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Police Commissioner in 2005 and was knighted, but 

continued to supervise Operation Paget, which in De-

cember 2006 concluded that the deaths of Diana et al. 

were the result of a “tragic accident”.)

The French pathologist who examined Henri 

Paul’s body and verified the “drunkard” line, was Prof. 

Dominique Lecomte, identified in the documentary as “a 

doctor who is notorious in France for covering up medi-

cal evidence that is likely to embarrass the state”. More-

over, the documentary continued, “If her own account 

is to be believed, she coordinated the world’s worst au-

topsy on Henri Paul, committing at least 58 basic er-

rors”. Indeed, every other scientist involved in the in-

quest signed a joint statement saying that Paul’s blood 

test was “biologically inexplicable”, and that Lecomte’s 

report was “untruthful”.

The inquest also heard expert testimony that the most 

likely explanation for the “lethally high levels of carbon 

monoxide” supposedly found in Paul’s blood, is that it 

wasn’t even his blood. Professor Lecomte refused to at-

tend the inquest, even though under European law she 

was obliged to. The French Ministry of Justice excused 

Lecomte’s refusal to participate, citing the French law 

covering “the protection of state secrets and the essen-

tial interests of the nation”. When, in 2006, a team of 

scientists offered to carry out DNA testing on the blood 

samples to verify that they were indeed those of Hen-

ri Paul, they were told the samples no longer existed.

With all the resources of the French and British po-

lice and security services, authorities somehow never 

managed to locate the white Fiat Uno which had side-

swiped the Mercedes, causing the crash. They failed, 

even though a well-known millionaire paparazzo based 

in France, named James Andanson, owned a white Fiat 

Uno and had been following Diana and Dodi earlier in 

the month. He also, it emerged, had connections to the 

British security services. Though Andanson claimed he 

wasn’t near the scene that night, neither among the pa-

parazzi at the hotel, nor in the tunnel, he gave police 

two different accounts of his whereabouts, while his 

wife and son provided him with alibis that contradict-

ed each other. A friend of Andanson’s later said that he 

had admitted he had been present in the tunnel at the 

time of the crash. Three years after Diana’s death, An-

danson was found dead, locked inside a burnt out car 

on a Ministry of Defence firing range in France, with no 

keys in the car and two bullets in his head. The French 

police ruled it a suicide.

The Royal Vendetta against Diana

The only senior member of the Royal household to 

appear at the inquest was the Queen’s Private Secretary 

Sir Robert Fellowes (Diana’s brother-in-law). Diana had 

told friends that Fellowes was one of the three men she 

feared, because he hated her and wanted to get her out 

of the Royal Family. To avoid answering questions about 

the Palace’s actions relating to Diana’s death, Fellowes 

testified under oath that he had been on holidays from 

the first week of August until after Diana’s funeral, and 

therefore not involved at all in the process. He lied. In 

2011, Tony Blair’s press secretary Alastair Campbell pub-

lished his diaries, which record that the Prime Minister’s 

office was in daily contact with Fellowes to make all of 

the arrangements for the return of Diana’s body, and for 

her funeral. In 1998, the year after Diana’s death, the 

Queen made Fellowes a Lord.

The Royal animus against Harrods owner Moham-

med Al-Fayed and his son Dodi and Diana was well 

known in Britain. Typical, though not reported in the 

film, was an article in the London Sunday Mirror on the 

very day of the crash. Entitled “Queen to Strip Harrods of 

Its Royal Crest”, the article, by Andrew Golden, began, 

“The royal family may withdraw their seal of approval 

from Harrods as a result of Diana’s affair with the own-

er’s son Dodi Fayed”, noting that “the royal family are 

furious about the frolics of Di, 36, and Dodi, 41, which 

they believe have further undermined the monarchy”.

The Mirror singled out Prince Philip as central to the 

Windsors’ campaign against Diana and Dodi. “Prince 

Philip, in particular”, Golden wrote, “has made no se-

cret as to how he feels about his daughter-in-law’s lat-

est man, referring to Dodi as an ‘oily bed hopper.’” But 

the Queen herself was intimately involved. Reported 

the Mirror, “At Balmoral next week, the Queen will pre-

side over a meeting of The Way Ahead Group where the 

Windsors sit down with all their senior advisors and dis-

cuss policy matters. MI6 has prepared a special report 

on the Egyptian-born Fayeds which will be presented 

to the meeting. The delicate subject of Harrods and its 

royal warrants is also expected to be discussed. And the 

Fayeds can expect little sympathy from Philip”.

The piece continued, “A friend of the royals said yes-

terday: ‘Prince Philip has let rip several times recent-

ly about the Fayeds—at a dinner party, during a coun-

try shoot and while on a visit to close friends in Ger-

many. He’s been banging on about his contempt for 

Dodi and how he is undesirable as a future step father 

to William and Harry. Diana has been told in no un-

certain terms about the consequences should she con-

tinue the relationship with the Fayed boy.’” The article, 

which hit the news-stands almost simultaneously with 

the news of Dodi and Diana’s deaths, concluded omi-

nously, “But now the royal family may have decided it 

is time to settle up”.

Indeed, Philip had written several menacing letters to 

Diana, but they were so heavily redacted when shown 

to the inquest as to be meaningless. When Diana’s friend 

Simone Simmons wanted to testify to the content of Phil-

ip’s letters to Diana, she was forbidden to do so.

Mohammed Al-Fayed has repeatedly charged that 

Prince Philip ordered the murders of his son and Prin-

cess Diana. For instance, in video clips of an interview 

between radio personality Howard Stern and Al-Fayed, 

included in Unlawful Killing, the Harrods owner said of 

the 31 Aug. crash, “It’s not a murder, it’s a slaughter, by 

those bloody racist Royal Family”. Stern queried, “Do 

you think Prince Philip is so smart that he could mas-

Diana’s chauffeur Henri Paul, shown here leaving the Paris hotel 

just before the fateful ride, was accused by Her Majesty’s Coroner 

of having been “drunk as a pig”. But hotel records showed that he 

had only two small drinks that evening.

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