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Post by margamatix on Nov 26, 2005 17:09:37 GMT -4
"Before she died in a car crash, Princess Diana wrote: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury...to make the path clear for him to marry."
Source, passim.
Now I'm no fan of conspiracy theories- "Iraq did not have WMD and the USA has never been to the moon" are the only two I have ever subscribed to, but you would have to admit that anyone writing the above, and subsequently dying in a car crash, following which her husband did re-marry, deserves some scrutiny of her claims.
Any thoughts?
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 26, 2005 17:57:39 GMT -4
Had she worn her seatbelt, she would almost certainly have survived.
Had her driver not imbibed an irresponsible quantity of alcohol before the last journey, the accident almost certainly would not have happened.
As an assassination scheme, it lacked the benefit of certainty.
As the couple were already divorced, it was also unnecessary: the only bar to Charles' remarriage was bad PR, and what cold-blooded killer is going to worry about that?
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Post by margamatix on Nov 26, 2005 18:19:31 GMT -4
There was also some speculation that she was pregnant with a Muslim child?
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Post by ottawan on Nov 26, 2005 18:51:33 GMT -4
Margamatix,
How would her possibly being pregnant have anything to due with a "conspiracy" to eliminate her?
I don't see the connection.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 26, 2005 18:55:02 GMT -4
That has been discounted by the surgeon who did the autopsy. A lot of claims originate with Mohammad Al-Fayed, the employer of the driver and owner of the car. In addition to an understandable desire to distract attention from this, and pin the blame for the death of his son elsewhere, he has an axe or two to grind with the UK authorities, who, in his various applications for British citizenship, appear to have found his character all too reproachable.
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Post by margamatix on Nov 26, 2005 19:06:50 GMT -4
Margamatix, How would her possibly being pregnant have anything to due with a "conspiracy" to eliminate her? I don't see the connection. It was speculated that such a pregnancy, following her failed marriage to the Queen's son may have been distasteful and even unacceptable to senior royals. And that British royals, throughout history, have a history of regicide, patricide, matricide, infanticide and any other -cide you can think of. I will repeat that I myself have no opinion either way, other than that I find the letter she wrote to be eerily accurate in its prediction of her ultimate destiny.
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Post by twinstead on Nov 26, 2005 19:20:30 GMT -4
If the royals made a habit of eliminating every potential smudge against them, there would have been a world-wide genocide to deal with by now.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 26, 2005 19:49:21 GMT -4
Historical instances of the monarch disposing of opponents by killing them come from the times when it was perfectly legal for them to do so: indeed they used the judicial process.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Nov 26, 2005 22:57:22 GMT -4
IIRC the letter was written about three years prior to the event so really can't be seen s much more then the writtings of a depressed and upset person.
About the only strange things still surrounding the event is what happened to the car that they clipped while heading into the tunnel. Finding the driver wuld have answered a lot of questions, but I'd assume they hid in fear of being blamed.
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Post by margamatix on Nov 27, 2005 16:16:42 GMT -4
Apparently, the top-of-the-range armoured Mercedes-Benz weighing 3 tonnes was rammed off of the road by a 2 door Fiat Uno weighing 805kg. Shortly before this happened, all 22 cameras covering the route malfunctioned- although a motorist was caught for a traffic offence 15 minutes earlier- and the entire Police radio system simultaneously malfunctioned. Everyone who knew the chauffeur expressed total disbelief that he would drink any alcohol at all while on duty.
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Post by margamatix on Nov 27, 2005 16:50:13 GMT -4
Fiat Uno Mercedes-Benz S280
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 27, 2005 16:51:16 GMT -4
The Uno ramming the Merc off the road is not a scenario proposed by anyone: on the other hand, a speeding Merc driven by someone with impaired reactions losing control and clipping the Uno while trying to avoid it, then spinning into a bridge pier is entirely plausible: similar events happen every week somewhere.
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Post by margamatix on Nov 27, 2005 17:24:56 GMT -4
It is suggested that the driver did not have impaired reactions and had never been known to drink alcohol on duty. As a professional driver myself, I can fully relate to this.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 27, 2005 17:51:56 GMT -4
It may not have been suggested accurately: his post-mortem blood alcohol level was not indicative of sobriety.
This is not necessarily an indictment of his normal professionalism: the trip was a last-minute ad-hoc affair and he may well not have anticipated being recalled to duty.
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Post by margamatix on Nov 27, 2005 18:02:33 GMT -4
Could the blood alcohol levels not have been falsified, in the same way that Professor Sir Roy Meadows falsified evidence against several women who would have been hanged, had we not abolished capital punishment?
Do you see nothing murky in this business?
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