@history0932: Princess Anne has not made a single public statement about Princess Diana's death in nearly thirty years. She hasn't spoken publicly about the marriage, the divorce, the Panorama interview, or the funeral. She was in the family for all of it. She's said essentially nothing. Princess Anne and Princess Diana shared the same institutional space from 1981 until 1997. They were photographed together at Trooping the Colour, at state occasions, and across the long calendar of formal events that makes up the working year. Whatever the relationship between them actually was over those sixteen years has never been documented by either of them, which is unlikely to be accidental. One correction belongs here, because it appears in print constantly. She was at the funeral on September 6, 1997, inside the Abbey — but she was not in the walking procession behind the coffin. That was Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry and Earl Spencer, and no woman walked in it at all. Her own first appearance in a procession of that kind came five years later, behind her grandmother's coffin, and that occasion is where the "first woman to walk" story properly belongs. She has never described what that week was like from where she stood, or what the preceding sixteen years looked like from inside the same family. There is no interview anywhere in which Princess Diana's name produces more than a short formal acknowledgement. The approach is applied to everybody equally. She does not discuss relatives in terms that could be lifted out and printed, which is why she has one of the thinnest quotation files of any senior royal despite having worked longer than almost all of them. Nearly thirty years on, across everything written, broadcast and archived about that life and that death, not one substantial sentence comes from the woman who was her sister-in-law for sixteen years. The silence has held. It appears to have cost her nothing she regrets, and she seems to have worked out very early that speaking would cost considerably more.

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