Princess Diana - doom
Diana, Princess of Wales, née Lady Diana Francis Spencer was born on July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, Norfolk. She came from a well-known, well-born family. 1975 - Diana's parents separated, the girl was educated in Switzerland and, having returned to England, worked as a teacher in a privileged kindergarten.
She caught the attention of the royal family, and her incipient friendship with Prince Charles immediately sparked press interest. Their wedding took place on July 29, 1981 at St. Paul's Cathedral and was incredibly publicized. After becoming the wife of the heir to the throne, Diana received the title of Princess of Wales.
The life of the young couple was under scrutiny by the media, because the difficulties that appeared in the relationship with Prince Charles immediately became public knowledge. During the years of marriage, Diana had two children. But it turned out to be impossible to save the marriage, after 15 years it broke up.
Love triangle
Long before meeting Diana, in 1970, Charles met Camilla Shand, a girl from a "semi-aristocratic" family. It was love at first sight. However, the queen did not like Camilla very much. And it wasn’t a matter of looks. Miss Shand's behavior in those days, to put it mildly, did not correspond to the image of the bride of the heir to the throne. Elizabeth II wanted the prince's bride to be a virgin. With Camilla, this option was completely ruled out. The queen was afraid that the newspapermen would find Miss Shand's former lovers, spin them into incriminating interviews, and then a stream of dirt would spill on the monarchy.
While Elizabeth II was honoring the royal family, Charles and Camilla began dating on the side. After the heir to the throne, he left to serve in the navy, and the girl, offended, did not wait for him. She married one of her fans, Andrew Parker-Bowles. True, even being married, she then secretly met with Charles. The prince's marriage to Lady Diana did not interfere with the development of this love story.
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And she was the complete opposite of Camille. A perfectly educated and romantic girl cherished her honor and was ready to make any sacrifices for the sake of the heir to the throne.
1982 - Diana gave birth to her first son, William, and began to devote a lot of time and energy to the child. And while Diana was engaged in a child, Charles began to walk to his former mistress. When Diana was three months pregnant with her second son, Harry, her husband, instead of surrounding his loving wife with care, began to meet with Camilla almost openly.
Diana, seeing that their marriage is falling apart before our eyes, suffered a lot. Due to her husband's fatal passion for Camilla, she even tried to commit suicide and eventually hated her rival, whom she even called a "Rottweiler".
Meanwhile, the simply inextricable connection between the prince and Camilla has a truly mystical explanation: Camilla's great-grandmother was the mistress of Charles's great-grandfather, King Edward the Seventh. Maybe this love was so strong that it was passed on to descendants along with genes …
After the divorce, "Lady Di", as Diana was affectionately called among the people, gradually realized that she was a free woman, and she began to have close friends. The most recent of these was the 42-year-old Egyptian millionaire Dodi al-Fayed.
Investigation into the death of Princess Diana
The controversy about what caused the tragic death of Princess Diana and her friend continues to this day.
The accident took place in Paris on August 31, 1997 at 00.27 in a tunnel located near the Alma bridge. A black Mercedes-Benz S280 crashed into a column dividing oncoming traffic lanes, then hit the wall of the tunnel, and after flying several meters stopped.
The injuries sustained by Princess Diana, Dodi al-Fayed and her bodyguard were fatal. True, they managed to take Diana alive to the Pite Salpetriere hospital, but all attempts to save her life were unsuccessful. She was only 36 years old.
While doctors were fighting for the life of the darling of millions of Englishmen, forensic experts worked to clarify the circumstances of the car accident. Gradually, the following versions of the reasons for her death began to emerge:
Versions of the death of Princess Diana
The death of Princess Diana as a result of an accident is nothing more than an ordinary car accident, a tragic accident; Henri Paul is to blame for everything, the driver of the Mercedes - the examination showed that he was in a state of severe alcoholic intoxication; followed Diana's car; The British royal family was involved in the death of Lady Dee, who never forgave Princess Diana for her divorce from the heir to the throne; The car lost control due to a faulty braking system; Mercedes at high speed collided with another car - a white Fiat , After which Diana's chauffeur could not cope with the management; The English special services had a hand in the death of Princess Diana, who intended to disrupt the marriage of the mother of the future king of England with a Muslim.
Which version is the most plausible and close to the truth? The answer to this question was to be provided by French experts.
The commission, created at the Institute for Criminal Research of the French Gendarmerie, worked out all 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 charges concerned, as a rule, violation of journalistic ethics and failure to provide timely assistance to the victims. In fact, the photographers primarily sought to capture the dying Diana and only then tried to do something to save her.
The assumptions about the malfunction of the brake system of the Mercedes were not confirmed either. Experts, who for several months carefully examined what was left of the car, came to the conclusion: at the time of the accident, the brakes of the Mercedes were in good condition.
The version that the driver drove the car through the tunnel at a speed exceeding the maximum allowable on this section of the road was widely discussed. But experts said the speed of the Mercedes was within normal limits.
The investigation team also denied claims that the drunk driver was the culprit. Of course, the drunken state of Paul Henri played a role in what happened. But not only (and not so much) it led to the tragedy.
In the course of the investigation it was found 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 of about forty who had fled the scene of the crime. After this collision, the Mercedes lost control, and then what was already described above happened. The French police literally shook up all the owners of the white "Uno", but did not find the car they needed.
2004 - the results of the investigation by the Commission of the Institute for Criminal Research of the French Gendarmerie were transferred to the "more competent authorities", which, apparently, had to decide whether enough facts were collected and research was carried out to with good reason to close this case.
At the same time, the search for the mythical Fiat continues. Law enforcement agencies in France still hope that the driver of the mysterious car will still show up and report the details of the collision that became the prologue to the tragic car accident. But so far, no one has responded to the police call. If a collision of a Mercedes with a Fiat actually took place, and the mysterious driver exists, then it is unlikely that he voluntarily will take full responsibility for what happened, as well as the brunt of the anger of those who still remember Diana and sincerely grieve on it.
It is not known when the investigation into the circumstances of the death of Princess Diana will be brought to an end. But whenever this happens, in England, and in many other countries, the life and death of Diana will be discussed for a long time. At the same time, regardless of what the final conclusion of the mentioned "competent authorities" will be.
Kill probability
The father of the beloved "People's Princess", billionaire Mohammed al-Fayed, is convinced that the British special services were involved in the death of Princess Diana and his son. It was he who insisted on a state investigation of the accident, which lasted from 2002 to 2008.
According to al-Fayed Sr., driver Henri Paul was sober during the fatal trip.
"There are video recordings of the Ritz Hotel, where Henri Paul's gait is normal," he says, "although, in theory, he should have just crawled. Doctors found a wild amount of antidepressant in his body. Most likely, this man was poisoned. Moreover, I have documents that he worked for the British special services. Later they found his secret bank accounts, to which $ 200,000 was 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 take the test, but when they did it under pressure, it took 10 years! During this time, traces can be elementarily lost. But on the eve of the tragedy, Dodi and Diana visited a villa in Paris, which I bought for them. They chose a room there for their child, overlooking the garden."
Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, who has already earned half a million pounds from the publication of Diana's intimate letters, agrees with the version of the conspiracy against Diana and Dodi with the participation of special services and the royal court. One of her letters, which she wrote 10 months before her death, reads: “My life is in danger. The ex-spouse plans to organize an accident. In my car, the brakes will fail, there will be a car accident. My husband needs to get rid of me in order to marry his mistress. The tragedy that took place in Paris repeats the scenario described in this message.
“Her demise was brilliantly orchestrated,” Burrell says. “It's the signature English style. Our intelligence has always "removed" people not with the help of poison or a sniper, but so that it looks like an accident."
A similar opinion is shared by intelligence officers themselves, for example, the notorious former officer of the British counterintelligence service MI6, Richard Tomlison. Arrested twice for divulging state secrets in his books on British intelligence, he left Britain and now lives in France. Tomlison openly stated that Diana was killed by MI6 agents in a "mirror" plan for an "accidental car accident" that was being prepared 15 years ago for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
The only survivor of a car crash in Paris is Dodie 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 underwent 10 surgeries.
Here is his opinion on the situation before the disaster:
“Henri Paul was not drunk that evening. He did not smell of alcohol, he talked and walked normally. He didn't drink anything at the table. I don't know where the alcohol ended up in his blood after death. Unfortunately, I cannot explain why I was fastened in the car, but Diana and Dodi were not. My brain is damaged and I suffer from partial memory loss. My memories are cut short at the moment 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 beads, given to her by Mother Teresa, be placed in the hands of the princess.
In London, an oak coffin with Lady Dee's body 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.
Throughout her life, the princess was actively involved in charitable activities, personally visited many hopeless patients in different countries of the world, led campaigns in defense of animals, against inhuman weapons. The media have repeatedly called Diana "the most famous woman of the 20th century." Her compassion for people, her concern and kindness were always sincere. The tragic, ridiculous death in the accident of Princess Diana caused an unprecedented response not only in Great Britain, but also in many countries. Millions of people experienced this tragedy as the death of a loved one.
After some thought and hesitation, the queen nevertheless decided to bury Diana "in the royal rank." At Kensington Palace, the coffin with the body of the princess was lowered onto a carriage during the First World War. Behind him stood at attention the First Battalion of the Welsh Guards. After the funeral service at Westminster Abbey, more than a million people followed the funeral procession to Althorp Estate. Soldiers from the princess's regiment carried the coffin across the pontoon bridge to the island in the middle of the lake. A grave was prepared there.
Before the burial, Diana's brother Charles - the namesake of her ex-husband - removed the royal standard from the coffin and covered it with the flag of the Spencer family. Diana was buried as Lady Dee …
2008, April 7 - the third hearings on the death of Princess Diana, initiated by Mohammed al-Fayed and lasted for six months, ended. The Royal Court of London has released a jury verdict in which Lady Dee and her friend Dodi al-Fayed were killed on August 31, 1997 in Paris, both because of the negligent driving of Henri Paul, the driver of their Mercedes, and because of the paparazzi chasing the car. princess. There was "a murder by serious negligence."
The verdict is final and not subject to appeal.
V. Ilyin