Last month, Scotland Yard announced that they were kind of/sort of re-opening the investigation into Princess Diana’s death in France in 1997. Scotland Yard had received some startling “new information” – the ex-wife of a former “special services” soldier had told his then-wife that he had been ordered to kill Diana in a military operation that was – supposedly – authorized by the highest echelons of British political power. In the 16 years since her death, the conspiracy theories and investigations have never really ended, they just pause momentarily before beginning anew with some new piece of information or conspiratorial wrinkle. So what is the new wrinkle in this case? The soldier allegedly told his wife that the military forced driver Henri Paul to crash by flashing a blinding light into the tunnel:
Princess Diana‘s death was not a tragic car accident but a deliberate murder by special forces who shone a bright light into the car she was in a shocking new report claims and Scotland Yard has been investigating the possibility.
When Prince William and Harry’s mother died in a Paris tunnel after her Mercedes crashed travelling over 100 mph the original inquiry said that her driver had been drunk and was fleeing the chasing paparazzi, but the Sunday Express is reporting that a former SAS sniper told his wife that “a piercing light was shone directly at the car they were traveling in,” and that his colleagues were “responsible for her death.”
The woman, who is now divorced from “Soldier N” gave an interview to Scotland Yard in August and she said that her former husband had given Prince William defensive driving lessons in 2008 and that was when he decided to reveal the secret plot that had killed Diana.
She said that he had known about the plot that had occurred but told her: “It’s an order, a job’s a job.”
The Sunday Express reported that during her interview the woman recounted how her husband revealed the secret plan that resulted in her death.
“We were talking about it (the driving course) and I was saying how lovely it was that Princes William and Harry were doing so well and that it was sad their mum wasn’t here to see it.
“Then he said to me one of the guys was responsible for the accident, for the death of Diana. I was shocked. I believed what he said.
“He went on to tell me that it had to be done in a tunnel, that people had been monitoring them (Diana and Dodi)…a light was shone in the driver’s eyes.”
She reportedly told authorities that the accident in the Parisian tunnel was a strategic location.
“He said that it had to happen in the tunnel to guarantee death. He said that it looked bad so they left.”
The dramatic revelation is another key element being investigated by Scotland Yard about Princess Diana’s death but they have denied that they have “reopened” the case.
If you think this is a new conspiracy theory, then I would suggest you meet me in my blanket fort with your own adjustable tin foil hat. This theory has been around for YEARS. I remember even in the months just after Diana’s death, there were mysterious reports of a very bright flash just before the crash. And correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Lifetime do a movie about this exact conspiracy theory? This was years ago, like 2002-ish I want to say. The Lifetime movie was a fictional account of an American journalist trying to track all of the various reports that didn’t coincide with the official story of a drunk driver being trailed by paparazzi, crashing the car because he was sh-tfaced. The “journalist” ended up with a theory of the crime that was a lot like this – that this was an elite military operation involving a bright flash in a confined space (a tunnel), ordered by someone very high up the food chain.
So, do you want to put on your tin foil hat and join me in the bunker? Do I think this COULD be true? Eh. I mean, it’s “possible”. But is it probable? I doubt it.
Photos courtesy of Mario Testino, archive portraits.
That would be the dumbest plan ever, with absolutely no assurance of success. So no, I’m not putting on my tinfoil hat for this one.
Exactly! This makes no sense. A bright light that they could use without knowing where she was driving? People are crazy.
And did they tamper with her seat belt as well? She could have lived if she’d been wearing it, so unless they knew she wasn’t then this was a pretty stupid plan.
*Climbs into the blanket bunker*
The seat belts did not have to be tampered with if an accident was bad enough. A seat belt does not ensure you will leave the accident without mortal wounds either. Simply gives you a better chance at survival.
The plan makes a bit of sense in that there would be no direct interference with the car and it would be a sudden act. No finger prints or evidence to lead them back to specific people.
Do I buy this story? Not really, but i wouldn’t write it off 100%.
Ridiculous .
Got my tin foil hat but not jumping in the bunker yet. I do remember hearing about the lights but til they can prove it caused the crash, it’s just another conspiracy theory.
I wish someone would come up with a conspiracy to kill this topic.
Where is the husband? What is his statement about this?
Dianna wasn’t a threat to security or anything else. What would be the point of offing her?
Exactly. Every time people bring up crazy new conspiracies about Diana’s death, I just want someone to ask them this: what would be the point? If they were going to kill her over shaming the Royal Family or something, wouldn’t they have done it BEFORE she 1) outed Charles as a cheater, 2) admitted her own adultery, 3) trashed the Firm in a nationally televised interview, and 4) divorced Charles? At that point, she was nothing but William’s and Harry’s mother.
I don’t usually feel sorry for William and Harry, but I do when these conspiracy theories about Diana’s death comes up. I know from experience, when you lose someone as close to you as that, you want to try to get some peace with their memory, even if “closure” isn’t totally possible. When people dredge up these theories for fun or profit or whatever, I wish they would remember this woman had two children who might find it incredibly painful to watch their mother’s name and memory be dragged out for public sport and fun.
I don’t know what to believe regarding Diana’s death, however, I don’t discount the fact that she was William and Harry’s mother. One was the future King of England. She had considerable influence over two boys, who by all accounts loved her dearly. And the royal family had no control over her influence nor the love these boys had for their mother. Because she was their mother Is the reason I can’t simply dismiss, in my mind, the possibility she was killed.
She was a thorn in the side of Charles and the Royals. She was infuriatingly popular. Her death was just oh so convenient for the Palace.
I’m keeping my tinfoil crown, TYVM. There’s just way too much that doesn’t add up.
Diana was becoming increasingly embarrassing to the Royals. Her behavior was damaging to William and Harry as well. They were not happy about their mother off with Dodi and William and Diana were not speaking when she died. And how Diana was quite proud of how Dodi had no clue she was using him for his lifestyle and money. All this on top of Diana claiming she was about to reveal something big in the coming days makes any conspiracy to shut her up have some bit of likelihood.
The theory is that would have been unthinkable for the Crown prince to have half-siblings on the mother’s side, especially with a non-white Anglo and non-Christian family like the Fayeds.
@Ally8
Could be – except I don’t think that Diana’s relationship with Dodi was that serious. I don’t think that she would have married him, and I have never bought the theory that she was pregnant when she died.
We’ll never know, of course, but she was really in love with Hasnat Khan, not Dodi.
There are actually several reasons, some mentioned above. Another forgotten reason is that she was working hard and successfully to have landmines banned. The military industrial complex did not like that. And the campaign fell apart after her death.
Either way, its a fact that Dianas death was because she didnt wear her seatbelt and an agent would have made sure that she would die no matter what. They wouldnt have left such a simple variable unchecked and there is also no way they could have forced the driver to go 100+ mph either.
Or made the driver get drunk.
I think the headline would qualify as a “question to which the answer is no.”
If anyone is familiar with Mitchell & Webb from the UK, you may have seen how they blow this theory out of the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4meFC1ee7Q
They really do break it down so well
Love them
I believe she was killed but I highly doubt the truth is ever going to come out.
Same here. On one hand I think they had no reason to kill her since she did spill so much. But then again, what if she held more secrets as blackmail? I don’t think ppl understand how something like divorce is intolerable in certain circles at the top of the food chain, even here in America. It’s why we angrily wonder how some political wives stay w their husbands. She was supposed to be QUEEN! I mean, our country has gone to several wars, murdering thousands, based on lies. Why wouldn’t they kill one woman based on embarrassing truthful revelations? Men and their ego……
Idk what killed her. But to think governments would never conspire to manipulate circumstances to protect their interests is naive to me. Blindingly, unquestioningly trusting our government is why the world is fkd up.
Mcgraw I agree with everything you said except the world is fckd up bc of our own fckd up choices (yes, each individual, all 6 billion +).
I believe she was killed too but I never took the time to look into all the different theories. I’m too busy looking into all the JFK conspiracies honestly. However I don’t put it beyond the government at all. With all the filth the US has done and being biffles with England, no doubt about it. However to say that the world is messed due to we the people is wrong. There are countless messages from everyone around the world wanting peace however our governments are wanting control and power. They are the ones continuing to create wars, laws, and everything in between. Now not all people want peace but I can say a good 5 billion probably do. And resources that don’t run out (Hello Hemp, why don’t they legalize you here in America?) as well as natural remedies versus the pharmaceuticals they continue to make extreme money from. I doubt the billions of people want to continue eating poison that the US has been putting in our food and fighting labeling of GMOs.
My bad, I didn’t mean to get all political tangent on this comment but I can’t agree with the comment it’s messed up because of our choices.
I too believe she was killed. Power and money do some very ugly things to people, and make them believe they can do whatever to whomever they wish. I agree that we will never know the truth. All I know is Henri Paul sure didn’t look as drunk as they claimed he was in the surveillance video of him, Diana, and Dodi waiting to leave the hotel.
@MCraw I agree with your perspective on governments and what they are capable of.
The conspiracy theories have never made sense to me. The night she died she and Dodi were changing plans, moving from place to place on a whim. It would have been a stupid time to stage something like this, there would have been plenty of other opportunities, almost daily opportunities, when they knew for sure she’d be going through a tunnel, here she and Dodi could have been going anywhere, they were making such snap decisions. They were also being followed by the paparazzi, and it would be risky to do something like this while there are dozens of witnesses documenting everything.
Honestly if someone wanted Diana killed, they just needed to create a situation where it looked like a crazy person shot her. In the months before she was killed her more deranged fans were becoming especially unhinged and racists were going nuts over her relationships with two muslims. People would have had no trouble believing some loony killed her, and it would have been a hell of a lot simpler and cleaner than a car crash. If she’d been wearing a seatbelt, if she’d been in a different seat, if she’d even just been positioned differently when the crash happened, she probably would have survived. Of all the ways to do something like this, a car crash would be one of the worst.
JFK was killed in front of everyone. And with all the cameras on him, no one ever paid attention to the gun his own driver shot him with. So it’s possible.
Everyone knew exactly where JFK was going to be. Kate mentions that no one knew exactly what or where Diana and Dodi were going to be, including them. They changed plans during the evening.
Oh I know. I’m just saying brutal crimes happen all the time in front of ppl, cameras and it’s so shocking, no one knows what happened or who did it.
“JFK was killed in front of everyone. And with all the cameras on him, no one ever paid attention to the gun his own driver shot him with.”
Are you saying JFK was shot by his driver?
Jesus, let this poor woman rest in peace. Enough with the “shocking new information” every few years, this is getting more than a little pathetic.
You mean a bright light like … a camera flash? When it’s well known that paparazzi were ahead of them just before the crash, as evidenced by the last pictures before the accident that were taken from in front of the car and show the driver and the bodyguard shielding their faces from the camera flash?
Ugh, I hate these conspiracies. Sometimes people die. Even young and beautiful people who seem to have everything going for them. I feel like the conspiracies are just people who can’t deal with that trying to find a way around it. It was a drunk driver, no seatbelt, and an attempt to speed away from hounding paparazzi that killed Diana. Let the poor woman rest in peace.
yeah, I don’t buy this theory.
It was a car accident.
But people won´t believe that the famous Diana died in a car crash. She was so divine for some people, they cannot live with the fact that Diana was a normal human being and died so “common”
I think you are right on about her death being too common for some people to accept.
Did the military get the driver drunk too? This is just ridiculous. Let the people who died rest.
Merritt
Didn’t the driver only have 2 drinks over the course of a few hours? He was reported to be drunk, but later was shown not to be. Correct?
I don’t really believe in conspiracy theories normally, but there is a little part of me that does think she was killed off. She was too much trouble to the royal family, and always would have been, and it was highly convenient she went away and that the royal family has weathered a storm but have come out smelling like roses again now.
The little thing that always niggles my mind is Henri Paul was supposed to have been pretty drunk, and yet there is that video of him squatting down to tie his shoelace right before they left the building and he never staggered or lost balance, just straight down, straight up. I have trouble doing that without being drunk, yet he was supposed to have been and he did it so smoothly. Dunno, too many little loose ends to make me feel comfortable with a straight up accident.
Just every time these things come up I still have this little doubt. I don’t think we’ll ever know though.
The ‘drunk driver’ thing is a refrain taken up by people who have a zero approach to drinking and driving.
There is a legal drinking limit, but that is an average figure. Some people are still lucid and sober beyond that limit. Some people drink one unit and they are over the limit, others drink several units before they are over the limit.
Fayed’s people knew he was off duty and his routine was to have a few drinks after work. They thought he was OK to drive when he showed up, including the bodyguard who survived the accident.
The video visual and anecdotal evidence shows someone who was OK.
Unfortunately for him, once the accident happened, the fact that he was over the LEGAL limit, that immediately put him beyond the pale, particularly with the zero tolerance people.
The story was retold as though he were staggering drunk when he got behind the wheel.
He probably would have been fine for a typical field sobriety test, but the with the speed he was driving at a few drinks would have made a difference. Decision making skills are impaired, and reactions are slower – things that are important at 100mph.
How a particular person acts when they are drunk depends on many factors, but one of the most predictive is whether they are a habitual drinker. Long-term drinkers build up a tolerance as they drink, and as the years go on, they require more and more booze to reach the same levels of intoxication. From the info that’s out there, Henri Paul had a routine of having a few drinks after work. If he was a long-term drinker, the same amount of booze needed to impair a non-drinker would have done very little to him. It is totally possible to be over the legal limit to drive and yet be able to perform basic tasks. Not hard at all.
But if it is true that Henri Paul had not been impaired by the drinks, people also need to stop claiming the accident didn’t happen because of a conspiracy, but because of the drunk driver (see below).
But that’s not what’s being argued, if you read the comments. It is possible for a person to be heavily impaired as to large cognitive tasks (like driving) but be able to perform small ones. The fact that Paul could tie his shoes and walk without stumbling doesn’t mean he wasn’t drunk. It just means he had a tolerance and largely had learned how to function while impaired. But he was impaired.
No one can attest to Paul’s tolerance but that is why we have scientific blood alcohol content tests – we shouldn’t have to hypothesize. This has nothing todo with conspiracies it is just the law. And common sense.
Besides Paul had recently broken up with a long term girlfriend who had a daughter he had become extremely attached to. Reportedly he had been drinking heavier than usual as a result. And since he had been called in unexpectedly to work it is not a stretch to imagine he had consumed alcohol at home, believing that he was done for the night.
Lastly, I bartended in college and you don’t have to be staggering or stumbling to be hammered,
Anything is possible and I wouldn’t put this past the Queen, but people lately know that to make easy money you just need a slight connection to someone famous, you cook up something (a sex tape, a rumor) and bang, there’s cash and attention.
Look I am a Religious/Spiritual person, however I also use wisdom. I do not care if a horse ran in front of the car and the cow jumped over the moon, she was not wearing a seat belt!!!! Maybe the seatbelt would have saved her maybe it would not have! Maybe the Lord said “Time is up my dear”.
I am so into believing that things are sometimes not as they appear but we will never know unless we have major concrete evidence! Especially if you plan to come against the crown!
Her driver was under the influence going very very fast and she was not wearing a seat belt, unless God said other wise she was leaving here!
I had a friend in High School who went through a car window, split her head wide open, and was in a coma for a while .. missed our graduation and everything, Thank the Lord she is alive and well all these years later. Then I had a God Sister who was just 18 yrs old, she also went through a car window , neither one of them was wearing a safety belt .. My God sister went home to be with the Lord , my friend did not! Sometimes we are the cause of a lot more of our issues and problems than we would like to acknowledge! I ADORE PRINCESS DIANA … I am an American and make no apologies about it . But some truths are very hard to accept!
People don’t want to be believe that somebody as loved and profilic as Diana could have died in such a tragic but very ordinary way – being a passenger in a car with a drunk, speeding driver. That is what this is all about.
I agree Sam. Because it was an ordinary way to die, and for so many people and for many different reasons, she was extraordinary. Therefore, some people do not want to believe that she could die in such a way – it has to be political, meaningful, etc. Because she was Diana.
There were a lot of tragic mistakes that night. I don’t think that it was a conspiracy.
Diana was under the care of Mohamed Fayed and his staff the whole time she was in Paris – his bodyguards, drivers, security, etc. I think he’s still full of remorse that she died under his watch, so he’s covering up his guilt by fabricating the whole “Diana was killed” stories. There’s a great BBC documentary which basically debunks all the conspiracy theories being bandied about (mostly by Mohamed Fayed) – here’s the link, you may have to download a plug-in to view it.
http://www.watchdocumentary.tv/princess-diana-the-night-she-died/
Well, that would explain the mysterious paparazzis with blacked out helmets. Maybe they were chasing the car into that specific tunnel.
I dunno. Maybe.
More than “could” be…in fact let’s upgrade this to very likely.
I love the naive on here who think that the Mi6Secret service have never killed influential, very famous people. Hello welcome to the real world?
Also, I bet the same people didn’t know that many other witnesses driving in the Parisienne tunnel who also witnessed the blinding light, happened to vanish into thin air and become missing persons – just like that.
If you think about when the sun shines piercing light onto your windscreen when driving, causing you to temporarily avert your eyes, blink, squint and almost run your car off the course it’s running, well imagine that times 10 in strength and you have an almost guaranteed accident.
It’s not a conspiracy theory when all the facts and figures point to something highly untoward, it then becomes more of a ‘likelihood’.
Ummm…we are not naïve. In fact most of us have done our own research and reading (see my post above with the link to a documentary that de-bunks the conspiracy theories very clearly), and many of us were adults when it happened and have followed it closely ever since.
One person committed suicide, everyone else didn’t “go missing” who was involved. The man who had a white Fiat Uno committed suicide, however forensics confirmed that it wasn’t the Fiat Uno that clipped their Mercedes and that he’d been chronically depressed for a long time. Henri Paul was legitimately drunk, eye witnesses and toxicology tests confirmed this. He was also on Paxil which, when mixed with alcohol, can produce a hyper state in which the person thinks they’re invincible. He was driving a dangerous tunnel going 100 MPH when the stated speed limit is 40 (I’ve been to that tunnel and it’s an accident waiting to happen).
I don’t think the royal family is that Machiavellian to want to off her because she was dating a Muslim and MI6 had no reason to assassinate her – it’s not like she was leaking state secrets.
It’s naive to trust anything BBC, CNN, Fox News, and all the other controlled media outlets publish.
Nobody ever states the OBVIOUS – the ONLY person who survived in the car was wearing his seat belt. Seat belts, people… WEAR THEM. The other OBVIOUS fact was that the driver was extremely drunk.
I’ve been through the Alma tunnel (where the crash occurred.) It’s a very short tunnel. Regardless of whether there were headlights “blinding” the driver, cars chasing them, another car bumping them, etc., if the driver had been sober, if seat belts had been worn and if the driver hadn’t been speeding, this whole mess could have been avoided. HUMAN ERROR. DRIVER ERROR. Conspiracy theories (in this case) are just ridiculous.
I do think Diana was a nitwit, but she was a nitwit who genuinely did good works and brought joy to thousands of sick people and attention to a cause (landmines) maiming thousands every year.
I also still think of her every time I get into a back seat of a car… it makes me buckle my seat belt there, when I wouldn’t have done so before her death. Who knows how many people’s lives she’s saved through that.
Diana died because she was not wearing a seatbelt and her driver was drunk as a skunk. That’s all, nothing else.
Years ago I was in a car that my brother was driving and we went too fast through the same kind of tunnel. Our car hit the wall but we all survived becase WE WERE WEARING SEATBELTS. We were jerked around and hurt a bit while Diana, Dodi and their driver were THROWN around inside the car. That’s why they died. No secret here.
I know these stories will never end because the JFK theories have not ended and it’s been 50 years, so I just shake my head and move on.
Complete rubbish, just like every conspiracy theory.
The driver was drunk and driving way too fast. Diana wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. How is it surprising that she ended up dead? Imo, the reason gossip rags keep pushing this nonsense is that they don’t want to take a good long look at themselves. The papparazzi chasing her were the people who actually aided and abetted Diana’s death. And they’ve only gotten worse since.
I wear my tin hat proudly on this one. Her death was far too convenient for the royals. Can you imagine if Diana were still around outshining Charles and being Grandma #1 to the baby heir? Oh the image of Diana and her son/daughter with Dodi proudly pushing a royal stroller together down Kensington high street … Now tell me the royals didn’t have a stake in preventing that scenario.
Sometimes a car crash is just a car crash, people.
Was Diana pregnant when she died? I remember hearing that but no idea if its true.
No, she was most definitely not pregnant. Her best friend, Rosa Monkton, stated at an inquiry that when she was with Diana the week before she left for the ill-fated trip to Paris she was on her period. Nor was she engaged to Dodi – she told Rosa that she was worried that Dodi was going to give her a ring and that if he did she was going to wear in “firmly” on her right hand.
That’s cold. Certainly fits in with how Diana wanted to repair her image and begin reestablishing herself in with the elite and slowly away from dodi and his family.
I’m inclined to believe there might have been some interference with the car, if only because the Palace was concerned about the fact (?) that Diana was considering taking her boys out of country to live a new life and there was no way the Queen would ever allow that. But that’s just speculation. Because I also find it hard to believe the Queen would be okay with ordering/condoning what’s essentially a hit, again if only because her concern for the boys (in terms of the impact of Diana’s death on them, on William in particular). I don’t know that the Queen is so cold as to be okay with putting them through that. I mean, she lost her father at a young age…hmmm. It’s great for story-telling to speculate, but aaaaahhhh, nah, I don’t want to believe it.
what garbage.
I have a hard time believing that a trained SAS officer would reveal such a secret to his wife. I mean come on. secret keeping is the name of the game.
I also don’t believe this particular theory other- sure there were bright lights but they were from the paparazzi cameras and anyone who has ever had their photo taken with those kind of cameras knows how blinding the flash is.
Maybe MI6 did have a hand in Diana’s death or maybe it really was just an accident. the point is we will never know. Look at JFK- that was 1963 and still there are hundreds of conspiracy theories.
My favourite JFK conspiracy is that it was a MOB hit funded by Joe DiMaggio as payback for what he and his brother did to Marilyn Monroe although that one hinges on you believing that Marilyn was killed by the Kennedy’s
Off topic-but wow, that one photo of her where she’s laughing-such a huge resemblance with William!
It wasn’t the Queen-it was Prince Phillip. The Duke of E had her knocked off by the light flasher(s). He hated her and has always had “issues” with race. He likely knew about her affair with the Pakistani surgeon after the divorce, and Diana being associated (having a relationship, public) with a second Muslim man made him think, “The future King of England, my grandson, is not going to have a stepfather who is a [fill in the blank with racist slang for Muslims].”
He’ll tell Queen E on his deathbed-that may be soon to come because he’s in his 90’s and in and out of the hospital all the time-and the news will stop there. Elizabeth will go to HER grave with her mouth firmly shut.
Just MY conspiracy theory…