Was Princess Diana offered security after her divorce?

[antelopevalley]

There is an interesting article in The Sun that says amongst other things, that Harry is asking lots of questions about Diana's death e.g. " Official judicial sources in Paris say the Duke of Sussex’s researchers have been seeking information about the car crash that killed his mother 25 years ago." One of the questions is allegedly whether Diana had been offered security after her divorce.

After her fatal crash Scotland Yard asked why Diana had no security. Tina Brown said that Diana had turned down security. But the suspicion is that Diana is in the same situation as Harry i.e. only offered security if attending an official royal event such as the Jubilee, but refused security for the rest of the time.

I know it is The Sun, but given Harry's fight around official security in the UK, which he has offered to pay for but still been refused - it rings true that he would be asking questions about his mother's security. It is clear if she was using official security at the time, she would still be alive.

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19503595/prince-harry-diana-final-moments-book/

I believe similar things happened to Kate Middleton before she got engaged, such a shouting out names like ‘slur’ to try to provoke a reaction. Those people are vile.

Some on here talk as though she died in a third world country with a very questionable healthcare system and a corrupt government that can easily allow evidence and investigation to be tempered with. 😑

tbf, being a first world country does not exempt you from making mistakes.

You don't have to look far. We are getting more poor, services are bad and we are literally swimming in sh*t.

This was 25 years ago!

But the whole thread gives the impression that both British and French Government were in some sort of agreement to facilitate the accident and bury any evidence.
I find this scenario strange, why do some people think that? Are the rich exempt from any accidents Or tragedies?
the accident was due to a number of reasons that in normal circumstances could have been avoided but I guess at that time with the whole frenzy going on rationality was thrown out the window.
The partner who was calling all the shots that night , ignored the photographers swarming the hotel And decided to go to his flat , spending the night at the ritz his family’s hotel , would have been a better choice for everyone.

So even if Diana had her own Security team I strongly doubt she’d even listen to them at that time,

It’s a kind of magical thinking that says princesses are exempt from accidents and other earthly things.

It was the whole “Dodi making decisions on the fly” aspect, together with the staff not feeling able to challenge the boss’ son that to my mind makes the idea of any state action behind behind the scenes so utterly implausible.

After a last minute decision to spend the night in Paris, Dodi decided they’d spend the night in his apartment rather than the Duke of Windsor’s villa (which they drove to) or the Ritz itself. They had reservations for dinner at a famous restaurant and were actually on their way there when they changed their mind and went to the Ritz instead. Then, after dinner, Dodi and Henri Paul came up with the decoy driver from the front/real departure from the back strategy. This necessitated a different car being brought up from the Ritz’s garage, and a different driver being needed (Henri Paul himself). The car they had arrived in, and the chauffeur who had driven them, left from the front as the decoy.

It was only as a result of these decisions, some made with very little warning, that meant they ended up in that particular car, with that particular driver when they did. This to me makes the tragic accident the only real credible explanation.

Have I recalled correctly, that if she had retained her HRH title she wouldn’t have been permitted to decline security? And that her statements in the Bashir interview contributed to her title being removed in the divorce settlement?

IDK about that but the lies (that we now know) Bashir fed her off screen can be directly traced to her paranoid behaviour from that point onwards. Accusations she made to Tiggy, distrusting her office staff, thinking her police protection officers were spies.., and so on.

Yes agree, it was an absolute disgrace that she was told those lies that led to her declining protection.

Serenster all I can see is someone desperately trying to impress Diana with “my boat , my house, my hotel , this can all be yours too, it’s my duty to protect you " sort of thinking.
maybe not spending the night at the Ritz would have made him look less impressive ? Powerful ? I don’t know !