The events surrounding Diana's death are set to be revisited in the Netflix series, The Crown, next week
An emergency responder who was among the first on the scene following the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana in 1997 has revealed the final words she spoke to him as he held her hand to comfort her.
Gourmelon recalled that he had no idea who the princess was as he held her hand before she was removed from the vehicle in Paris. He had also assumed that she wasn’t seriously injured because her eyes were open and she was conscious. “I massaged her heart and a few seconds later, she started breathing again,” he previously told The Sun. “It was a relief, of course, because, as a first responder, you want to save lives – and that’s what I thought I had done.
“I know now that there were serious internal injuries, but the whole episode is still very much in my mind. And the memory of that night will stay with me forever. I had no idea then that it was Princess Diana. It was only when she had been put into the ambulance that one of the paramedics told me it was her,” Gourmelon said.