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Princess Di Revelations...10 Years Later
Suspense, lies and intrigue still swirl around Princess Diana nearly a decade after her death.
A new report due out this week on the death of the beloved British icon will apparently reveal that the CIA had been bugging her phones prior to her fatal car crash in Paris Aug. 31, 1997, and that the car's driver was drunk and speeding that night.
London's Observer reports that the U.S. intel agency had tuned into Diana's telephone conversations—without the approval of British authorities—mere hours before she and her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, died.
However, security experts and royal watchers say the bugging was not likely part of some nefarious plot but rather, simply, a result of her involvement as an anti-land mine crusader.
"Perhaps it's that link that made her of interest to outside intelligence services," Crispin Black, a former British government intelligence analyst, told ABC News. "That doesn't mean it was something sinister."
"She actually had put herself in a very high-profile political position. I think it probably would be odd if she wasn't being monitored," added Ingrid Seward, the editor in chief of Majesty magazine.
The new study also reportedly reveals that driver Henri Paul, who also perished in the crash, was intoxicated. According to the British Broadcasting Corp., Paul had three times the French legal limit of alcohol in his blood. In addtion, the report notes that Paul had been under the influence of antidepressants and was driving too fast in order to elude the media, all of which contributed to the crash.
Conspiracy buffs have claimed the drunken-driver theory was a farce and that DNA was switched as part of a cover-up, but the tests revealed the blood was indeed Paul's.
All of these findings, along with the ruling that Diana's death was an accident, are expected to be officially revealed when the report is issued Thursday.
The inquest is part of a formal probe into the death of the princess that was opened in January 2004. At the time, Royal Coroner Michael Burgess asked police to hold a top-level investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths. According to Reuters, Burgess ordered investigators to examine conspiracy theories that the couple was offed by British spies in an effort to staunch royal embarrassment about their relationship.
Last week, a former judge ruled that preliminary hearings, which take place Jan. 8 and 9 at the Royal Courts of Justice, will be a public affair. The ruling comes after Al Fayed's father, Mohamed, who owns Harrods department store, launched a public protest at keeping things secret, which had been the original decision of presiding judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. The now-public proceedings will decide whether a jury should be present for a full inquest.
"He doesn't believe that anything should be held behind closed doors. There's no reason for it, nobody has anything to fear from the cold light of day, [other] than those who may be guilty," Al Fayed's spokesman told Sky News.
The mogul still believes the British spy theory and hopes the inquest will prove his case.
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