UK - Tony Blair speaks of Diana's death 

A lot of people don't know but Diana became close to Tony and his team as she served as an informal adviser to Tony in the run up to the 1997 General Election. She advised him on how to relate more to people. That's why Tony's was emotional and his struggle to get through his remarks were real and authentic. That's why every word that he said here came from the heart.

Whether you personally like Blair or not, there’s a time and a place. This was a pleasant speech & it communicated what most people felt about Diana, whether you believe he was being personally sincere or not.

Oh stop it. Blair admired Diana deeply. He is the one who forced the palace to release a statement.

"She was the people's princess and that's how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories, forever" rest in peace

It's been 23 years since her demise and I still feel the strings of my heart being pulled. I do follow the Royal family and if the queen actually felt that distant and cool, shame on her. Diana was the mother of two of her grandchildren and a possible future King. Thank you Tony Blair.

Her Royal Highness....Princess of Wales.... Lady Diana Spencer..... She had many titles. However, the People's Princess (a term coined at this moment documented above) is a title that resonated with those who loved her around the world. 25 years after her death and she's still the People's Princess.

Blair captured the mood of the nation

Charles and Camilla made Diana stressed. Charles told Diana that Camilla was just a friend to him, however it was more than that. Camilla and Charles weee together, and still were when Diana was married to Charles. Diana didn’t need to go through that and Charles was jealous of Diana getting media attention more than him

What amazes me more then this very deep and highly controversial topic , is that we as people can’t have a difference of opinion or a friendly dialogue. There’s always defensiveness , nasty words thrown and the most incredible sanctimony . Nothing wrong with opinion differences, but have some dignity and respect for others .

Love or hate Tony, he was a master speaker

Anyone here after watching The Queen 2006 starrring Helen Mirren?

What an acting masterclass. He should have got an Oscar for that

Great speech. R.i.p HRH Princess Diana💜

I have a eulogy to give for my mother on Monday, and I've been repeatedly watching this video and EMK's eulogy for RFK because in both instances the speaker absolutely hit it out of the park

Tony Blair should not have gone to iraq. Tony Blair did Di right here though. He was the one who made queen lizzie come back and talk. Queen Lizzie didnt think Di's death meant anything. She stripped HRH title due to jealiously.

He did the job that the Queen should have done on that day. He was sincere, she wasn't.

Sorry but that is vomit inducing.

I was totally gutted when this happened. Glued to the television. Disbelieve. Anger. Grief. And he did gave the right speech at that moment.

I am shocked about how many people keep attacking him over Iraq, as if he was the only leader misleading his people about it.Britain was much better off when he was a prime minister. Education was better, social care’s standards were high, NHS thrived, communities got back together. Seriously, look at Britain’s Prime ministers after him to realise he was the last leader of this country.

it was no accident. everyone knows she was assassinated

What an acting!Masterclass

Tony Blair spoken from his heart

Having the family follow behind him . Politics is so fake

The phrase “people’s Princess” was a master stroke by AlastairCampbell.

There's a lot of people saying that Blair was "acting" or "faking" because of the things he said about Iraq later on in his premiership. However, the event was a national tragedy and I don't think there's any reason to doubt Blair's sincerity in this address. He definitely made mistakes, but he wasn't "evil".

Blair was untouchable during this era

Watching this again, Michael Sheen did a really good job in The Queen (2005).

Compare this to our current PMs statement, who couldn't even bother remembering her speech and just read off a script

RIP Elizabeth II

Can't critical of Blair here he gave a good speech.

Mr. Unctuous himself!

He knows fine well who killed her. Evil demon.

Good speech writer he's got.

currently parked up at the exact spot where this speech was delivered

remember watching this live...on second look it all seems a bit fake.Probably shouldnt have said that, will be expecting a rogue bomb in my letterbox. If I dont post in the next week, then you know its true :-)

What amazes me about the ongoing condemnation of the Royal family and anyone associated with them for their contentious relationship with Dianna, is how people just ignore how the media contributed to it by lying to her. They showed Dianna falsified documents alleging the Queen had paid for someone to follow and spy on her. Prince William himself said he believed this was the number one reason why her last years were so contentious with family and hindered any chance of reconciliation. So at Dianna’s death it’s logical to assume they were all painfully shocked that they lost her under such circumstances. Think people! Have you ever had a close family member with whom you had a falling out and they died before you reconciled? I have and it’s very painful mourning.

Great actor even in his early days.

It would say this moment and the week that followed was amongst the peaks of Tony Blair's premiership.

Is it just me or does he low key look really happy?

Just seems so fake...

Although a psychopath is a master at feigning emotion, in reality, the psychopath has very shallow emotions or virtually no emotions at all. Most psychopaths learned at an early age that others expected them to exhibit certain emotions at certain times, therefore they learned to fake these emotions.

He doesn't look sad at all, it is all acting

He wanted to cry but had to stay strong for the nation 💔😭

Another act of pure evil under Tony's watch...

As a descendant of Scotland/ A lover of the isles/Tony Blair with his perfect hair did the dare/ and did the job/ went home ate corn on the cob! You are Awesome boyo!!!! held it together like a Man,,,nobody but you! YOU! D

i always love princess diana and hate camilla and prince charles. they were the one who causef misery life of princess diana.

Watching this now it seems more disingenuous and inauthentic. The words were nice but rehearsed.

Ok

I wish so desperately to be among needy people to help them i feel like POW oppressed in my own country like diana i try to escape those around me who i thought i could never be without now i can no longer go on being oppressed being lied to deveived definitely not loved appreciated treated way father wanted for me im mocked not sacred targeted not loved i wish to leave usa be sent to.people who love me always instead of when people r watching i understand what she lived through same make my life hell too please take me from them my father has proved their love is untrue due to way i live in oppressed state on welfare food stamps clothes falling apart is that love if so i will do without their true colors show more

Diana death, morning after, William Hague and Blair on tv - Blair nails it. OK it's a bit staged but he does make a rememberance that those that saw it live won't forget.

Great words from Blair. The words people's princess was just perfect.

This is without a doubt the most famous speech he ever have

We ask governments in all countries to unite the bridge pillars as high as one or two meters so that if a car hits a bridge support, it can still slide not as badly as a car crashes into a bridge pillar so that an accident hitting a pillar like what happened to Princess Diana does not happen again, sorry and thank you.

And now Liz Truss has to give a speech for Queen Elizabeth's death.

what a hot man!!! I couldn't pay attention to what he said

Was that Des Lynam carrying his brolly?

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👉 🇧🇷

It were prolly im wot dun it.

Robot

So clear looking at this year's on.. NO NATURAL EMOTION.. the words, the timing, it all screams ROBOT. This announcement should have been VERY DIFFERENT... instead, we were all given a PROJECTION AND PORTRAYAL OF A ACTOR who ALWAYS struck me more like a DODGY 2ND HAND CAR SALESMEN who just needed you on side.. than any kind of MODERN MORAL STEWARD. This GUY watched, learned, targeted, Flattered, and decieved through out his premiership.. becoming and supporting what ever he thought would get him in office.. including the meeting and marrying of cherie to enter a starting point for his OWN PERSONAL AMBITION. so sad to think we went to war because this guy wanted a LARGE PAY CHEQUE and FINIACIAL SECURITY.

Tending to the sick and needy was one of the reason why she was killed tho

I’ll give him this one speech this one time ok back hating him

Blair was clearly a ham actor before he mastered the art of being more convincing, at least from an acting perspective, and convincing himself that he ‘really believed’ in such policies as joining in on the Iraq War. Back in 1997, his acting talents were still clearly being developed. But his ability to be insincerely sincere was still amateurish. Even so, the spin machine, the creation of a fake reality and the politics of fantasy started in earnest with the ghastly ‘People’s Princess’ speech, one carefully choreographed by the sinister and aggressive Alistair Campbell who would play a central role in trying to manipulate the British people into invading Iraq. This speech is important in conveying how much contempt Blair and his regime had for the Intelligence of the British public. The successful manipulation of incontinent herd emotions through such media spin after Diana’s death, the ability to tap into and exploit emotionalism, whether of phony ecstatic ‘love’ of Diana or of fear of WMDs and 45 minute threats, was also part of the way proper political debate based on reason and evidence was displaced by populism. In that sense, the Blair regime, with its post-modern insistence that, as the slimy Peter Mandelson put it, the truth could be created was the real precursor of the post-truth politics implicit in Brexit and forms of nationalist-populism. It is deeply hypocritical of the deranged Blair to condemn populism in 2018, when it was he who foisted this sort of Latin American politics, with its peasant style hagiography of a supposed saint in Diana, on to Britain and did so much to pave the way both in policy decision making and style to the decline of Britain into a third rate country. In a sense, Blair alone cannot be blamed for exploiting popular gullibility and credulity. The media class were complicit in absurdly building up this banal mediocrity and showman into a supposed statesman rather than accepting he was a canny manipulator of opinion and of the media. Too many were mesmerised by how he appeared on the telly, in the days before the Internet revolutionised the media and communications. Though Blair is now a demonic figure, much of this is due to the resentment those who feel conned vent on those who they felt deceived them, as with Iraq. Yet the fact Blair was an actor and fantasist was clearly on view after Diana’s death, but few were paying attention to those voices then in the wolderness who warned about how dangerous and deranged this man was.

Pretty heart felt for a fucking war criminal.

as soon as he turns around he is laughing, because she didnt die, such an act and he's not very good at it, duping delight the whole way through,brolly man also laughing

Tosser

He returned the favor by killing a Million Iraqi's.

A hell of speech summing everyone’s thoughts.

Toni liar

Even the prime minister referred to her as 'Princess Diana'😬

The People’s princess 👑

All had a hand in it who was it in the killing?

Didn't invent anything Didn't write anything Didn't entertain anyone Didn't discover anything hmmm.. Someday there will be a prince of New York

Blair was as glad as the Royal family were

poce blo

mad drivers as prince willialm my mother was loved through out all of England and the world she died purley by acident

m scott what do you meant of your messeges to me i dont get.who do ypu meantmany staff had also suffet og unkindness.Who is unkind you meant?

Never knew Des Lynam carried his umbrella...