of Princess Diana in a car crash a decade ago.

The inquest into Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash 10 years ago opened with accusations that the British royal family ordered her death. Mohammed Fayed, whose son Dodi also died in the crash after a summer romance with Diana, said in a prepared witness statement that the couple were killed on the orders of Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Diana's former father-in-law.

An inquiry into the death of Princess Diana is "far more complex than any of us thought," the official leading the investigation said. He did not comment on the conspiracy theories that persist nearly nine years after her death. Lord Stevens, former head of London's Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that some of the issues raised by Mohammed Fayed -- whose son Dodi was killed with Diana in the 1997 car crash -- were "right to be raised." He did not cite a specific issue.

A Paris appeals court fined three men a little more than a dollar each for invasion of privacy because they photographed Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed the night of their fatal 1997 crash, officials said. The court fined each a symbolic 1 euro and ordered them to pay for announcements of their conviction in three newspapers or magazines.

Princess Diana's sons condemned an Italian magazine for printing a photograph taken moments after the 1997 car crash that claimed her life. The black-and-white photo in Milan-based Chi magazine showed the princess receiving oxygen in the wreckage of the car crash. The picture was from a new book, "Lady Diana: The Criminal Investigation." "We feel deeply saddened that such a low has been reached," Princes William and Harry said in a statement.