Princess Diana's Funeral Part 19: Derry Air and Cwm Rhondda

[3tangle3]

We should abolish the monarchy for their treatment of Diana......remember the buggers all go back as far back as the hanoverian lot........thank god we have the vote thats all i can say

[march131958]

God rest her soul. What a beautiful hymn for a beautiful person...

[jonsabine29]

R.I.P Tom Fleming

[TrueImage66]

Thank you. x

[mtheadedwally]

Amazing the power that the Lords' Prayer has really. I used to be a regular chuchgoer as a child and never really understood the significance of the words. But watch everyone here - they all know it. Incredible.

[beaulahHadassah]

great songs for me and my favourites

[dacatholicbandorgan]

For a short time, the whole Country was singing this hymm.

[eblanaken]

Shoulda had Max Boyce roar this hymn out. A rabbid Welchman but true Brit.

[Justozz50]

Feed me til i cant no more....please!

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Not trying to be Rude, but Derry Air is quite an unfourtunate name for such a beautiful song.

[aliepally]

Cwm Rhondda! We love DIANA. Red and green outfit on her first visit to Wales. What sort of woman would think like that at such a young age, IN 1981? Before the age of so-called "stylists". She had it all and the royal family threw her away. NO FORGIVENESS

[iabud23]

It almost as if she descends to heaven at the last hymn

[jonsabine29]

@iabud23 ascends, surely?

[3tangle3]

Appropiately inspiring irish and welsh hymns for an inspiring woman.

[oshawa10]

I love this Air from Derry. I always sing it at wakes as well as prayers. To most people they say that it makes them want to cry. I last sang it at my mother-in-laws enterrement.

[hubertjudge]

It is a lovely hymn.

[Ritzounett]

my beloved England, I miss you so.

[horcruxkiller]

I love this hymn! We sing it often in my church.

[crossbike]

Thank you Tom for the upload of this unique

welsh hymn! tears in my eyes. with deeply respect! greetings from Switzerland!

[Sportymike]

I don't know whether to be happy or mad that they used this air at a member of the Royal family's funeral.

[TheDriverr]

The ferocious emotional power of that amazing hymn haunts me everytime I hear it. When you hear that last verse you cannot fail to feel an almighty spirit uplift you and trasnport your soul to a very special place. RIP Diana..

[Justozz50]

so true......

[Edenrayne73]

I couldn't agree more! I love this hymn!

[groeslon]

Whoever thinks that Cwm Rhondda is the de facto Welsh National Anthem is a sentimental Rugby-weekend delusionist.

[StarTux]

Land of my Fathers...But Cym Rhondda is beautiful too as is Rugby,

[3tangle3]

Maybe but its a bloody awesome and moving song! Btw you only need to know one thing about Wales, just one thing.......

Cymru is gonna be free!!

All hell can't stop us now. :)

[chriswales19]

Gosh its amazing how hearing Cwm Rhondda still brings tears to my eyes to this day. God bless her.

[FromWalesToVa]

As a Welshman, born in Cardiff, but raised in Caernarfon from the age of 2 weeks on, I can't agree more with severing Wales from the Brits and making it an independent nation, but as far as Lady Diana, she was the best thing that ever happened to the British Monarchy and to Wales. I had the--I can only say sublime PLEASURE---of meeting her at a charity horse show and event and she was exquisitely charming, sweet, intelligent, graceful, beautiful: an absolute credit to the Monarchy.

[fieryman1]

This is sung to the tune we know Danny Boy. But a different tune using the first stanza lyrics is in the Peek him with his own tune, apparently, "I would be true".

[davidjbryn]

The tune Cwm Rhondda was composed by John Hughes, and the words by William Williams, Pantycelyn, both Welshmen. Diana had no connection with Wales, she married Charles, the imposed English prince of Wales. Wales was conquered by the English over 700 years ago, and the eldest son of the English monarch usually becomes prince of Wales. The people of Wales have no say in the matter. Personally I wish Wales was a reublic & have done with all of them.

[Gruntol5]

Better still, why not just sever Wales from England and just let it drift off into oblivion. I don't think anyone would even notice.

[loftie30]

well said, the queens German dont know which is worse!!CYMRU A BYTH

[travbear2000]

It is the Welsh National Hymn

[allanlangshaw]

No its not

[Justozz50]

Def Not!

[teresawoolies]

is it danny boy with different words ir sung in welsh ? lovely played by a brass band actually

[GlasgowCeltic88]

It's a little 'ditty' called the Derry Air.

Danny Boy, as we know it, is put to this beautiful tune.

Played even better by Phil Coulter ;-)

GC88

[violator9696]

That was my Welsh Flag on 4.43

Welsh Guards.

[cheekykirsty123]

CYMRU AM BYTH!!!

[braceface384]

If this is a protesent hymn then why is it called 'Derry air' and Derry is in Éire!

[tribecatom]

Well Derry is in the Protestant part of Éire!

The person was referring to the Welsh hymn at the end of the clip.

Incidently, I was at a Catholic mass at Christmas and saw that Cwm Rhondda was hymn nine hundred and something in the Catholic hymnary.

[braceface384]

Not really it is in the Part of Ireland ruled by the queen of England! Not all lof them are Protestant. Yes Cwm Rhondda is played at our Catholic mass but a verse we sing in Latin and Irish Gaelic.

[tribecatom]

Point taken but arguably it's ruled by Dr. No with Martin McGuinness as his sidekick now. The Queen barely gets a look in.

I know a man who used to drive Diana whenever she visited the North of Ireland btw.

[GlasgowCeltic88]

'Dr. No'...LOVE IT!!!!

He's NO longer in power, having steped down last month!

GOOD riddence to him, in my opinion!

GC88

[tribecatom]

Are you talking about Ian Paisley? I haven't noticed him in the footage if you are.

[chriswales19]

Lovely, a beautiful service, Cwm Rhondda is my personal favourite moment, really beautiful, the whole world joining in memory of this wonderful and great person. May she rest in peace.

[welthawood]

I'm so proud of my own Welsh ancestry. And I love "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"! We sing it at my Episcopalian church often.

[FenianandLimey]

Well, even though it's a Protestant hymn and I'm Catholic, I love this hymn, it sounds like the hymns we sing in my church. Hey, it's all about God and rejoicing, and it's beautiful music.

[tribecatom]

I would think that it's a beautiful tune and is connected with the country Diana was Princess of is more important than what Christian domination it's asssociated with.

[martinevans123]

How good for all that is. Not just a Protestant hymn, of course, but a Non-conformist anthem. Which tradition, strangely, has often felt more at home with the Catholic Church. But I suppose Diana must have been the most non-demoninational Royal of all time. Can't help but feel, for all the controversy, that this service was worthy of her.

[Lynnannmills]

This song the boys sing still haunts me to this day. I had a hard time getting it out of my head, and now I don't have to.

[sandinista5]

The Royal Family can kiss my derry air.

[Irishgeraldine]

Diana was such a lovely person it was a shame she died, i went to london to her funeral so sad,

[154simon154]

God bless her soul....

[hphg76]

Diana visited a hospital ward I was working on in the early 90's- she seemed like a genuinely nice person, quite shy in fact and very beautiful. But, on June 12th [or thereabouts], please remember Princess Gwenllian, the last true princess of Wales. Her father killed by Edward 1st's men- she was stolen and imprisoned in a convent in Sempringham as a baby, to ensure the legitimate Welsh royal line was ended.

[djoelmyers]

its a dirty shame she was killed. yes, i said killed. that car crash was just a cover up of her death.

[tribecatom]

She died in an accident. As her friend Rosa Monckton said, some people loved to invent lies about her when she lived and the conspiracy theories are just a manifestation of those lies continuing after her death.

[huwwilson650]

i'm always one for political correctness and so i have to say she was only the Princess of Wales from 1981-1996. After that, she lost the style HRH and the title Princess of Wales but aquired the style Diana, Princess of Wales. This style meant vaguely Diana, [formerly] Princess of Wales. So, from 1996-1997 she wasn't the Princess of Wales.

[ukgolfa]

A wonderful woman who married into a family of in-breds; the song however, takes me back to memories of Cardiff Arms Park, Barry John and Gareth Davies, and the happy memories this Englishman spent among the Welsh when living in Coedpoeth in the mid-80's.

Cheers.

[chloerebeccamceniff]

cwm rhondda isnt the national anthem of wales, Wales' national anthem is Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

[tribecatom]

Point taken, that's why I describe it as the 'de facto' national anthem in the description. The BBC reporter in Cardiff describes it as "the national anthem" in the interview from there

[wongah1]

Wales does not have a National Anthem, Wales is not a Nation but only a Principality!

[BrethynDa]

Wales IS a nation. Just not a nation-state. Cer i grafu.

[Johindes]

tell that to us Welsh,

[bripat22]

Ah, you forget  Hen Wlad Fy Nhaddau

[kelbo61]

Are you kidding? Hen Wlad Fy Nhaddau. Give Ireland back to the Irish...and give Wales back to the Welsh!!!!

[kelbo61]

Wales is Wales! All their own...The Welsh people have their own history...they are one and of themselves!!!!!!

[martinevans123]

only a Principality, oh dear. Diana then "only a Princess"? True, Wales is not a Kingdom, but then of course neither is England. We live in what is quaintly termed "The" United Kingdom, even though we have no king and are often anything but united. Why does Wales have a National Museum, A National Library and a National Assembly? Perhaps Diana's memory deserves more than a pointless debate about where we live. She lived on planet earth and so should we.

[DesireeDeFete]

Us Episcopalians really know how to Sing in worship and give great Farewells to great people.

[WayneRooney333333]

yawn, no connection to wales at all,

[shamr0ck]

ehhhhh the choir boys are singing danny boy? where is the welsh national anthem?

[tribecatom]

It's the unofficial, sort of second National Anthem you often hear the crowd singing at Welsh Rugby Matches. It's also a favourite of Welsh male voice choirs.

[poverud]

that's listed in the first part as the 'Air From County Derry'

[architecturalabdabs]

it's real name is londonderry air actually.

[hiraeth2007]

mae hi ddim yn Tywysogess y Cymraeg ac mae Siarls yn ddim Tywysog Cymraeg

[MannGegenMann666]

Makes me proud to be Welsh, shame she died though.

[CanadianPeamealBacon]

My ancestors were slate miners in Wales. I love that country and am proud of my heritage. Those choir boys have such angelic voices. The music was beautiful.

Thanks for sharing....Diana, we miss you.

[KE5HOB]

Too bad the audio cuts out, if that isn't just my computer. Not completely, but noticeably.

[tribecatom]

Yes, apologies for that. The tape was played a lot in different video recorders in the years afterwards and VHS is not a very robust format. Things are different with DVDs now and I'm thinking of getting a DVD copy made. When I digitised it for upload on here, it was the first time I'd played the tape in about five years.

[KE5HOB]

Well like I said, it doesn't cut out completely. Thanks for posting, it's still a great clip!! Cwm Rhondda is one of my favorite hymns.

[ceridwenfenella]

Us Welsh have fantastic hymns.

[DavidTL]

It makes us feel great solitude and reflection on the events that happened. It does make the British people feel more united though, as if we are all going through the same struggle. It made us all feel together as a people.

[rmegna]

Yes, I watched the entire broadcast. It was one of the most moving ceremonies I have ever seen. The music was sublime and heart-rendingly beautiful. It was one of the greatest tragic moments of our times, one that we all shared wherever we were in the world, and one that will linger in our memories all of our days! Thanks for sharing these memories with us!

[dandaman99]

The first song in this clip is to the tune of "An Air from County Derry" but the words are a poem by Howard A. Walter written in 1917 (the tune was written in 1910 by Frederick Weatherly and most commonly known as "Danny Boy").

This performance still moves me. That audio quality is not perfect but the words and music remain inspirational.

My many thanks for posting this.

[poumista]

she had very little connection to wales,had no home there and rarely visited

[cifenton]

Except she was their princess. Why would one make such a comment?

[cazamir]

She was everyones Princess

[wellscot]

no she wasnt..she was the princess of people that saw her true value and courage,care and compassion a woman used by the royals and betrayed by them..while all the time so much better than any one of them..

[funnybunnyhehe]

she wasnt really the princess of wales. she didnt have any real duty to wales or anything, she married into that because charles is the prince of wales. i think theyre just given these titles when theyre born. im welsh and proud :) these songs are beautiful. what an amazing lady!!!

[Amarventris]

One can only imagine what these musics made Uk people feel like.