Funeral Held for Diana’s Driver
LORIENT, France — A grieving family and loyal friends said goodbye Saturday to a chauffeur whom they cared to remember for more than his role in Princess Diana’s death.
Police kept hundreds of onlookers outside Saint Theresa’s Church in the working-class western French town of Lorient, where 300 friends and family members of Henri Paul mourned in private.
The Rev. Leon Theraud, who led the funeral service, said the 41-year-old Paul was a “believer†who will be remembered for his “humanity, openness and generosity.â€
The priest also remembered Diana, and read from a newspaper article that quoted the princess’ mother, Frances Shand Kydd, as saying she held no hard feelings toward Paul, who was legally drunk when the car he was driving crashed in Paris on Aug. 31. Paul, Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, were killed.
Paul lived alone in Paris. His body was reportedly buried, rather than cremated, in case more tests are needed for the investigation into the crash.
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