IT was an event that rocked the world.

One of the last official photographs of Diana
On August 30 and 31, 1997, a visit by Diana – Princess of Wales, to the Ritz Hotel in Paris was to prove a factor in events leading to the horrific car crash in the Pont de l’Alma underpass near the Eiffel Tower that resulted in her death.
Olga Leleka looks at her death and the hotel where the tragic chain of events began.
The evening began normally enough, a 36-year-old woman on a dinner date at Paris’ Ritz Hotel.