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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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Ormirian · 09/05/2011 12:32

No

Hullygully · 09/05/2011 12:34

yes

VeryStressedMum · 09/05/2011 12:47

I don't think Diana was murdered, but if she was then it wasn't the royal family but the government or something like that who would have arranged it MI5 maybe (I'm wildly speculating here as I have no knowledge of secret intelligence agencies in the UK!).
Who knows what Diana was up to but maybe they didn't want her going out with (or marrying) the son of a Muslim who was refused British passport, even though he owned Harrods at the time. That's if she was murdered.

And I do believe that 'they' (whoever they are) would orchestrate a car crash rather than shoot someone in the head in an execution style killing which would bring attention to it.

I do think though, there was something fishy about Marilyn Monroe's death.

Glitterknickaz · 09/05/2011 12:49

No, she wasn't murdered. As for the twin towers, I believe a lot of what is written here - no conspiracy there either. Elvis is not alive and neither is Michael Jackson, we DID land on the moon.... any other conspiracy theories you want my opinion on?

Matekiddleton · 09/05/2011 12:58

No. It would have made more sense to have bumped off Fergie in terms of damage to the RF.

What became of the astrologer that PD visitied with Dodi, just a week before she died? Is she still working?

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Nancy66 · 09/05/2011 13:00

Fergie was irrelevant though - married to the 4th in line to the throne - mother of 5th and 6th....never any danger of them being crowned.

Becaroooo · 09/05/2011 13:01

No. Had she been wearing a seatbelt she would still be alive.

The only survivor was also the only one who was wearing a seatbelt.

luvvinlife · 09/05/2011 13:02

Reading some of the posts here it is worrying that they have the power to vote.

CoteDAzur · 09/05/2011 13:08

I don't know if she was murdered but she might have been, as the Royal family had the motive, opportunity, and means to arrange a fatal accident.

Dodi Al Fayed was not just another boyfriend. He was not only Muslim, but also closely related to Adnan Khashoggi, a shady arms dealer. It is not unimaginable that someone from within the Royal family may have decided that the mother of the future king cannot be married into this family, and that she is an acceptable loss in order to uphold the interests of the monarchy.

shmoz · 09/05/2011 13:13

Hey ho, more Diana conspiracy theory claptrap.

I did nearly wet myself when I saw who I thought was Al-Fayed at the Royal Wedding though, phew only the King of Tonga...

shmoz · 09/05/2011 13:14

...or was it Wink

SinisterBuggyMonth · 09/05/2011 13:38

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Nancy66 · 09/05/2011 13:40

The paparazzi definitely played their part - but the tide turned when it was discovered that the driver was drunk.

BalloonSlayer · 09/05/2011 13:45

I have read some of the inquest transcripts linked to above. The bit where one of the first Doctors on the screen describes trying to treat Diana, with constant flashbulbs going off behind him as they continued to take photos . . . sickening. Sad Poor Diana.

LeQueen · 09/05/2011 14:08

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MooMooFarm · 09/05/2011 14:12

I thought that too Shmoz! I didn't realise it wasn't really him though - just thought 'ah how nice they're all friends now'.... Blush

JeremyVile · 09/05/2011 14:13

You know her?
Wow.

Snorbs · 09/05/2011 14:16

"the Royal family had the motive, opportunity, and means to arrange a fatal accident. "

Let's look at that, shall we?

Motive: The Royal Family has a very long history of shameful situations, dodgy dealings and dubious relationships. Prince Philip's family had quite close connections with the Nazi party - for example, his youngest sister was at Herman Goering's wedding. But yet Philip is still alive. As I noted above, Charles' behaviour over Camilla was arguably much more damaging to the Royal Family than Diana shagging some random rich chap, Muslim or not.

Opportunity: Al Fayed and/or the Ritz owned a number of cars, so if you were going to tamper with the brakes you'd have to know well in advance which one they were going to take. The previous guff about the "computer chip" being removed and replaced and so turning the thing into a remote control toy is just that - guff and demonstrates a worrying lack of knowledge of how cars work. And if you didn't tamper with the car, how are you going to ensure it crashed?

Means: This is where it really does fall down. The secret service isn't staffed by robots. They're people. If you received an order to go and kill someone like Diana - someone who represents zero risk to the UK or its interests - would you follow it, or would you tell the person giving you the order to fuck right off? Moreover, the secret service doesn't act as some sort of enforcement squad for the crown - they have rules they have to abide by, they're not the sodding mafia.

But no, all that must be so much more convincing than "Drunk driver crashed his car while driving too fast." Because that never happens, does it?

GypsyMoth · 09/05/2011 14:18

balloonslayer...the journos photos of those moments were included in the transcripts

also,an account from royal police how diana knew her car and phones were bugged as she had set 4 traps and got the evidence. she said 5 people were in on it.

the pregnancy and hcg or lack of,in blood samples....and pic of her looking pregnant. alot of odd stuff in there

also,the president milosovic link was interesting

CoteDAzur · 09/05/2011 14:31

Snorbs - You might feel that the motive was not a very strong one, but someone else might have decided that Diana caused enough problems for the monarchy and that bringing Adnan Khashoggi into the Royal family would be too far. I don't know. Neither do you.

Re means - If they did mess with Diana's car, it wouldn't be the MI5. It would be someone very loyal to whoever in or around the Royal family took the decision to take her out.

Anyway, this is all speculation. Yes, it could all be a big coincidence that Diana had a car accident just as she was getting engaged to a Muslim man closely related to a notorious arms dealer. I'm just not sure that it is.

LeQueen · 09/05/2011 14:33

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Nancy66 · 09/05/2011 14:36

They weren't engaged - there's no evidence for this whatsoever - other than the mad ramblings of al Fayed

FlaminGreatGallah · 09/05/2011 14:48

I didn't know until my parents rang with the news one Sunday morning and the first words out of my dry and fuzzy mouth were, "troublesome and no doubt now pregnant I suppose, pissed off the Firm".

DM-reading parents promptly hung up. Grin

Then I went back to bed.

The real and true horror occurred in the days to come. I don't drive and had to take cabs everywhere and be subjected to Radio Silence apart from Elton John and the theme from Aladdin about the Arabic bloke showing the Princess the world in his armoured car / flying carpet.

Snorbs · 09/05/2011 15:23

Well, yes, someone else might have decided that regardless of all the other atrocious behaviour exhibited by many members of the royal family since, well, forever, Diana's behaviour was so reprehensible that she needed to be killed. Although, apart from M. Al Fayed's inane ramblings, there is no evidence that they were even engaged and a lot of evidence that suggests she wasn't pregnant.

And this is despite the risk that for such a conspiracy to have a hope of succeeding it would require very close cooperation from the French authorities (and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you) as well as substantial British involvement as well. And also despite the fact that if such an appalling conspiracy did happen and evidence were to leak out from any of the large number of people who would have to be involved for it to work, it would bring down the Royal Family at a stroke.

Worraloadabollocks.

wendihouse22 · 09/05/2011 16:30

It wouldn't be difficult to tamper with a car.

It took them forwver to get her to the hospital. It it had been the Queen Mum or any other of the Royals, would it have taken so long? They only have to sneeze and they're sorted out immediately.

Diana WAS seen as a loose cannon. All that "Just wait and see what I do next!!" stuff must have really put the wind up the Royals. For a start, a relationship with a Muslim is'nt so "bad" but, IF they'd had kids..... it would have made them half-sibling to our monarch (one day). Unheard of. Let's try and keep our British Royal Family German, shall we?

I think William and Kate's wedding spoke volumes. There wasn't a single reference, whatsoever, to their mother. NONE of their bridesmaids/page boys were from the Spencer side. Lord Spencer (Di's brother) didn't appear to feature at all really and is not in evidence in any of the photos puplished for common viewing. And yet....there was the ever present (throughout Chas and Di's marriage) Camilla. The adultress.... the Catholic.... the woman who, in our national grief following the death of Di, we said NO WAY! would we ever tolerate. SHE was there. Up front. With her grandaughter as bridesmaid. Now, how very very convenient that Diana (accident or not) wasn't there, on the occasion of her son's marriage with that horsefaced mare standing where she ought to have been.

I'm not anti-royal but there's SO MUCH we'll never know. And they throw us a fairytale royal wedding/a walkabout or somesuch to make us sigh and smile every now and again.....

It's a load of old bollocks we can't afford, if you ask me!

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