ABSTRACT
The hearse rolled quietly through the English countryside, accompanied by a motorcycle escort, on the 75-mile trip from London to the Althorp estate. Along the way, tearful women, men, and children tossed bouquets at the vehicle. Thousands had gathered along the English roads to watch the last journey of Diana, Princess of Wales, as her coffin was taken to its resting place at her family home. But they represented a scant fraction of the mourners that August 1997 day. Because of television, they were joined for some part of the way by an estimated 2.5 billion people in one of the most widely viewed telecasts of all time.
