Di afterlife show sickens critics

The show was first shown in the US on Sunday. Viewers had to cough up the equivalent of 9.30 pounds to watch it on a pay-per-view channel. The show has raked in millions of dollars for its makers. Dodi’s father, Mohamed Fayed, Diana biographer Andrew Morton, her friend the psychic Simone Simmons and astrologer, Penny Thornton, took part.

The UK version — without the seances — was on cable channel Living TV. A friend of Diana’s brother Charles, Earl Spencer, said: ‘‘The family are shocked that a programme like this could be made. It is disgraceful.’’

Royal author Ingrid Seward complained: ‘‘The royal family, including William and Harry, will just have to rise above it. They cannot fail to be upset by this commercialisation of their mother.’’

Historian Harold Brooks-Baker fumed: ‘‘There are two sons alive and to do this to them is not only outrageous but extremely un-Christian. Some rules of good taste and common decency should apply.’’ In scenes that shocked viewers, the Hamilton-Parkers claimed the Princess told them from beyond the grave that she was ‘‘having fun’’ and that she had loved Dodi.

Holding hands with a group that had met the Princess, Jane also said Diana wanted ‘‘the letters destroyed’’.

A third sick seance took place less than a mile from where Diana died. She said the crash was ‘‘definitely an accident’’ and Diana had not been pregnant ‘‘but wanted a child with Dodi.’’ Andrew Morton, who wrote Diana: Her True Story, said: ‘‘I think Diana would have found all of this ridiculous and dismissed it out of hand.’’