BYSTANDERS FLOCK TO FAMILY ESTATE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Police on Sunday closed the road outside the Spencer family's estate where Princess Diana Noun 1. Princess Diana - English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997) Diana, Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales is buried, fearing the crowds flocking to pay tribute were growing too large and people might be hurt. Police said the hundreds of people gathered outside the front and rear gates of the grounds of Althorp House were making the situation dangerous. ``We have decided to close off the road as we did yesterday for the funeral because we feel that there is a danger of someone being hit by a car,'' a police statement said. ``The situation is obviously likely to become more dangerous so we will be closing off the road for the rest of the evening.'' Diana was buried Saturday in a lake island on the grounds of her family's estate, 50 miles northwest of London, after a funeral service funeral service n → misa de cuerpo presente funeral service n → service m funèbre funeral service funeral n in the capital's Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, originally the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery (closed in 1539) in London. One of England's most important Gothic structures, it is also a national shrine. The first church on the site is believed to date from early in the 7th cent. . Throughout Sunday, crowds gathered placed bunches of flowers and lighted candles at the gates At the Gates are a Swedish melodic death metal band. They are one of the forebears of the Gothenburg sound of heavy metal along with other bands of the Gothenburg metal scene like Dark Tranquillity and In Flames. of the estate. Police initially set up barriers along the side of the road to separate the crowds from the passing traffic, then decided to close the road to traffic as the crowds continued to grow. Other visitors flocked to the nearby church of St. Mary the Virgin in the village of Great Brington. The vicar, David MacPherson, said he had asked people not to lay any more flowers in the church because it was becoming so full but said he would keep the church open throughout the week to allow people to grieve. ``We have had to ask for no more flowers because we've simply been inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. ,'' MacPherson said. |
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