PARIS - A decade after Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash, a British coroner's jury comes to the French capital this week to retrace the lovers' fatal path in an attempt to put to rest the dark suspicions surrounding their deaths. Although the events leading up to the deaths have already been dissected in two lengthy investigations, the visit today and Tuesday marks the first time an inquest jury has left Britain.
When the dust settled, her mother was denied custody and Diana and her siblings were shipped off to boarding schools and forced to spend holidays with a remarried, sexually enthralled father and a casting-office Wicked Stepmother, the glitzy social climbing daughter of the even glitzier Barbara Cartland, queen of the romance novelists. In the cadabout-town James Hewitt she saw only the dashing cavalry officer; in the serious and private cardiologist Hasnat Khan she saw the heartthrob doctor who would be at her side in Florence Nightingale missions; in the coked-out playboy Dodi Fayed she saw the liquid-eyed Arab sheikh who would whisk her away on a magic carpet.
LONDON -- A sweeping police inquiry on Thursday ruled out a murder conspiracy in Princess Diana's death, saying the chauffeur in the 1997 car crash was drunk and driving at a high speed to elude pursuing photographers. The report also said Diana was not pregnant at the time of the crash in Paris, nor was she about to marry her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, who also was killed.
PARIS -- A decade after Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash, a British coroner's jury comes to the French capital this week to retrace the lovers' fatal path in an attempt to put to rest the dark suspicions surrounding their deaths. Although the events leading up to the deaths have already been dissected in two lengthy investigations, the visit today and Tuesday marks the first time an inquest jury has left Britain.
Does the world need another Princess Diana film? Perhaps not, but that won't stop anyone as the 10th anniversary of her death approaches. TLC, for example, will show the morbidly interesting docudrama "Diana: Last Days of a Princess," at 8 p.m. Sunday. The $4 million film is at least based on interviews with close associates of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, and its elements are purportedly substantiated by the 832-page Paget Report issued last December by the U.K. Metropolitan Police Service. The real and dramatized elements do combine to paint a slightly pathetic picture of the Princess of Wales' final weeks (amid fantastic wealth, of course). Interviews include Harrods' owner Mohamed Al Fayed and bodyguard Kez Wingfield, who shared security detail for Diana and Dodi with fated Trevor Rees-...
LONDON - Flashing lights, swarming paparazzi, a mysterious second car at the crash site and a multi-tentacled conspiracy allegedly directed by the husband of Queen Elizabeth II - jurors have much to sort through in reaching a judgment on the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed. Nearly 11 years after the tragedy that shook the world, testimony has ranged far and wide in an extraordinary coroner's inquest, without shedding much light on claims that they were victims of a plot. The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, is expected to begin his summation today, which may take days before going to the jury.
LONDON -- The 1997 Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, was an accident, not a murder plot hatched by the royal family, according to a British police investigation made public Thursday. There was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of the car. This was a tragic accident," said John Stevens, former chief of the Metropolitan Police who led the three-year investigation.
Di's butler talks Princess Diana's butler yesterday said he did not know whether she had become engaged to Dodi Fayed shortly before she died but that he believed the romance was already cooling, Associated Press reports.
LONDON Jurors at the British inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed heard extracts Thursday from affectionate correspondence between the princess and her father-in-law, Prince Philip. A friend of the princess's, meanwhile, denied a charge by Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, that she spied on Diana for British intelligence.
LONDON - A British police inquiry released today concluded that the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend in a 1997 Paris car crash were a "tragic accident" and that allegations of murder are unfounded. The report also said Diana was not pregnant, that she was not engaged to marry Dodi Fayed, and that their chauffeur was drunk and driving at more than 60 mph - twice the speed limit - when their car crashed while being chased by photographers.
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