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LONDON - Britain's Princes William and Harry lashed out yesterday at an Italian magazine that published photosof their mother, Princess Diana, dying in the wreckage of a Paris car crash.
"We feel deeply saddened that such a low has been reached," the princes said in a rare statement.
"Despite the support shown to us and our mother's memory by so many people over the last eight years, we feel that, as her sons, we would be failing in our duty to her now if we did not protect her, as she once did us.
"Therefore, we appeal to all forms of media throughout the world to appreciate fully that publishing such material causes great hurt to us, our father, our mother's family and all those who so loved and respected her."
Milan-based magazine Chi defended its decision to run the photo.
A spokesman for the magazine said: "There is nothing voyeuristic or disrespectful in all this. It is just an attempt to get closer to the truth of a drama that is still wrapped in too much mystery and too many lies."
British tabloids had refrained from publishing pictures of her death, maintaining that taboo throughout the nearly nine years since the crash.
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