to think the common idea that Diana was murdered is absurd

[makkapacca]

Heard a journalist on the radio the other day speculating it was not an accident and heard others saying the same. AIBU to think people like this are complete idiots?

You are so wrong! Nothing is absurd. Many people have got away with things and you don’t know the reality of what really happened

The suggestion is, this could be secret services due to Diana having a child with Dodi, right?

If she had had a child with Dodi he or she would not have been of royal blood and would therefore be completely irrelevant to the British establishment.

@DiddyHeck

It is a really common view, tbf.

Back in 2013, YouGov polled it. 40% thought accident, 38% not and accident (rest didn’t know).

I dare say people have become more conspiratorial over the last 5 or 6 years, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the majority view these days!

yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2013/09/17/38-brits-princess-dianas-death-was-not-accident

I think the idea is bonkers - the royal family has been through plenty of scandal far worse than someone's ex-wife having other partners without murdering anyone. And it was the 20th century not some bygone era when everyone would be scandalised by a divorced woman.

I was discussing it with my middle child the other day we were randomly talking about the royal family I told him how she died etc etc he said so did they kill her? I pointed out that had she wore her seat belt she would most likely have survived its a way to warn someone but a piss poor attempt at murder

If she'd just worn a seatbelt she'd probably have survived. Don't think anyone put a gun to her head to not wear a seatbelt.

To be fair, I’ve not seen Jim Morrison & Barry Manilow together at the same time, so there must be something in that?!

I don't think it's that clear cut. In that I don't think it was entirely an 'accident'.

And it was the 20th century not some bygone era when everyone would be scandalised by a divorced woman

This. She was gone. She was divorced. She wasn’t the royal family’s issue anymore anyway!!!

As others have said, the driver was drunk and she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Case closed. Very sad, but an utterly avoidable accident.
What’s more, if you’ve ever drive through those tunnels in France, you’d see it’s a miracle more people aren’t killed in crashes there every day.

@Ozanj

I think the media focussed on the conspiracies because nobody wanted to speculate that the reason why she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt in the car was probably to hide from the paps. If it was a murder the media did it

The driver didn't have anything to do with it?

It certainly was incredibly convenient. Much less controversial for Prince Charles to marry Camilla with Diana dead. He was a "widower" in the eyes of the church. She also predicted this happening but she wasn't very stable so that tells us little.

If she had lived she would have lost a lot of her mystique as she aged but because she died young she has become a legend.

I don't think anyone is going to forget her and what the royal family did to her. Its going to play badly when Charles finally becomes king. I reckon the Queen is hanging on to life in the hope of minimising a Charles's III reign which could bring down the monarchy.

Also, people seem to forget, she’d been dating Dodi for a month ffs. That’s it. It was hardly the romance of the century.

There's a lot of stuff online about which I remember reading years ago, particularly witnesses who apparently saw a motorbike and the drivers making SAS signals when they checked the car afterwards and then those witnesses were found dead? Something like that. But people can write whatever on the internet and now I'm older I'm not so sure. I love the RF, well Queen, Charles and William Kate. I don't really have an opinion on it now I'm older, it was a tragedy whatever happened and her death has ultimately lead to this disastrous situation with Harry.

They still refer to dodi as her assumed boyfriend in places

His dad was the one pushing the romance of the century and saying they were murdered for years

I don’t know a single person who thinks she was murdered! You would have to be a bit on the thick side to think she was.

I think it's quite a common opinion, I see it online all the time.

Why is she cropping up again, again?? Something to do with the Queen weakening? Let it go fgs.

@PrincessNikla

Of course it is possible, car crash could have been set up - remember the royal family do have a lot of money, and power. Maybe the accident was set up, and then if her injuries were not fatal, she could have been injected with something to help her along...

I dont think they did, but they certainly could have

set up how exactly? The car crashed into a wall because the driver was drunk, it's not as if the RF could have 'paid' the driver of a second car to ram into them. They would have had to somehow get the driver drunk enough to know he would crash, make sure he would crash in a serious enough way to injure everyone (impossible to calculate - I've seen people get up and walk away from a crash with the back of their head missing) and also make sure Diana wasn't wearing a seatbelt to ensure she didn't survive a crash.

Then the mysterious 'somebody' would have had to a) be at the right place and the right time sand b) get close enough to inject her with a mysterious substance to kill her without anyone noticing. Presumably all the doctors, nurses, ambulance, medical staff and police would be in on the conspiracy to not mention 'hey she seemed to be recovering and then suddenly died after Dr A stabbed her with something.' Then of course all the coroner, forensic pathologist, their assistants, the police, all present at the one of the most noteable post mortems of the century would have to hide the fact that her death was caused by drug rather than injuries consistent with the crash.

If you're that desperate to off someone and you have the money and connections of the RF there are probably easier ways!

@OmgIThinkILikeYou

I think it's quite a common opinion, I see it online all the time.

That’s not really reliable. You could see 20 accounts from the same person or bots saying something that give an impression there are 20 people who have a particular opinion but it’s not necessarily true.

Why on earth would Diana being pregnant with another man’s baby be any threat whatsoever to the RF?

Surely it would be a relief to them that she had “moved on” and totally irrelevant.

Plus they’d recently weathered the total embarrassment of Fergie and the toe sucking and managed not to assassinate her.

It is a really common view, tbf

yea which is why I am surprised people are arguing it.

@PlanetNormal

Diana’s death has always struck me as an absurd thing for conspiracy theories to focus on, simply because she died in such entirely unremarkable circumstances. Killed in a car crash with a drunk driver at the wheel, and not wearing her seat belt. It literally happens all the time, in every country.

This.

That’s not really reliable. You could see 20 accounts from the same person or bots saying something that give an impression there are 20 people who have a particular opinion but it’s not necessarily true

reliable when the comments get 1000s of likes.

@makkapacca

That’s not really reliable. You could see 20 accounts from the same person or bots saying something that give an impression there are 20 people who have a particular opinion but it’s not necessarily true

reliable when the comments get 1000s of likes.

Oh bless you, no, it’s really not. This is why people fall for it. Such naivety.

Yeah it’s a ridiculous suggestion