Tuesday September 9 12:35 PM EDT 

New Test Confirms Di Driver Over Drink Limit

PARIS (Reuter) - New medical tests on chauffeur Henri Paul have
confirmed earlier results that the driver of the car in which Princess
Diana died was over the legal limit for alcohol, French police sources
said Tuesday. 

"The latest test confirms the earlier tests," a police source said.
Europe 1 radio said the test had found 1.75 grams of alcohol per liter
of Paul's blood. 

Two previous tests last week of blood taken from the chauffeur,
conducted shortly after the crash in two different independent
laboratories, had detected essentially the same level, about three times
the legal limit for driving. 

Prosecutors ordered a third test after Paul's family and his employer,
the Ritz Hotel, challenged the initial tests. 

Under French law, the legal limit is 0.5 grams per liter of blood. A
level over 0.8 grams constitutes a criminal offense. 

Meanwhile in London, Princess Diana's family appealed to Britons
Tuesday to stop bringing flowers to her home in the hope they would
join a carpet of blooms that now covers her grave. 

Thousands of people flocked to the rural Althorp estate after seeing
the first pictures of Diana's last resting place on a flower-strewn
island where she used to play as a child. 

Diana, 36, was buried away from the prying eyes of the media which,
in the words of her brother Earl Spencer, made her "the most hunted
person of the modern age." 

In his first comments since the death of Diana in a high-speed car
crash on August 31, the head of Britain's press watchdog said he
wanted swift progress on reviewing the role of paparazzi
photographers. 

Lord Wakeham, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, also
urged newspapers to respect the privacy of Diana's young sons Princes
William and Harry. 

Spencer's Althorp estate was deluged with bouquets after workers
took flowers from the gates at the weekend and scattered them on the
tranquil island where Diana is buried. 

"It is turning into a problem and it is getting worse. People seem
desperate to get their flowers to the gates of the estate because they
believe they will be taken to the island," a spokeswoman for the estate
told reporters. 

"We are now concerned for public safety, both near the gates and in
the surrounding lanes," she said. 

The family asked people instead to make contributions to the
memorial fund set up to funnel money to the charities associated with
the princess. 

At the princess's London home, Kensington Palace, thousands more
flocked to add their flowers to an ocean of bouquets. 

Trees in the park surrounding the palace were adorned with flowers
and many mourners had built makeshift shrines to the princess,
decorated with candles, messages and pictures cut from magazines. 

Officials from the royal household were getting to grips with the
logistics of removing the estimated one million bouquets left at
various London palaces. 

Work is expected to start Thursday when the freshest blooms will be
gathered up and sent to hospitals. 

The remainder will be used as compost in the palace gardens but the
tens of thousands of notes, poems and messages will be collected and
passed on to Diana's family. 

The clean-up operation, by a huge team of volunteers and staff from
the royal parks, is expected to take about three weeks. 

Buckingham Palace and Earl Spencer moved quickly Monday to quash
reports of a row within the royal family over Diana's funeral
arrangements. 

The palace said a report that Queen Elizabeth had originally wanted
Diana's funeral to be private was "nonsensical speculation." 

An opinion poll Tuesday provided some comfort for the royal family,
which has been criticised for appearing aloof and indifferent to the
nation's overwhelming outpouring of grief over Diana. 

The MORI poll, published in the Sun tabloid, said 73 percent of those
surveyed backed the royal family. But 39 percent feel less favourable
toward them since Diana's death. 

In Paris, two French judges investigating the causes of Princess
Diana's fatal car crash visited the accident scene on Tuesday. 

Police sources denied a report in the daily France-Soir newspaper
that the princess's car had been filmed by a traffic surveillance
camera showing it speeding at 122 mph.