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A COMIC book has been branded “disgusting” for showing the tunnel where Princess Diana died and her sons grieving at her funeral.
Aimed at children, the £2.50 comic tells of the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles, with graphic illustrations of her misery.
Female Force: Princess Diana documents some of the most painful moments in Diana’s life including her parents’ divorce and even a reference to her mother’s extra-marital affair.
Margaret Funnell, co-founder of the Diana Circle UK, a group dedicated to the Princess’s memory, said: “It’s disgusting. Their feeble excuse is that they wanted to show the young people of America her life. They could have done it with lovely stories. They didn’t need to stoop to this.
“I find it quite cruel them showing the funeral. Had she lived until she was 85 and had a lovely life, that would be different. This girl lost her life in her prime.
“Comic means something to laugh at. I don’t find it at all comical and I wish they hadn’t done it. Anyone with half a brain who had a love for Diana will hate it.”
The 22-page book is published by Canada-based Bluewater Comics whose other titles have names like Claw & Fang and Pistolfist.
Events it illustrates include Diana’s engagement to Prince Charles and their lavish wedding in 1981.
But it also shows the last days of her life when she went on holiday with Dodi Fayed and the Paris tunnel where they died in a car crash in 1997.
The bikini-clad Princess is pictured sunbathing and the text adds: “Just when her post-Charles life was coming together for her with her new beau Dodi Fayed, they were tragically killed.”
A sequence showing Diana’s funeral has the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, Princes William and Harry and Earl Spencer lining up behind her coffin.