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Diana-Remembered-Part1
The Huge Secret That Princess Diana Knew (Official Version)
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By: David Icke – From the book “The Biggest Secret” http://369news.net/huge-secret-prince... This is only a fractional part of a very long document about the parasitic murdering reptiles known as the Royal Family of England and what princess Diana discovered about them.
Some people may find this totally unbelievable and shocking! Huge Secret Princess Diana Knew There have also been questions about whether Diana is even buried on the island.
In the Summer of 1998, the Star magazine in the United States quoted an unnamed “senior source” at Buckingham Palace as saying she was secretly cremated and according to a report in the Los Angeles Times some people in the village of Great Brington also don’t believe she is buried on the island. I know these reports are true from my own sources. O
ne resident quoted by the LA Times said that the night her coffin was taken to Althorp for burial, the village had been ‘invaded’ by the army, police and special forces units, and all the villagers were hustled into their homes. She said that the crematorium at the church was working late into the night. Betty Andrews, the former cook and housekeeper at Althorp, is quoted by Star magazine as saying:
“There’s a strange feeling amongst the villagers that we may not be hearing the complete picture”.
While researching this book I was introduced to Christine Fitzgerald, a brilliant and gifted healer, who was a close friend and confidant of Diana for nine years. Because of Christine’s understanding of the esoteric, Diana was able to talk to her about matters she would not dare to share with anyone else for fear of being dubbed crazy.
It is clear that Diana knew about the true nature of the royal family’s genetic history and the reptilian control. Her nicknames for the Windsors were “the lizards” and “the reptiles” and she used to say in all seriousness:
“They’re not human”. There is a very good reason for Diana using this description of the Windsors. As her deprogramming continued, Arizona Wilder remembered clearly a ritual she attended at Clarence House, the Queen Mother’s home near to Buckingham Palace, in which Diana was shown who the Windsors really are.
It took place in the first seven days of July 1981, just before Diana and Charles were married on the 29th. This period is the last seven days of the cycle of the Oak Tree, according to esoteric law, and the ritual was called The Awakening of the Bride. This is a ritual for all females of the 13 bloodlines who are going to be in publicly high positions and marry reptilians to produce the new generation of rulers. Arizona says that the Queen Mother, the Queen, Prince Philip, Lady Fermoy, Diana’s father Earl Spencer, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were all present when Diana was brought into the room.
Diana Remembered Part One
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Burrell: MI5 Linked to Diana's Death London Mirror | May 6 2004
Diana was pregnant when she died
Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death in a road accident in Paris six years ago, a media report said in London on Sunday.
Diana's death likened to MI6 plot
British and American security services were monitoring Diana and Dodi in the month leading up to their deaths and that Henri Paul may have been an MI6 informant.
'Diana and Dodi were watched'
Security services were monitoring Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in the month before their death, a Scottish court has heard.
Diana 'feared for her life'
Diana, the late Princess of Wales, feared for her life, close friend Roberto Devorik, an Argentine fashion impresario and designer, has revealed.
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Di's hoard of secret videos destroyed Secret confessional videos made by Diana, Princess of Wales - which would have caused huge embarrassment to the royal family if they had been made public - have been destroyed
Court fight over Diana videos:
The royal family today faces a deepening crisis after the emergence of up to 20 secret videos in which Princess Diana lays bare her troubled marriage to Prince Charles.
Lady Diana's Secret Video Diary Reveals Her Grave Concerns About 'Assassination by Motor Vehicle':
Britain's senior intelligence service, MI6, has briefed the Queen about secret video cassettes Princess Diana made three months after she wrote the letter in which she predicted she would be murdered in a car crash made to look like an "accident."
Diana murder plot name in letter revealed to be Prince Charles
London Mirror
PRINCESS Diana believed Prince Charles wanted her killed in an accident when she was plagued by anxiety and feared for her safety.
She told of her worries in her now infamous note which she handed to butler Paul Burrell as "insurance" on the day she wrote it in October 1996, 10 months before she died in a Paris car crash.
Burrell censored the note when he disclosed its existence in his book last year by blanking the words "my husband" from the text.
The full text, revealed for the first time, now reads: "This particular phase of my life is the most dangerous - my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure & serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry."
The Daily Mirror - not Burrell - has decided to publish the blanked out name because it will inevitably
appear in the public domain.
Burrell is prepared to hand the note to the coroner probing the deaths of Diana and boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed whose inquests open today.
By bringing the text to light he is honouring a long-standing promise to co-operate fully with the inquiries.
Speaking at his home in Farndon, Cheshire, Burrell - known by Diana as her "rock" - said yesterday: "This matter has to be handled with great sensitivity and I have genuine concerns about that.
"I reproduced only a portion of that letter in my book to provide further force to the argument that an inquest must be held.
"To that end, the document has fulfilled its main purpose.
"I'll do what I've always said I'll do, and provide the coroner with every possible assistance where the information I know is relevant to his investigations."
Royal coroner Michael Burgess has already written to Burrell asking for the document to be handed over for examination.
The former butler is happy for Mr Burgess to see the entire contents.
He is due to meet his lawyers this week and will then be questioned about the correspondence. No decision over whether the letter will be regarded as evidence will be made until the coroner has viewed its contents.
A source said: "Mr Burgess will take nothing on face value, and he'll question Mr Burrell very closely over its contents and how it came to be in his possession. It will be a matter handled with great sensitivity and care."
Mr Burgess has yet to decide what witnesses and evidence will be deemed admissable at the full inquests. But Burrell is widely expected to be a key witness.
The sensational development once again puts Charles's relationship with his companion Camilla Parker Bowles in the spotlight. It again focuses attention on Diana's anxieties over her ex-husband in the year before her death.
It also renews attention on the conspiracy theories swirling round Diana's death in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris.
These theories were fuelled by the haunting similarities between her own prediction and the 1997 crash.
Speculation raged over the the blanked-out name in the letter published in Burrell's book, A Royal Duty, which was exclusively serialised in the Mirror. At the time, the passage appeared as: "********* is planning 'an accident' in my car... in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry."
Burrell had instructed his publishers Penguin to replace the word "him" with "Charles" to protect the prince's interests.
He said in his book: "I will never say what those blacked-out words say... deciding what to do with it (the letter) has been a source of much soul-searching.
"I agree that it may be futile in what it achieves because it can do no more than provide yet another question mark. But if that question mark leads to an inquest... it will have achieved something."
Burrell has revealed that at the time the letter was written Diana was plagued by insecurities and even believed her Kensington Palace apartments were bugged.
Her marriage had ended only two months before. Though she had negotiated an estimated £17million settlement, the princess was devastated at losing her HRH title. Charles had admitted conducting an affair with Camilla, saying he committed adultery only after his marriage became "irretrievably broken down, us both having tried".
Today, Camilla is the prince's accepted companion. She lives with him at his London home, Clarence House, and his Gloucestershire home, Highgrove. She has also accompanied him on semi-official engagements.
Diana's friends have always said that in the months leading up to her death she had resolved her differences with Charles and was looking forward to them becoming friends. Burrell said in the Mirror the letter provided "evidence of the state of the princess's mind in the final months of her life".
He admitted it increased huge public interest which was "crying out for a full examination of the facts".
Mr Burgess announced that an inquest would be opened into Diana's death two months after Burrell's sensational book was published.
The hearing will open at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, in Westminster, Central London. An inquest on Dodi, who lived at Oxted, Surrey, will open in the afternoon at Reigate. Mr Burgess is expected to announce the scope of his hearings and the course his investigation will take before full inquests are held later in the year.
The coroner will first have to digest a 6,000-page police report and secret evidence from the French inquiry into the princess's death held by judge Herve Stephan. First evidence is not likely to be heard before the autumn.
Diana, 36, and Dodi died in the early hours of August 31, 1997, when a Mercedes driven by chauffeur Henri Paul careered out of control and smashed into a concrete pillar. The 1999 French inquiry said the crash was an accident caused by chauffeur Paul being high on drink and drugs.
Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, believes his son and the princess were murdered, and has spent thousands of pounds pursuing his own investigations.
Diana's family do not believe the theories. Her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, accepted the French inquiry findings "without reservation".
Diana's lost ear-ring 'found in car' say police
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Paul Joseph Watson
British newspapers today broke the astounding story of how Princess Diana wrote that she would be killed in an incident made to look like a car accident ten months before her death.
The princess predicted: “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous.” She said "XXXXXXXXXXX is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”.
The blanked out 'xxxxxxx' is very likely to be MI5/MI6, who also recently did the dirty work of finishing off David Kelly.
When Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler first hit the headlines last year I knew he still had something to say about Diana's death. It was likely that Burrell sought to wrap himself in as much publicity as possible to protect himself against a similar fate.
Of course we've known for years that Diana's death couldn't have been anything but an assassination.
- The unscheduled journey through the symbolic Pont de L'Alma tunnel (an ancient Pagan sacrificial site) took Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed AWAY FROM their intended destination, Dodi's flat.
- Just before the car entered the tunnel every police radio in Paris mysteriously died, preventing a quick response which could have saved Diana's life.
- Just before the car entered the tunnel every security camera in the tunnel mysteriously died, preventing us from ever seeing footage of what caused the crash.
- Eyewitnesses reported snipers and gunfire within the tunnel.
These are just a few snippets from a mountain of evidence that this was an old-school hit.
Diana was killed because she was pregnant with Dodi's child and the British Royal Family didn't want an Arab in their sacred bloodline. Diana herself remarked to reporters that there would be 'a big surprise' from her a few days before her death.
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US Spy Tapes Reveal Diana Was Pregnant
by GORDON THOMAS
EXPLOSIVE tapes on the secret life of Princess Diana will prove that she was pregnant and intended to marry Dodi Al Fayed, it was claimed last night.
American secret agents regularly monitored Diana's conversations and collated 1,000 secret documents using its "spy in the sky", the National Security Agency.
They were obtained by its Echelon satellite surveillance system and contain highly sensitive material including her marriage plans, her views on Prince Philip, who was known to be highly critical of her, and new details of her love affair with James Hewitt. Now, lawyers acting for Mohamed Al Fayed are trying to obtain the tapes through America's Freedom of Information Act.
They hope to present the evidence at Diana's inquest, which is expected to take place next year.
The covert monitoring was controlled from the ultra-secret NSA base at Menwith Hill in the north of England during the last weeks of Diana's affair with Dodi.
A spokesman for Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrods, said: "Mr Al Fayed believes that those intercepts will reveal conversations in which Princess Diana discussed her engagement to Dodi and her pregnancy.
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Of course, this wasn't the only reason. Diana was a painful thorn in the side of the elitists with her ability to take any issue and immediately bring it to the forefront of public attention. In a way she was like David Kelly, a disgruntled former employee who knew too much and had too big a chip on her shoulders to be tolerated.
I look forward to the long-awaited inquest and further revelations from the brave Paul Burrell to further destroy the establishment media's wild and unsusbstantiated theory that Diana's death was an accident caused by a drunk driver.
Keep your eyes open and turn the television off.
Paul Joseph Watson.
Diana 'feared car accident plot'
Princess Diana feared the brakes of her car were going to be tampered with, 10 months before she died in a crash in Paris, her former butler has claimed.
DIANA LETTER SENSATION: 'THEY WILL TRY TO KILL ME'
PRINCESS DIANA claimed there was a plot to kill her in a car crash in a handwritten letter only 10 months before she died. She gave it to her butler Paul Burrell with orders that he should keep it as "insurance" for the future.
ROYAL WARNED DI: YOU ARE BEING SPIED ON
PAUL'S DAD: OUR SON WAS INNOCENT
THE parents of chauffeur Henri Paul were still insisting yesterday their son was not responsible for the crash which killed Princess Diana
DI TOLD ME SHE WAS IN DANGER
DIANA confided in a royal biographer that she feared for her life just two months before her death. Ingrid Seward was told by Diana that she felt her life had been in danger, in a heart-to-heart chat at Kensington Palace.
Royal Conspiracy: Princess Diana Names Her Killer
Did Princess Diana know who was plotting to kill her? Diana gave a handwritten letter to her butler Paul Burrell, 10 months before she died, to keep as "insurance" for the future. In the letter, revealed in Burrell's book "A Royal Duty," the princess knew she was marked as an "inconvenient woman."
Diana murder plot name in letter revealed to be Prince Charles
PRINCESS Diana believed Prince Charles wanted her killed in an accident when she was plagued by anxiety and feared for her safety.She told of her worries in her now infamous note which she handed to butler Paul Burrell as "insurance" on the day she wrote it in October 1996, 10 months before she died in a Paris car crash.Burrell censored the note when he disclosed its existence in his book last year by blanking the words "my husband" from the text.
Diana was pregnant when she died
Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death in a road accident in Paris six years ago, a media report said in London on Sunday.
Diana's death likened to MI6 plot
British and American security services were monitoring Diana and Dodi in the month leading up to their deaths and that Henri Paul may have been an MI6 informant.
'Diana and Dodi were watched'
Security services were monitoring Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in the month before their death, a Scottish court has heard.
Diana 'feared for her life'
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Diana: Secret Documents Revealed
48 Hours Investigates
Truth About Death Of Princess Diana
April 21, 2004
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48 Hours reports on confidential police documents and new forensic clues about the death of Princess Diana. (CBS/AP) Diana’s tragic death Family and associates of Princess Diana expressed anger  |
Al Fayed
(CBS) In life, it was Princess Diana’s vibrancy and glamour that captured the world’s attention. Today, it is the mystery surrounding her death. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. “She was convinced she was going to be killed,” says Diana’s old friend, Argentinean businessman Roberto Deverik, who recalls Diana often speaking of murderous plots against her. “She said, ‘When it's not convenient anymore, I will-- they will blow me in a car or in a helicopter.’" The questions and puzzles remain nearly seven years after Diana’s tragic death in a Paris tunnel. Billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed has relentlessly accused the British government of orchestrating the death of Princess Diana, and his son, Dodi. Al Fayed, who has refused numerous requests to talk to 48 Hours, believes that his son and Diana were killed in order to prevent the princess from marrying his son, a Muslim, and having his child. Conspiracy theories continued because the details of the French probe into the accident were never made public. But 48 Hours has obtained a report produced by the French government that was never made public until now. The report contains thousands of pages of confidential police documents, scientific analysis and images that tell what really happened to Princess Diana, beginning with the night she died. ”As I approached the tunnel, I saw smoke in the middle of the tunnel,” recalls Frederick Maillez, a doctor who told French authorities that he was driving through the Alma Tunnel in Paris that night -- moments after the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed crashed into a pillar. “I went to the wreckage to see what was going on inside,” says Maillez, who tended to the seriously injured princess after the crash. “I can tell you her face was still beautiful. She didn’t have any injuries, main injury on her face. She was unconscious. She didn’t speak at all.” Eerie black and white photos, taken just moments after the crash, have never been shown until now. Part of the official report, they were confiscated from the paparazzi who were chasing the couple that night. "You could absolutely tell it was her. She was a pretty woman, and even a few hours before she died, she’s still pretty,” says lawyer Virginie Bardet, who saw the confidential French dossier when she defended three of the seven photographers who were initially accused of causing the accident. “The investigation is important,” she says. Family and associates of Princess Diana expressed anger Thursday at the use of the photos taken moments after a car accident. Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, said he was sickened by the action. "Lord Spencer and his family are shocked and sickened by CBS' actions," said a brief statement released by the family. Outrage focused on two back and white photos taken by paparazzi at the scene, showing an unconscious Diana being treated by a doctor as she lay slumped in the back of a car. They were included in a confidential French investigators' file on the accident, but no major media outlet had previously run pictures of the injured princess. Britain's tabloid newspapers gave the story prominent, outraged coverage on Thursday. CBS News released an official statement Wednesday: Tonight's (21) edition of 48 Hours Investigates is a one-hour report on Princess Diana that addresses the circumstances surrounding her death almost seven years ago. Included in the broadcast is information from a 4,000-page confidential French government report on Diana's death obtained by 48 Hours Investigates. In addition to important information that dispels many of the rumors and allegations surrounding her death, photocopies of photos from the French government report taken at the scene of the crash also will be included in the broadcast. These photocopies are placed in journalistic context -- an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash -- and are in no way graphic or exploitative. The French investigation is clear: The crash was an accident, and not the fault of the photographers or foreign intelligence agents. Instead, it was the fault of Henri Paul, the driver of Diana’s car, who was impaired by alcohol and prescription drugs. Paul, who was driving at nearly twice the speed limit, nicked a Fiat Uno, lost control of the car and smashed into a pillar. French authorities, however, were wrong if they thought their account of the crash would put the matter to rest. This past January, the British government opened its own investigation into the accident. One claim that Al Fayed has made is that Paul wasn’t drunk at all that night – but that the French switched the blood samples either by accident or on purpose. 48 Hours provided the forensic data from the French dossier to Dr. Robert Forrest, one of England’s leading forensic toxicologists, to see if he could find any evidence of a mistake or a cover-up. “This is the first time I have seen these data and it has been absolutely fascinating,” says Forrest. The dossier documents that multiple tests were conducted on blood, hair and tissue. Paul’s body was also photographed and identified by an ankle tag, #2147 – the same number listed on the samples. “There is nothing in the trail of evidence, which suggests there is anything funny about the way in which the samples have been taken,” says Forrest, who adds he didn’t see any sign of a conspiracy. Not only do the tests indicate three times the legal limit of alcohol in Paul’s system at the time of the accident, Forrest says, they also indicate an alarming amount of various prescription drugs: “Let me put it this way. If I knew that I was going to be driven by someone in that condition, I would not get into the car with them. No way.” This evidence disproves Al Fayed's allegations and proves that there is no question that Paul was drunk. But was he paid by British intelligence services to help kill Princess Diana? And what about Al Fayed’s claim that the princess was killed because she was pregnant? This past January, The London Mirror reported that just months before her death, she had written a note saying, “My husband is planning an accident in my car – brake failure and serious injury.” How real were her fears? Did someone tamper with the Mercedes to make it appear like an accident? 48 Hours took a similar model Mercedes and the analysis contained in the French report to Murray MacKay, one of Europe’s most prominent vehicle-safety experts. MacKay says French investigators examined every component of the crashed Mercedes, particularly the brakes, to determine if either a mechanical failure or deadly tampering caused the accident. “I think they did a very thorough job,” says MacKay. “There was nothing wrong with the car at all … the driver was drunk. He was going excessively fast and couldn’t cope.” But the French dossier still raises questions, especially about Paul, the driver who was also chief of security for Mohamed Al Fayed’s Ritz Hotel. We found documents that reveal a number of significant bank deposits in French francs made by Paul, beginning nine months before the crash. French investigators were unable to pinpoint the exact source of the mysterious money, but the dossier reveals that they searched Paul’s home and office, interviewed his friends and associates, and analyzed his phone records. They found no evidence of a conspiracy – even though there was a theory that Paul was a security services informant. “He could have been that, too. But they don’t pay that much money,” says author Tom Bower, who wrote an extensive biography of Mohamed Al Fayed. Bower says Al Fayed would regularly carry large amounts of cash to pay employees and others: “He was a man who handed out, on his own admission, $100,000 pounds a week, sometimes in cash.” The cash was often a bonus, but Bower says that Al Fayed also paid his security men to conduct surveillance of certain guests who stayed at his Ritz Hotel: “He presents himself as such a warm, bubbly, warm, lovable Arab uncle. But in fact, that he was a man who was rather sinister and dangerous. I mean, he was a great friend and a great enemy.” Bower says that Princess Diana, who knew Al Fayed through her father, had also come to rely on him. “She was a lonely woman. He is a terrific seducer of people if he wants to be,” says Bower. “And he gave her what she wanted.” Since her death, Al Fayed has made outrageous claims about his friendship with the princess. But the most controversial is his assertion that Diana was pregnant with his grandchild, which he said in an interview with ABC News last fall. Al Fayed's claims were bolstered by photographs of Diana that show a noticeable bulge. The details of Diana’s autopsy have been a closely guarded secret, but 48 Hours contacted Robert Thompson, who was there. “Any death within the royal family, that was referred to the coroner, would come to us,” he says. And what about claims that Diana was pregnant at the time of her death? Was there any reason to believe that? “The pathologist spoke to me. And he was closer to me than we are to one another, and said to me and to the room at large, ‘Well, she wasn’t pregnant,’” says Thompson. “He divided the womb, looked inside, and was quite certain that this lady in this instance was not pregnant.” And curiously, Al Fayed never mentioned the phone call from Diana about the pregnancy until nearly five years after her death. “He constructed a complete fantasy out of the last hours of Diana’s death and everything else," says Bower. "Completely rubbish.” But what about the photographs that allegedly show a pregnant Princess? They were taken even before she started dating Dodi. Princess Diana was hounded by paparazzi the summer before she died. Photos of Diana were taken by James Andanson, a successful French celebrity photographer. But he found himself in the middle of the French investigation six months after Princess Diana died. Gaskon Sipagholu and his wife, Phyllis, ran the Sipa photo agency in Paris. Andanson was one of their stars. “I never saw in my life, a photographer like him, never. He was working all the time and he was getting very good money,” says Sipagholu. “He was making about $500,000 a year, even more, from his photographs.” Andanson had a chateau in the Loire valley in central France, an apartment in Paris, and drove an expensive BMW. But what brought him to the attention of French authorities was another car he owned: a white Fiat Uno. Was this the same Fiat Uno that was sideswiped by the Mercedes in the tunnel the night Diana died? “It was our investigators, not the French police, who found the Fiat Uno. It was found in a garage in Paris and traced to paparazzi named James Andanson,” says John McNamara, Al Fayed’s former security chief, on the Al Fayed documentary. Al Fayed and McNamara are convinced that some of the paparazzi, and possibly the driver of the white Fiat Uno, were MI-6 agents whose mission was to stop the announcement of the forthcoming engagement. As the car carrying Princess Diana raced into the Paris tunnel, it sideswiped a slow-moving white vehicle. Paint on the Mercedes and debris on the roadway confirm it was a Fiat Uno. But despite a massive search, neither the car nor driver was ever found. Conspiracy theorists believe the driver deliberately caused the crash as part of a plan to kill Princess Diana. And the charge was credible enough that the lead French investigator, Jean Claude Mullez, questioned Andanson. Mullez says that finding the driver of the Fiat Uno has been a challenge. “Andanson wasn’t in Paris,” he says through a translator. “He told me his timetable, we checked it out and found it to be accurate. We determined that he was not in Paris that night.” What’s more, Mullez says, his investigators found Andanson’s car on blocks inoperable. Is it possible that Andanson’s car was the car that was involved in the accident the night that Diana died? “Absolutely impossible," says Mullez. The probe into Andanson and his white Fiat Uno should have stopped there, but three months later, Andanson got into his BMW, drove to the post office to mail a letter, and was never seen again. Hundreds of miles south of Andanson’s home, a farmer discovered a BMW ablaze in a remote forest. An autopsy determined that the driver was Andanson. Two months later, the mystery surrounding his death only deepened. According to Al Fayed’s documentary, three masked men broke into Andanson’s office in Paris and shot the security guard. The burglars spent three hours ransacking the office. Some people at the photo agency actually thought the burglars were from the French security services. But 48 Hours’ investigation led to a very different conclusion. While three gunmen did break into the SIPA photo agency in Paris and a night watchman was shot, the owners of the agency say the thieves were not in search of Andanson’s work. They left that untouched, but they were looking for compromising photos of a French celebrity. As it turns out, Andanson’s mysterious death was not the work of intelligence agents seeking to keep him quiet, but that of a deeply troubled man. “He committed suicide,” says Sipagholu. “This is 100 percent, I am sure.” French investigators found evidence that Andanson had purchased gas in a can at a station the day of his death and that he sent a letter to his old friends, requesting that, from that day on, they send his royalty checks to his wife. However, Al Fayed continues to promote the idea of a murder plot rather than accept the unacceptable - that his son and his employees may have been in part responsible for the death of the beloved princess. “He has a remarkable self interest in maintaining the fiction because he, in the end, is protecting his own reputation and his own culpability in causing the crash,” says Bower. When Princess Diana left the Paris Ritz hotel owned by Al Fayed, it was, after all, his head of security, a drunk Henri Paul, who was behind the wheel. And it was his son, Dodi, who concocted the crazy plan to evade the paparazzi. “I think Mohammed is the architect, the master disseminator, the perpetuator, the fantasist extraordinaire who started this whole ludicrous idea that she was murdered,” says Bower. There will be always be those who wonder. But for French lawyer Virginie Bardet, the trail ends in the tunnel. “The investigation, it’s not to answer all the question, it’s to know why did Lady Diana and Dodi al Fayed died. And this question is answered,” says Bardet. “It’s clear. We know why this Mercedes had an accident. It was because the driver."
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He expressed sympathy with the families of all the victims in the accident.
He said he would continue to co-operate fully with the French accident investigation and had told them all he knows.
He said he had no plans to talk again about the affair until the investigations in France were over "if at all" and stressed that he had not been paid for his television interview.
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Since giving up his job with Mohamed al-Fayed, whose son Dodi also died in the accident, he has been working part time in a sports shop in Oswestry, Shropshire.
The royal family will mark the anniversary of the crash on 31 August in private at Balmoral.
A special - and private - service of remembrance will be held for royal household members and former employees and staff of the princess at St James's Palace.
And flags on royal residences and government buildings will fly at half mast on the first anniversary of Diana's death.
The Royal Standard flying at Balmoral will remain at full mast as it is never half-masted, even on the death of the Sovereign.
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Flags at half-mast for Diana
Flags at royal residences will fly at half mast on August 31
Flags at royal residences will fly at half-mast in respect for Diana, Princess of Wales on the first anniversary of the death.
The Queen has ruled that all flags at royal residences will be lowered to half-mast on Monday August 31, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The government has decided to follow suit, ordering the move at public buildings.
A palace spokeswoman said: "To mark the first anniversary of the death and as a special mark of respect, the Queen has said that flags at royal residences should be half-masted."
"The government has said it will follow suit."
The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Prince William, 16, and Prince Harry, 13, will be attending private family prayers at Crathie Church, Balmoral, the Royals' Scottish estate
The decision only applies to the first anniversary
The prime minister and his wife, who will be guests at Balmoral on the anniversary, will join the royal family at the church service.
A special - and private - service of remembrance will be held for royal household members and former employees and staff of the princess at St James's Palace.
The decision to fly flags at half-mast applies only to the first anniversary of Diana's death.
The Royal Standard flying at Balmoral, will remain at full mast as it is never half-masted, even on the death of the Sovereign.
The government has followed suit
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Flags at royal residences will fly at half mast on August 31
Flags at royal residences will fly at half-mast in respect for Diana, Princess of Wales on the first anniversary of the death.
The Queen has ruled that all flags at royal residences will be lowered to half-mast on Monday August 31, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The government has decided to follow suit, ordering the move at public buildings.
A palace spokeswoman said: "To mark the first anniversary of the death and as a special mark of respect, the Queen has said that flags at royal residences should be half-masted."
"The government has said it will follow suit."
The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Prince William, 16, and Prince Harry, 13, will be attending private family prayers at Crathie Church, Balmoral, the Royals' Scottish estate
The decision only applies to the first anniversary
The prime minister and UK
Archbishop says stop 'wallowing' over Dianahis wife, who will be guests at Balmoral on the anniversary, will join the royal family at the church service.
A special - and private - service of remembrance will be held for royal household members and former employees and staff of the princess at St James's Palace.
The decision to fly flags at half-mast applies only to the first anniversary of Diana's death.
The Royal Standard flying at Balmoral, will remain at full mast as it is never half-masted, even on the death of the Sovereign.
The government has followed suit
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Fears of a 'Diana Disneyworld'
Diana's former home Kensington Palace
The man Diana, Princess of Wales called "my
rock" has said a proposed memorial garden in her name will be about
contemplation - not commercialisation. But residents in London's
exclusive Kensington fear the area being overrun by hordes of tourists,
and are demanding to see more details of what is being proposed. However
former royal butler Paul Burrell, 39, who is now fundraising manager
for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund assured them there would
be no "Diana Disneyworld" in the gardens surrounding the Princess's
former home
He was speaking an exhibition opened to try to gauge public opinion on exactly what to do with the 27-acre site surrounding the Princess's former home, Kensington Palace.
£10m is being spent on the tribute, which will be placed directly behind the gates to Kensington Palace where mourners laid millions of bouquets in the days following the Preliminary proposals include a floodlit fountain and a garden for children.
Mr Burrell said: "It is to be a very simple, quiet place for contemplation. It is not going to be commercialised beyond recognition."
He believed it was crucial that residents' concerns were allayed, but said the garden is very popular with people who have written to the committee
How the palace looked in the days after the tragedy.
Fears of a 'Diana Disneyworld'
Diana's former home Kensington Palace
The man Diana, Princess of Wales called "my
rock" has said a proposed memorial garden in her name will be about
contemplation - not commercialisation. But residents in London's
exclusive Kensington fear the area being overrun by hordes of tourists,
and are demanding to see more details of what is being proposed. However
former royal butler Paul Burrell, 39, who is now fundraising manager
for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund assured them there would
be no "Diana Disneyworld" in the gardens surrounding the Princess's
former home
He was speaking an exhibition opened to try to gauge public opinion on exactly what to do with the 27-acre site surrounding the Princess's former home, Kensington Palace.
£10m is being spent on the tribute, which will be placed directly behind the gates to Kensington Palace where mourners laid millions of bouquets in the days following the Preliminary proposals include a floodlit fountain and a garden for children.
Mr Burrell said: "It is to be a very simple, quiet place for contemplation. It is not going to be commercialised beyond recognition."
He believed it was crucial that residents' concerns were allayed, but said the garden is very popular with people who have written to the committee
Exercise in deceit
However local residents arriving at the exhibition were less than impressed with what they saw, believing there to be a lack of detail.
Newspaper columnist and Kensington resident Brian Sewell launched a furious attack on the presentation, which features a plan showing the areas of the garden to be affected but offers no impressions on how they could change.
He called it "an exercise in deceit", and demanded concrete proposals for people to comment on.
"If they want a tribute to Diana, then they should leave the gardens as they were when she was alive. This is what people want to see, not some creation overrun by tourist buses."
He believed the memorial committee was trying to get the plan in "through the back door, and in so doing, ruin one of the finest parks in west London."
But a spokesman for the committee rejected this, saying: "The whole idea of this exhibition is to seek the opinion of residents and others before opening the design to international competition."
A decision on the exact layout will be made later this year following the results of the consultation exercise and a separate environmental impact survey.
But residents hope the project will not get that far if their campaign succeeds.
Ethne Rudd, of the Kensington Society said: "The exhibition tells you nothing but it gives us the chance to get everybody to come and object and put an end to this.
She said the gardens would be turned into a tourist trap.
"Then there are going to be crowds walking around in coloured hats and holding umbrellas. The character of the gardens would change completely. Its informal nature would be gone for ever."
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UK Diana's face 'belongs to the world'
Princess Diana: her image cannot be trademarked
The face of Diana, Princess of Wales, belongs to the world instead of
being the property of her memorial fund, says the Patent Office.
This decision follows a seven-month investigation by the Patent Office after the Princess' Memorial Fund wanted to take a share of the profits from anyone using her image to sell goods.
The civil servants blocked this fearing it would allow celebrities to stop anybody using pictures of them without permission.
Trustees of the memorial fund sent 26 well-known photographs of Diana to the Patent Office to register the pictures as intellectual property.
The fund could have made millions of pounds for charity by licensing her face on tea towels and mugs sold as souvenirs around the world.
A High Court ruling last year gave the Princess's executors powers to license or veto souvenirs and memorabilia.
But the Fund's attempt to control the use of pictures went beyond the powers granted then.
It has until the end of next month to come up with a revised proposal to satisfy civil servants and is confident that it will succeed.
Copyright
The Fund applied for protection in a huge variety of classes of goods, from kitchen utensils to Christmas tree decorations.
The list included items such as: yeasts, fire extinguishers and salad dressings, as well as advertising, clothing and games.
This application to the Patent Office has been watched by celebrities who want to control exploitation of their own faces.
The
Archbishop of York has called for people to stop "wallowing" in the
death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Speaking seven weeks before the
anniverary of her death, the Most Rev David Hope, England's second-most
senior bishop, said that the late princess should not be worshipped. He
warned that the country was in danger of "clinging too much to the icon"
as it developed into a personality cult. But while Dr Hope spoke out
over Diana in the run-up to the first anniversary of her death on August
31, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, issued a statement
saying it was "surely right to thank God" for the Princess's life.Country must 'move on'
The singer Elton John, who performed at the princess' funeral, has already added to these voices by calling for people to 'give the tributes a rest'. But the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has accused those claiming "fake sentimentality" of being snobs. Sounding his warning, Dr Hope said: "We need to begin to move on and part of that moving on is the letting go". Letting go was difficult because of the "constant stream" of photographs of the princess which continued to appear every day, he said. "We need to be beware of clinging to the icon," he added. "There is some element of wallowing in her death. "Let's not get totally swept up in indulging our emotions but instead reflect on her life and ask, 'What does this mean for me?'"
Public mourning 'inevitable'
While Dr Hope called for restraint over mourning for Diana, a spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury said the two most senior clergy of the Church of England were not divided over how the UK should mark the anniversary. Dr Carey has distributed to churches the special prayers he delivered at Diana's funeral last year. In a message to clergy, Dr Carey said he believed that it was "inevitable" that the public would turn their thoughts to the princess and her family in the coming weeks. While he cautioned against churches stimulating emotion, he said: "It is surely right to thank God for the Princess of Wales' compassion and the hope she brought to so many needy people, and to pray for His blessing on her sons". Dr Carey's six prayers are aimed at church services to be held on Sunday August 31, the day before the anniversary of Diana's death. They include the prayers he read out at Westminster Abbey for the Princess's life and work, and another for the Royal Family in their loss.
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Villagers 'hoping for the best'
The villagers themselves seem to be taking things in their stride. "We don't actually know what it's going to be like until it starts. We're hoping for the best," said Christine Whiley, who runs the Great Brington post office. Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, is the landlord and he has made the effort to include locals in his project, giving them a guided preview of the exhibition rooms - provided they refused to talk to the media. Local businesses may benefit from the influx of visitors. Accommodation is booked out and pubs and restaurants are already geared up for plenty of custom. Colin Ward, landlord of the Fox and Hounds pub at nearby Harlestone, said he has seen a 25% increase in trade since Diana's death, and had served about 1,000 meals a day. "It has been very different. We have seen people from all over the world," he said. "I think the Earl has handled the situation very well. I have a lot of admiration for how he has put it together." At the last count, there were around 8,000 tickets left despite rumours of a sell-out. "One problem was that people wrongly thought that every day had sold out following the initial surge of publicity," an estate spokesperson said.
Black market fears
All tickets have the names of the buyer printed on them, to prevent black market sales. However, tickets for the opening day were changing hands for almost six times their £9.50 face value. Some reports even claim that black market tickets have been selling for up to £100. The estate will close its doors again on August 30. The following day, the anniversary of Diana's death, the Spencer family will hold a graveside service. Prince Charles, his sons and other members of the Royal family will attend a service near Balmoral, the Royal estate in Scotland.
UK
Diana committee 'backs memorial garden'
The area earmarked for a memorial garden became an inpromptu shrine
The committee set up to vet memorials in the name of Diana, Princess of
Wales, will give its backing to a controversial commemorative garden,
according to the Daily Mail. The
garden, in the grounds of the late princess's home at Kensington
Palace, is one of a handful of suggestions that will be given the seal
of approval by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Committee. The
committee, which includes Chancellor Gordon Brown, will meet in Downing
Street on Wednesday to announce its "preliminary" advice on memorials,
the paper says. As well as the memorial garden, it will also announce a
new nursing scheme, a Diana medal for schoolchildren, a £5 coin, and a
walkway shadowing the route of Diana's funeral procession. Ideas which
failed to receive the committee's approval include a public holiday or
flag day to mark the Princess's birthday and a medal to be added to the
honours system. It is the £9m memorial garden that is likely to stir the
strongest objections, mostly from Kensington residents who fear being
swamped by tourists coming to pay their respects. With estimated running
costs of £75,000, the landscaped garden would cover 16 acres in front
of Kensington Palace. The area became an impromptu floral shrine to the
Princess in the days after her death last September. But last month
disgruntled residents joined forces to oppose plans for the garden,
which could draw five million visitors a year. Local MP Alan Clark acts
as a standard bearer for their cause and has called the garden an
example of "new dumbed-down millennium culture." The idea of a £5 coin
is likely to prove popular with the public. It is reported that the
coins would bear Diana's head on one side and the Queen's on the other.
Nursing tribute
The
nursing proposal - already dubbed "Diana's angels"- is expected to work
alongside established schemes such as Macmillan nurses. The 10-strong
committee has been flooded with ideas for different ways to commemorate
the princess. They include an eternal flame similar to the Kennedy
memorial in Washington; a monument or statue; a network of hospices
across the country bearing the Princess's name and a new footbridge
across the Thames.
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10 groups will benefit from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
Homeless charities and groups supporting victims of domestic violence are among the latest projects to benefit from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Trustees allocated grants of up to £60,000 to each of 10 projects following a similar announcement 11 days ago. In March, 100 organisations were invited to apply for help from the fund. Proposals from those remaining will be announced in the coming weeks.
The newly announced grants total £532,351 and benefit projects such as:
- Aids charity London Lighthouse, in which the princess took a close interest, which has been awarded £60,000.
- The St Matthew Society gets £60,000 towards the building of accommodation for vulnerable homeless people in Attleborough, Norfolk.
- The Passage, a group refurbishing a building in London's Victoria for homeless over-25s, gets a grant of £60,000.
- Refuge, established in 1971 as the world's first safe house for victims of domestic violence, gets £58,736 for counselling.
- British Youth Opera gets £50,000 to fund the 1998 Princess of Wales Summer Season.
- Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, based in Bristol, gets £53,000 for the construction of a sporting education centre.
- Childline gets £52,000 - the cost of keeping one of its phone lines open for a year, including volunteer training, paid counselling supervisors and administration.
- Scottish Pre-School Play Association gets £60,000 for its quality assurance accreditation scheme to improve service standards.
- Chester Summer Music Festival gets £28,615 to meet an expected deficit in its education outreach programme.
- The Albany, based in Lewisham, south-east London, gets £50,000 to support an arts education project for a deprived area of the capital.
Earl Spencer has told how researching and editing home films of his late sister, Princess Diana, left him completely drained. The films form part of the public exhibition of the Princess' life when the Earl opens the Althorp estate to the public in July. It also features in a BBC documentary, Diana: My Sister, the Princess, to be broadcast before the estate is opened. Speaking to the BBC's Radio Times, Earl Spencer said: "It was really sad, really sad, to see this little girl running around and to know what happened to her when she became older. "I find it very difficult to talk about Diana. I find that the smallest thing will set me off crying." The Earl singled out one film showing the late princess laughing in a boat. "Although it was silent, I could really hear the laugh," he said. "It was such a joyous laugh and I will never hear that again." The exhibition of Diana's life will be open to the public from July 1, what would have been her 37th birthday, until the eve of the anniversary of her death, August 30. Around 150,000 people have paid £9.50 each to see the museum but they will not be allowed onto the island where the princess is buried. Nearby villagers have criticised the Earl's plans, saying they fear a deluge of tourists. There have also been fears that Althorp will become an English 'Graceland', a shrine to Princess Diana similar to the former Memphis home of Elvis Presley. But the Earl said he hoped the exhibition would not be a morbid experience. "In the last film and the last room that people go into she is presented as really happy," he said. "We don't want people to come here and just be miserable."
MP opposes memorial garden
Meanwhile, Kensington's MP Alan Clark has said he is "completely opposed" to government-led proposals for a multi-million pound memorial garden to Princess Diana in the royal borough Around 1,000 people at a public meeting heard the controversial MP say he would support attempts to stop the creation of the gardens in the grounds of the princess' former home, Kensington Palace. Residents of the exclusive London borough fear up to five million tourists will flood Kensington, leading to more traffic, environmental damage, souvenir traders and fast food stands. Mr Clark, who had previously urged a more neutral line over the gardens, said: "I am complete in my mind about what my constituents want." The MP also questioned whether the princess herself would have wanted a memorial garden.
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The Fund will give at least £4m a year to charity
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is to continue its work indefinitely.
A statement by the trustees says the fund will become a "living memorial through helping those in need and distress".
The move has been approved by Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, despite his earlier calls to wind the charity up.
The fund, which has raised £50m, will give a minimum of £4m to good causes every year.
Donations have poured into the Fund since Diana died with her companion, Dodi al-Fayed, in a car crash last August in Paris.
Earl Spencer, has in the past been a fierce critic of what he has called the fund's "tacky" merchandising deals, and set up a Diana Spencer memorial fund of his own.
The main memorial fund has come under attack particularly for allowing the princess's signature - its logo - to appear on tubs of margarine.
'Priority is to make a difference'
"The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is to be a living memorial through helping those in need and distress, especially at the margins of society," the statement said. "It will continue this work indefinitely."
Among the groups receiving money will be land mine survivors, a cause espoused by the princess in the months before she died.
"The trustees' overriding priority is to make a difference to the lives of these people," the statement said.
The trustees have already made grants of £13m and they pledged to give special weight to applications from those who would "find it difficult to obtain recognition and support from sources other than the fund".
While she was married to Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, Princess Diana was associated with more than 100 charities, but after her divorce in 1996, she kept her connection with only six.
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He said he had no regrets about the decision to bury Diana on the Oval island in the ornamental lake at Althorp following her death last August.
"I had been uncomfortable with the idea of the crypt and one morning I just woke and thought 'We'll bury her on the estate'. I talked it over with a couple of other people and we went from there."
The island has a simple temple which has been enhanced as a permanent memorial to Diana.
It contains two marble slabs with inscriptions and a profile of Diana. One will bear a quote from Diana herself, the other bears a quote from Lord Spencer's forthright funeral speech.
"The joy of that place is its natural beauty with its trees and plants. We are doing a lot of landscaping work in the park and around the temple and our personal memorial to Diana is transforming that site.
"It is also appropriate because water was her element - she was always very at home in it."
But Lord Spencer intends to keep the island private and there is no marking of the Princess's actual burial place.
The interview was given to the Northants Evening Telegraph and its sister paper the Chronicle and Echo.
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Phil Collins doubts Diana would have approved
Rock star Phil Collins has criticised the price of tickets for a tribute concert to Diana, Princess of Wales, which have failed to sell out as quickly as expected.
Two-thirds of the 15,000 tickets available for the concert - at Althorp, near Northampton, on June 27 - went within three hours of sales lines opening on Saturday.
The organisers had expected the remaining 5,000 to be snapped up on Sunday. But at 5.30pm the Ticketmaster agency said there were still "quite a few" tickets left.
Collins, a friend of Diana, said in a radio interview that the £39.50 ($65) entrance fee should be halved. told a television interviewer that he had refused to play at the concert because he did not want to be part of the "feeding frenzy".
"She was a Princess for the people, it would have been nice if they had a ticket price for the people," Collins he said.
"If you're going to go as a couple, it's 80 quid, and a baby-sitter, and petrol - it's a lot of money. Suddenly you're talking about people that are reasonably well off."
He added: "If she'd have been here to talk about it I'm sure she would have said 'Well, yes we can ask for 40 quid, but why don't we ask for 20?'."
Collins refused to take part in the concert despite personal requests from Diana's brother Earl Spencer and tycoon Richard Branson.
"I thought there was an awful feeding frenzy," he said, in a separate interview with Sky television. "I have my own sadness about it and I don't really want to become part of a feeding frenzy that is all."
Collins, who was heavily involved in the organisation of Band Aid in the 1980s, also refused to contribute to the Diana tribute album.
He said: "I didn't feel that I wanted to get involved in an album and a concert. Let's just get on with our lives and be sad."
The concert will feature: Sir Cliff Richard, Chris de Burgh, Wet Wet Wet, Lesley Garrett, Julian Lloyd Webber, Jimmy Nail and the Chicken Shed Theatre Company. It will be staged in the Deer Park on Earl Spencer's Althorp estate, about a mile from the island where Diana is buried.
The only other ticket oulet apart from Ticketmaster is the Derngate Theatre in Northampton.
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Diana bodyguard: 'I remember more'
Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the only survivor of the Paris car crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and their driver, says he has remembered more of the tragedy after a series of sessions with a psychiatrist.
He is now seeking a further meeting with the French judge investigating the accident, he said in a statement issued through his solicitors.
The statement followed publication of a story in Saturday's edition of The Mirror newspaper, billed as "exclusive", in which the editor, Piers Morgan, described a meeting with Mr Rees-Jones and promised a "truly astonishing interview" in Monday's edition. Mr Rees-Jones, 29, said his employers at Harrods, headed by Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father, had provided him with the support and assistance of psychiatrists. He added: "I have now given three interviews to the judge. "I remember very little of the final journey on August 31. In my interviews with the psychiatrist, I have remembered a little more. I am therefore having a further meeting with the judge to tell him what I remember." The Mirror newspaper has said it will publish the first part of an interview with Mr Rees-Jones on Monday. The double-page story in Saturday's edition of the paper said Mr Rees-Jones "can now remember most of what happened that night" and added: "It was not easy for him to finally break his silence." However, Mr Rees-Jones insisted in the statement that he had given no "exclusivity" to The Mirror and had received no payment for the interview. He also said he had never received any payment from the press. "I understand that the Daily Mirror contacted other press outlets last night claiming rights over an "exclusive" article. They did so without contacting me or my solicitors. "This has caused my family and me great personal difficulty. I have felt forced to go into hiding," his statement said. Mr Rees-Jones said he was concerned at reports that he did not conduct himself professionally on the night of the crash and was not properly trained for the role which he was performing. "These allegations are wholly spurious and I will, as and when I think it appropriate to do so, make public comment. "This will be done solely through my solicitors and in the media and on the terms of my choosing." He also said he had returned to light duties at Harrods over the past few weeks.
'Protecting copyright'
In a statement issued after Mr Rees-Jones's, Mr Morgan said: "Trevor Rees-Jones never asked for, or received, a penny from the Mirror in connection with the interview we will be publishing on Monday. "The interview is exclusive in the sense that it is the first he has given in relation to the accident in Paris on August 31. "The Mirror's rights extend simply to the content of that interview of which I was the author, and the photographs which accompany it, which were taken by a Mirror staff photographer. "We alerted other media in advance of publication to protect our copyright. "My understanding is that Mr Rees-Jones is keen to ensure that he is not thought to be profiting from this interview and I am happy to confirm that." Mr Rees-Jones suffered massive facial and other injuries in the crash. Surgeons had to rebuild his shattered lower face but he made an amazing recovery and five weeks after the accident left the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and returned to the UK.
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"I have instructed solicitors to act on my behalf and have asked them to deal with the enormous press interest. My solicitors are entirely independent of the Harrods organisation. I have asked that my employers directed all press inquiries to my solicitors, and they confirm they will do so.
"As you are aware, I have returned to light duties at Harrods over the past few weeks. In order to assist me, my employers have also provided me with the support and assistance of psychiatrists. I am grateful to Mr Al Fayed for the support that he has given my family and me since the accident.
"I have now given three interviews to the judge. I remember very little of the final journey on August 31. In my interviews with the psychiatrist, I have remembered a little more. I am therefore having a further meeting with the judge to tell him what I remember.
"This is where matters stood on Wednesday, February 25 last. On that day, I had a further meeting with the psychiatrist. I remembered a little more. Later that day, I attended a meeting at Harrods.
"When I did so, I met Mr Piers Morgan, who I understand to be the editor of the Daily Mirror. I answered his questions as straightforwardly as I could. I entered into no agreement with the Daily Mirror. I have given them no exclusivity and have received no payment.
"I understand that the Daily Mirror contacted other press outlets last night claiming rights over an "exclusive" article. They did so without contacting me or my solicitors. This has caused my family and me great personal difficulty. I have felt forced to go into hiding.
"I have been very concerned to read previous articles in the press suggesting that I did not on the night in question conduct myself professionally and was not properly trained for the role which I was performing.
"These allegations are wholly spurious and I will, as and when I think it appropriate to do so, make public comment. This will be done solely through my solicitors and in the media and on the terms of my choosing.
"I
wish to repeat that I have not received one penny piece from the Daily
Mirror or any other media outlet since the tragic events of the 31
August. In no respect does the Daily Mirror have exclusive rights in
this matter."
Diana bodyguard: 'I remember more'
Sunday, 1 March, 1998, 15:24 GMT
hrouded in an official darkness rendered all the more impenetrable by random leaks, rumours, and - one often suspects - downright fabrications, the Diana enquiry rumbles methodically towards its conclusion later this spring.
Never accused of undue haste, the French justice system is moving with a thoroughness that an inquest of this importance no doubt deserves, but with a stealth that leaves a starved international press gasping for new stories.
The result has been open season for Diana gossip-mongers. The last weeks have seen reports on:
The Australian video shock
An Australian couple were reported to have footage of the scene of the
crash moments after it happened. Police were said to be "desperate" to
get their hands on the tape - it turned out to be completely irrelevant.
The discovery of the second car shock
Police were put on the trail of a white Fiat Uno, similar to the one they are still hunting.
It was reported to have had its front wing repaired, and then been sold in November - by a well-known paparazzo. The implication was that a photographer had been in the mysterious second car that may have caused the accident.
But it turned out that the lead had been discovered by investigators acting for the al-Fayed family. Once again police dismissed it as irrelevant.
The Henri Paul millions shock
Sources "close to the investigation" revealed that the dead driver of
the crashed limousine had had large amounts of money mysteriously lodged
in his bank account shortly before the accident.
The rumour-mill suggested there was a drugs connection. Police dismissed it as irrelevant.
The serialised Princess
Short of hard facts, the popular press fixes on the wildest of unverifiable trivia to drive the Diana story forward.
Meanwhile at the other end of the market, the first books are appearing alleging to tell the full story about the Princess's death.
The most publicised of these, by two Time magazine correspondents, has been serialised in various papers. Its chief claim to fame is the interview it contains with Mohammed Al Fayed, father of Dodi.
In it he says he is 99 per cent certain the crash was caused deliberately by unknown persons acting to prevent his son's and Diana's impending marriage.
As no proof of this was vouchsafed, the police once again dismissed it as irrelevant. In fact, the police now say they are increasingly irritated by the succession of ludicrous fantasies masquerading as plausible theories about how and why the Princess died.
Hiding behind their own official secrecy, the investigators maybe have only themselves to blame for the speculation. A more open policy might put paid to the rumour-mongers.
But at heart the police have a point. From the start nothing has emerged to shake the basic facts in the case: a drunk chauffeur driving at 90 mph through a busy city centre lost control, having possibly - or possibly not - glanced another vehicle.
There is nothing out of the ordinary in that.
Just a dead princess.
Death of a Princess: Six months on...
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Paul Reynolds
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The crisis of confidence was thrown into dramatic focus after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Many people were saddened or even offended by what was seen to be the family's slow response to the public mood that week.
In her broadcast on the eve of Diana's funeral, the Queen said that "lessons would be learned". A senior Palace source confided to me later: "We nearly lost it." What, therefore, is being done?
The way ahead
To start with, the re-examination had begun before Diana's death. Several years ago, the royal family set up a discussion procedure known as the Way Ahead Group. Senior members of the family, with the Queen herself in the chair, got together twice a year, during the holidays at Balmoral and Sandringham.
One of the first decisions was that the Queen should pay tax. Then, after the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992, it was agreed that the tax payers should not pick up the bill for restoration, but that Buckingham Palace would be open to the public in the summer and the money raised in that way instead.
The Way Ahead Group also examined whether the royal family was casting its net wide enough in its visits. Were there sections of society being "left out"?
There was a brisk spring cleaning of royal finances, with the appointment of a hot shot City accountant, Michael Peat.
The Civil List was cut back and now only the Queen, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother are supported by the taxpayer. Even royal travel was changed, with a budget now set each year and flights for visits abroad even put out to tender.
The Royal Yacht Britannia was scrapped and the Queen did not press for a replacement.
So a great deal was done long before Diana's death and indeed some people in the Palace felt that the worst was over. Then came the events of August 31, 1997.
The sudden outpouring of public emotion took royal officials by surprise. It was realised that all the changes which had been made were not enough.
"Touchy feely" future?
What the public appeared to want was a more "caring" monarchy, something in the style of Diana herself.
Their problem was that the royal family has been trained from infancy to hide emotion and to present the traditional stiff upper lip. Yet suddenly, people were demanding that the family became more "touchy feely".
The response has been to try to react in some way to this demand without throwing over all the old virtues. Prince Charles, who has a fine record of work among the young unemployed with his Prince's Trust, is now talking more easily with the media.
Two years ago, he managed to go on a trip round Central Asia for nine days without saying hello once to the small press party with him. On a recent visit to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in contrast, he chatted away quite easily.
But, clearly, there is a way to go. The discussions among the focus groups have shown an ambiguous public response.
The royal family is felt to be an important part of British public life but is seen as too remote. So now we have the prospect of a super communications chief. His or her role will not be easy. The royal ship of state can only change direction slowly.
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