Princess Di feared someone out to get her

By WND Staff

Just 10 months before she died, Princess Diana wrote a letter in which she named someone involved in a plot to kill her by tampering with her car, her former butler claims.

Diana allegedly wrote in a letter to Paul Burrell: “This phase in my life is the most dangerous,” according to the Daily Mirror newspaper of London.

The princess reportedly named someone who was “planning an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injury.”

The Daily Mirror blacked out the name for legal reasons.

Diana was killed along with her companion Dodi Al Fayed Aug. 31, 1997, when a Mercedes driven by her chauffeur, Henri Paul, crashed in a Paris tunnel. A French probe concluded Paul, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, was driving too fast.

The letter, allegedly written a month before her divorce with Prince Charles became final in October 1996, indicates Diana believed the plot was hatched “in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry,” the London paper said.

Burrell disclosed the letter in a book that will be released in the wake of the August announcement of Britain’s first official public hearings to examine Diana’s death.

Burrell, who is in the U.S., had been charged with stealing from Diana’s estate but was acquitted after Queen Elizabeth intervened and his trial collapsed.

In a statement, he said since Diana’s death, “I have watched and listened as many individuals have claimed to know the truth about the princess. I know that what was claimed to be the truth is actually far from it.”

Burrell decided to reveal the letter in his upcoming book, “A Royal Duty,” he said, because he believed “that someone has to stand in the princess’ corner and fight for her now that she cannot do so herself.”

Al Fayed’s father, Mohamed, said the revelations confirmed suspicions “I have so often voiced in public and which have thus far been ignored.”

Prime Minister Tony Blair, he said, according to BBC News, “must now accept that the time is right for a full public inquiry.”

“Further delay will look as though he is colluding in a cover-up and the people of this country will not tolerate that,” said Al Fayed.

The BBC’s royal correspondent Peter Hunt told BBC News24 he wonders why Burrell did not reveal the letter immediately after the crash or during the French investigation. Burrell also did not mention it during his trial and during a week-long exclusive interview with the Daily Mirror last year.

“The absence of answers to the questions will prompt the cynics to suggest he hung on to it in order to help his book,” Hunt said.


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