Channel 4, a UK commerical television channel, is once again under fire over a programme it intends to screen on June 6.

Royal Anecdotes’ response to Diana death pictures

The item is a documentary, Diana: The Witnesses In The Tunnel, which contains graphic images of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales. Despite protests from a Conservative party spokesman, and pleas from Prince William and Prince Harry, the broadcaster has refused, so far, to pull the film from its schedules.

Last year the Princes took the unusual step of issuing an emotional statement expressing their disgust after an Italian magazine printed a paparazzi photograph of their mother’s death. The documentary is said to include images taken by French photographers immediately after Diana’s fatal car crash in Paris in August 1997, including one picture of Diana receiving oxygen from a French doctor.

The programme also features new interviews with photographers and other witnesses to the crash.

Channel 4 has recently been forced to apologise on air over the alleged racist treatment of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on its Big Brother reality show. On Thursday it will raise Royal hackles again with a documentary on Camilla, now Duchess of Cornwall, claiming that Prince Charles is determined to make her Queen.

Royal Anecdotes banned the photographs of Diana’s death when they were made available, publishing a black space instead (pictured).

Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood actress now more famous for being bullied and abused by a group of grotesque so-called celebrities on the Big Brother TV show, is to meet the Queen at a service in Westminster Abbey today.

Shilpa had the last laugh by going on to win the show’s substantial cash prize and instantly became a huge celebrity across the UK. She met the Prime Minister in Parliament when she was invited to watch Prime Minister’s Questions, causing crowd problems outside the Palace of Westminster in the process.

She is already a favourite in her native India, mainly because of her looks and figure. Now she has gained real stardom for taking on “racist bullies” in England and winning the hearts of the people.

The service at Westminster Abbey celebrates Commonwealth Day around the world. The Commonwealth comprises a third of the world’s population, including India, and is the remnant of the old British Empire.