Word: diana
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...crash is part of popular legend now. The 13th pillar in the Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed...
...their efforts to compile as exhaustive a record as possible, the two French judges investigating the death of Princess Diana grilled a controversial figure last week: Richard Tomlinson, 35, a former officer of MI6, Britain?s foreign-intelligence service. Tomlinson, who was fired by the agency in 1995, spent six months in jail last year for violating Britain?s Official Secrets Act by trying to peddle a book critical...
...judges, related a hodgepodge of allegations, including his suspicion that the driver, Henri Paul, had once been a paid informant of MI6. But according to Tomlinson, the judges seemed most interested in his contention that a freelance British photographer who covered the royals had regularly briefed MI6 on Diana?s doings. The judges are trying to learn the identity of a mustachioed English-speaking photographer who was at the Ritz Hotel the night of the crash, and they may have hoped that Tomlinson could shed light on the possibility that an MI6 agent had been following Diana that evening...
LONDON: If the tragic death of Princess Diana has done nothing else in the past year, it has kept a lot of lawyers very busy. The official crash investigation is far from over, and investigators will soon be hearing from the manager of the Paris Ritz. Trevor Rees-Jones is considering a suit against Mercedes-Benz over airbags that may have exploded too early. And fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield is to take Mohammed Al-Fayed to an industrial tribunal next week, claiming he asked Wingfield to back up his views that Di and Dodi died at the hands...
...through their incompetence and unprofessional practices," he says. Should security practice at the Ritz become the center of the investigation, Al-Fayed's about-face may turn out to be a bid to find culprits who, conveniently, no longer work for him. It's not hard to wonder what Diana would think of these legal wranglings...