The Queen Bowed Her Head as Diana's Coffin Passed — She Had Never Bowed to Anyone

They first met in 1977. Diana was sixteen. The Queen was fifty-one. The meeting lasted a few minutes. Diana remembered it for the rest of her life. The Queen almost certainly did not. What happened between them in the fifteen years that followed — the approval, the managing, the silence, the title that was taken away — was a relationship that neither of them had chosen. Diana tried to reach the Queen directly. She went to her office. She asked for meetings. She tried to explain what was actually happening behind the palace walls. What she got was the institutional response. Dressed in personal form. But institutional. And then Diana died. And the Queen kept the flag at Buckingham Palace at full mast. And the country couldn't understand why she wasn't in London. And then she came back. And she stood outside the palace as the coffin passed. And she bowed. The Queen — who had never bowed to anyone in her life — bowed to Diana. This is the story of two women inside the same institution. And what it cost both of them. #PrincessDiana #QueenElizabeth #Diana #RoyalFamily #DianaSpencer #documentary #dianadocumentary #britishroyals #queenelizabeth2 #diana1997