Who Killed Diana, and Why? Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

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Who Killed Diana,

and Why?

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

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Letter of Transmittal

Spurred by grief and anger at the suffering she wit-

nessed during her crusade against landmines, shortly be-

fore her death Diana, Princess of Wales had compiled a 

large file on the British arms trade. She claimed the dos-

sier “would prove that the British government and many 

high-ranking public figures were profiting” from this busi-

ness, a confidante recorded.

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 “The names and compa-

nies were well-known. It was explosive. And top of her 

list of culprits … was the Secret Intelligence Service, the 

SIS [MI6]…. ‘I’m going to go public with this and I’m go-

ing to name names’, she declared. She intended to call 

her report ‘Profiting Out of Misery’.” Diana was well po-

sitioned to know: Her ex-husband Prince Charles had 

concluded all the later stages of the infamous al-Yama-

mah arms deal—the largest in history—which PM Mar-

garet Thatcher struck with the Saudis in 1985. Funds 

from al-Yamamah were used to finance the rise of both 

al-Qaeda and ISIS.

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Many believe that Diana’s work with the Internation-

al Campaign to Ban Landmines, the organisation which 

brought about the 1997 international agreement banning 

antipersonnel mines, was the reason she, her friend Dodi 

Fayed, and driver Henri Paul were killed in the Place de 

l’Alma tunnel in Paris on 31 August 1997. But there was 

a far deeper issue in her conflict with the British Estab-

lishment: her threat to the very existence of the monar-

chy. Already in November 1995 Diana told some 20 mil-

lion viewers of the BBC’s Panorama program, “I shall not 

go quietly”, and expressed the hope of being “a queen 

of people’s hearts”. One commentator warned that if she 

were to continue such “a skilfully organised attack on the 

institution of the monarchy itself” as this interview de-

tailing her struggles with the Royals, “the Establishment 

will simply get rid of her”. Said another observer, “She 

could have started a movement to end the monarchy.” 

When Diana did die, that potential became dramati-

cally visible, as UK Channel 5’s May 2017 documentary 

“Diana: Seven Days That Shook the Windsors” acknowl-

edged: “The impact of [her] death was bigger than any-

one could have predicted”. Millions converged on the 

royal palaces in London to mourn “the People’s Prin-

cess”. Recalls Channel 5, “As the public came to grips 

with Diana’s death, Britain found itself in the midst of a 

collective nervous breakdown”, and “the Queen knew 

that if [the Royals] lost the affection of the public, then 

their days were numbered”. The public outpouring during 

the week of Diana’s funeral foreshadowed the tectonic 

changes that would erupt in Britain nearly two decades 

later, with the vote for Brexit and the rise of Labour lead-

er Jeremy Corbyn, who is greeted by huge, enthusiastic 

crowds wherever he speaks. 

Tribunes of the People

In the ancient Roman Republic (509 to 27 BC) there 

was an office called the Tribune of the People. A tribune 

had the authority to intervene on behalf of the ordinary 

people, or plebeians, to protect them from arbitrary acts 

by the ruling patricians, consuls and magistrates. 

During the 2017 election campaign, Corbyn stepped 

forward as a Tribune of the People under the motto “For 

1  Simone Simmons with Ingrid Seward, Diana: The Last Word 

(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005).

2  Citizens Electoral Council of Australia pamphlets, 

To Stop a 

Near-term Terror Attack, Read the ‘28 Pages’! 

(2016), 

Stop MI5/

MI6-run Terrorism!

 (2017).

the many, not the few”, con-

fronting the harm done to the 

population by the country’s 

most powerful institutions. 

In recent times the most fa-

mous other person to as-

sume the role of a Tribune of 

the People was Diana, who 

had frightened the Establish-

ment not only by speaking out 

about the cruelty of her hus-

band and in-laws, but also by 

radiating kindness and com-

passion for ordinary people. 

Though she and Corbyn are of different backgrounds, 

there are clear similarities between the ideals and cour-

age of each, not least in their campaigns against the mur-

derous arms trade and its terrorist progeny. 

On 4 June in the wake of the London Bridge ter-

ror attack, for example, Corbyn demanded that the UK 

have “difficult conversations” with Saudi Arabia about its 

funding of Islamist extremism, including in the UK. Any 

serious look at Saudi financing, as the Citizens Electoral 

Council of Australia (CEC) pamphlet 

Stop MI5/MI6-run 

Terrorism!

 has shown, will lead directly to the Crown, 

including Prince Charles’s sponsorship of the infrastruc-

ture of radical Wahhabism in the UK, from which waves 

of terrorism have recently swept the nation (with echoes 

in Australia), and to its intelligence agencies, the arms 

company BAE, and its City of London allies. 

The same Crown/City nexus that feared Diana is now 

terrified that Corbyn may become the next Prime Minis-

ter of the United Kingdom. How afraid? Corbyn has re-

lentlessly attacked “the elite”, the “tax dodgers”, and 

“the City”, and has pledged to enact a “firm ring-fence” 

to break up the City’s Too-Big-to-Fail banks, instead of 

bailing them out. His promises to renationalise vital 

infrastructure and rebuild the National Health Service, 

ruined by budget cuts and privatisation, have struck 

a deep chord with Britons. On foreign policy, Corbyn 

has invoked U.S. President Eisenhower’s 1960 denun-

ciation of a “military-industrial complex”, pledged to 

halt British arms sales to tyrannical powers such as Sau-

di Arabia, end regime-change wars abroad, and work 

with Russia at the UN instead of escalating towards 

nuclear war. These changes would shift British poli-

cies more radically than even the Attlee Labour gov-

ernment of 1945-51, which nationalised the Bank of 

England, founded the NHS, and resisted the plans of 

Winston Churchill and others to launch the Cold War 

or even a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. 

Already during Corbyn’s campaign for leadership 

of the Labour Party, the Times of 20 Sept. 2015 re-

ported that an unnamed “senior serving general” had 

Craig Isherwood

CEC National Secretary

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