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As one of the most photographed woman, Princess Diana has left a pictorial record of her life behind for us. Here is a link to see a few slide shows of Princess Diana.
http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/diana/slideshows/slideshows.html
She was a beautiful person who tried to help everyone she could. Her death was a tragedy. Her last hours on earth were painful. :( Was her death an accident, or a murder/conspiracy?

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I am not sure. It's a quite complicated story if you ask me.

I think it was just an accident. The press just blew everything out of proportion.

it is, in my opinion, a tragic and sickening consequence to the paparazzi frenzi.

I think it was some kind of conspiracy.. people think I'm nuts, but that's my gut feeling. And I have a pretty good gut feeling.

A horrible accident

I think it was a horrible accident caused by the :censored: paparazzi.

Originally posted by Miss Karly
I think it was some kind of conspiracy.. people think I'm nuts, but that's my gut feeling. And I have a pretty good gut feeling.

Im with you....
They never found the little white car that hit them and made them crash into the cement pillar...

I think it was just an accident. A bad one, but an accident nonetheless IMO.

I think it was just a horrible accident

I voted for a horrible accident although I think it classifies more as vehicular homicide since the driver of the Mercedes was drunk.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were a conspiracy. She was a very big name who was with the son of a wealthy Arab businessman. It's very possible. I think officially that the paparazzi chased her and her driver was drunk, so that was the cause of the crash, but there may very well have been other forces at work, someone who was out to get her.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
I wouldn't be surprised if it were a conspiracy. She was a very big name who was with the son of a wealthy Arab businessman. It's very possible. I think officially that the paparazzi chased her and her driver was drunk, so that was the cause of the crash, but there may very well have been other forces at work, someone who was out to get her.

I know that the Queen of England never rally like Diana

I think it was an accident.

I voted murder/conspiracy, because I dont think it was just an 'accident.' Hmm... MonarcC said they never found the white car? :confused: What else?

Originally posted by Miss Karly
I think it was some kind of conspiracy.. people think I'm nuts, but that's my gut feeling. And I have a pretty good gut feeling.

I have never really thought that she was murdered. But I have always been convinced that JFK JR's plane was sabatoged!:confused:

Originally posted by Penny Lane
I have never really thought that she was murdered. But I have always been convinced that JFK JR's plane was sabatoged!:confused:

Well the family's cursed, no doubt about it.. but besides that fact, I always thought there was something fishy with that whole thing. I mean I know it's entirely possible to lose control of the plane in bad weather, i.e. fog, but... he had to be good enough to get a private pilot's license,... I don't know. It all seems strange to me.

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
I voted murder/conspiracy, because I dont think it was just an 'accident.' Hmm... MonarC said they never found the white car? :confused: What else?

Well other people have tried to investigate and the police will not let them have any evidence to look over and do more research on it. I was watching the special about Princess Diana on the discovery channel. You can go to www.discovery.com and check out the articles of Princess Diana...

She died August 31, 1997 almost 6 years ago :(
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WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT: THE ACCIDENT

At precisely 12:15 A.M. on Sunday, August 31, 1997, the security staff of the Ritz Hotel were alerted.

Dodi and Diana were ready to depart through the rear entrance of the hotel. The green Range Rover and the decoy black Mercedes (the latter driven by the hotel's senior limousine driver) pulled out into the Place Vendome, circles the square and then returned to their parking spots. The photographers there were stymied.

Meantime, the second black 1994 Mercedes S-280, with Henri Paul at the wheel and Trevor Rees-Jones in the passenger seat, sped away from the rear of Ritz; Dodi was behind Paul, Diana on his right, behind Rees-Jones. In the excitement, only Rees-Jones fastened his seat belt. It was 12:20 when the car sped south on Rue Cambon, then went along Rue de Rivoli and past the splashing, illuminated fountain and Egyptian obelisk of the Place de la Concorde. By the time the Mercedes was hugging the Seine and heading toward the underpass, the few paparazzi on motorbikes had dropped behind. Photographs of speeding cars (more to the point, of their occupants) are notoriously difficult to obtain at night; besides, the windows of the Mercedes were heavily tinted. Nor did any of these men wish to risk their lives by edging their bikes close to a speeding vehicle.

Hence, the "Paparazzi killed Diana" theory turns out to be bull.

By the time Henri Paul and his passengers entered the Alma tunnel, the photographers were almost a quarter mile behind, keeping the car in sight but not endangering themselves by approaching the speeding Mercedes. It would be enough to arrive at Dodi's apartment, where several other colleagues of the pursuing paparazzi had already been alerted.

But another limousine driver entered the tunnel not far behind Paul, and this driver made a sworn statement of what happened---events that occurred within a few seconds, changing the course of countless lives and, it may be said without hyperbole, altering the course of late-twentieth-century history. The driver's account, it must be said, was in every way supported by police and by later forensic investigations of the site. And it is important to add that all police and official investigations discounted the proximity of paparazzi with blinding flashbulbs, on motorcycles.

Paul entered the tunnel on the left of two lanes and speeding at sixty to perhaps eighty miles an hour, which is not at all unusual in European cities---and then he found his car was behind a slower vehicle. Careful though this driver might otherwise have been, it is easy to imagine Dodi urging him on: "Faster! Lose them! Go on!"--- as friends and colleagues recalled, he usually did. Life was a chase Dodi wanted to win, a game in which he wanted both to be in the limelight and to retain his privacy. Henri Paul, in a healthier condition, may well have been more cautious, but as Claude Luc said, Fayed employees did what they were told---period.

Paul veered the Mercedes to the right, to pass the car ahead of him in the left lane. But then everything went out of control, and the right rear of the Mercedes swerved and hit the right wall of the tunnel with a loud crash. Attempting to correct the situation, Paul turned sharply left---and within seconds the Mercedes crashed into one of the reinforced concrete dividing pillars that separated the lanes from oncoming traffic and also supported the roof. The time the sound, like an explosion, was nearly deafening.

The car ricocheted again, hurtling across the drive and spinning around before coming to a full stop. It has been immediately reduced to a barely recognizable mound of steel: the front end telescoped into the engine, which was forced almost through the driver's seat. Inside the pile of rubble, Henri Paul and Dodi al-Fayed were dead, their bodies hideously mangled. Trevor Reed-Jones was seriously injured, but Diana, Princess of Wales, was near death. It was 12:24 AM.

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The Queen did it. Or maybe it was M.I.6, the British secret service. The motive: to prevent Princess Diana from marrying Dodi Fayed, bearing his child---step sibling to a future king--- and becoming a Muslim. Or maybe the motive was to protect the new world order from an activist princess with inconvenient ideas, such as banning land mines. How did the killers do it? Small bombs placed on the front and roof of the Mercedes in which she and Dodi rode. Or maybe the Mercedes was sabotaged with a remote-control device that locked the wheels and steering column at the flick of a switch in some far-off location---say, Balmoral. Some anti-Royals believe the queen pushed the button herself.

Like most conspiracy theories, the scenarios spun since Diana's death lead everywhere and nowhere. Many of the juiciest theories circulate on the Internet, where postings about Diana are rapidly becoming as numerous as those about the deaths of JFK, Marilyn Monroe and the king of the after world, Elvis Presley. But it is Egypt, homeland of the Fayeds, that has become the center of a booming conspiracy-theory industry.

Already at least half-a-dozen books about the dead princess are on sale in Cairo. One called "Who Killed Diana?!" was written in three days and is selling briskly enough, at $1.47 a copy, to warrant a second edition, out this week. Author Mohamed Ragab maintains that Britain's royal family and "Jewish circles" ordered the deaths to keep Diana from marrying Dodi. In the daily Al Ahram, Anis Mansour, a former adviser to Anwar Sadat, said Diana was "killed by British Intelligence to save the monarchy." A well-known Egyptian film director, Khairy Beshara, is writing the script for a movie about Diana's life. He has some reservations about the conspiracy theories, but he says she "suffered from cruel traditions" imposed on her by her in-laws.

Egyptians jumped to ugly conclusions about Diana's death partly because of a deeply ingrained feeling that the British, who ruled them until 1952, regard them as inferior. Egyptians say "a Dodi cannot marry the Princess of Wales, and the British would go as far as having them killed," says newspaper columnist Mohamed Sid Ahmed. "Conspiracy theories are a stock in trade here," says Tim Sullivan, a political science professor at American University in Cairo. He traces the cause to a sense of powerlessness. "When you think you don't have control over your life and over events," he says, "then conspiracy theories explain what is happening."

The First Diana Conspiracy Site popped up on Internet in Australia only hours after the death was announced. "The whole thing seems too pat and too convenient," it said, putting blame for the crash on Western governments, arms manufacturers and the royal family. One reporter heard the theory about the remote-control device in Paris, London, Los Angeles, and Milan, where a bodyguard claimed that the Mercedes S-280, the model used by Diana, often figures in murderous "accidents."

In Los Angeles, Leslie Barry, 35, voices another widely held theory. "I'm sure the royals did a blood test on her body and found out she was pregnant," Barry says. "They'll probably now use this to blackmail Diana's family, especially if her brother tries to have more contact with the boys." Other people think the crash was aimed at killing Dodi, not Diana. "I heard he stiffed some people in his business here," says a well heeled Beverly Hills resident.

Then there are the true believers who think Diana is still alive. Subscribers to this theory, say she was fed up with the intrusions on her private life and used the resources of the Fayed family to fake her death. One message on the London Net Web site says Diana and Dodi are living on "a small tropical island near the Middle East," communicating with her sons by "satellite video conferencing."

While no solid evidence exists, conspiracy theories about the death of Princess Diana continue to grow and flourish. To many it doesn't seem fitting, or even reasonable, that somebody as special and unique as Diana should die in something as common as an automobile accident. Perhaps they are right.

from : http://www.coverups.com/diana/theories.htm

Originally posted by MonarC
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT: THE ACCIDENT

At precisely 12:15 A.M. on Sunday, August 31, 1997, the security staff of the Ritz Hotel were alerted.

Dodi and Diana were ready to depart through the rear entrance of the hotel. The green Range Rover and the decoy black Mercedes (the latter driven by the hotel's senior limousine driver) pulled out into the Place Vendome, circles the square and then returned to their parking spots. The photographers there were stymied.

Meantime, the second black 1994 Mercedes S-280, with Henri Paul at the wheel and Trevor Rees-Jones in the passenger seat, sped away from the rear of Ritz; Dodi was behind Paul, Diana on his right, behind Rees-Jones. In the excitement, only Rees-Jones fastened his seat belt. It was 12:20 when the car sped south on Rue Cambon, then went along Rue de Rivoli and past the splashing, illuminated fountain and Egyptian obelisk of the Place de la Concorde. By the time the Mercedes was hugging the Seine and heading toward the underpass, the few paparazzi on motorbikes had dropped behind. Photographs of speeding cars (more to the point, of their occupants) are notoriously difficult to obtain at night; besides, the windows of the Mercedes were heavily tinted. Nor did any of these men wish to risk their lives by edging their bikes close to a speeding vehicle.

Hence, the "Paparazzi killed Diana" theory turns out to be bull.

By the time Henri Paul and his passengers entered the Alma tunnel, the photographers were almost a quarter mile behind, keeping the car in sight but not endangering themselves by approaching the speeding Mercedes. It would be enough to arrive at Dodi's apartment, where several other colleagues of the pursuing paparazzi had already been alerted.

But another limousine driver entered the tunnel not far behind Paul, and this driver made a sworn statement of what happened---events that occurred within a few seconds, changing the course of countless lives and, it may be said without hyperbole, altering the course of late-twentieth-century history. The driver's account, it must be said, was in every way supported by police and by later forensic investigations of the site. And it is important to add that all police and official investigations discounted the proximity of paparazzi with blinding flashbulbs, on motorcycles.

Paul entered the tunnel on the left of two lanes and speeding at sixty to perhaps eighty miles an hour, which is not at all unusual in European cities---and then he found his car was behind a slower vehicle. Careful though this driver might otherwise have been, it is easy to imagine Dodi urging him on: "Faster! Lose them! Go on!"--- as friends and colleagues recalled, he usually did. Life was a chase Dodi wanted to win, a game in which he wanted both to be in the limelight and to retain his privacy. Henri Paul, in a healthier condition, may well have been more cautious, but as Claude Luc said, Fayed employees did what they were told---period.

Paul veered the Mercedes to the right, to pass the car ahead of him in the left lane. But then everything went out of control, and the right rear of the Mercedes swerved and hit the right wall of the tunnel with a loud crash. Attempting to correct the situation, Paul turned sharply left---and within seconds the Mercedes crashed into one of the reinforced concrete dividing pillars that separated the lanes from oncoming traffic and also supported the roof. The time the sound, like an explosion, was nearly deafening.

The car ricocheted again, hurtling across the drive and spinning around before coming to a full stop. It has been immediately reduced to a barely recognizable mound of steel: the front end telescoped into the engine, which was forced almost through the driver's seat. Inside the pile of rubble, Henri Paul and Dodi al-Fayed were dead, their bodies hideously mangled. Trevor Reed-Jones was seriously injured, but Diana, Princess of Wales, was near death. It was 12:24 AM.

If those times of 12:15 a.m. and 12:24 a.m. are accurate... that whole thing happened in 9 minutes. Just 9 minutes. Ugh God, it gives me the creeps thinking about it.

I'm really not sure, but I think she was VERY beautiful. I was so sad when she was killed...I remember watching her funeral on TV and just bawling my eyes out. I'd just turned 12 and started 7th grade. Has it really been nearly 6 years now? :eek:

Originally posted by Miss Karly
If those times of 12:15 a.m. and 12:24 a.m. are accurate... that whole thing happened in 9 minutes. Just 9 minutes. Ugh God, it gives me the creeps thinking about it.

Me too. She was very pretty and didn't deserve to die. :crying:

PRINCESS DI: WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE CRASH -


Approaching in his car from the opposite direction. Dr. Frederic Mailliez stopped and ran to the spot. He saw at once that two of the passengers were dead, but that two others, including a blond woman, were perhaps still alive. Within seconds, the pursuing photographers had caught up. At the same time, police and firemen arrived, alerted by cars exiting the tunnel ahead of the Mercedes; very soon, they identified the woman passenger.

By 1:15, the bodies of Henri Paul and Dodi al-Fayed had been removed from the wreck ; later, after repeated toxicological tests, it was determined that Paul's blood contained four times the legal amount of alcohol permitted for drivers.

There was also, in his system, evidence of two prescription medications for psychological and emotional stress: these we're fluoxetine, which is the generic name for the American drug Prosaic, and tiapride, a European compound often used to calm aggressive patients being treated for alcoholism.

Diana and Rees-Jones---both of them barely alive---took longer to extricate. Jean-Pierre Chevenement, the Interior Minister, was contacted by senior police officials and sped to the Hospital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, where Diana and Rees-Jones were taken. They arrived at 2:00 that morning.

A team of surgeons and nurses set to work on Rees-Jones, who underwent the first of many operations to reset and restructure his shattered jaw and broken arm. Subsequently, he was in a coma for weeks and had little memory of anything after the car left the hotel. Diana's condition was terminal, and fading fast.

A surgical team labored over her for almost two hours. She had sustained massive chest injuries and had bled profusely, and now a vein was severed and her blood pressure dropped to a dangerous level. At first it seemed that her age and fitness might grant some hope even on light of these traumas. But then it became clear that, despite the successful repair of the torn vein, all her internal organs were gravely damaged. She suffered cardiac arrest, and her heart failed to respond to open massage. Electric shocks were unavailing.

At 4:00 that morning, August 31, 1997, Diana - Princess of Wales, was pronounced dead.

Isn't prosaic like full of prose, non-poetic?:confused: Does the author mean Prozac?

All I remember is switching back & forth from SNL to Brian Williams, the night of the accident, because he was the 1st one I had heard about her accident from. I thought for sure she would be OK. At that point, she only had a broken arm. Then Brian announced that she had just been pronounced dead. I sat there in front of the TV in shock. I was very sad, too, to hear about her death AND the death of JFK Jr., but I looked at it this way, they died looking the young way they did. 2 of the beautiful people.

I don't have a comment on the 'cause' of her death because I've heard alot of theories, including that Prince Charles was involved.

im not sure i mean id like to think it was a horrable accident cause she was a wonderful women but then agin i have heard storys about it being she was killed by paparazzi but i dont know
but william is hott though

I think she was killed by the poparatcy(?). They were the one's that were the cause of the accident in my opinion, and the murderer's of Princess Diana. She has always been one of my idol's, because of the amount of generosity she showed, and the person she was. She always seemed to be so nice, and I was so sad when she died. I will always miss her dearly, I only wish I had gotten the chance to have meet her!!!!:crying::(

RIP Princess Diana:crying:

murder/conspiracy...i dont think this was any accident

I dont think it was an accident either, and I am glad some of you feel the same way. I think maybe that damn Camilla had something to do with it??. I agree with Princess Di.. she looks like a doberman pincher :p. ( I read that Di called her that a few times in one of her biographies that i read..)

Yes and it seems the prince "big ears" & "doberwoman" are quite happy together now :rolleyes:

Originally posted by MonarC
Yes and it seems the prince "big ears" & "doberwoman" are quite happy together now :rolleyes:

Doberwoman??:lol: I thought they called her The Rottweiller. :lol:

Originally posted by Mijada
Doberwoman??:lol: I thought they called her The Rottweiller. :lol:

LOL!! Shes some type of dog. I agree with all of her nicknames.. she is the ugliest thing I have ever seen compared to Princess Di! Why he likes Camilla so much is beyond me!

I used to think it was a conspiracy, but honestly, WHO WOULD WANT TO KILL HER? Oh sure, many people didn't like her or Dodi, but they wouldn't set out to kill her unless they were foreign assasins or something - and they probably wouldn't bother because at the time she was considered out of the royal family. The people that suggested the queen: come on! The Queen would NEVER do that to her grandchildren. I think it was just an awful accident.

I like Diana. I got kind of sick of hearing about her every move in the years before her death ("Diana is wearing a new shade of lipstick!") :rolleyes: but when she died it sure hit me hard - and I cried just like everyone else. I felt so bad for her kids. Also, Diana's memory means more to me now, since she reminds me an AWFUL lot of my best friend. My best friend is a blonde, beautiful, but very timid person - she really does look very much like the princess - and her name is also Diana.

Originally posted by *ShortCake*
Why he likes Camilla so much is beyond me!
:rolleyes: It's beyond everyone! Prince Chuck ain't all that great-looking himself though. Thank God Will and Harry look like their mom! ;)

Originally posted by Liza
:rolleyes: It's beyond everyone! Prince Chuck ain't all that great-looking himself though. Thank God Will and Harry look like their mom! ;)

Thank goodness for that!! Prince chuck has big ears :X