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

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Michael Cole:  Diana Predicted Her Murder

Australia’s Today show interviewed Michael 

Cole, former, long-time spokesman for Mohamed 

Al-Fayed, on 16 Aug. 2016. 

Today presenter Lisa Wilkinson (after archival 

news footage reporting Diana’s death): That was 

Tracy Grimshaw there, reporting on the death of 

Princess Diana on 31 August 1997. But was the 

crash in that Paris tunnel a tragic accident, or—as 

many have suggested over the years—something 

more sinister? The father of Diana’s boyfriend Dodi 

Al-Fayed, who also died that night, believes it was 

part of a conspiracy.

Today presenter Tim McMillan: And our next 

guest, Michael Cole, was actually Mohamed Al-

Fayed’s right-hand man throughout that ordeal. He 

joins us now from London. Michael, good evening 

to you, there in London. I understand that some 20 years 

on, you’re still of the view that Diana’s death was in fact 

a political assassination. I’ve got to ask: a political assas-

sination by whom?

Michael Cole: Good morning Tim, good morning Lisa. 

And I must just say first of all how terrible it was to hear 

that clip; as you say, Tim, we’re coming up to the 19th an-

niversary, and it doesn’t get any easier, particularly for Mo-

hamed Al-Fayed and his family. All he wants, and all he 

has ever wanted, is what any parent who has lost a child—

and a very dear friend, Princess Diana—in terrible circum-

stances: to find out the truth. You ask a very good ques-

tion, and it’s one that needs to be addressed; and I’m glad 

to say that a heroic Australian who died earlier this year, 

called John Morgan, addresses it in this book, How They 

Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth. And in that 

[book], John Morgan, who lived just north of Brisbane, I 

went to see him—he raises 44 issues that say that Diana 

was assassinated. And bear in mind, it’s not Mohamed 

saying it; it’s not me saying it; the Princess, on two occa-

sions, specifically predicted her own death and the means 

by which she would meet her death—and she specifically 

blamed her husband, or former husband, for engineering 

a crash to look like an accident, in which she would die.

She felt so strongly about this that she went to her own 

solicitor, a man called Victor Mishcon, now dead—Lord 

Mishcon—and she told him everything, in the company of 

her private secretary, and Mishcon wrote the whole thing 

down in a note. And after her death, because the circum-

stances were so [much] as the Princess had predicted it, 

he took that note to Scotland Yard; and Scotland Yard sup-

pressed that note for six years. Had that note been sent to 

the French inquiry, they wouldn’t have looked into it as a 

traffic accident but as a murder, and we would have had 

a very different outcome.

And that wasn’t the only time: the Princess also wrote 

another note, known as the “Burrell note”, that was also 

suppressed, or not published, for six years, in which in her 

own handwriting she said “this is a very dangerous time 

for me”. And she had her own prescience—and you know, 

Tim, it’s not just me: Her Majesty the Queen—your queen, 

our queen—when saying goodbye to Diana’s butler, Paul 

Burrell, she said to him, “Beware the men in the shadows! 

Beware the dark forces that will be ranged against you!”

Now what we need, and what we’ve always needed, is 

a thoroughgoing and real inquiry—the inquest in this coun-

try, the eleven jurors were not even allowed to consider 

a verdict of murder! On day one the coroner, Lord Justice 

Scott Baker, said to the eleven of them, “You’re not even 

going to be allowed to consider whether this was murder.” 

Well, he tried to bring in a verdict of accidental death, but 

the eleven jurors—ordinary Londoners—wouldn’t have it. 

And they brought in the most serious verdict they could, 

which was: they were killed. That’s what they said.

Wilkinson: So Michael, these are pretty powerful forc-

es being rallied here; so who do you think is behind what 

you describe as the murder of Princess Diana?

Cole: [The verdict was] “unlawful killing”. Well, you 

know the thing, Lisa, about the secret services is that they 

do things in secret; but there’s any amount of evidence to 

say that MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service, has a 

record of doing what they call “wet jobs”, off the book. 

Of course it’s very difficult for this proof to come in, but 

evidence does arise, even all these years afterwards. And 

as I sit here talking to you, and as Mohamed is at home 

with his family, we’re just hoping that more information 

will come out. Even last year, some photographs were pro-

duced of SAS special forces training on a motorway, to take 

out a motorcar, to kill somebody; those photographs were 

suddenly produced. And it’s—during the inquest, and I sat 

through six months of it, every day a lot of time was spent 

examining an MI6 plot that had been drawn up to mur-

der Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader, as he went 

to a conference in Geneva—in a tunnel, in Switzerland. 

I mean, this was discussed; this wasn’t fantasy. Now, the 

head of the MI6, who gave evidence at that inquest, a man 

called Sir Richard Dearlove, of course pooh-poohed and 

denied that there was any MI6 involvement; but Richard 

Dearlove was discredited, largely, in the recent Chilcot In-

quiry report into the causes of the war, and the conduct of 

the war in Iraq—he was largely discredited in that. So let’s 

look at the real witnesses; let’s look at what Diana said; 

let’s look at what is in John Morgan’s book, here: an hon-

est work, of a man who was an independent witness. ...

Wilkinson: There were a lot of rumours swirling around 

that Diana was pregnant at the time that she died. Can 

you confirm that?

Cole: Mohamed believes that she was. The fact of the 

matter is this: that her body was embalmed at the hospi-

tal in Paris—which was completely illegal! You cannot 

embalm a body in France without the specific authority 

of the family, or the local mayor. Neither was forthcom-

ing. She was embalmed on the authority of a low-rank-

ing British diplomat.

As he was cut off by the interviewer, Cole indicated that 

he had more still to say on these matters.

Long-time Al-Fayed spokesman Michael Cole speaking on the Today show, now on 

YouTube. 

Photo: Screenshot Today Show

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