A firefighter who was one of the first people to help Princess Diana after her fatal crash in Paris has spoken for the first time about the last words the princess said.
Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon told the Daily Mail that when he arrived at the scene of the accident in August 1997, Diana was still moving and talking.
"She spoke in English and said, 'Oh God, what happened?' I could understand it, so I tried to calm him down. "I was holding his hand," said Gourmelon, who gave statements to police but has never spoken to the press before.
The collision in an underpass immediately left the driver Henry Paul dead as well as Diana's new boyfriend, Dodi Fayed.
Diana, however, looked physically well apart from a damaged shoulder, recalls Gourmelon - who had no idea he was trying to save a princess.
Only after Lady Diana was taken to an ambulance did he find out who was by a captain at the scene.
"He tells me who she was. Yes, I knew her, but at that moment I did not know her," he told the tabloid.
One of the first people to try to help the princess was the outpatient doctor, Frederic Mailliez, who went to the scene of the accident while returning home from a party.
He saw two people who were apparently dead and two others - including Diana's bodyguard - who were seriously injured but still alive. He first helped Diana, who was in the back of the car.
"I found out she was a beautiful woman and there was no [serious] injury to her face. She was not bleeding, but she was almost unconscious and had difficulty breathing. She looked good in the first few minutes," he recalls. "So I started speaking English to her, telling her I was a doctor and that the ambulance was coming and everything would be fine. And so I left the stage without knowing who I was treating."
The news of Princess Diana's death shocked the whole world.
