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Princess Diana-do you believe she was murdered?

342 replies

ChampersPampers · 08/05/2011 11:43

I often meet people who are convinced she was 'bumped off'.
Wondered if it's only small percentage of peoples view or do alot of people believe this so called murder to be true?

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FourFingeredKitkat · 09/05/2011 16:31

Yawn...

Snorbs · 09/05/2011 16:36

A drunk driver crashes his car while speeding in a very dumb place to drive fast. A nation reels in shock as this has never happened before Hmm

JimmyChooChoo · 09/05/2011 16:55

Wendihouse never even thought of it like that.So true.
Also alot of unanswered things about the death.The whereabouts of Henri Paul between 7pm and 10pm before the crash are unknown.He had large sums of money put into his account.He had previously worked for M16.

Also cameras were turned off in tunnel.Tunnel re-opened shortly after and was cleaned up.Should have been closed and investigated.Cleaning woul destroy any 'clues'.

So many more weird things.

Of course doesnt mean it was murder.Could be coincidence.

Also people have said if was murder then they wouldn't try and orchestrate a crash.Why not?If she was shot then it couldn't be seen as an 'accident'.

bruffin · 09/05/2011 16:55

Charles Spenser and his family were clearly at the wedding and sat with the royal family. I don't remember seeing Anne, Andrew and Edward were in any of the official pictures either. There were no aunts or uncles or cousins except Louise who was a bridesmaid.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 09/05/2011 17:04

Why on earth does anyone think the Royal Family has a problem with arms dealers? WTF do you think Andrew DOES all day?

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 09/05/2011 17:07

Of course you don't orchestrate a car crash in order to kill someone. The outcome is far to hard to predict. When you use a car crash to cover up a murder what you do is you kill them FIRST, then crash the car.

I also don't think the royal family has any executive authority over the military or intelignce organisations of the UK.

shmoz · 09/05/2011 17:07

CoteD ''bringing Adnan Khashoggi into the Royal family would be too far'' - Diana could not have brought him 'into' the Royal Family, not being a Royal herself.

JimmyChooChoo · 09/05/2011 17:14

Shmoz-you're right that she was no longer a Royal herself but she would always be the mother of the future King.

TheOriginalFAB · 09/05/2011 17:15

I just think all this speculation is in bad taste.

There is no way that the royal family had Diana killed. They just would not. The Queen and the rest of the family seem to care for William and Harry and I doubt very much they would want to hurt the boys by having her mother killed.

Thankfully Diana's family have better things to do that read posts on here as I know this would really devastate me if I was them and read all this.

Coincidences are not always good.

Let her rest in peace and let her boys have a long and happy life.

StrawberriesAndScream · 09/05/2011 17:34

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BalloonSlayer · 09/05/2011 17:34

"NONE of their bridesmaids/page boys were from the Spencer side." Probably because all the children in the Spencer family are grown up. Oh how sinister!!! Hmm

"It took forever to get her to the hospital." Oh for Pete's sake, this has been explained in every paper over and over again. The French system is to stabilise the patient - in this case to continually resuscitate the patient - before bringing them to hospital. Have a look at the inquiry transcripts. She had such serious injuries that she had a cardiac arrest when they lifted her out of the car. That means - she died. She was resuscitated, then put in the ambulance, then the same sort of thing kept happening all the way to the hospital. What do you think they should have done: not wasted any time on resuscitation and delivered her speedily, but dead, to the hospital, or stopped to try to revive her?

I wish I hadn't looked at those transcripts TBH. Reading the ones I did, it seems quite obvious to even a non-medical person like me that her injuries were so severe she had no chance of survival, and that her surviving as long as she did was - it seems to me - because everyone was trying extra hard because of who she was. All those efforts seem almost cruel. Sad And then they get accused of not trying hard enough.

BalloonSlayer · 09/05/2011 17:37

And Camilla is not a Catholic. It is against constitutional law for the heir to the throne to marry a Catholic (which is appalling in itself, but that's another discussion).

Not a single reference to Diana at the Royal Wedding. No, not at all. Unless you count William's speech, and the bloody great ROCK of an engagement ring, and every commentator's spiel and . . .

< gives up >

Abr1de · 09/05/2011 17:41

ACtually some of Earl Spencer's latest brood are still very small.

The Honourable Edmund Charles Spencer, born 6 October 2003 (age 7)
Lady Lara Caroline Spencer, born 16 March 2006 (age 5).

But the point stands that there doesn't seem to have been any 'slighting' of the Spencers at all. Not everyone can be a page/bridesmaid.

beesimo · 09/05/2011 17:44

Just to add a bit extra to the mix who can recall Dale Kanga Tryon she was just about to publish her diaries of affair with Prince Charles which as is well documented happen when Camay Nicks had her slippers under Charles bed and then splat mysterious fall from wheelchair out of upper floor window!!

Suggest you google Dale Kanga Tyron Telegraph.

The waters here are very murky methinks

HazeltheMcWitch · 09/05/2011 18:07

Hmm, is anyone else here updating their mental spreadsheets with details of who believes all this tripe?

Re 'Kanga', not sure what your point is, Beesimo - beautifully punctuated by the 'splat'. A horribly tragic story IMHO: married society lady has affair with married Prince Charles. She blabs to papers and is shunned by her circle. Apparently she then gets very ill, turns to alternative health, then supposedly has substance abuse issues and delusions. During in-patient treatment for this she jumps out of 1st floor window and is paraplegic. Mental health issues then then strike yet more, and she is sectioned. During a long stay she dies from septecaemia bought on by bed sores.

beesimo · 09/05/2011 18:25

Hazelthe Witch

My Mam in Law worked for the 'gentry' and she always said the quickest way for a 'discarded' wife or mistress to end up dead under a horse or in a mental home was to be a nuisance ie open her mouth about a rich powerful man.

Quite a few maids ended up in mental hospitals too that was another story though it was usually for the crime of being raped and made pregnant by your respectable employer or his cronies.

Now her we are in 2011 and anybody who speaks out of turn is having their mental spreadsheets updated according to you.

I am surprised how many people still feel the need to toady up for the bastards luckily none of my DDs will ever have to curtsey to anyone!

PinotGrigiosKittens · 09/05/2011 18:28

I think Hazel meant a "MNers spreadsheet" - as in, noting whose opinions are bonkers different so to know who to avoid in the future on this site.

PinotGrigiosKittens · 09/05/2011 18:29

But, if so, no Hazel I'm not. Everyone is entitled to opinions without scorn imo.

HazeltheMcWitch · 09/05/2011 18:30

It's not 'anyone who speaks out of turn', it's people who believe all this nonsense!

PinotGrigiosKittens · 09/05/2011 18:32

I laugh at myself for saying bonkers in one post and scorn in another Grin

HazeltheMcWitch · 09/05/2011 18:33

Pinot, you're right, that may have sounded judgy. Afraid my judgy-pants are quite firmly pulled on today. This may make me a bitch.

For what it is worth, Kanga was a friend of my mothers, so the 'splat' comment has made me see red.

PinotGrigiosKittens · 09/05/2011 18:35

Oh I agree with you Hazel, don't get me wrong! Kanga was a tragic loss. I remember her death well and it was a shocking tale. I think my comment made me seem all self-righteous actually (and I'm not I'm a doofus most all of the time).

Written words can be misconstrued so easily :)

HazeltheMcWitch · 09/05/2011 18:36

Pinot - you're the queen of the Kit.Kom - you're could not come across as self-righteous at all! Grin

HazeltheMcWitch · 09/05/2011 18:37

And I cannot spell 'you' it seems....

beesimo · 09/05/2011 18:42

HazelMcWitch

You sound like a Victorian Pater 'its people who believe this nonsense!'

Are you twirling your moustache while puffing on a cigar?

Why not open your mind a bit to the possibility that even you can't be 100% right 100% of the time.