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Charles questioned after Diana's death

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GagaJo Sun 20-Jun-21 22:02:23

The former Metropolitan police chief John Stevens has disclosed that he questioned Prince Charles over allegations that he had plotted to kill Diana, Princess of Wales.

Charles was interviewed as a witness in 2005, during a three-year investigation into Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997, the Daily Mail reported.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/19/former-met-chief-interviewed-prince-charles-over-alleged-plot-to-kill-diana

SueDonim Tue 22-Jun-21 13:14:19

Alegrias1

I've outed him.

Pembroke or Cardigan? grin

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 11:50:02

They were very fond of Tiggy, they spent much time at her
parents estate, fishing, rock climbing , shooting,Diana was jealous.

William and Harry are Godfathers to her children and both
were at Tiggy’s wedding.

theworriedwell Tue 22-Jun-21 11:39:24

Well we know the allegations about Tiggy and Camilla were wrong so not sure why we'd take any notice of the rest of it.

What she said about Tiggy LB was vicious and nasty, I assume she was jealous of the relationship she had with William and Harry as they seemed genuinely fond of her and they attended her wedding. I'm not sure about William's wedding but she was at Harry's and at the Christening of Archie.

M0nica Tue 22-Jun-21 11:36:50

Of course they did. They have to follow the evidence and that letter made serious allegations and the veracity had to be checked.

Prince Charles wasn't questioned under caution, he was just one of many people questioned following the incident and after all kinds of lurid rumours had been spread about the event.

The big story would be if he hadn't been questioned.

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 11:10:50

They questioned Charles re the accusations Diana made in writing and gave to Burrell

M0nica Tue 22-Jun-21 11:05:06

In a any case like this the police will talk to all and sundry who they think could give any information that might shed light on what happened.

When DS died after she was knocked off her bike when cycling to work. the police spoke to family and people she worked with as well as witnessess to try to unravel exactly what happened because it wasn't entirely clear what had happened. The way she would respond in a crtical situation like this could be germane to how the accident happened.

Nothing special about the police talking to Prince Charles. They would have done it if she had died in her sleep from natural causes.

Chewbacca Tue 22-Jun-21 10:50:08

Could it not have been a stuffed toy dog?

No, Andrew was at Pizza Express at the time so couldn't have been him.

Ellianne Tue 22-Jun-21 09:56:48

I've only just seen this thread so apologies if my quick skim is repeating something already suggested.
Could it not have been a stuffed toy dog?

Parsley3 Tue 22-Jun-21 09:52:56

So are you saying it wasn’t a corgi but it could have been a wee donkey?

Poppyred Tue 22-Jun-21 09:50:25

MawBe

How in the name of the wee donkey is this news ?
Could any more column inches possibly be squeezed out the Diana debacle?

???

Callistemon Tue 22-Jun-21 09:40:25

I object on behalf of all Corgies, if they wore a scarf it certainly would have been a Welsh scarf.
grin

The look on that corgi's face, though - "who, me?"

lemsip I doubt that the private secretary would have divulged what the Queen's reaction was to such tragic news.
I'm sure they were shocked and devastated, after all she had Diana's sons with her at Balmoral and had to care for them while their father went to Paris.

There is such a lot of tosh written about what the Royal Family say and think.

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 09:34:50

I object on behalf of all Corgies, if they wore a scarf it certainly
would have been a Welsh scarf.

And proof it wasn’t Philip, there was no sighting of a horse and
carriage

lemsip Tue 22-Jun-21 09:34:29

From Ingrid Seward's book....The queen's speech, ....I recall reading this passage in the book... re the queen's response to Diana's death.
........

her private secretary called her at Balmoral Castle in Scotland in the middle of the night to inform her about the crash in Paris. The queen was in such disbelief that she mused out loud, "'Someone must have greased the brakes,'" royal biographer Ingrid Seward reported in her 2015 book The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words.

JaneJudge Tue 22-Jun-21 09:33:47

Alegrias grin

Alegrias1 Tue 22-Jun-21 09:30:30

I've outed him.

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 09:29:20

I know the dog was not a Corgi, that question was asked at the time , a Corgi wouldn’t wear a scarf

Parsley3 Tue 22-Jun-21 09:25:04

Was the dog a corgi?

Alegrias1 Tue 22-Jun-21 09:20:04

Maybe he owned the dog.

eazybee Tue 22-Jun-21 09:19:21

Really, overthehill?
You really think Prince Philip orchestrated the accident?

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 09:19:04

Important VIP’s ?

JaneJudge Tue 22-Jun-21 09:18:36

Alegrias1

I heard that Bill Gates had something to do with it.

was it to do with dial up?

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 09:17:34

So Prince Phillip told them to leave the Ritz at midnight and to
order an off duty member of staff to drive them !

Alegrias1 Tue 22-Jun-21 09:15:00

I heard that Bill Gates had something to do with it.

overthehill Tue 22-Jun-21 09:13:35

eazybee

Our french friends from the village we are twinned with were all convinced at the time of Diana's death that it was a plot orchestrated by Prince Philip.

Yes that's what we believe. The car from the crash was impounded and to my knowledge had never been released for proper forensic inspection. Also the vehicle had been in a recent accident. Not the sort of vehicle fit for transporting important VIPs.

Anniebach Tue 22-Jun-21 09:11:06

They left because they were playing games with the paps, poor
Henri Paul was off duty but they called him in to take them from the Ritz, he should have refused but it would take a brave
person to say no to the Fayeds.