Diana’s death. This makes for interesting reading

I fail to see what that has to do with anything.

And?

A 12 and 15 year old with a doting mother who got herself on the press front pages holidaying with Dodi Fayed, posing for
the cameras

Jaberwok

Harry was 12 not 9, William just 15 when their mother died. Who knows if Charles was keeping an eye on her (spying), perhaps with good reason as she did seem, at times to behave recklessly and no doubt he worried about not only her but his sons when they were in her care.

That makes good sense.
Perhaps she was being watched for those reasons.

Perhaps she wasn't at all and was just paranoid.

Even if the car starts before your seat belt is done up, it only takes at most about 30 seconds to put it on while the car is moving.

I am sorry I class 'Diana was mrdered' conspiracists in the same group as anto-vaxxers, the belief that we are being run by mutant lizards, and all the other daft conspiracies that people believe in. Personally, I think it was a deep conspiracy by Q-Anon. Yes, I know Q-Anon wasn't in existence 25 years ago, but why let a trivial matter like that interfere with good conspiracy story.. I mean, for all we know the person behind Q-Anon could have been a KGB operative hoping to disrupt the whole of the western world by killing off its most popular person. Except that the FBI got to know about the KGB plot so did themselves first so that the USSR could not take the credit.

Now how is that for a conspiracy theory!

Harry was 12 not 9, William just 15 when their mother died. Who knows if Charles was keeping an eye on her (spying), perhaps with good reason as she did seem, at times to behave recklessly and no doubt he worried about not only her but his sons when they were in her care.

Joseanne

Interestingly I was reading an article in a Brittany newspaper (Ouest-France) by Henri Pauls's best friend today. He fervently believes that Henri Paul was thrown to the lions and defends him with an account of that night 25 years ago.

I can’t see it because of the paywall.

Grandma French Diana believed Charles was using her security team to track her movements and record who she was seeing. This has never been disproved. Charles at the time was disliked by most of the public and jealous of his wife's popularity. So it is highly possible.

Good post, GrandmaFrench

It was an accident waiting to happen.
She had ditched her Royal Protection Officer (paranoid they would spy on her); she was relying on the sort of security which would have probably made Securicor look efficient; she was travelling (unnecessarily late at night in a city) when she could have comfortably remained in a suite at the Ritz, she didn't know that the driver was drunk, she would have been aware of photographers but probably didn't expect to be 'racing' them with an idiot at the wheel; the vehicle was dangerously over the speed limit and nobody (except Trevor Rees Jones) was wearing a seat belt.

You choose to run around with euro trash when you know that you're the Mother of two Royal sons - one of whom will be King one day - and it's not hard to see that you're already making some very poor choices. Although it would seem she was unaware that the risks she was taking were enormous.

It's very very sad that she lost her life. It's more sad that her last words were in the crashed vehicle in the Alma Tunnel, but a creep, a crook and a liar who was desperate for her to maintain a relationship with his Son in the hope that he would be able to obtain the British passport always denied to him, still lied to the Press. He was determined to convince all and sundry that he spoke to her and she had actually revealed her pregnancy 'secrets' in hospital. That's appalling. His behaviour was completely beyond the pale and served to muddy the waters regarding the investigation for a good while. I recall the 'shrine' to Diana and Dodi that he had on a landing in Harrods - he couldn't stop pushing himself forward as a person of great importance.

Her youngest Son, a child at the time, remains obsessed with the idea that she was killed by the paparazzi. No, she was killed by a raft of bad decisions which were made on her behalf and which would never have gone ahead had her Royal Protection Officer been with her.
Speed, darkness, drink, drugs, all played a part. But, in spite of injuries, specialist medical people involved have always maintained she would have had a good chance of survival had she worn a belt.

Interestingly I was reading an article in a Brittany newspaper (Ouest-France) by Henri Pauls's best friend today. He fervently believes that Henri Paul was thrown to the lions and defends him with an account of that night 25 years ago.

No, it was a tragic accident, nothing more, it could so easily have been avoided, which makes it somehow worse.
As someone said earlier, if they had wanted to kill her, it was an extremely inefficient and messy way to go about it, definitely suicide would have been their best option.
Until someone proves otherwise, I think it was a terrible accident.

There must be so many ways of temporarily disabling seat belts so that they are difficult to put on

So who would have been hanging around disabling seatbelts on the off-chance they might go on a night-time dash at goodness knows the speed limit?

Sorry but it's not a feasible theory.

Diana sadly died as a result of a car accident.

And who would disable the seat belts? They didn't know which car they would be using.

Callistemon21

Why would you get into any car to speed across a city at night if the seatbelts didn't work?
Especially if you had apparently predicted your demise in a car crash. It doesn't make any sense at all.

If you are rushing to escape I would imagine the driver will have started well before you realise the seat belt doesn't work. And Dodi's car and driver, he never wore one so wouldn't wait for passengers to belt up.

Why would you get into any car to speed across a city at night if the seatbelts didn't work?
Especially if you had apparently predicted your demise in a car crash. It doesn't make any sense at all.

There must be so many ways of temporarily disabling seat belts so that they are difficult to put on. Many people have said Diana always wore a seat belt, so why not on this occasion? Perhaps because they wouldn't work properly. Dodi never wore one so it wouldn't bother him.

Thanks Dickens

Where they were, not what

Glorianny

I find it interesting that there were two letters, one with Lord Mischon where she forecast she would die in a car crash and it would have been orchestrated. I mean you can be paranoid and think people are out to get you, but how many times does anyone with such tendencies actually get the manner of their death right?

That is weird.

The car crash was not orchestrated. She got in a car with a driver who had been drinking, she did not wear a seatbelt when he was speeding at night. Recipe for disaster. Did they think they were immune from accidents?

They changed their plans so few people knew what they were at that particular time either.

Exactly Monica

All this was well known and discussed in the immediate aftermath of her death.

The biggest argument against murder is that anyone in the car wearing a seat belt properly done up survived. If Princess Diana had been wearing a seatbelt she would be with us still.

To not wear her seatbelt was her decision and not one any one else could influence.. Also the driver was drunk.

All those who suspect a conspiracy should watch the 4-part programme on Channel 4 recently. The 2 separate investigations, spread over years, by independent French and then independent British authorities explain everything and could not have been more thorough.

It was said by a car crash expert that the crash in the tunnel was survivable if Diana and Dodi had been wearing seatbelts.

Al Fayed could not substantiate a single one of his accusations.

The intelligence services have ways of knowing things, and of covering all bases.