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Dorothy Thomasson a striking figure cutting and dignity in his Navy dress, tube and footwear, where she was yesterday under the shadow of a Union Jack roof.

It was only after looking more closely, that you could see in his hands tremble. She said she had tried not to break into tears when she was in the vicinity at the end of a long series of mourning outside the British Embassy in Washington, North West.

She was among hundreds of heavy heart, for a second day came to the honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris early Sunday.

For British citizens visiting or living in the Washington area, death of Diana to 36 participants felt especially difficult. Many said they wanted to be in mourning at home with their country of persons. Instead, many were glued to televisions - or computer screens - try to gather all the details about the accident was killed, that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed. If countries in England, it would certainly be gathered in the streets of consolation to another, many said.

Absent expelled from their homeland, Thomasson and other British armies are affected by other suffering in mourning outside the Embassy of the 3100 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW, which were in a temple in the popular princess.

The traffic along Massachusetts Avenue near the embassy has been for several blocks of mourning and the simply curious arrested. They have flowers, candles and cards of praise and recognition. Most also braved 91-degree heat and waiting two hours, an opportunity to write words of condolence in a book of the embassy.

“It is worse than here, I think,” said Thomasson, 59, a British citizen, was the USA in 28 years. “There is nobody to you - nobody’s shoulder to your head Anlehnen and really have a good reputation … No one on comfort. You feel so alone. I do believe, one of the neighbors of my apartment complex know, I am English. ”

Thomasson said she had television in their apartment in Arlington, if the message from Diana accident and death flashing on the screen late Saturday evening.

“I jumped on my sofa …. I could not believe it,” she recalled. “I still can not believe it. The fact that the poor babies. The poor child. ”

Thomasson said she was eager to return to work today in the Indonesian embassy, where workers often ask you questions to Diana and other members of the royal family. Finally, perhaps, then his shoulder to cry, “she said.

“You really feel that you should soon be at home, where we could all thin on any other,” said Chris Edwards, 48, a British citizen, was the visit to Washington, a daughter and her grandchild newborn son. “We glued on the telly, try all the news that we can. Hasse I really think we are not yet at home in the period after the funeral.”

Gayle Hodges, 18, another of Edwards’s Daughters, said she had hours and hours on the Internet, checking out different chat rooms and discussion groups devoted to information on Diana death.

“We have not heard much about the details of the accident,” said Edwards’s other daughter, Micala Paulson, 24, from Washington. “We feel the need to know exactly what happened.”

The three women had hoped, the words to write the book of condolences in the embassy but decided to wait too long was Paulson’s 11-day old son.

In addition, British citizens who are not particularly pleased the royal family, said she was sad death of Diana. His death - as the stories of their marriage of 16 years - at least temporarily the country to gather some said.

“They have much chance for a quantity of people,” said Maria Ekinsmyth, 35, heard messages Saturday evening during a weekend in Pittsburgh with friends. She lives in Washington for two years.

“We were terribly frightened that …. We had planned that night in the city, but we could not even put us to walk,” she says, where she was waiting for the book tribute.

Others said they felt forced the temporary tomb.

“I do not really know why I’m here, I felt that I had,” said Deirdre J. Turn Ages, 64, Vienna. It changed in the USA in 1952 after a meeting with her husband, Howard, a young Marine lieutenant stationed in Europe.

Ages gymnastics and other visitors to the United Kingdom have indicated that they were overwhelmed by the Ausgießung of love and support Americans have shown since the death of Diana. The British Embassy thanked Americans for their support, in a statement: “We are sincerely grateful for the warmth of the reaction American …. It is a great comfort to know that our sorrow is so widely shared in the USA. “