I'm sure there kept a normal service so kids and teenages had a service. Same with her funeral ch4 had kids programmes etc.
Channel 4 faded out the cartoons and started showing the funeral too, I remember being majorly annoyed by this as an eight year old at the time who didn't know or care who this Diana person was!
Here's the planned schedule of all five channels on the funeral date, from what I remember Ch4's coverage was interrupted around the time Prince Cinders was on (which does seem like an odd choice given the death of a Princess), so around noon. We turned the TV off soon after so I'm not sure if Ch4 ever went back to cartoons afterwards.
EDIT: Indeed it's Youtube to the rescue who have some Ch4 pres from earlier in the day, which busts a myth I've thought for years that they switched to the funeral unplanned, when in fact it was planned right from the start of the day (but not in TV listings, so still fairly last-minute). I do seem to recall an abrupt fade out of a cartoon midway through, but that might be false memories at work there.
Last edited by BillyH on 18 March 2017 12:47am