Gallery: The funeral and after

The coffin bearing the body of Princess Diana is taken into Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday September 6, 1997. Photograph: John Gaps/AP

Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother outside Westminster Abbey for the funeral. Photograph: Anwar Hussein /Getty

The British people gather in their thousands along South Carriage Road, Hyde Park, to mourn the 'People’s Princess' as Diana's coffin is carried on the gun carriage, flanked by Welsh Guardsmen makes its way from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey. Photograph: Neil Munns/AP

People gathered to lay flowers in front of Kensington Palace, Princess Diana's former home, on the eve of her funeral. Photograph: Paul Vicente/AFP

A line of princes followed the Princess of Wales' coffin after the funeral service at Westminster Abbey. Photograph: Getty

By the time the funeral hearse reached Finchley Road in north London, the crowds had thinned, but they would stretch all the way to Diana’s final resting place at Althorp, her family estate. Photograph: Neville Elder/AP

An aerial view showing the massive distended pile of tributes and flowers stretching from the gates gates of Kensington Palace out into Kensington Gardens in the days leading up to the funeral. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AP

A policeman throws a bunch of flowers as the hearse carrying the coffin of Diana passes down the Mall following the service at Westminster Abbey. Photograph: John Giles/PA

Singer Elton John performed a rewritten version of his song 'Candle in the wind' at the funeral as a tribute to Diana. Photograph: PA

Even though she had lost her royal status as part of her divorce from Prince Charles, it was the royal standard that covered the coffin as it stood on the catafalque in Westminster Abbey during the funeral. Barely visible on the coffin to its right was a card put their by her children William and Harry, inscribed with the single word 'Mummy'. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA