ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the morning of the funeral, because one would expect that this was the day when showing respect would be at its height, yet also when most people would be indoors privately watching the funeral on television. In the days between the announcement of Diana's death and the funeral, 'showing respect' became increasingly important. A local newsagent and video shop had in its window a glass vase of white lilies, with a lighted white candle to its right, and further right on the window a word-processed poem to/ about Diana. There is a further connection that needs to be made concerning shop window displays in the week Diana died. In an article on 'Folk Performance and Civil Religion at Royal Visits', A. Rowbottom has pointed out that the floral and photographic pilgrimages made by Diana's mourners 'all reflect the ways in which the general public, and especially the "real royalists", greeted the living Princess and other members of the Royal Family'.
