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...begins. The inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed finally kicked into gear on Tuesday, more than 10 years after the couple and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris' Pont de l'Alma tunnel. That's 10 years of investigation, speculation and accusation, all building up to this point. But if Day One is any indication, anyone expecting a real-life episode of Law & Order to play out in London's Royal Courts of Justice will be sorely disappointed. The proceedings started as they are meant to go on: calmly, soberly...
...PHOTOS They could fetch millions when she was alive, and even now reprint rights for the last photos of Diana and Dodi together on holiday go for hundreds of dollars...
...short-lived victory. On Friday, Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed won a court battle that means a jury will preside over the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. But now it looks like the jury won't get to hear what he has to say. Al Fayed, who has long held that Diana and his son were murdered by British security services on the orders of Diana's former father-in-law, Prince Philip, was hoping he would finally get the chance to defend his claims to a jury of "ordinary people." At a preliminary hearing...
...them, I shall not present them to the jury because it would be my duty not to do so." But Al Fayed's lawyer, Michael Mansfield, said the millionaire had already given his evidence to the official British police investigation, which last year concluded the crash that killed Diana, Dodi and their driver in 1997 was an accident. When Butler-Sloss (who is hearing the inquest as assistant deputy coroner for inner west London after the High Court ruled she couldn't sit as deputy royal coroner) was told she already had the evidence she was asking for, she replied...
...Fayed's challenge to Butler-Sloss' decision also took issue with the fact that she was presiding over the inquest as royal deputy coroner, which gave the perception that she "lacked [the] independence" needed to remain impartial in judging whether or not the Princess and Dodi Fayed were murdered. The High Court judges agreed, ruling that if Butler-Sloss is still going to hear the case, she can't do it as the royal coroner...