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Instead it was a chance encounter with the British coroner's inquiry into the death of Princess Diana - and the press horde that will dog its every step until it wraps up its two-day Paris visit on Tuesday. Led by magistrate Scott Baker, the 11 British jurors were retracing the final movements by Diana and companion Dodi Al Fayed ahead of their fatal car crash in August 1997. The current investigation comes at the behest of Dodi's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, who insists his son and Diana were killed in a plot by the royal family and secret...
After seeing previously undisclosed (and unremarkable) security camera video of Diana and Al Fayed and receiving details about that fatal night during briefings in London last week, the six women and five men accompanied Judge Baker to Paris Monday to get a firsthand view of the route that led the couple to their deaths. That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips...
...Diana pregnant? On Tuesday, Baker dismissed the rumor that Diana was carrying Dodi's baby by pointing out that photos which show the Princess sporting a rounded belly were taken before they met. But that doesn't rule out the possibility that she was pregnant - only that Dodi was the father. A physical examination of Diana's body didn't reveal any signs that she was pregnant. But a pregnancy in its early stages would be difficult to spot without an autopsy, Baker conceded, which was never performed. The French didn't run a pregnancy test before the body...
...doctors remember prescribing for him, and high levels of carbon monoxide that nobody can account for - have some observers questioning the reliability of the tests. The legal team representing Dodi's dad, Mohamed Al Fayed, are claiming that the blood tested wasn't even Paul's, which Baker responded to - but not really - when he said that DNA tests "appear" to show that...
...Fayed is pointing to her father-in-law Prince Philip as the one who ordered her alleged assassination. But the one piece of evidence that could reveal Prince Philip's true feelings about Diana is missing: a set of letters that he wrote to her. Burrell, who Baker "hopes" will give evidence during the inquest, says he saw them. And Diana's sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, says she had conversations with Diana about them. But nobody knows where they are. "It seems probable that there were such letters, but where they went and whether they still exist remains a mystery...