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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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BMW6 · 29/01/2025 14:01

AcquadiP

Oh dear you're having a sense of humour failure.......the poster is taking the piss obviously

BMW6 · 29/01/2025 14:02

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 13:46

@meh2025 the claim is that the seatbelt was not working.

Yet was found to be perfectly fine when examined afterwards.............

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 14:05

BMW6 · 29/01/2025 14:02

Yet was found to be perfectly fine when examined afterwards.............

You do understand that people who think Diana was murdered think there was a cover up?

JandamiHash · 29/01/2025 14:06

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 13:46

@meh2025 the claim is that the seatbelt was not working.

How convenient.

Except the inquest showed it was working

wordsworthundercover · 29/01/2025 14:06

pelargoniums · 29/01/2025 10:50

Went hunting for my favourite Diana fashion moments. I do think we missed out on her silver years; she just absolutely had the style It factor. Would have loved to see her mother-of-the-groom outfits or what she’d wear elsewhere to upstage Charles and Camilla’s wedding.

Clearly I like her best in daywear, though I do love a turquoise minidress by Jacques Azagury she once wore. All the minidresses were great; less keen on the early eighties gowns but that’s universal.

Now this would be a good thread: favourite photos and footage of Diana Here's a lovely reel of her .

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo6nkNfD9p4

AcquadiP · 29/01/2025 14:13

BMW6 · 29/01/2025 14:01

AcquadiP

Oh dear you're having a sense of humour failure.......the poster is taking the piss obviously

Thank God for that!

JandamiHash · 29/01/2025 14:28

TBF when someone has said in all seriousness that the driver they crashed into “got away and has never been seen since” (when they actually crashed into a pillar) it’s hard to tell if people are being serious or not

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 14:29

A car hit the car Diana was in. That car has never been traced.

pelargoniums · 29/01/2025 14:36

JandamiHash · 29/01/2025 14:28

TBF when someone has said in all seriousness that the driver they crashed into “got away and has never been seen since” (when they actually crashed into a pillar) it’s hard to tell if people are being serious or not

Are people not referring to the white Fiat Uno that was identified as colliding with the Mercedes at some point? So not a head-on crash that was the direct fatal event, but something that happened that evening that may have led to the Mercedes hitting the pillar. (Right before Shergar went galloping by.)

meh2025 · 29/01/2025 14:43

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 13:46

@meh2025 the claim is that the seatbelt was not working.

Oh, I missed that, thanks. So the claim is that they jiggered the seatbelt not to work in the hope that her driver would speed and she would be killed, even though he might not have and she might have lived.

I mean, it's possible I suppose. Unlikely I think.

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 14:49

meh2025 · 29/01/2025 14:43

Oh, I missed that, thanks. So the claim is that they jiggered the seatbelt not to work in the hope that her driver would speed and she would be killed, even though he might not have and she might have lived.

I mean, it's possible I suppose. Unlikely I think.

I do not think she was murdered. But I do not think the truth has been made public about her death.
But a car did hit the car Diana was travelling in. This helped the car veer out of control and hit a pillar. This car has never been traced.

The driver was supposedly incredibly drunk. But there was no sign of liver damage, so he was not a long standing functional alcoholic. And yet he has been filmed easily bending down and tying his shoelaces just before driving.

Emilyontmoor · 29/01/2025 14:53

Well this has been enlightening. The sheer persistence in ignoring all facts and expert knowledge and testimony of eg trained doctors in favour of their superior knowledge that Diana was actually regarded by us all as saintly, not one of us questioning her mental health or behaviour, and was then murdered, for 28 years…. I mean I have raised two children, lived in another country, worked, studied, lived and loved completely free of any drive to know anything more about Diana’s death given that changing security plans at the last minute and letting yourself be driven at 65 without a seatbelt by a drunk man regardless of whether he could muster the ability to tie his shoelaces pursued by some of the most aggressive paparazzi in the world carried a high risk of accidental death.

Shergar however does still bother me, and who buried the World Cup in 66 😂

Oh and why whilst they did finally and too late expose Saville they have not outed the famous footballer who was a sexual predator of my under 16 peers at school, or the famous rock star who did the same. That I think is a concern I do think worth hanging on to for 50 years…..

meh2025 · 29/01/2025 14:56

Emilyontmoor · 29/01/2025 14:53

Well this has been enlightening. The sheer persistence in ignoring all facts and expert knowledge and testimony of eg trained doctors in favour of their superior knowledge that Diana was actually regarded by us all as saintly, not one of us questioning her mental health or behaviour, and was then murdered, for 28 years…. I mean I have raised two children, lived in another country, worked, studied, lived and loved completely free of any drive to know anything more about Diana’s death given that changing security plans at the last minute and letting yourself be driven at 65 without a seatbelt by a drunk man regardless of whether he could muster the ability to tie his shoelaces pursued by some of the most aggressive paparazzi in the world carried a high risk of accidental death.

Shergar however does still bother me, and who buried the World Cup in 66 😂

Oh and why whilst they did finally and too late expose Saville they have not outed the famous footballer who was a sexual predator of my under 16 peers at school, or the famous rock star who did the same. That I think is a concern I do think worth hanging on to for 50 years…..

I think you summed it up rather well :)

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 14:57

You raising Saville shows how much major issues can be covered up by people with power.

EdithWeston · 29/01/2025 15:03

IIRC the white Fiat Uno (believed to be that make/colour from paint fragments on the Mercedes) was listed as a contributing factor, as it's quite likely that one was clipped by the Mercedes - but eyewitnesses put this as happening before the Mercedes entered the tunnel (and remember that this whole journey was witnessed by the paps - in/on what the Inquest described as "following vehicles" , and whose conduct was also listed as a contributing factor).

Both cars were sufficiently undamaged that the Mercedes was able to continue (at speed) and the (smaller, lighter) Fiat (to wherever it went).

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:08

"The crash which killed Princess Diana was probably caused by her driver's "over-reaction" in avoiding a mystery white car, her inquest has heard.Accident expert Tony Read said driver Henri Paul swerved left, then right, then left again before crashing at 60-70 miles per hour in a Paris tunnel."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7083347.stm

Emilyontmoor · 29/01/2025 15:08

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 14:57

You raising Saville shows how much major issues can be covered up by people with power.

The difference is that there were and are multiple witnesses and more than enough factual evidence of his behaviour, and of who and why they covered it up. Nobody is questioning that it was a cover up that he, in part, manipulated. It was open knowledge at the time that he, like the footballer and rock star were sexual predators.

But after 28 years you are trying to dredge up a case for a cover up of murder that the posters here have repeatedly undermined, never mind all the actual medical experts, crash scene investigators, coroners, judges etc. who have examined all the evidence. For your mission to be justified you must think you know more than all those people…..

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:11

And remember@Emilyontmoor I have repeatedly said I do not think Diana was murdered. I do think the truth was not made public.

Tomatotater · 29/01/2025 15:20

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 16:38

I suppose because none of them are single handedly capable of making a dent in the back pocket of arms dealers. Princess Diana just had to point at something and the world’s press was covering it. Not to mention the influence she had over philanthropy & elevating a cause.

I think ypu overestimate her influence. Everyone would have done what they normally do. Have their photo taken with her, promised they would 'do something' then done nothing. She would have lost intetest. I don't think she was murdered but if she was it would have been something to do with her running around with Dodi rather than her influence on world affairs.

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:22

Tomatotater · 29/01/2025 15:20

I think ypu overestimate her influence. Everyone would have done what they normally do. Have their photo taken with her, promised they would 'do something' then done nothing. She would have lost intetest. I don't think she was murdered but if she was it would have been something to do with her running around with Dodi rather than her influence on world affairs.

She and campaigners were very close to getting a deal around banning the use of landmines in certain situations.
So what you are saying is simply not true

BMW6 · 29/01/2025 15:23

Yes of course that makes sense as Henri Paul was pissed so overreacted the steering after the slight connection with the white Fiat Uno (sprayed red later that day funnily enough).

That driver has been identified for years. Easy enough to Google Le Van Thanh.

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:28

Slight connection? Any car hitting another when you are driving at 60 mph is not a slight connection.

Tomatotater · 29/01/2025 15:29

EdithWeston · 29/01/2025 15:03

IIRC the white Fiat Uno (believed to be that make/colour from paint fragments on the Mercedes) was listed as a contributing factor, as it's quite likely that one was clipped by the Mercedes - but eyewitnesses put this as happening before the Mercedes entered the tunnel (and remember that this whole journey was witnessed by the paps - in/on what the Inquest described as "following vehicles" , and whose conduct was also listed as a contributing factor).

Both cars were sufficiently undamaged that the Mercedes was able to continue (at speed) and the (smaller, lighter) Fiat (to wherever it went).

I do wonder if the fiat belonged to a member of the press or someone in the pay of someone like Newsgroup who is being protected. They went full reverse ferret after Diana died to deflect the blame onto The Queen for not showing her face in London ( Ridiculous as Scotland is also in the UK, and her grandsons mother had just been killed) when it was clear that paps had contributed to the accident. They were far more powerful than Diana and as we know from Levinson and Harry's court cases were paying private investigators to do all sorts of snooping for them.

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:30

BMW6 · 29/01/2025 15:23

Yes of course that makes sense as Henri Paul was pissed so overreacted the steering after the slight connection with the white Fiat Uno (sprayed red later that day funnily enough).

That driver has been identified for years. Easy enough to Google Le Van Thanh.

You say that as if it has been confirmed and was all above board.
No one official spoke to this driver until 22 years later.

https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/le-van-thanh-the-driver-who-clipped-princess-dianas-car-before-fatal-crash-speaks-out-c-460233

There are calls for a new inquiry into Princess Diana's tragic death after explosive details have emerged about what really happened 22 years ago in Paris.

The driver who clipped Diana's car before her fatal crash breaks his silence

There are calls for a new inquiry into Princess Diana's tragic death after explosive details have emerged about what really happened 22 years ago in Paris.

https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/le-van-thanh-the-driver-who-clipped-princess-dianas-car-before-fatal-crash-speaks-out-c-460233

Tomatotater · 29/01/2025 15:31

JoyousGreyOrca · 29/01/2025 15:22

She and campaigners were very close to getting a deal around banning the use of landmines in certain situations.
So what you are saying is simply not true

The campaigners would have been able to do it if they were going to. Her death would have made it more likely as a legacy rather than less likely.

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