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A moment in time: AP journalists remember Diana’s death

FILE - An aerial view of flowers and other mementos that have been left by mourners in honour of Princess Diana, at Kensington Palace in London, Friday, Sept. 5, 1997. It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last weekend of summer. At sometime past midnight, phones around the table began to ring all at once. News desks were contacting reporters and photographers to alert them that Princess Diana’s car had crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. That's how the news unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, FIle) FILE - Elton John plays a specially re-written version of his song "Candle in the Wind" during the funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales, at London's Westminster Abbey in this Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997 file photo. It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last weekend of summer. At sometime past midnight, phones around the table began to ring all at once. News desks were contacting reporters and photographers to alert them that Princess Diana’s car had crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. That's how the news unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997. (Paul Hackett, Pool photo via AP, File) FILE - Spectators weep in the crowd along London's Whitehall Saturday Sept. 6, 1997, during the funeral ceremony for Diana, Princess of Wales. It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last weekend of summer. At sometime past midnight, phones around the table began to ring all at once. News desks were contacting reporters and photographers to alert them that Princess Diana’s car had crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. That's how the news unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997. (Jerome Delay/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - Mourners file past the tributes left in memory of Diana Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace in London, Friday, Sept. 5, 1997. It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last weekend of summer. At sometime past midnight, phones around the table began to ring all at once. News desks were contacting reporters and photographers to alert them that Princess Diana’s car had crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. That's how the news unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997. (AP Photo/David Brauchli, File) FILE- In this early Sunday, Aug. 31, 1997 file photo, police services prepare to take away the car in which Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales, died in Paris, in a car crash that also killed her companion Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur. It has been nearly 25 years since Princess Diana died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
A moment in time: AP journalists remember Diana’s death