Princess Diana 97's video: Princess Diana - Tourist Video from outside the Paris Ritz - 30 August 1997

A video taken by Australian tourist Chloe Papazahariakis at about 11.50pm on 30 August 1997 outside the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Princess Diana was inside the hotel getting ready to leave for Dodi Fayed's apartment. The video captures the scene at the front of the hotel about 30 minutes before the couple left on the journey that resulted in their deaths. The cars they arrived in are parked at the front of the hotel and you can see their usual driver Philippe Dourneau, at his Mercedes. The 'dummy run' where the usual drivers drove the vehicles the couple arrived in around the Place Vendome to see how the paparazzi react can also be seen. At the end of the video, the traffic congestion on the Champs-Élysées can be seen and it likely for this reason Henri Paul decided to go along the embankment road that lead to the Alma tunnel where the crash happened. The video is Crown Copyright and courtesy of the UK National Archives. This copy of the video has sound removed. If you know of a copy that has the soundtrack, please get in touch.