According to recent public opinion polls, 50 percent of Britons surveyed believe that there are some secrets around the death of the Princess of Wales, some omissions. Today in Britain there are more and more insistent demands to start their own official investigation into the circumstances of the death of the Princess of Wales. The fashion magazine "Tatler", designed for a respectable and wealthy public, is actively campaigning for such an investigation, publishing appropriate appeals on the magazine cover. The editor-in-chief of this magazine, as well as his colleague from the Daily Mirror, are convinced that the case of the death of perhaps the most famous woman of the twentieth century, who died under mysterious circumstances, should and must be the subject of an official investigation in her native country.

Why do they believe in a conspiracy

A month ago, published by Paul Burrell, a former butler and personal friend of Diana, the book "King's Duty" (a sensational book "by definition") only added fuel to the fire of the "diamania" that has recently raged on Albion. In one of her letters, first published by Paul Burrell, Diana, a few months before her death, made a terrible assumption: she would not die of natural causes - her end would be a car accident. "I am going through the most dangerous phase of my life today," Diana wrote. "Someone is planning an accident that will happen to my car ..." The princess suggested that her car's brakes would fail and she would die from her head wounds. And these brakes will not fail by accident. The accident will be arranged in order to clear the way for Prince Charles to marry Camilla Parker Bowles, his longtime lover. In her letter, Diana named the name of her alleged conspirator, but in the publication this name is smeared in bold black ...

Diana believed in a conspiracy. Did anyone else believe in him? Paul Burrell, Diana's confidant, the man to whom she confided her most intimate secrets (in her will, the princess wrote off 50 thousand pounds sterling "for faithful service" to the butler, and Her Majesty awarded Burrell a royal award for her devotion to Diana) claims that Diana did not suffer from paranoia, that all this was actually true: "Of course, she was tapped, she was followed." In a recent interview with the BBC, Burrell revealed that he and Diana rolled up carpets in the living room, trying to find bugs for listening devices, and that Diana removed a mirror that hung on her wall after one of her former security officers warned princess that there is a "mirror method" of listening to someone who is being monitored.

It turns out that the princess was followed by someone's shadows? Whose? After the death of Diana, a version was circulated in Arab circles that the accident could be the work of the British secret services, whose task was to prevent the possible marriage of the mother of the heirs to the English throne with the son of an Egyptian merchant, in other words, with a parvenyu, at any cost. And although the absurdity of such a theory could only compete with the spy intricacies of "bonds", there were those who wanted to believe in it.

The main wisher was the father of Dodi, Diana's friend who died with her in a car accident - Mohammed al-Fayed, an Egyptian billionaire, owner of the luxurious Ritz Hotel in Paris and, until recently, the owner of the famous London department store Harrods. "I believe 99.9 percent that it was not an accident. It was a conspiracy, and I will not rest until I establish the true causes of what happened. I will find the one who provoked this accident," al-Fayed promised in an interview with the British newspaper "Mirror" six months after the accident. The father, who lost his only son, deeply offended by the fact that even the most modest place was not found in the memorial service for Diana, for none of the royal family and Diana’s relatives expressed their condolences to Muhammad, al-Fayed began to conduct an intensive investigation with the help of his own detectives and, it should be noted, succeeded in something. More on this, however, a little later.

“I am going through the most dangerous phase of my life today,” Diana wrote. “Someone is planning an accident that will happen to my car…”

Is it possible, meanwhile, to seriously consider Al-Fayed's version of the conspiracy, given the piquant circumstance that the rich Egyptian was an exclusively interested party in the whole affair: interested in the marriage of his son with an English princess. According to al-Fayed's sworn assurances, Dodi and Diana were married in five minutes. Muhammad claimed to have personally paid for the £150,000 diamond and emerald engagement ring that Dodi had ordered from jeweler Alberto Repossi in Monte Carlo on the eve of the accident. This jewel was part of a collection of engagement rings called "Tell Me Yes".

And Diana, according to al-Fayed the father, said "yes" to his son's proposal: Dodi, calling his father from the Ritz Hotel, told him supposedly this good news and announced that he would put a ring on Diana's finger upon arrival at his Parisian apartment. "She never got a ring! And it was not her plan to marry Dodi." Paul Burrell made this bold statement a couple of weeks ago in one of his television interviews. Knowing "everything" about Diana, her former servant said that the princess was joking about the fact that she had already received a necklace and earrings from Dodi as a gift. And one day she asked Paul: "What if I get the ring?" And he answered her: "Put it on your right hand." "Why?" "Because on the left hand the ring is worn as a sign of love, and on the right - as a sign of friendship." According to Burrell, he and Diana laughed heartily at this "threatening prospect" of the Doda Ring ...

Mysterious incidents in the Alma tunnel

So was there a ring? And on which finger did Diana intend to wear it? No one can answer this question for certain today. She and Dodi never reached the place where, according to al-Fayed, this time his butler was waiting for them with champagne on ice to celebrate their engagement - they did not reach Dodi's Paris apartment, ending their life in a pile of twisted metal under the bridge Alma. How did all this happen? Why? And whose fault is it?

Oddly enough, there are no answers to these questions either. Oddly enough, because the investigation lasted for two whole years, because the focus of the investigation was the death of the one whose name was on the lips of the whole world. However, there are so many oddities in this whole tragic story that it is easier to say that it consists of them. This is the conclusion of a recently published investigation by reporters from the British television channel Channel 5, who obtained exclusive access to all twenty-seven volumes of the case of the accident in the Alma tunnel. In these documents hitherto inaccessible to the public and the press, British journalists found what they were looking for - innuendo and contradictions, mysterious disappearances of witnesses and evidence.

The first riddle: what exactly did the princess die from? It has been established for certain that two of the four who were traveling in the Mercedes died almost instantly - Dodi and the French driver Henri Paul. Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rhys-Jones, was badly injured and survived. Diana died in the hospital at 4 am, more than three hours after the accident. According to the doctors, the Princess of Wales died as a result of extensive internal bleeding caused by a ruptured pulmonary artery. However, according to the assumptions of the famous American cardiologist John Ochsner, if the artery damaged in the accident had been torn, Diana would have died instantly. The fact that she lived gives, according to him, reason to believe that there was no rupture - only internal bleeding from the damaged walls took place. With this kind of injury, the salvation of the patient depends on the speed of medical care, more specifically: on the speed of delivery to the operating table. Meanwhile, from the scene of the accident, Diana was taken to the hospital for an hour and twenty minutes. That's how long it took the ambulance to cover the mere three miles that separated the hospital from the tunnel under the Alma bridge. The ambulance doctors explained this by the fact that they had to stop twice on the way (the second time, in fact, on the threshold of the hospital, three hundred yards from it) due to the extremely low pressure of the victim. The slowness of the transfer of the princess was so startling that by two in the morning, when Diana was still not taken to the hospital, the head of the metropolitan police and the French Minister of the Interior began to show concern.

A French doctor who happened to be at the scene of the accident and saw Diana not yet recovered from the wreckage of a crashed car, said in a recent interview with British television that the princess, who did not show external signs of fatal injuries, did not give the impression of a victim whose condition is considered critical. . And so the news that Diana died a few hours later came as a complete surprise to the doctor.

Disappeared Witness

The second riddle: the missing witness. Studies of twenty-seven volumes of the investigation file showed that practically none of the witnesses saw the accident itself, because at that moment he was either at the entrance to the tunnel or at the exit from it. Only one person was driving directly behind the Mercedes. His name is Eric Petal. It was he who first appeared at the crashed car and was the first to see the injured passenger, buried her head in the front seat, with drops of blood oozing from her ear and nose. Petal tilted her back and was horrified to recognize Princess Diana in the wounded woman. It was Petel who first called an ambulance, after which he rushed to the nearest police station - shaking, shocked by what he saw in the tunnel, shouting "do something!" However, the police did not register the statement of the witness: instead, they put Petel in ... handcuffs and, pushing him into a police car, took him to the police department. In this institution, a certain high-ranking official, whose name Eric Petel does not want to name, advised him to "not declare himself", which, according to Petel, sounded more like a threat than advice. The police told Petel that the accident "could not have happened the way he described it."

How exactly? Namely: in the complete absence of paparazzi near the speeding Mercedes. The same paparazzi, seven of whom were arrested following the incident on charges of provoking the accident with their persecution. Petal did not see the paparazzi near the crashed car, which probably knocked the initial version of the police down. Thirty-six hours after the accident, the police "did not see" them either: the poor fellow photographers were released, and the widely publicized version of their guilt was abruptly changed to another plate. This time, the driver Henri Paul, drunk "in a railcar," was named guilty.

Secret services covering the trail?

Henri Paul, deputy head of security at the Ritz Hotel, is riddle number three in this story. Moreover, the mystery is quite multidimensional. According to a former British intelligence officer

Richard Tomlinson's MI6, Henri Paul was a longtime MI6 agent, supplying her with information about what was going on at the hotel. However, the secret service connections of the one who was driving the Mercedes that fateful night, as well as another witness to this incident, were never properly investigated and were not made public.

"Why?" British journalists ask. Is it because big politics interfered in the affairs of the investigation? The conclusion of the investigation that the driver was drunk also looks embroidered with white threads. In the blood of Henri Paul, according to the conclusion of the examination, 1.74 grams of alcohol was found (three times the limit allowed in France) and 20.7% carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide). Such a powerful saturation of the blood with carbon monoxide, according to experts, makes a person's behavior obviously inadequate - with loss of coordination of movements, confused speech and continuous vomiting. Nothing similar was seen for Henri Paul before he got behind the wheel. He spent the last two hours before leaving with Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones. Rhys-Jones, who survived the accident, does not confirm Henri Paul's intoxication. Meanwhile, if he had even the slightest suspicion on this score, the security guard responsible for the safety of the princess would immediately remove the driver from driving. The footage captured by the video camera of the Ritz Hotel half an hour before the departure of the Mercedes clearly shows how, having sat down to tie his shoelace, Henri Paul got up in an athletic way and walked with the firm gait of an absolutely sober person.

The request for an independent pathoanatomical examination, which the Henri Paul family addressed to the French side, was rejected without presenting any grounds. Meanwhile, four leading European pathologists, who examined the conclusion of their French colleagues at the suggestion of al-Fayed, found 28 serious errors in it, which, in their opinion, cast doubt on the entire conclusion as a whole. What could be the reason for the errors? Maybe the tests of the deceased driver were confused with the analyzes of one of those twenty-two deceased, whose bodies were at the same time with him in the morgue?

Driven by a driver in a state of "heaviest intoxication" (according to the original version, due to the need to break away from the brazen pursuit of the paparazzi), the Mercedes, taking Diana away, raced at a breakneck speed of 121 miles (192 km) per hour. It was this conclusion that became public opinion.

However (mystery number four!) the final conclusion contained in the case is that the car was traveling at a speed of... 65 miles per hour. This figure was not made public, however.

It is known that at the entrance to the Alma tunnel there are cameras that track the speed of passing cars. In case of speeding over 60 miles per hour, the camera takes pictures of the offending car in order to present the driver with a reason for charging a fine. In such pictures, the faces of those sitting in the car are clearly visible.

Why didn't you hit the camera lens "Mercedes" with the princess? In an official press comment made in the first days after the accident, it was said that the cameras above the tunnel were not working at that time. However, the French photographer Patrick Chauvel, who conducted his own investigation, got hold of this "non-existent" picture.

It was handed over to the photographer by one of the officers of the traffic police who were investigating an accident with a Mercedes. This picture clearly shows the faces of all the passengers, including Diana.

Mystery number five: why was the report of the transport police working at the scene of the accident not included in the official conclusion of the investigation? Maybe because the very scene was thoroughly washed by sweepers on the same night before dawn? And the tunnel itself was already open for traffic at seven o'clock in the morning?

"What did such an emergency cleaning in the tunnel mean? - ask the British researchers. - Was it an attempt to" wash away "the traces of evidence?"

Where did Dodi's things go?

Another mystery: where did Dodi's personal belongings go? After the accident, no documents, no mobile phone, no cigarettes, no lighters were found on him. Only one thousand francs. On the other hand, as one of the high-ranking French police officers confirmed, drugs were found in the Mercedes... Another incomprehensible circumstance: in one of the 27 volumes of the file, a photograph of a Mercedes was found, in which all its passengers are visible. Photo taken, believed to be just before the accident, in the tunnel. Made by someone who was ahead of the Mercedes. By whom?

And, finally, a well-known mystery: the never-discovered white Fiat Uno, which for a long time was suspected by French investigators. The same "Fiat", which, allegedly, could cause an accident in the tunnel. Intensely wanted in the Paris area by the French police, this Fiat never surfaced. But the detectives of Mohammed al-Fayed managed to find the car, which was probably the very "uno". The car they found had a broken and then replaced taillight and belonged to - the paparazzi. And not just paparazzi, but a very noticeable and, take it higher, mysterious person. The name of this person is James Andanson. A man with high-level political connections, who was at one time the official photographer of one of the French prime ministers and, like Henri Paul, was an MI6 informant. The French secret police have information that Andanson was on that fateful night in the Alma tunnel and photographed the crashed Mercedes.

A high-ranking officer of the French secret police, whose identity is not disclosed by Channel 5, suggests in an interview with British television journalists that Andanson most likely did not work alone, that he was probably manipulated by the secret services, for which the French photographer could supply compromising information on those of interest reconnaissance of VIPs.

However, this is just a hypothesis, there is no evidence for this. And probably never will be: in June 2000, James Andanson committed suicide under very mysterious circumstances - he set himself on fire in his own car without leaving a suicide note. All this detective-twisted trouble with the photographer Andanson was also not reflected in the investigation into the death of Diana.

The bodyguard doesn't remember anything

And finally, the last one. Diana's bodyguard who survived after the accident, who had suffered from post-traumatic amnesia for many months, did not bring fundamental clarity to the investigation: despite the painstaking work of psychiatrists with a former soldier who was seriously injured in the accident, the memory of what happened that terrible night worked for Rhys-Jones only in fragmentary flashes. So, he remembered that after the car hit the concrete pylon, he and Diana were conscious. In an interview with the British Mirror, Rhys-Jones said he remembers moans and then a voice calling Dodi from the back seat. He remembers that the paparazzi followed them after leaving the hotel. But he no longer remembers, in fact, nothing ...

Will this detective continue? To say anything definite would be clearly reckless. In August of this year, the British royal coroner promised to give a date for the start of his own investigation. However, a refutation followed very soon, motivated by the fact that it was still premature to undertake such an investigation. And if so, then for those to whom the conclusions of the French investigation do not seem convincing enough, the true causes of the disaster in the Alma tunnel continue to remain a mystery.

Of all the conspiracy theories of recent decades, the most colorful are those surrounding the death of Princess Diana. So far nothing has been proven that her death was nothing more than just a tragic accident, but there are several intriguing aspects that cannot simply be dismissed.

It's also important to remember that the official investigation into Diana's death found that she and Dodi Al-Fayed were unlawfully murdered and not accidental deaths, as most of the media reported at the time.

So let's take a look at these ten strange facts about the death of the "People's Princess"

Last minute car change

Although they used a particular Mercedes during the day of their death in Paris, when Diana and Dodi left the Ritz hotel shortly after midnight on the morning of August 31, 1997, they were sent another Mercedes to pick them up.

Not only was the car changed at the very last moment, but there was also no spare car, as was the case during the day, and this was standard practice for such safety trips.

There were also arguments about seat belts and who didn't wear them on this last trip. Everyone who knew Diana described her as a "habitual seat belt wearer" and found it hard to believe that she hadn't put her seat belt on. At the same time, the guard in the car, Trevor Rees-Jones, was wearing a seat belt, although this is unusual for a guard. It is standard practice for them not to wear seat belts, as this restricts their movement.

No CCTV footage of Diana's death route

Instead of taking the shortest route to Dodi's apartment in the center of Paris, driver Henri Paul chose a route that not only takes longer, but also runs along the banks of the Seine and through the Pont d'Alma tunnel, where the tragic accident occurred. The reason for this was said to be to avoid the paparazzi that followed the couple all day.

This would seem reasonable, but given that this re-routing is said to have been made at a critical time, many people found it suspicious that all 17 security cameras along the route were either disabled or not working at all. Consequently, no footage of their fateful journey was filmed, footage that would have been invaluable in determining what happened that evening.

The enigmatic Henri Paul

Driver Henri Paul was made the main culprit in the accident, largely due to accusations that he was intoxicated while driving. However, during the Diana Death Inquiry program, one medical examiner after another expressed their serious doubts both about the blood tests that were done to establish that Paul was drunk, and about his post-mortem condition. According to them, the report had more than 50 major errors.

It was also revealed that Paul worked for both French and British intelligence, and the mystery surrounding him only deepened. Several large payments had been made into his account in the months leading up to that evening in Paris. None of these payments were explained by the investigation, which led many to believe that it was a payment for Diana's death and they are trying to hide it.

Threatening phone call regarding landmine ban

In the controversial documentary Unlawful Killing, Simone Simmonds, Diana's longtime friend and collaborator, spoke of being with the princess when she received a phone call from a "high-ranking [UK] government official" regarding her ongoing campaign to ban landmines.

According to Simmonds, when Diana handed her the phone so she could hear what was being said, she heard the gentleman say, "Don't get involved in things you don't know anything about because you know accidents can happen." .

Simmonds told this version of events during the investigation into Diana's death. Diana took this as a real threat and already feared that British intelligence was listening in on her phone calls.

By the way, years after her death, it turned out that even agencies such as the NSA had thousands of transcripts of her phone calls at that time. However, they refused to release them for security reasons.

Letters that predicted her own death

In the months leading up to her death, Diana sent letters to two close friends, her butler Paul Burrell and her lawyer Lord Mitchum. In them, she stated quite clearly that the royal family and her husband were “planning her death” and that it would be “a car accident.”

While Burrell made his letter public and showed it to the press for all to see, Lord Mitcham gave his letter to the chief of police, Lord Condon. Condon kept the letter from the public, as did his successor, Lord Stevens, for several years, even though it is illegal to withhold evidence in investigations.

Diana stayed in the tunnel for 81 minutes

Diana was not removed from the damaged car for nearly 37 minutes after the crash, despite little damage to her side. In total, she lived another 81 minutes before the ambulance arrived.

Despite serious questions about his behavior at the scene, Dr. Jean-Marc Martineau did not appear at the official inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi. This decision not only aroused the suspicion that his actions that night were far from adequate. Medical experts who testified in court say that if Diana had been taken to the hospital faster, she could very well have survived.

ambulance speed

When the ambulance finally left the crash site for the hospital, it was moving at a walking speed of 19 kilometers per hour (12 mph). This has also been questioned by researchers and experts from the medical and emergency services.

The reason for the slowness was that the ambulance was carrying high-tech medical equipment. It was essentially a mobile operating room, allowing the ambulance crew to begin treatment as soon as the patient was placed in the ambulance. Traveling at high speed would put this delicate work in jeopardy.

The infamous white Fiat Uno

For some, the mysterious White Fiat Uno was the "smoking gun" of the evening. At first his presence was denied, but Fiat paint remained on the remains of the Mercedes, and shards of red taillight glass matching the Fiat Uno were found at the entrance to the tunnel.

It turned out that there was a collision between a Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi and a white Fiat Uno, as a result of which Henri Paul lost control of the car. Some people, however, wondered if the Fiat Uno was there on purpose to cause the crash.

Suspicions grew more when the car disappeared despite a nationwide search. He appears to have vanished into thin air. Conspiracy theorists have pointed to the death of former MI6 agent James Andanson, who at least officially committed suicide a few years after Diana's death.

Andanson owned a white Fiat Uno that was officially ruled out as the one involved in the accident due to being too old.

A flash of light at the entrance to the tunnel

Many witnesses told investigators and the media about the bright flash of light they saw at the entrance to the tunnel seconds before the Mercedes crashed into pillar 13. Many wondered if this flash of light was deliberate - to temporarily blind Henri Paul into losing control.

As unlikely as it may be, but... when former British secret service officer Richard Tomlinson revealed plans that he claimed came from British intelligence to assassinate a Serbian politician, the method and result used were the same as the fate that awaited Diana.

The plan was to use a bright flash of light to blind the driver of the car as he entered the tunnel and ensure a fatal crash. Coincidence?

Tunnel cleared and re-opened within a very short time

Diana, Princess of Wales, nee Lady Diana Francis Spencer was born July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, Norfolk.

She was born into the famous, well-born family of Johnny Spencer and Frances Ruth Burke Roche. The family of Diana was very glorious on both sides. Father Viscount Althorpe, a branch of the same Spencer-Churchill family as the Duke of Marlborough, and Winston Churchill. Her paternal ancestors were of royal blood through the illegitimate sons of King Charles II and the illegitimate daughter of his brother and successor, King James II. Earls Spencers have long lived in the very center of London, in Spencer House. "In this ancient and well-born blood, pride and honor, mercy and dignity, a sense of duty and the need to follow one's own path were happily combined. Always and everywhere. To have in the chest a small heart and the spirit of the king, intertwining in it firmly, inextricably: femininity and lion's courage, wisdom and composure ... "- this is how the biographer wrote about them.

But despite all the innate nobility of the viscount and viscountess of Althorp, their marriage cracked, and they failed to save the family - even the birth of the desired heir to the earl title, Diana's younger brother, Charles Spencer, did not save the situation. By the time Charles was five years old (Diana was then six years old), their mother could no longer live with her father, and the Spencers underwent a shameful and rare “procedure” for those times - they divorced. The mother moved to London, she began a stormy romance with the American businessman Peter Shand-Kid, who left his family and three children for her sake. In 1969 they got married.

1963 Two-year-old Diana rests in a chair in her home.

1964 Three-year-old Diana walks around her house with a stroller.

1965

Diana spent her childhood in Sandringham, where she received her primary home education. Her teacher was the governess Gertrude Allen, who taught Diana's mother. Lady Diana, already an adult, bitterly recalled that her mother did not really care about the custody of her babies. The princess said: “My parents were busy settling scores. I often saw my mother crying, and my father did not even try to explain anything to us. We didn't dare ask questions. Nannies replaced one another. Everything seemed so shaky…”

Later, relatives will say that parting with her mother was a huge stress for Diana. But the little girl withstood this situation with truly royal calm and unchildlike stamina, moreover, it was she who most of all helped her younger brother recover from this blow.

1967 Diana plays with her younger brother Charles outside their house.

Viscount Spencer, as far as possible, tried to mitigate the consequences of the loss and in every possible way entertained the depressed, confused, shocked children: he arranged children's parties and balls, invited dance and singing teachers, personally chose the best nannies and servants. But this still did not completely save the kids from mental trauma.

1970 Little sportswoman on holiday in Itchenor, West Sussex.

1970 Diana with her sisters, father and brother.

After the parents divorce, the children stay with their father. Soon a stepmother appeared in the house, who disliked children. Diana began to study worse at school and eventually did not finish it. The only thing she loved was dancing. Diana's education continued at Sealfield, at a private school near King's Line, then at Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School. At the age of twelve, she was admitted to a privileged school for girls at West Hill, in Sevenoaks, Kent.

"Lady Diana" (a courtesy title for daughters of high peers) she became in 1975, after the death of her grandfather, when her father inherited the earldom and became the 8th Earl Spencer. During this period, the family moved to the ancient ancestral castle of Althorp House in Nottrogtonshire.

After graduating from youth school in West Heth, Diana lived in Switzerland. Her father sent her to learn housekeeping, cooking, sewing, as well as French and other skills of a well-bred girl. Dee, apparently, did not like the process of learning very much, she was languishing from boredom, besides, she did not like French and wanted to become independent as soon as possible.

Diana in Scotland

In the winter of 1977, shortly before leaving to study in Switzerland, sixteen-year-old Lady Diana meets Prince Charles for the first time when he comes to Althorp to hunt. At that time, impeccably educated, intelligent Charles seemed to the girl just "very funny."

Since Diana strove for independence, Charles Spencer Sr. gave her such an opportunity. When she came of age, her father gave the future princess an apartment in London. Diana did not show aristocratic stiffness and willingly and confidently began her independent, adult life. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and took care of children at home. Interestingly, the hourly rate of the future princess was only one pound.

Diana as a nanny, a year before she marries Prince Charles.

At this time, the heir to the English throne courted Diana's older sister, Sarah Spencer. Diana simply idolized Lady Sarah Spencer - charming, witty, proud, though a little harsh in manners and behavior. Therefore, she was glad to see how the relations of the eldest of the Spurser sisters with such an enviable groom were developing. Charles at that time was passionate about his studies, closed, a bit cold, but his high status aroused an exaggerated interest in girls. Among the contenders for the heart of the prince was even the granddaughter of the legendary Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Charlotte. And yet, he clearly singled out the Spencer house for himself.

Cheerful Diana, who knew why the future king of Great Britain was coming to their house, smiled happily at the guest and muttered something embarrassedly in French - she really loved her sister and wished her happiness. Showering Sarah with signs of attention, Charles was also very kind to Diana, he liked the girl, but nothing special came of it. In November 1979, Diana was invited to the royal hunt. At the Earl Spencer's estate, she was to spend the weekend with her family and Prince Charles. Athletic, graceful, Diana carried herself like an Amazon on a horse, and during the fox hunt, despite her simple dress and modest demeanor, she was irresistible.

It was then that the Prince of Wales first realized that Diana was an incredibly "charming, lively and witty girl who is interesting." Sarah Spencer later said that she played "the role of Cupid" at this meeting. For the first time, Charles had a long conversation with Dee and could not help but admit that she was simply lovely. However, at that moment it was all over.

In the summer, in July 1980, Diana learned that Prince Charles had suffered a great misfortune: his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, whom the prince considered one of his closest people, the best adviser and confidant, had died. As Diana later recalled, “I saw the prince sitting alone in a haystack, thoughtful; turned off the path, sat down beside him and simply said that she had seen him in church at the funeral service. He seemed so lost, with an incredibly sad look ... This is unfair, - I thought then, - He is so lonely, someone should be there at this moment! In the evening of the same day, Charles frankly and publicly showered Lady Diana Francis with signs of attention befitting the chosen one of the prince. Sarah Spencer was completely forgotten.

At the time of the "acquisition" by Charles of Diana, the prince was 33 years old. He was the most enviable suitor in Great Britain and was considered an incredible womanizer, conqueror of girls, although this title should rather be attributed to his title. In particular, since 1972, Charles had an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, the wife of an army officer, Andrew Parker-Bowles, by the way, a good "friend" of some members of the royal family. However, Camilla was in no way suitable for the role of the future queen, and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip broke their heads a lot over how to "slip" a better candidate to their son. But then Diana appeared, and in general, saved the situation. They say that Prince Philip himself proposed to Charles to marry Diana. She was well-born, young, healthy, beautiful and well-bred. What else is needed for a good royal marriage?

In the autumn of 1980, there was a rumor about her affair with the Prince of Wales for the first time. It all started when a reporter specializing in covering the private life of the royal family filmed Prince Charles walking along the shallows of the River Dee in Balmoral in the company of a young shy girl. The attention of the world press instantly turned to this unknown person, whom everyone will soon begin to call nothing more than "timid Dee." Diana suddenly felt that she was immersed in a new life that had previously been completely unfamiliar to her. From now on, as soon as she left the apartment, numerous cameras began to click around. And even the little red car was always followed by the paparazzi wherever she went.

Prince Charles formally proposed to Lady Diana on February 6, 1981, after returning from a three-month voyage on the ship Invincible, which he was supposed to oversee as the future king. The couple met for a romantic candlelight dinner at Buckingham Palace. After dinner, Charles finally asked the girl the most important question, and Diana gave him the most important answer.

Future princess under an umbrella, 1981.

Soon all the rumors and speculation were put to rest. On February 24, the engagement of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer was officially announced. The wedding was scheduled for July 29 and was to be held at St. Paul's Cathedral. The whole of Britain was excited by the news: it lifted the spirit of the nation during a rather grim economic downturn. Apparently, the time for the wedding was chosen very opportunely.

Romantic moments from the life of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Meanwhile, preparations for the "wedding of the century" were in full swing throughout the UK.
To sew a romantic Victorian wedding dress, chastely closed, with many frills and frills, was Diana's idea. She entrusts such a responsible task to little-known designers David and Elizabeth Emmanuel and does not lose. The dress becomes legendary.

On July 29, 1981, young Diana Spencer in a chic wedding dress with an almost eight-meter white silk train went to the altar of St. Paul to become one of the members of the British royal family. Seven hundred and fifty million viewers around the world did not tear themselves away from the TV screens, where one of the most beautiful women in Europe was married to one of the richest suitors in Europe. As the Archbishop of Canterbury put it in his speech, “In such magical moments, fairy tales are born.” This day, as journalists rightly noted, began a new page in the history of the Windsor family and the whole of Great Britain.

The wedding was fabulous. And not only because it was the most expensive event of its kind (costs were estimated at 2,859 million pounds sterling). It’s just that the groom is a real prince, and the bride is fabulously beautiful and charming.

Now they will bring each other an oath of allegiance. Moreover, Diana, who was barely 20, with an unshakable hand, contrary to tradition, crossed out the promise to obey her husband from the text of her oath. Therefore, later journalists will call their marriage "Marriage of equals"

After the wedding, the girlfriends received a souvenir from Diana. For each, a rose filled in plastic from a luxurious bouquet of the bride was prepared.

Honeymoon in Scotland at Balmoral on the River Dee.

The first official trip of Prince Charles and his young wife around the country began with their titular possessions - Wales. In just three days, the prince and princess held eighteen meetings! On the first day, their itinerary included Caernarfon Castle, where Prince Charles, twelve years earlier, had been solemnly conferred the title of Prince of Wales. On the third day of her trip to Wales, Diana received the title "Freedom of the City of Cardiff". In gratitude for the honor done to her, she gave her first public speech, part of which was in the Welsh dialect.

Diana said she was proud to be the princess of such a wonderful country. Later, Diana admitted what fear and embarrassment she experienced before this visit and her first public appearance, but it was this trip that became Diana's real triumph and served as a kind of springboard into the future.

Princess Diana dozed off at an event at the Albert and Victoria Museum in 1981. The next day, her pregnancy was officially announced.

On July 21, 1982, at half past five in the morning, Prince William of Wales was born at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington.

Diana and Charles with their son Prince William. The child was baptized on August 4 and given the name Arthur Philip Louis.

In February 1984, Buckingham Palace officially announced that the Prince and Princess were expecting their second child. The boy, who was born on September 15, 1984, was named Henry Charles Albert David. In the future, he will be known as Prince Harry.

Realizing the inevitability of the press attention that the young princes will experience in the future, Charles and Diana decided to protect them from this as much as possible. In this, the parents succeeded.

When it came to the primary education of her sons, Diana opposed the fact that William and Harry were brought up in the closed world of the royal house and they began to attend preschool classes and a regular school. On vacation, Diana allowed her boys to wear jeans, sweatpants and T-shirts. They ate hamburgers and popcorn, went to the movies and rides, where the princes stood in a general line among their peers. She later introduced William and Harry to her charity work, and when she went to see hospital patients or the homeless, she often took her children with her.

Diana was actively involved in charitable and peacemaking activities. During her public appearances, Diana, whenever possible, stopped to talk to people and listen to them. She was completely free to talk with representatives of different social strata, parties, religious movements. With an unerring instinct, she always noticed exactly those who most needed her attention.

Diana used this gift, as well as her growing importance as a global figure, in her philanthropic work. It was this aspect of her life that gradually became her true calling. Diana personally participated in the transfer of donations - to the AIDS Relief Fund, to the Royal Mardsen Foundation, to the leprosy mission, to the children's hospital "Great Ormond Street Hospital", "Centropoint", to the English National Ballet. Her latest mission was to work to rid the world of landmines. Diana traveled to many countries, from Angola to Bosnia, to see firsthand the horrendous consequences of the use of this terrible weapon.

In the early 90s, a blank wall of misunderstanding grew between the most famous spouses in the world. In 1992, the tension in their relationship reached a climax, Diana began to suffer from depression and bouts of bulimia (painful hunger). Soon, Prime Minister John Major announced the decision of the Prince and Princess of Wales to separate and lead a separate life. There was no talk of a divorce then, but the following year the first of those sensational interviews that shocked the British took place - then Prince Charles admitted to the host Jonathan Dimbleby that he was unfaithful to Diana.

In December 1995, Diana appeared on the BBC's Panorama, a popular show that was watched by several million viewers. She talked about the fact that Camilla Parker-Bowles appeared in the life of the prince even before their marriage, and continued to be “invisibly present” (or even quite visible!) Throughout it. “There were always three of us in that marriage,” Diana said. - It's too much". The marriage of Charles and Diana ended in divorce on August 28, 1996 at the initiative of Queen Elizabeth II.

Despite this, interest in Diana did not decrease at all, on the contrary, the public showed more and more attention to the proud Lady Di. Reporters were still eager to get into the princess's private life, especially after her romantic relationship with Dodi Al-Fayed, the forty-one-year-old son of Arab millionaire Mohammed Al-Fayed, owner of fashionable hotels, became public in the summer of 1997. In July, they spent holidays in Saint-Tropez with Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry. The boys got along well with the friendly owner of the house.

Later, Diana and Dodi met in London, and then went on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the luxury yacht Jonical.

By the end of August, the Jonical approached Portofino in Italy, and then sailed for Sardinia. August 30, Saturday, the couple went to Paris. The next day, Diana was to fly to London to meet her sons on the last day of their summer vacation.

On Saturday evening, Diana and Dodi decided to have dinner at the restaurant of the Ritz Hotel, which Dodi owned. In order not to attract the attention of other visitors, they retired to a separate office, where, as it was later reported, they exchanged gifts: Diana gave Dodi cufflinks, and he gave her a diamond ring. At one o'clock in the morning they were going to go to Dodi's apartment on the Champs Elysees. Wanting to avoid the paparazzi crowding the front door, they left the hotel through a service exit. There they boarded a Mercedes S-280, accompanied by bodyguard Trevor-Reese Jones and driver Henri Paul.

Last photo.
The night before the fatal accident, Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed were filmed on camera at the Ritz Hotel in Paris on August 31, 1997.

The accident occurred in Paris on August 31, 1997 in a tunnel located near the Alma bridge. A black Mercedes-Benz S280 crashed into a convoy separating oncoming traffic lanes, then hit the tunnel wall, flew several meters and stopped.

The injuries sustained by Princess Diana, Dodi al-Fayed and a bodyguard were fatal. True, they managed to take Diana alive to the Pite Salpêtrière hospital, but all attempts to save her life were in vain. She was only 36 years old.
While the doctors were fighting for the life of the favorite of millions of Englishmen, forensics were working to clarify the circumstances of the accident.

The following versions of the reasons for her death gradually emerged:
. the death of the Princess of Wales in a traffic accident is nothing more than an ordinary car accident, a tragic accident;

Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes, is to blame for everything - the examination showed that he was in a state of extreme intoxication while driving;

The car accident was provoked by annoying paparazzi, who literally followed Diana's car;

The British royal family was involved in the death of the princess, who never forgave Diana for her divorce from Prince Charles;

The car lost control due to a malfunction of the brake system;

. "Mercedes" at high speed collided with another car - a white "Fiat", after which Diana's driver could not manage to control;

British secret services had a hand in the death of the princess, who intended to disrupt the marriage of the mother of the future British king with a Muslim.

Which version is the most plausible and close to the truth? The answer to this question should have been given by French experts.

The commission, created at the Institute of Criminal Studies of the French Gendarmerie, worked out all the versions of what happened. As a result, several paparazzi were brought to justice. True, no one took the liberty of accusing them of provoking the death of Princess Diana. The accusations related mainly to violations of journalistic ethics and failure to provide timely assistance to the victims. Indeed, photographers first of all sought to capture the dying Diana and only then tried to do something to save her. The assumption about the malfunction of the brake system of the Mercedes was not confirmed either.

Experts, who carefully examined what was left of the car for several months, came to the conclusion that at the time of the disaster, the car's brakes were in working condition. The investigation team also denied allegations that a drunk driver was at fault. Of course, the drunken state of Paul Henri played a role in what happened. However, not only (and not so much) it led to the tragedy. During the investigation, it turned out that before crashing into the 13th column of the tunnel, Diana's car collided with a white Fiat-Uno. According to the testimony of one of the witnesses, the latter was driven by a brown-haired man in his forties who fled the scene of the crime. After this collision, the Mercedes lost control, and then what happened was already described above.

The French police literally shook up all the owners of the white "Uno", but they did not find the right car. In 2004, the results of the investigation of the Commission of the Institute of Criminal Studies of the French Gendarmerie were transferred to "more competent authorities", which, apparently, should have decided whether enough facts had been collected and research had been conducted to close this case with good reason. However, the search for the mythical "fiat" continues. Law enforcement agencies in France are still hoping that the driver of the mysterious car will still show up and report the details of the collision, which became the prologue to the tragic disaster. In the Parisian prefecture, a special entrance was even opened for him. But so far no one has responded to the call of the police.

If the collision of the Mercedes with the Fiat really took place, and the mysterious driver exists, then it is unlikely that he will voluntarily take full responsibility for what happened, as well as the full weight of the anger of those who still remember Diana and sincerely mourn for her. It is not known when the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the "People's Princess" will be brought to an end. But whenever this happens, in England, and in many other countries, the life and death of Lady Dee will be discussed for a long time. Moreover, regardless of what the final conclusion of the mentioned “competent authorities” will be.

Probability of killing
The father of Diana's lover, billionaire Mohammed al-Fayed, is sure that the British intelligence services were involved in the death of Diana and his son. It was he who insisted on a state investigation of the car accident, which lasted from 2002 to 2008. According to al-Fayed Sr., the driver, Henri Paul, was sober during the fateful trip. “There is video footage from the Ritz Hotel where Henri Paul walks normally,” he says, “although, in theory, he should have just crawled. Doctors found a wild amount of antidepressant in his system. Most likely, this man was poisoned. Except "Moreover, I have documents that he worked for the British special services. Later they found his secret bank accounts, to which 200 thousand dollars were transferred. The origin of this money is unclear."

And Mohammed, contrary to official reports on the results of the study, claims that Diana died while pregnant:
“At first, the authorities refused to do the test, and when they did it under pressure, many years passed. During this time, traces can simply be lost. But after all, on the eve of the tragedy, Dodi and Diana visited a villa in Paris that I bought for them. They chose a room for their child there, overlooking the garden.”

Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, also agrees with the version of a conspiracy against Diana and Dodi with the participation of special services and the royal court. He has a letter to Lady Dee in which she wrote 10 months before her death: “My life is in danger. The ex-husband plans to stage an accident. The brakes will fail in my car, there will be a car accident.

“Her death was brilliantly orchestrated,” says Burrell, “it's a signature English style. Our intelligence has always “removed” people not with the help of poison or a sniper, but in such a way that it looks like an accident.”

A similar opinion is shared by the secret services themselves, for example, the infamous former officer of the British counterintelligence service MI6 Richard Tomlinson. He was arrested twice for revealing state secrets in his books on British intelligence, left Britain and now lives in France. Tomlinson openly stated that Diana was killed by MI6 agents under a "mirror" plan of a "random car accident" that was being prepared 15 years ago for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

The only survivor of a car crash in Paris is Dodi and Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rhys-Jones. He, unlike the driver and passengers, survived because he was wearing a seat belt. The shattered bones in his body are held together with 150 titanium plates and he has undergone ten surgeries.

Here is his opinion about the situation before the disaster:
“Henri Paul was not drunk that evening. He did not smell of alcohol, he communicated and walked normally. I didn't drink anything at the table. I don't know where the alcohol came from in his blood after his death. Unfortunately, I cannot explain why I was wearing seat belts in the car, but Diana and Dodi were not. My brain is damaged, I suffer from partial memory loss. My memories end when we left the Ritz Hotel”…

Parting
For the body of Princess Diana, her ex-husband, Prince Charles, flew to Paris. Butler Paul Burrell brought clothes and asked that the rosary, given to her by Mother Teresa, be placed in the hands of the princess.
In London, an oak coffin with the body of a princess stood in the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace for four nights. People from all over the world gathered at the walls of the palace. They lit candles and laid flowers.

The farewell ceremony with Princess Diana was held at Westminster Abbey.

Princess Diana was buried on September 6 at the Spencer family estate of Althorp in Northamptonshire, on a secluded island in the middle of a lake.

Diana was one of the most popular women of her time in the world. In the UK, she has always been considered the most popular member of the royal family, she was called the "Queen of Hearts" or "Queen of Hearts".
High, high, in heaven, the stars sing her name: "Diana."

British journalist Sue Reid spent 10 years studying the facts of the death of Princess Diana in a car accident in Paris and found new circumstances proving that Princess Diana and Dodi al Faed were killed by agents of the British intelligence service SAS.

The last known photograph of Princess Diana was taken on the night of her death. The princess with her friend Dodi al Fayed in the back of a Mercedes before leaving the Ritz Hotel in Paris for her nest near the Champs Elysées. Diana tries to see through the rear window of the Mercedes if they are being followed by the paparazzi who have besieged her and Dodi since their arrival in the French capital. At the wheel of the car Henri Paul, the driver of Dodi al Faed, in the passenger seat in front of the bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones.

What happened over the next two minutes is central to a new Scotland Yard investigation into the suspected murder of Princess Diana and her companions in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris by members of the SAS, Britain's secret intelligence agency. SAS is a division of the powerful secret service MI5. Many see this event as another thread of conspiracy.

Hundreds of articles have been written about Diana's death at 00:20 in the morning, August 31, 1997, in a car accident in Paris. Both investigations, Scotland Yard and the French police concluded that the death of Princess Diana was the result of a tragic accident.

However, British journalist Sue Ride claims: “The world was led to believe that the driver of the Mercedes, who was drunk, as well as the paparazzi chasing their car, was to blame for the death of Diana, but I argue that this is not true. Since the death of Princess Diana at the age of 36, I have carefully examined all the circumstances of this tragedy and now I want to make my findings public.

I spoke to eyewitnesses, French and British intelligence officers, SAS personnel, friends of Diana and Dodi al Waed. I interviewed the parents of driver Henri Paul, who was driving on that tragic day. They, with tears in their eyes, claimed that their son had never been an alcoholic. All he could afford was a bottle of beer or a liquorice-flavored glass of Ricard.

The facts I have discovered prove that Princess Diana's death was no accident. It is very important that I was able to prove that the paparazzi who allegedly pursued Diana's Mercedes were not even in the tunnel at the time of the car accident.

One of the eyewitnesses said that a powerful black motorcycle, which did not belong to any of the paparazzi, overtook Diana's Mercedes in the tunnel. The motorcycle rider and the passenger in the back seat caused this terrible accident.

In addition, the journalist discovered the involvement of an undercover SAS unit subordinate to MI6 in the disaster, and also identified the names of two MI6 officers who were involved in the circumstances of this case.

Of course, it was very convenient for some VIPs in the UK to scapegoat the driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi and thus hide the truth about that disaster from the public.

Was Princess Diana pregnant?

Diana, who recently divorced Prince Charles, was a thorn in the side of the royal family. Her affair with the Muslim Dodi, which, although it lasted only six weeks, had every reason to develop into a marriage.

The princess made an important symbolic gesture, she gave her lover the “most precious thing” - a pair of cufflinks of her late father, and also called friends and said that she had prepared a big surprise for them upon her return from Paris.

Dodi, in turn, ordered for Diana a gem-encrusted piece of jewelry from one of the best jewelers in Paris, which was engraved with the words “tell me yes”.

Diana's friends say the princess was pregnant. You can even see it in photos of her in a leopard print swimsuit, while relaxing on a yacht, fourteen days earlier.

Already after the death of Diana, it became known that she, in the strictest confidence, visited one of the best London hospitals to scan the pregnancy. Just before these leopard print swimsuit photos surfaced.

To annoy former relatives, Diana threatened to go abroad with her Muslim friend and take her children, Princes William and Harry, with her.

To this end, Dodi bought an estate in California, on the beach of Malibu, which previously belonged to movie star Julia Andrews. Dodi showed his purchase to the princess via video and, as one of Diana's friends said, then he promised her that in California they would spend the best years of their married life.

Exiled from the royal court and stripped of all titles, Diana was thrilled at the prospect.

Mohammed al-Fayed, billionaire owner of Harrods and father of Diana's future husband, claims that Diana was pregnant by his son and was preparing to talk about her upcoming marriage to her children, Princes Harry and William, upon her return to the UK.

She planned to do this before the children went to boarding school on September 1, but she did not live only one day before that date.

Could the prospect of having a colored child in an Oryol family lead to Diana's murder? If yes, who did it and how?

Princess Diana. Mission accomplished.

These questions were partly answered by the testimony of 14 eyewitnesses to the accident that night. It is said that Diana's car was surrounded at the entrance to the Alma tunnel by several cars and motorcycles, which immediately disappeared after the accident.

There was a general belief that these were paparazzi cars and motorcycles. This version, already on Monday morning the next day after the accident, was stubbornly promoted by the media.

Even at the entrance to the tunnel where the accident happened, there was an inscription in large letters “Paparazzi killer.” Someone sprayed it with gold paint on the wall. To this day, no one knows who did it and why this inscription was not erased by the French police.

Now it has become known that the paparazzi chasing Diana's car drove into the tunnel at least a minute later than the accident happened. It is clear that they are not involved in this tragedy and are not guilty.

Indeed, two years later they were cleared of charges of involvement in the death of Princess Diana, after the French public prosecutor said at a hearing that the investigation did not have enough evidence for this.

In fact, the paparazzi got behind Diana's car. Diana's driver managed to trick them back in the courtyard of the Ritz Hotel. He came up with a trick with two identical Mercedes, and while the photographers figured out what was happening, Diana and her friend quietly left.

However, eyewitnesses claim that Diana's Mercedes at the entrance to the tunnel was followed not only by a black motorcycle, but also by two Fiat Uno Turbo cars.

There is no evidence to link these cars or motorcycles to the paparazzi. One of these cars propped up behind Diana's Mercedes, provoking the driver to accelerate and drive erratically. As the cars burst into the tunnel, the second Fiat Uno Turbo accelerated and began to undercut the princess's Mercedes, pushing it towards the dividing wall.

This maneuver allowed a black motorcycle with a driver and a passenger in helmets to abruptly bypass Diana's car. Witnesses state that when the motorcycle was only a few meters from the front of the Mercedes (4.5 meters), there was a very bright flash of light from the passenger of the motorcycle towards the driver of the Mercedes. There is speculation that it was a laser beam that blinded the driver of the Mercedes.

Then there was a loud bang, the limousine swerved sharply and crashed into the 13th pillar in the tunnel. After that, Diana's Mercedes turned into a pile of twisted metal.

One of the eyewitnesses of the accident, a French ship mechanic, drove ahead of Diana's car and watched what was happening in the rear-view mirror. He saw a black motorcycle stop after the accident and one of the motorcyclists jumped off the motorcycle and looked into the window of the Mercedes. Then the motorcyclist made a gesture with his hands to someone, which is informally used in a military environment (both arms crossed at chest level move down in different directions, which means “mission accomplished”).

After that, both motorcyclists raced away forever from the tunnel and have not yet been found. This witness, with whom his wife was in the car, unequivocally described the incident as a "terrorist attack."

Was it part of a conspiracy to get rid of Diana and her lover and was it the work of the British intelligence services, MI6 and its SAS unit, while there are no hard facts about their participation in the death of Princess Diana.

Sue Reid, thanks to whom the world learned about the new circumstances of this tragedy, received entries in his blog after the death of Diana from one of the former MI6 employees.

He wrote to the journalist: “I hope you are brave enough to dig deeper and learn more about MI6 and about X and Y (the journalist does not reveal the names of agents, for obvious reasons, calling them X and Y). Both of them took part in the assassination of the princess, which was approved at the highest level.”

Later, the names of these killers became known from other sources in the intelligence services. It is alleged that there are two men who exercised overall control over the “operation in Paris”.

The two launched a version that the accident was organized to scare Diana and end her affair with Dodi, as the Muslim was considered an unsuitable partner by former members of her family. “We were hoping to break her arm or cause minor injuries,” one of these agents said. The operation was under the control of MI6 officers, but everything went wrong that night, no one in MI6 wanted to kill Diana.”

Princess Diana, what do agents of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service know about her?

The names of these two agents were mentioned in Moscow.

A veteran of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Gennady Sokolov, wrote in his book that MI6 officers X and Y were there the night Diana died in Paris and that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service intended to find out why. The author also stated that the SVR agents were familiar with these British agents.

Both are senior MI6 officers and were on a secret mission in Paris that night without the knowledge of French counterintelligence. After Diana's death, they immediately left Paris.

Princess Diana and her possible marriage to Dodi, greatly worried the British royal family. The princess's phone was constantly tapped and she herself was constantly under surveillance. After the accident, public opinion was deliberately misled. Created scapegoats, paparazzi and a drunk driver. The press wrote that Henri Paul was an alcoholic, a virtual kamikaze who helped destroy them all. This is complete nonsense.

It was clear from the start that this was not an accident. It was a purely English murder, the SVR and other special services of Russia are sure. According to their SAS, one of the units of MI6 is directly involved in the murder. These guys work at the highest level, leaving no trace.

The driver Henri Paul and Dodi al-Fayed died instantly, the only survivor, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones. However, he has many injuries to his face, chest, rupture of the pulmonary artery. They say that his memory of the events in the tunnel was "lost". Well, Diana herself died four hours later from blood loss in a hospital in Paris.

The official investigation was not too eager to establish the truth. More than 170 important witnesses, including the doctor who embalmed Diana's body (during this process, the pregnancy was disguised in post-mortem blood tests), were never interviewed by the investigation.

Another doctor at the hospital where Diana was taken said she saw a small fetus, possibly six to ten weeks old, in the princess's womb during an ultrasound scan. This witness was also not questioned by the investigation.

Judge Lord Scott Baker, who is in charge of the investigation, allowed her to put her testimony in writing, which, as it turned out later, apart from her current address in America, does not contain any other valuable information.

The authorities were particularly unfair to the driver Henri Paul, who from the very beginning was declared a chronic alcoholic.

The day after the crash, French authorities said he was an alcoholic and “drunk like a pig” when he left the Ritz the night of the crash. Later it became known that at the time this statement was made, tests for the presence of alcohol in the driver's blood were not yet ready.

In addition, the driver had undergone an intensive medical examination three days before the crash, and his liver showed no signs of alcohol abuse.

Every year, on the anniversary of Diana's death, the British bring fresh bouquets of flowers to the gilded gates of Kensington Palace. Maybe with each passing year there will be less and less flowers in memory of Princess Diana, but not questions about the circumstances of this tragedy.

Former bodyguard said car driver in which Lady Di crashed was drunk. guards saw it And could have prevented tragedy, but did not. Whorf is convinced that Princess Diana was deliberately not stopped. However, this information is far from new.

Reference: On August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car accident in Paris, along with Dodi al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul, crashing into a support pole in the Alma tunnel in Paris - the driver increased speed to escape from journalists and lost control. Al-Fayed and Paul died instantly, Diana, taken from the scene (in the tunnel in front of the Alma bridge on the Seine embankment) to the Salpêtrière hospital, died two hours later. The only surviving passenger of the Mercedes S280 car with the number "688 LTV 75", bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was seriously injured (his face had to be restored by surgeons), does not remember the events.

There are several versions of the causes of the accident.- the death of the Princess of Wales as a result of a traffic accident - nothing more than an ordinary car accident, a tragic accident; Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes, is to blame for everything - the examination showed that he was driving in a state of extreme intoxication; the car accident was provoked by annoying paparazzi, who literally followed Diana's car; the car lost control due to a malfunction of the brake system; "Mercedes" at high speed collided with another car - a white "Fiat", after which Diana's driver could not manage to control; as well as various conspiracy theories - the British royal family was involved in the death of the princess, who never forgave Diana for her divorce from Prince Charles; British secret services had a hand in the death of the princess, who intended to disrupt the marriage of the mother of the future British king with a Muslim.

Last photo.
The night before the fatal accident, Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed were filmed on camera at the Ritz Hotel in Paris on August 31, 1997.

Experts, who carefully examined what was left of the car for several months, came to the conclusion that at the time of the disaster, the car's brakes were in working order. The investigation team also denied allegations that a drunk driver was at fault. Of course, the drunken state of Paul Henri played a role in what happened. However, not only (and not so much) it led to the tragedy. During the investigation, it turned out that before crashing into the 13th column of the tunnel, Diana's car collided with a white Fiat-Uno. According to the testimony of one of the witnesses, the latter was driven by a brown-haired man in his forties who fled the scene of the crime. After this collision, the Mercedes lost control, and then what happened was already described above.

Probability of killing?

The father of Diana's lover, billionaire Mohammed al-Fayed, is sure that the British intelligence services were involved in the death of Diana and his son. It was he who insisted on a state investigation of the car accident, which lasted from 2002 to 2008. According to al-Fayed Sr., the driver, Henri Paul, was sober during the fateful trip. "There is video footage from the Ritz Hotel showing Henri Paul's gait is normal, he says, although, in theory, he should have just crawled. In his body, doctors found a wild amount of antidepressant. Most likely, this person was poisoned. In addition, I have documents that he worked for the British intelligence services. Later they found his secret bank accounts, to which 200 thousand dollars were transferred. The origin of this money is unclear.

And Mohammed, contrary to official reports on the results of the study, claims that Diana died while pregnant: “At first, the authorities refused to do the test, and when they did it under pressure, many years passed. During this time, traces can simply be lost. But after all, on the eve of the tragedy, Dodi and Diana visited a villa in Paris that I bought for them. They chose a room for their child there, overlooking the garden.”.

Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, also agrees with the version of a conspiracy against Diana and Dodi with the participation of special services and the royal court. He has a letter to Lady Di in which she wrote 10 months before her death: "My life is in danger. My ex-husband is planning an accident. My car's brakes will fail, there will be a car accident.".

“Her death was brilliantly organized, - Burrell says, - This is a corporate English style. Our intelligence has always “removed” people not with the help of poison or a sniper, but in such a way that it looks like an accident.”

Here is his opinion about the situation before the disaster: “Henri Paul was not drunk that evening. He did not smell of alcohol, he communicated and walked normally. I didn't drink anything at the table. I don't know where the alcohol came from in his blood after his death. Unfortunately, I cannot explain why I was wearing seat belts in the car, but Diana and Dodi were not. My brain is damaged, I suffer from partial memory loss. My memories end when we left the Ritz Hotel.”... (Diana, Princess of Wales. The life and secrets of the death of famous people.)

Death at the end of the tunnel, or a fairy tale with a sad ending / Was Diana's death predicted? (Material by A. Sidorenko)

The paparazzi became especially active when they learned about the affair of Diana and Dodi al-Faed. The son of the Egyptian financial tycoon Mohamed Faed, who settled in London, Dodi was seriously carried away by Diana and, after relaxing with the princess and her children on the Cote d'Azur in France, even admitted to his relative that she had agreed to marry him.

On August 30, 1997, Diana and Dodi arrived in Paris after a 10-day stay on the French Riviera. Diana and her friend spent the whole last day of their lives under the guns of cameras and video cameras of the paparazzi, only in the Ritz Hotel, owned by Dodi's father, did they finally manage to retire. Photographers, just in case, decided to split up: some went to the 16th district of Paris, where Dodi had his own house, others remained on guard at the hotel.

After midnight, security tried to send the paparazzi on duty at the Ritz on a false trail. Several identical cars drove away from the hotel, one of which was the driver Dodi, and moved in different directions. However, when the Mercedes with Dodi and Diana left the hotel, several paparazzi nevertheless followed them on motorcycles.

"Mercedes" tried to break away from the uninvited escort and developed a speed of about 160 km / h, but the paparazzi did not lag behind. At 0.25 the Mercedes flew into the tunnel of the Alma Bridge, there was a terrifying screech of tires and the sound of a blow ... The car crashed into one of the pillars of the tunnel, flew off, rolled over several times and froze in the middle of the road. It was no longer a Mercedes, but a pile of mangled metal. The driver and Dodi died immediately, and Diana and her bodyguard were seriously injured. Instead of trying to help the victims, one of the paparazzi began frantically photographing what was left of the car and its passengers.

After 10 minutes, the ambulance arrived. For about an hour, rescuers pulled Diana out of the crumpled car. Only at 2 o'clock in the morning the princess was taken to the Salpêtrière Drinking Hospital, but all attempts to save her were unsuccessful. At 4 o'clock in the morning it was announced that Diana's heart had stopped. Britain greeted Sunday morning with flags at half mast in mourning...

Lady Dee, according to the recollections of her friends and relatives, took mysticism very seriously. With the help of the British clairvoyant Rita Rogers, she arranged séances to connect with her late father. It was Rogers that she visited with Dodi 19 days before her death. What Rogers prophesied to her is unknown ...

On the eve of the 5th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in England, a book by her former bodyguard Ken Whorf was published. He called it "A carefully guarded secret." The book immediately became a bestseller, although it caused fury not only among the royal family, but also among most Britons. Ken Whorf was Diana's bodyguard for almost 6 years - from 1987 to 1993. According to him, he not only guarded Lady Dee, but was also her confidant. It was to him that she revealed many of the secrets of her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles.

Whorf's book is full of shocking revelations. The author not only cites Diana's unflattering remarks about her husband and members of the royal family and talks about the princess's lovers, but also confirms that all her telephone conversations were tapped and recorded on tape by the secret services.

Whorf characterizes Charles as a very cold person and believes that it was his relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles that pushed Diana into relationships with other men and eventually led to a divorce. The former bodyguard did not spare Diana herself either: according to him, at times she threw real tantrums, and sometimes she behaved simply disgustingly. Some consider the publication of this book a real betrayal: first, Diana was betrayed by her husband, and now by the man to whom she entrusted her secrets. In his defense, Whorf says that he did not intend to upset anyone - he just wanted to tell the whole truth about Diana, so his book is an important historical document. Of course, everything can always be explained by the best intentions. The only thing Ken Whorf doesn't want to talk about is the tidy sum he got for his book. Most likely, it was the money that prompted the former bodyguard to take up the pen. But, alas, such is the sad fate of all celebrities: whether they are alive or dead, they make money. After all, the public is so eager to know the "whole truth" about the idols it created... (Death at the end of the tunnel, or a fairy tale with a sad ending / Was Diana's death predicted?)

As a bonus. The former bodyguard of Princess Diana spoke about the behind-the-scenes moments of her life.

Ken Whorf served as bodyguard of the British royal family for 16 years. At first he was the personal bodyguard of Princess Diana and her sons, and after the death of Lady Di, he was engaged in the protection of Princes William and Harry. During this time, Ken witnessed various behind-the-scenes moments in the life of the royal family, some of which he spoke about recently in an interview with the Daily Mail. We publish the most interesting quotes.

On meeting Princess Diana for the first time:

I came to an interview at Kensington Palace in 1986. They were looking for a bodyguard for Princes William and Harry. The first thing she said about her sons is: "I don't envy you, Ken. Sometimes they turn into real bloodsuckers.". William, who was immediately playing the piano, turned around and said to this: "I'm not a bloodsucker". And Harry at that time was on a small table, on which stood a vase of flowers. After a while, she fell to the floor. William laughed and Diana kicked them out of the room. I didn't say a single word at the time. Diana returned and said: "I'm sorry, Ken". And then I thought: "We'll definitely get along".

About Princes William and Harry:

Harry is more like Diana than William. He was loved by all the staff of the Palace. William, as a rule, was often cunning, while Harry was very open. You always knew exactly what to expect from him. He was pleasant, he could come to our room, knock and say: "Is there any battle planned? I'm bored. Can I at least play with your walkie-talkies?" William never did that, he was always very reserved. And he was quite a difficult child. Everyone loved Harry more because he is more fun. William - no. This is his character, in addition, he always understood who he would become. Plus, he lived in the palace, he was looked after around the clock by chefs, nannies, drivers, cleaners, security guards, stylists. He knew from childhood that he was special.

I thought that Harry will become popular when he grows up - everyone has his sense of humor and communication style. In addition, he constantly helps someone, participates in charitable work. In all this, he also resembles Diana. Harry would have been a great, memorable king, but sadly, that's not going to happen.

On Princess Diana and Prince William's relationship:

Diana always brought William down to earth just in time, just like his nanny Olga Powell. Her catchphrase: "William, I love you, but I don't like you". He often indulged. For example, Diana will put aside her bowl of cereal and turn away while William hides it. To Diana's question "Where is the plate?" he will answer "I don't know, maybe Harry has something to do with her".

On Prince William's attitude towards the media:

William must get rid of his negative attitude towards the media. Diana was killed by the incompetence of the security forces that night in Paris. End of story. The press was very supportive of him and his family. So he needs to cool down a bit.

About Princess Diana:

Two days after her funeral, my colleagues and I gathered at a bar. I was terribly depressed, we were all upset. We found it hard to believe that Diana could have died in a car accident. We remembered the best, funniest moments - and there were a lot of them. In the end, we all laughed. Diana was very funny. I talked a lot afterwards with her mother, who always had not the best relationship with the royal family. And once she said: "We're not of royal blood, that's the point". In a way, I agree with her. Diana was not a princess in the full sense, she was always much simpler and freer. She was ahead, but the royal family could not accept it. (