Author: Eva Tushenkina
June 23, 2021 09:32
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On the night of August 31, 1997, Diana, her lover Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver Henri Paul died in a car accident in a Mercedes Benz S280 in one of the Paris tunnels. According to the official version, the driver exceeded the speed limit in an attempt to escape from the paparazzi pursuing the car. Later information appeared that he was drunk. However, there are many facts that are not well known to the general public, and these facts cast doubt on the official version of events.
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Henri Paul
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Henri Paul was the deputy chief of security at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and it was he who was driving the Mercedes on the day of the accident. The official version that Henri Paul was heavily intoxicated is not confirmed either by video camera recordings or by eyewitnesses who observed him shortly before the incident. Paul was apparently under the influence of alcohol, but it is unlikely that this could have caused him to lose control of the car. There are also theories according to which this man worked for some French and/or British state security service and tried to take the car away from his pursuers, who were not harmless journalists, but hired killers.
What happened to the survivor of the accident?
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Many people forget that there were four people in the car, not three. The fourth was Al-Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones - the only one who survived as a result. He is a former military man who worked for Al-Fayed in the mid-90s. During the accident, Rees-Jones suffered a serious craniomaxillofacial injury: doctors had to reconstruct his face. Following the tragedy, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, accused Rhys-Jones of failing to properly protect Dodi and Diana that night. This accusation prompted Rees-Jones to write a book outlining his version of events. However, his memories were not taken into account in the official investigation because they were considered unreliable due to the head injury he had suffered.
The mysterious death of Princess Di
Lady Diana dies in a car accident on August 31, 1997.
After the Paris visit, the princess and her lover Dodi Al-Fayed tried to get away from the annoying paparazzi. They got into the car and drove to Al-Fayed, but after crashing into a concrete support under the Alma Bridge, Al-Fayed and the driver died instantly, and Diana was taken to the Salpêtrière clinic, where she died. Only the bodyguard survived, but due to severe head injuries, he unfortunately lost his memory.
Diana's death seemed so strange that people could not believe it was an accident. Official information stated that the driver of the car was drunk, and an attempt to get away from the paparazzi at high speed led to a loss of control. Of course, there was such a theory as “British intelligence services staged Diana’s death.” This theory has a strong argument. If you just imagine that the mother of Princes William and Harry would have given birth to a child from a Muslim, this would have caused a scandal on a large scale in the British Monarchy. Elizabeth II would not allow such an insult to her, royal traditions, foundations and image.
One way or another, the death of Princess Diana is still a mystery to the public.
Testimony of James Huth
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James Huth was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. His apartment was nearby and, hearing a wild grinding and noise, he hurried to help: as a man with a medical education who took the Hippocratic oath, he could not do otherwise. Today James Huth is no longer associated with medicine - he is a film director. So, the first thing he saw at the scene of the accident was the driver - Henri Paul - by this time already dead, with his head in the airbag. Then he saw one passenger and bodyguard, who was in a panicked state “with his jaw hanging,” according to Huth. By this time, two more people had approached and tried to open the car doors, but Huth explained to them that it was better not to move the passengers themselves. Dodi Al-Fayed was thrown to the front of the cabin and at least one of his legs was broken. Diana was in the back of the salon in the corner and was the last to be noticed. Gradually, a crowd surrounded the car, everyone started taking pictures, then the ambulance doctors arrived. According to James Huth, he also noticed a parked car slightly behind in the tunnel, but could not give an exact description of its model or color. Perhaps it was a white Fiat Uno, which will be discussed a little later.
She predicted a car accident
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For several years, Diana lived with the idea that “Charles and the royal family were going to kill her.” Although her guesses, voiced in a letter to butler Paul Burrell shortly after her divorce from Charles, are not direct evidence of the royal family’s involvement in what happened, the very fact of such a letter is still quite remarkable. The letter says something like this: “My husband is planning an 'accident' with my car, brake failure and serious head injury so that his path to marrying Tiggy will be clear.” The authenticity of this letter has been questioned; they said Burrell had forged it. Diana's acquaintances claimed that she never feared for her life. But still, if this letter was actually written by her, then it leads to very sad thoughts.
Another car? New route?
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The Mercedes in which Diana and Dodi were that night was replaced shortly before the trip. For what reason is unknown. Before that, they spent the whole day driving another car. And in this, according to some suspicions, the seat belt in the back seat, where Diana was, was faulty. The bodyguard sitting in front was wearing a seat belt, but Dodi and Diana were not. Her closest friends later said that this was very strange: Diana was scrupulous about issues of personal safety and always buckled up in the car. In addition, it was later discovered that the car was in terrible condition and had been hastily repaired after an accident several months earlier. The Ritz hotel staff warned Henri Paul that this car could not travel at speeds above 60 km/h. Well, the most interesting thing: the driver changed his usual route, and for some reason almost all the surveillance cameras along this route later turned out to be broken.
Phone call
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In addition to suspicions about her ex-husband, Diana had other reasons to fear for her life. When she was still a political figure, she always expressed a strong position on the ban on the use of landmines, arguing that the military rarely clears territories after the end of conflicts, and then ordinary people and, worst of all, children, can run into a mine and die or remain disabled. At that time, Great Britain wanted to get the ban on this type of weapon lifted. In February 1997, Diana received a call from a high-ranking military officer and advised her “not to interfere in something she has no idea about, because, how can I put it, sometimes accidents happen to people.”
Non-ambulance "Ambulance"
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One would assume that when people of Diana's caliber get into an accident, doctors immediately fly to the rescue, and then in the blink of an eye they take the person to the hospital in time to save him. But in this case, everything happened differently. The accident happened at night, around 12:26, the first call to the ambulance came within a minute. Four minutes later, police and firefighters arrived on the scene, but Diana was not pulled out of the car until 1:00. Soon she had a heart attack and after 20 minutes, already in the ambulance, doctors were able to get her heart beating again. She was taken to the hospital only at 2:00, and she could not be saved.
Was she pregnant?
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Mohammed Al-Fayed claimed that one of the reasons the royal family wanted Diana dead was because she was pregnant. The child's father was Dodi Al-Fayed, and Diana was still a public figure closely associated with the royal family, and for them the scandal associated with the birth of a child with a Muslim was unacceptable. After Diana's death, doctors said that they did not find any signs of pregnancy, even at an early stage. Mohammed Al-Fayed, however, insisted on his own, stating that such a quick embalming of Diana’s body was carried out precisely so that the pregnancy test would not show anything. And it was for this reason that the embalming was carried out quickly and in violation of the usual procedure.
Unhappy marriage
Unfortunately, life is not a Cinderella fairy tale, where after the wedding everyone lived happily ever after.
Lady Di and the Prince of Wales's marriage hit rock bottom when Charles rekindled his old relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles. Humiliated and insulted, Diana, who never received her husband’s attention and love, began to look for it in others. She secretly dated her riding trainer, James Hewitt, until an incriminating conversation between the lovers was leaked to the press.
Elizabeth II was offended by what happened, because Diana, as a wife, tarnished the monarch and her reputation. The impetus for the subsequent divorce was Lady Di’s interview with the BBC, where the story she told about Charles’s infidelities contributed to her unhappy life. She revealed all the ins and outs of the royal family and palace intrigues. Charles also did not stand aside and gave a number of interviews where he accused his wife of not being of sound mind and called her hysterical.
The Queen was impatient to divorce her son from Diana. Her temper and stubbornness defied persuasion and control. By the end of August 1996, all the papers were signed, and Diana lost her title and some royal privileges.
She felt freedom. But she could not completely abandon life associated with the royal family. The responsibility of the mother of future heirs to the throne made its own adjustments. She continued to engage in charitable work, appear at official receptions, raise her sons and look for love.
"Bright flash"
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Ten years after Diana's death, the main witness in this case, who was driving in the same tunnel in front of the ill-fated Mercedes, said that he saw something unusual that night. Namely, a motorcycle came alongside the Mercedes, and immediately after that an extremely bright flash appeared, perhaps intentionally, in order to blind the driver. This information formed the basis of the conspiracy theory that the accident was staged by the British intelligence services. Former British intelligence officer Richard Tomlinson told Mohammed Al-Fayed that they wanted to kill former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in the same way (using a blinding flash). According to the official version, however, in the event of the accident that claimed Diana’s life, there was no “bright flash” in the tunnel.
Diana's driver was a Secret Service informant
Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson spread rumors that he had seen secret files about the murder of a foreign politician in Paris, which was too similar to Diana's car crash. This led to rumors that Henry Paul, the driver, was passing information to MI6 and was part of the conspiracy theory.
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White Fiat
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An examination of the Mercedes showed that the car collided with a white Fiat Uno in the tunnel. This Fiat could not be found, although all efforts were allegedly thrown into searching for it. Mohammed Al-Fayed insisted that it was the car of intelligence agents who staged the accident. He also said that he conducted his own investigation and found the car: it belonged to a certain French journalist James Andanson. But the official investigation stated that Andanson's car could not have been involved in that accident. The problem is that it is no longer possible to find out whether this is actually so: Andanson was found dead in 2000, and his death was regarded as suicide. But when he was found, there were two bullet holes in his head. Was he the same paparazzi chasing Diana? What role did he play in the incident? Nobody knows for sure.
How did Princess Diana die?
On the night of August 31, 1997, Princess Diana, her lover Dodi Al-Faired and driver Henri Paul died in a car accident. This happened in one of the Paris tunnels. According to the official version, the driver exceeded the speed limit while trying to escape from the paparazzi. Only there are many not very well known facts known to the general public. And these facts cast doubt on the official version.
There are also theories that:
the driver was drunk;
the driver tried to escape the killers' pursuit.
Even 21 years after the accident, the world continues to be haunted by the story of the death of a celebrity.
They say that the princess could have survived if she had been wearing a seat belt. However, neither she nor her lover were wearing seat belts. There was also security guard Trevor Rees-Jones in the car. Only he was wearing a seat belt or managed to do so at the last moment. He is the only person to survive the accident, but he suffered a serious traumatic brain injury. Doctors had to reconstruct his face. He was accused of failing to protect Diana and Dodi that night and these events gave impetus to write a book outlining his version of events. Only in the official version her memories are not taken into account at all. They were considered unreliable due to head trauma.
Re-opening the tunnel
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We all imagine how this usually happens. When a serious car accident occurs somewhere, especially a fatal one, the area is fenced off or partially blocked for some period of time - from several hours to several days. In the event of such a high-profile accident as this, one would expect that the tunnel would be closed for at least a few days in order to properly investigate everything there and collect all possible evidence. But that’s not how things happened: the Mercedes was quickly towed away, the road was cleared of debris, and the tunnel was open to cars before sunrise. This looks like a very quick cleanup. Many forensic experts argued in this regard that in such a short period of time it was simply impossible to collect the necessary evidence at the scene of the accident.
Rumors linking SAS to this case
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In 2013, while investigating a case involving Danny Nightingale, a soldier in the SAS (an elite unit of the British Air Force), an interesting letter was found. It said that Nightingale's former colleague, going by the name "Soldier N", had bragged about his involvement in the murder of Princess Diana. More precisely, he told his parents and his wife that his department was behind this incident, with the approval of senior management. The police tried to investigate the case, but came to the conclusion that there was insufficient evidence and perjury. However, last year Soldier N's wife told the media that SAS management had offered her money to remain silent over Princess Diana's death and that her life had been threatened. After that, her trace disappeared - perhaps the woman is now on the run.
The US government was watching Diana
It seemed that rumors of MI6 involvement in the tragedy were not enough. Conspiracy theorists also wanted to add that the American government had a hand in the death of Princess Diana. The bottom line is that the CIA and National Security Agency wiretapped Diana's calls and had 39 documents related to the princess. In fact, the CIA admitted that it collected 1,054 pages of information on Diana, but agency officials noted that none of these documents were related to the disaster. The NSA intercepted one of Diana's calls, but this call was made to the wife of the Brazilian ambassador.
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"Enemies" by Mohammed Al-Fayed
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Mohammed Al-Fayed never suggested that Diana's death was the work of some of his enemies. No, he always said that his business competitors had nothing to do with it, but British intelligence and the royal family were involved. However, there is no denying the fact that Dodi Al-Fayed had an interesting family... His father is a billionaire today, and was a very rich man in the 90s. He owned the Paris Ritz Hotel, as well as London's Harrod's department store and Fullham Football Club, until 2013. There was a lot of talk that the cause of the accident could have been revenge on Al-Fayed, and the target was not Diana, but Dodi Al-Fayed. But, of course, there is no evidence of this. By the way, Dodi's maternal uncle, Adnan Khashoggi (died early June 2021), was a famous arms dealer and was "worth" $4 billion. Surely he also had many enemies.
Dodi Al Fayed, a love story
After several unsuccessful relationships in secrecy and concealment, starting a free life, Lady Di found her love in the person of Dodi Al-Fayed. An entrepreneur originally from Egypt won Diana's heart by becoming her first official lover. She finally found a kind and selfless man who saw a future with Diana.
They spent a lot of time with each other, visited restaurants, and went on boat trips on a yacht. All this time, the paparazzi followed the progress of their romance, and the media published every photo from their joint vacation.
Few people know that Lady Di was interested in the possibility of marriage between people of different religious views. She consulted with an Anglican priest, who confirmed the possibility of the desired union. And already in Paris, Dodi was spotted buying an engagement ring for Diana.
Finally, Diana's main dream, life in a loving family, began to come true. Dodi and his family seemed like what the princess had always wanted. Kindness and friendly relations. If not for one fateful event, who knows how their lives would have turned out.
Mohammed Al-Fayed investigation and film
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The romance between Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed began several months before their tragic death. Dodi was the son of an Egyptian businessman, well educated, financially successful, and had experience in the entertainment industry. Mohammed Al-Fayed conducted his own investigation and came to the conclusion that a drunk driver could not have caused the death of his son, but other forces contributed to it. Mohammed Al-Fayed spent a lot of money on his independent investigation, but by 2008 he admitted that he still did not have accurate evidence and could not show anything to anyone. He also financed a documentary called Unlawful Killing in the late 2000s, but since no insurance company could protect the filmmakers from libel claims, the film was never officially released. Luckily, this interesting, thoughtful, if incredibly biased film can be viewed on YouTube.
The royal family did not approve of the princess's then-lover
Dodi Fayed, Diana's friend and son of an Egyptian billionaire, was also a victim of the car accident. Rumors, as well as Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, indicated that Diana was pregnant. Some claimed that the royal family did not want the mother of the heir to the throne, Prince William, to marry a Muslim.
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