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To think Princess Di was killed

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Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:35

There OK I said it. You hoo, crazy conspiracy theorist over here…

Yes, I know they had an inquiry though anyone high up enough to kill a Royal could snowball an Inquiry or influence the outcome ? I think it’s naive to think the law is this perfect thing.

Ive always found it odd that she was labelled a “loose cannon” by the press and was campaigning against landmines. It was said that it caused a lot of noses out of joint in politics. I would have thought that weapons dealers and the industry would have taken a huge hit.

There aren’t many celebrities or organisations that could have taken on the weapons or arms industry as powerfully as Diana. It was until then an issue that nobody touched.

Since her death there’s still landmines and the issue has never really been addressed.

I wonder if she’d been alive today what she’d be doing. Not hard to imagine her visiting children impacted by war and maybe even Palestinian refugees, beaming images around the world to restore some sanity and humanity.

I dont think we realise the humanity, bravery and brilliance she had. Could have been going to glamorous events and being a Princess but instead she was carrying on even when powerful people were upset.

I wonder how powerful those people were or was it someone British. Men don’t take a liking to women with power and it amazes me more that she wasn’t killed deliberately in the context of this.

What are the chances she would die at such a young age and to not be wearing a seat belt seems bizarre to me. Just too many coincidences.

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Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:46

I just think it’s coincidental that of all the times to die in accident it was after bringing a huge level of attention to landmines & making a whole bunch of arms dealers and politicians annoyed/putting them on the map basically.

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HermioneWeasley · 28/01/2025 15:47

How did her assassins engineer her choosing not to wear her seatbelt?

MrsJHernandez · 28/01/2025 15:47

Honestly I haven't looked that much into it, but a part of me doesn't believe it was an accident.

Macrodatarefiner · 28/01/2025 15:47

I don't know OP but you're certainly not being unreasonable to wonder

Kimmeridge · 28/01/2025 15:49

No she got in a car with a drunk driver who subsequently drove too fast & dangerously & she wasn't wearing a seat belt.

If she'd kept the security she was offered and/or worn a seatbelt things would be different

However all these years later I dont think she'd be nearly as popular or relevant as she was.

SophiaSW1 · 28/01/2025 15:50

She got in a car driven by a drunk driver and wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I think it's way more likely that was the cause.

BMW6 · 28/01/2025 15:50

One of her last public statements to the Press was along the lines of "Watch what I do next!"
So maybe she arranged her own death via getting the driver pissed and leaving off her seat belt.

No?

WhatNoRaisins · 28/01/2025 15:50

If they did then they got very lucky as the "method" was quite hit and miss.

Snorlaxo · 28/01/2025 15:50

I don’t think that she was killed by the royal family as some conspiracy theorists believe.

There’s no way they could arrange for a drunk driver to drive her car or for her not to wear a seat belt while her bodyguard (who survived the crash) did.

She was also getting along with Charles when she died. They’d both settled into coparenting their children and were happier with other people.

Had she lived, I think that Charles would have still married Camilla and Diana would have lived somewhere overseas or on a yacht or something and enjoyed not being the most photographed woman in the world any more.

BIWI · 28/01/2025 15:51

FFS it happened in 1997! Just leave it. Find something else to wear your tin foil hat about.

Hoppinggreen · 28/01/2025 15:52

Apart from the fact that it would have been pretty difficult to engineer the whole situation given the variables there was no need to kill her.
I think that people forget due to the over the top drama when she died but her popularity was most certainly on the wane. She wasn't the peoples princess when she died, she was getting older (still looking great) and was in a relationship with a man who was a bit "problematic". I am not sure the grannies with their Diana mugs on display would have been quite as fond of her as time went on. Her "brand" was getting increasingly tarnished.
It would have been better to have her live in diminishing popularity than kill her and turn her into some sort of saint.

GreenApplesRedApplesYellowApples · 28/01/2025 15:52

HermioneWeasley · 28/01/2025 15:47

How did her assassins engineer her choosing not to wear her seatbelt?

Biting.

But was it a routine habit for her to not wear a seatbelt?

MumChp · 28/01/2025 15:52

Macrodatarefiner · 28/01/2025 15:47

I don't know OP but you're certainly not being unreasonable to wonder

People have done since 1997. Nothing new...

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:52

Kimmeridge · 28/01/2025 15:49

No she got in a car with a drunk driver who subsequently drove too fast & dangerously & she wasn't wearing a seat belt.

If she'd kept the security she was offered and/or worn a seatbelt things would be different

However all these years later I dont think she'd be nearly as popular or relevant as she was.

I think she absolutely would be, she was the OG princess and she would have worn THE best couture outfits for the coronation - just at different, more fun events on at the same time.

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Blusterylimp · 28/01/2025 15:53

Prince Philip arranged it as she was a loose cannon and an embarrassment to the royal family.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 28/01/2025 15:53

It wasn't because of the landmines. She had concrete proof of the Loch Ness Monster and Big Pharma didn't want it getting out.

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:54

GreenApplesRedApplesYellowApples · 28/01/2025 15:52

Biting.

But was it a routine habit for her to not wear a seatbelt?

No she always wore a seat belt, they didn’t engineer her not wearing a seatbelt, they made this claim to explain how she died.

The driver’s alcohol level was insanely high and there was issue with it.

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Gloriia · 28/01/2025 15:54

That car accident could not have been planned. I'd understand your point if she'd been found dead alone in a house or something but I mean how much evidence do you need?

No point in wondering what she'd be doing if alive as she sadly isn't. If only she'd have chosen her boyfriends a bit more carefully and lived her life a bit less recklessly.

GreenApplesRedApplesYellowApples · 28/01/2025 15:54

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:54

No she always wore a seat belt, they didn’t engineer her not wearing a seatbelt, they made this claim to explain how she died.

The driver’s alcohol level was insanely high and there was issue with it.

I see!

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:55

When in actual fact she was run off the road by paparazzi/trained tactical drivers and a flashing light planned to ensure maximum impact and kill her. I don’t think she was tended to in the ambulance. Her body was embalmed. The list goes on.

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Gloriia · 28/01/2025 15:55

BIWI · 28/01/2025 15:51

FFS it happened in 1997! Just leave it. Find something else to wear your tin foil hat about.

Tbf people are still talking about JFK, Luther King and many others, so it isn't unusual to discuss tragic deaths.

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:56

Gloriia · 28/01/2025 15:54

That car accident could not have been planned. I'd understand your point if she'd been found dead alone in a house or something but I mean how much evidence do you need?

No point in wondering what she'd be doing if alive as she sadly isn't. If only she'd have chosen her boyfriends a bit more carefully and lived her life a bit less recklessly.

She wasn’t reckless, how could you say such a thing. There was nothing reckless about her lifestyle. She trusted the paid driver of her billionaire boyfriend.

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x2boys · 28/01/2025 15:56

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:52

I think she absolutely would be, she was the OG princess and she would have worn THE best couture outfits for the coronation - just at different, more fun events on at the same time.

She wasent really she was a very complex person who divided opnion
It was only after she died she became Saint Diana.

BIWI · 28/01/2025 15:56

Gloriia · 28/01/2025 15:55

Tbf people are still talking about JFK, Luther King and many others, so it isn't unusual to discuss tragic deaths.

Just as bad!

BMW6 · 28/01/2025 15:57

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:52

I think she absolutely would be, she was the OG princess and she would have worn THE best couture outfits for the coronation - just at different, more fun events on at the same time.

What, you're saying she would have deliberately tried to take press and public attention away from the Coronation ?

You think she was that petty, shallow and puerile?

I thought you admired her?! Why are you suggesting that she'd be a manipulative bitter egocentric?

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