My God, what's going on?

Few people are witnesses of that dark night that shocked the whole world, not just the royal family.

The Daily Mail has communicated with a host of important eyewitnesses and members of its narrow circle, analyzing Diane's final moments hour after hour.

E Sunday, August 31st

Midnight in Paris: Charles Ritchie, a military officer at the British Embassy, sees a crowd of photographers and other viewers near the entrance. He is told that they are gathered because Lady Dié is inside the hotel.

He looks at two Range Rovers and drivers outside the hotel but assumes Diana won't leave Ritz at that late hour.

12.01: Dody édelé from “Imperial Suite” and announce his two British bodyguards, Trevor Rees-Jones and Kez Wingfield, that there has been another change of plan. The couple will not leave Ritz's entrance to travel to his apartment with cars used earlier this evening, nor will the company of two dedicated bodyguards and drivers. Instead, Dodd tells them, he and Diana will leave a back exit with the deputy security manager of Ritz Henry Paul and be run by him with another Mercedes.

12.06. The couple leave Imperial Suit and with Paul and Ree-Jones, come down with a service elevator. Parked out is the only suitable vehicle, a Mercedes S280 black. Rees-Jones enters the passenger seat. Diana sits behind him with Dodd. None of them have a seat belt. They're just a few minutes from the disaster.

12:18 p.m.: Mercedes is surrounded by paparazzi before they move. One of Diana's last photos alive was taken here. Rees-Jones seems stressed. According to one eyewitness, as Paul boarded the car, he tells photographers: “Don't try to follow us. In any case, you won't catch us. ”

12: 20 p.m.: They follow along the Rue Cambon to the intersection with Rue de Rivoli, where Paul returns directly to Place de la Concorde. Then they enter the Cours La Raine, which passes along the Sanna clay, accelerating. It continues along the river's banks, followed by paparazzi, to the next bridge, Pont de lʹalma. Near the Mercedes underpass, it's about to crash into a white Fiat Uno. Paul loses control and the car crashes into the 13th tunnel pole, at an estimated speed of 65 miles per hour. He spins and stops in the opposite direction. Dodd and Paul change lives from the crash. Rees-Jones and Diana are injured in critical condition. Second, the doctor's manual named Frederick Mailliaz enters the Alma tunnel in the other direction. He and his boyfriend Mark are going home from a birthday party. They left early because the doctor was on duty this morning.

I've seen some smoke in the tunnel and I've walked slower and slower and then I saw the Mercedes,” remembers Mail. He stops his car and rushes across the chair. “Brenda Mercedes were two dead and two seriously injured but still alive. So I made a very quick assessment. Then I went back to my car to pick up the few medical equipment there. I had a mask in my bag, which I took. Then I went back inside the Mercedes and tried to help my new wife. She was sitting on the floor in the back and I discovered she was a beautiful woman and there was no serious damage to the face. He was unconscious and had difficulty breathing. So my goal was to help him breathe more easily. It was a very difficult situation for me. I was alone, I had some equipment. She looked good for the first few minutes, but the accident was heavy and always suspected of internal damage to that kind of situation.”, the doctor said.

Dr. Mailliaz calls emergency services to his cell phone. Then he returns to provide help inside the car. He has no idea that the injured woman trying to help is Diana, the Princess of Wales. The important thing is that her pulse is weak and fast. But soon he becomes aware of other figures that begin to gather around the wrecking car as it works on it, trying to regulate its breathing.

“People often take pictures in an accident because they are curious. But there were so many people taking photographs, which surprised me, but it did not stop me from doing my jobe”, the doctor said. He tries to comfort Diane in French. Then someone after him says the new one speaks English.

“So I started speaking English with him, saying I was a doctor and that ambulance was on the way and everything was gonna be okay. That's what they say to make a patient feel good.”, the doctor said. He still doesn't know who she is. 12:30 a.m.: First cop gets to the scene, Sebastian Dorzee recognizes the Princess immediately.

12:32 p.m.: Fire Department Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon arrives with two vehicles from the fire station and Marlar ambulance. He already knows it will be a serious situation because a full medical team has been sent to the scene. He sees the man Trevor Rees-Jones. “He was very troubled, trying to return, murmuring in English. I couldn't understand it, but I put a team on it right away.”, he remembers about Mail.

The sergeant also sees a structured figure in ruins with another victim. There are Dr. Mailliez and Diana who are “moving and talking”. The Gourmelon team takes Dodd out of the car in an attempt to revive him. As soon as he was out, I stayed with the female passenger. She spoke in English and said: God, what's going on? ) I could understand, so I tried to calm him down. I held it by my hand. All of this happened within two or three minutes”, the doctor said. His fire service colleague Philippe Boyer gave her a neck collar and a fresh breathing mask. Then Boyer covers Diane in a metal ossermial blanket. Her breathing is normal, her pulse is kind and very strong, and the situation seemed hopeful.

12:40 a.m.: The first ambulance with Dr. Jean-Mark Martino, an expert in intensive care. All Parisan ambulances hold a doctor as part of their crew. I introduced myself to him, gave my appreciation, and returned to my car to go”, remembers Dr Mailliez, ”And so I left the scene without knowing who I had treated. ” He and Mark head home, where they will clean up his stained white suit. Without thinking, he kept the respiratory mask he had put on Diane.

12.50-00: George Jones, a security officer at the British Embassy in Paris, gets a call, probably from Nicola Basselier, the private secretary of Masson, informing him of the accident. Youness records it in Chance's daily registry. Soon afterward, Jones gets another, from the duty officer at the Élysée Palace, conveying the same message. Jones is the first British official to learn that Diana was involved in Paris. It records the information as access number three to that night's task register.

1: 00 a.m.: Martino tells Gourmelon that they must remove Diana from the car. So this is what we did”, he says. We pulled it out and first put it on a wooden board and then on an air-filled mattress that prevents the person from moving to avoid spinal trauma. But when we moved her from board to mattress, her heart stopped beating. “

So we started to massage her heart, two of us, and her heart started back almost immediately. ”

1.10 a.m.: Jones Keith Shannon's phones, second secretary and embassy duty officer and leave a message on the phone. Shannon also receives a call immediately from Philippe Masson, who is already at the scene of the accident.

1.15 a.m.: Shannon calls Keith Moss, the British Consul General in Paris.

1.18 a.m.: Gourmelon helps put Diana in the ambulance. Like Miles, the fireman still doesn't know who he helped. Diana's blood pressure has begun to drop. Martino manages another line of dopamine but fears that symptoms indicate internal injuries. They've done everything they can at the scene and now they have to take him to the hospital. Which hospital is a discussion in the control room.

1.30 in the morning: The decision the princess must make in Pitié -Salpêtrière at Arrondissement 13 moved to Martino. At the same time, the hospital emergency team is on alert to receive it. Keith Moss reportedly leaves for the hospital.

1.41 in the morning: The pressure of the princess's blood has stabilised enough to begin its journey; a slow and steady journey, since any fluctuation, acceleration, or slowdown can be fatal. In the tunnel, the Mercedes roof has been cut so that Rees-Jones can be removed.

1:45 a.m.: Moss calls Hotel de Charost, the magnificent residence of the HM Ambassador to Rue du Fauburg Saint Honoré. His Eminence Sir Michael Jay is awake and informed of the crash. The royal palace soldier through his own radio begins to hear that something grand has happened in Paris involving his friend and princess. He leaves his static post for the control room to monitor events. Chief Inspector Dai Davies is head of Scotland Yard Kings Protection Team. He's sleeping in his house on the outskirts of London when the phone rings. “It was my duty officer at the Buckingham Palace, a little tense to tell me that Dodd was dead and Diana was dying, he remembered Mail. My immediate reaction was to say “Dodd who?Because I wasn't fully awake and I was on leave.

2am: The ambulance is near the hospital when Diana's blood pressure goes down again. Martino orders the driver to stop while he manages further treatment. It increases dopamine levels. Others were preparing for the worst. In his apartment near the hospital, Father Yves-Marie Clochard-Bosuet, who has volunteered to be a service clergyman this weekend, wakes up from the phone. The hospital has not explained why an Anglican clergyman is wanted at this hour, and the priest does not consider asking. His vacation is short.

2,02-2.03 amThe priest's phone rings again. )He called me back and asked me:” Could you come over to the Anglican priest? Remember him. I said, “Yes, but why?” He said: “look, I can't tell you”. So I said, “you can't say, because if I see a person at two o'clock in the morning, I'd like to know who he is. ” The priest begins to think that the caller might be drunk. He says:If you can't give me your name or reason at 2 o'clock you're playing a joke. So he told me:“Well, I'll tell you then. Just the Princess of Wales. ”  Now, Father Clochard-Bosuet absolutely believes the goalkeeper is under influence and descends immediately. Even so, he's a little worried. He doesn't go back to sleep.

2.05: Diana's blood pressure has stabilised. Her ambulance trip resumes. 2.06: The ambulance finally arrives at the hospital. The princess is in a traumatic shock. Cardio-toracial call surgeon Dr Bruno Riou is present and become two X-rays. They show it has internal damage. Diana starts receiving treatment, but Dr Riou is pessimistic.

2.07 a.m.: The priest's phone rings again. “Dad, I'm really sorry, but it's true what I told you.He said.

2.15 a.m.: Michael Cole, a former BBC royal correspondent and chief spokesman of Mohammed Al Fayed, is sleeping at his house in Woodbridge, Suffolk, when the phone rings.  He told me there was a crash in Paris and Diana was wounded and Dodd was killed,He remembers Cole for Mail. )He asked me for a comment. His newspaper had been one of the most ruthless in pursuit of Diana and Dodd that summer, so everything I said was “it made me sick” and hung up the phone. 

2.16-2.21: Diana passes cardiac arrest. She receives an external cardiac massage and adrenaline. But the battle is losing. General surgeon Dr Monsef Dahman is called to conduct a surgical procedure to find and stop internal bleeding.

2.25 a.m.: Rees-Jones severely injured surrenders, finally, to the same hospital. 2.30 in the morning: Professor Alain Pavie, one of France's most prominent cardiosurgeons, arrives. He locates the source of the blood flow. Cutting off and bleeding is brought under control, but Diane's heart does not resume. The surgical team knows there is no hope now. Nevertheless, they continue with efforts to save him.

3am: Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is in the Philippines and will leave for Singapore within hours. But the news has come about the accident in Paris. Because of the change of time, he's the only old British politician smart and busy and with a media associate. He is interviewed in his hotel hall by printed teams and TV. He claims Diana is injured but alive and predicts she will be tragic if the accident that has taken her loved one's life is partly caused by the constant pursuit of Princess and photographers.

3-3.30: Colin Tebbutt, a loyal driver of Diane, arrives at Diane's private office in Kensington Palace, from his home in Botany Bay, on the outskirts of North London. He finds that her private secretary Michael Gibbins, her servant Paul Borrell and three secretary women are already there. All of them are watching television coverage, which reports Diana is injured but is alive.

3:30 a.m.: Father Clochard-Bosuet has arrived at the hospital's surgical department. He was greeted by the hospital director who introduced him to British Ambassador Sir Michael Jay.

4 A.M.: Diana's medical team makes the decision to stop their resurrection efforts, which for at least an hour, perhaps, have been without any real hope of success. They did everything they could, but her injuries beat her.

The most famous woman, most photographed in the world, is officially declared dead. Michael Cole had met Diane Raine's stepmother, County Spencer, in his office on Friday. Colin Tebbutt recalls: We were watching television and they were broadcasting pictures of Robin Cook saying Diana was injured, but alive when the phone rang. Michael Gibbins answered and spoke briefly. Ladies and gentlemen, the princess is dead. Diana and Jarrell's secretaries burst into tears. ”

4.20-4.25 this morning.: Father Clochard-Bosuet is accompanied by a nurse in a room on the first floor where he finds a number of personalities, including French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènnement and Ambassador Jay. He recalls: The Ambassador tells me: We'll take you to the room where Diana's lying. We ask that you pray and keep it until an Anglican priest is found. ”

4:41 a.m.: The London Press Association reports that Diana died in Paris. I first saw it there”, he remembers. “It was completely intact, without marks or stains, or make-up. Totally natural. And she was a really beautiful woman and it seemed as if you could almost talk to her”, the priest said. The priest is now alone with Diana. He had been aware of the deeds of the princess that summer and had not approved them.

“All those pictures, lovers, for a woman who's a king's mother, she was not behaving well. I wasn't kind to her”The priest said.

But then he read her interview in the newspaper “Le Monde” and his opinion changed. He starts praying for Diana's soul. In the dark outside the hospital, Interior Minister Chevènnement confirms to the world that the princess is really dead. /tch/