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

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Diana: They Will Kill Me in a Car Crash

The interviews included here (p. 17-18), one with 

Morgan and the other with long-time Al-Fayed family 

spokesman Michael Cole, focus on two instances in Oc-

tober 1995 when Diana spoke about a threat to her life 

from Prince Charles and the Crown. One was the note 

to her butler, Paul Burrell, in which she said, “…this par-

ticular phase of my life is the most dangerous—my hus-

band is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure 

and serious head injury”. Cole also recounts that Diana 

went to her solicitor, Lord Mishcon, about this threat, 

telling him that scenario came from “reliable sources 

whom she did not wish to reveal”, as Mishcon made a 

note at the time. 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 

suppressed that note for six years.” 

With the spectre of a resurgence of the 1997 public 

uproar ever present, Dodi’s father Mohamed Al-Fayed 

and his legal team forced two belated “investigations” 

to be made. The Crown fought tooth and nail to lim-

it any investigation to being conducted by the Coroner 

of the Queen’s Household, without a jury. Finally, Her 

Majesty’s Coroner commissioned the Metropolitan Po-

lice (Scotland Yard) to undertake what became known 

as the 2004-06 Paget Inquiry. Mandated specifically to 

examine whether the Royals had directed MI6 to orga-

nise the Paris crash, the inquiry concluded that it was 

only an “accident”. With public outrage still not quieted, 

the 2007-08 inquest was held before a jury in the Roy-

al Courts of Justice. Even the shamelessly biased presid-

ing Justice Scott Baker was forced to include in his for-

mal list of 20 topics of the inquest, whether Diana had 

feared for her life and why, and whether British or other 

intelligence agencies had been involved in her death. 

But from day one of the inquest, Baker harangued the 

jury to dismiss any “conspiracy theories” regarding Di-

ana’s death, “theories” naturally centred upon the Royals. 

Far from any deployment of the Crown’s vast resources, 

including MI5, MI6, and GCHQ, to find out who com-

mitted the killing, every effort was made to keep mem-

bers of the Royal family and MI6 personnel, even those 

documented to have been in Paris when Diana died, 

from being called to testify. At the conclusion of the six-

month inquest, Baker limited the jury to a short list of al-

lowable verdicts. “Murder” was not one of them; if they 

believed the deaths were homicides, they would have 

to return an “open” verdict, meaning that the cause was 

undetermined. Instead, Cole emphasised, the jury reject-

ed “accidental death” and chose the strongest available 

choice, “unlawful killing”.  

Britain’s Political Future, and What You Can Do

Though a life-long republican, Jeremy Corbyn has 

stated that he will not abolish the Crown, and he is a 

man of his word. But, will the sponsor of terrorism and 

the Anglo-Saudi alliance, Prince Charles, be allowed to 

ascend the throne? One could welcome the scheme of 

skipping a generation in the succession to Queen Eliz-

abeth II, but even more so a major institutional shift in 

Britain to a constitutional monarchy, with a written Con-

stitution which limits the power of the Crown. 

If Corbyn becomes Prime Minister and carries out the 

promises to which he has devoted his life, there can be 

no doubt that the Crown-centred Establishment will at-

tempt to remove him, either by outright assassination, 

or by the more subtle method of unleashing such un-

imaginable terrorism as to justify the establishment of a 

full-blown police state, in which he could not govern. It 

is worth remembering our experience in Australia with 

the sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam 

in 1975, 

done by the Queen from behind the mask of her Gov-

ernor-General and with assistance from Prince Charles, 

and the claim by UK Labour PM Harold Wilson, before 

his sudden resignation in 1976, that the Crown in the 

person of Lord Mountbatten and the intelligence services 

was out to overthrow him. The issue in each case was 

their daring to confront the institutions, as Corbyn does 

today: Whitlam wanted to “buy back the farm”, reclaim-

ing Australia’s resources from the Crown-tied raw mate-

rials cartel, while Wilson had presented the Bank of En-

gland with plans to launch a manufacturing-led renais-

sance “with finance the handmaiden and not the con-

troller of our economic development”.

And if the Crown did murder Diana in a desperate 

bid to preserve their power, what else would they not 

do towards the same end? The danger of violent acts is 

amplified now, when more and more authorities ac-

knowledge that Anglo-American finance is hurtling to-

ward a new global crash, worse than in 2007-08, and 

likewise caused by the Establishment’s policies of “mon-

ey before people”. 

The means to prevent such scenarios lie in the prin-

ciple of Labour’s recent campaign, “For the many, not 

the few”, which Diana also represented in her time and 

in her way. It is fitting that the 20th anniversary of her 

death falls amidst the greatest mass political ferment 

since her funeral. Each of “the many” can and must 

speak out openly against the continued reign of terror 

and murderous austerity.

In 1819 Percy Shelley commemorated those massa-

cred at Peterloo (Manchester), who had peacefully gath-

ered to demand justice and economic reforms, in his po-

ems “England in 1819” and “The Mask of Anarchy” (in 

which the line “Ye are many—they are few” appears). 

In his essay of the same year “A Philosophical View of 

Reform”, Shelley wrote that through the “Glorious Rev-

olution” of 1688 and the establishment of the Bank of 

England in 1694, the old feudal aristocracy had given 

birth to a new, financial oligarchy which ruled mainly 

“by fraud”, instead of naked force. 

Ultimately, the present political ferment can secure 

justice for Diana, for all Britons, and for the rest of the 

world, by breaking up the power of that financial oli-

garchy—the Too-Big-to-Fail banks through which the 

Crown/City of London-centred Establishment rules. Pre-

cisely what this means, how to do it, and the urgency of 

your personal participation in the process are explained 

at the end of this pamphlet (p. 35-6). As you take up this 

battle you can be sure that Diana will smile down upon 

you, for your devotion to the passion which ruled the fi-

nal years of her own life—“for the many, not the few”. 

Sincerely,

Craig Isherwood

National Secretary

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

20 August 2017

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