Last moments of Diana: Row over Channel 4 show

One photograph in the programme shows Diana receiving oxygen from a French doctor, Frederic Mailliez, who had been travelling in the other direction and who had not yet realised the identity of his famous patient, The Observer reported here today.

In the explicit images of the car’s interior, the face of the dying Diana, thrown forward into the footwell behind the driver’s seat, has been blanked out as a concession to their highly sensitive nature.

The documentary also contains testimony from photographers and others witnesses to the 1997 accident, who have never before been interviewed by the British media.

However, there have already been calls for action against Channel 4 from Lord St John of Fawsley, Diana’s friend and founding director of Sky TV. “I think it’s terrible and they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.”