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Diana Inquest Launched, Adjourned
The plot has officially thickened in the six-year-old death of Princess Diana.
With tabloid-fueled speculation contending that Lady Diana Spencer was killed in a plot by ex-husband Prince Charles to free him up to remarry, the royal coroner in London has launched a formal probe. Coroner Michael Burgess has ordered the police to delve into the car crash that caused the death of the princess, boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver.
In 1997, a French court deemed the Paris crash an accident, citing that driver Henri Paul was drunk and speeding. But since then, conspiracy theorists, led most notably by Al-Fayed's high-powered father, have continued to present evidence to support their case. After a recent newspaper report of a letter from Diana to her butler predicting her death at the hands of her ex, enough eyebrows were raised to warrant an official inquiry.
Burgess opened the case Tuesday, telling the press, "I'm aware that there is speculation that these deaths were not the result of a sad but relatively straightforward road traffic accident in Paris."
Before adjourning the case and promising it would be reopened early next year, Burgess asked London police to examine the conspiracy theories and decide if they should be part of the probe. He also said he planned to focus on "who the deceased person was, and how, when and where the cause of death arose.''
For now, all parties involved seem pleased with the inquest order.
Mohammad al Fayed, who has maintained since the beginning that his son and Diana were murdered, told APTN that "this is what we have been waiting for six years. At last I hope we can see the light.''
A spokeswoman for Charles, Clarence House, said the prince and sons William and Harry "are very pleased that the inquest is finally under way.'"
The news comes on the heels of Tuesday's revelation by London's Daily Mirror of the full contents of a letter between Diana and butler Paul Burrell. Until now, the names in the letter were blacked out to the media. But Tuesday's paper revealed that the letter read: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." Charles had already begun seeing Camilla Parker Bowles on the sly--the two have since come out publicly as a couple.
Other rumors supporting the purported murder plot include stories of stolen photos of the crash site, hints to the possibility of a pregnancy and accusations that Diana would have survived if she had been treated faster.
Charles' camp had no comment on any of these revelation, but London's Mirror claims Burrell plans to turn the damning letter over to the coroner.
One person who is talking is the princess' former bodyguard Ken Wharfe. He calls all of the conspiracy theories bunk and says he is positive that the crash in Paris was an accident. "I have said this many, many times, the Princess of Wales was killed tragically in nothing more than a mundane road traffic accident,'' he told Britain's ITV television.
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