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readership 40 million, by the tabloid’s Investigations 

Editor Sue Reid. She wrote, “I have also investigat-

ed the events that led up to the crash and what hap-

pened afterwards. I have spoken to eyewitnesses, Brit-

ish and French police, MI6 officers based in Paris that 

night, friends of Diana and Dodi, and hospital med-

ics in the French capital who tried to save her life. 

Despite the official line that the crash was a terrible 

accident, many are still convinced she was killed … 

and that shadowy figures in the British Establishment 

have covered up the truth”. Even in this short article, 

Reid set forth abundant evidence for both charges.

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A Forensic Investigator’s Approach

Like Sue Reid, playwright Conway did independent 

research, as well as studying John Morgan’s work. These 

investigations have revisited all the issues brought out 

in EIR’s early, exclusive coverage of Diana’s murder: 

evidence-tampering; the almost two-hour delay in tak-

ing Diana to a hospital, whereas she likely would have 

survived the car crash with prompt treatment of her 

internal injuries; fakery in the claims that driver Hen-

ri Paul was drunk or speeding; the role of a Fiat Uno 

car and unidentified motorcyclists around and in the 

Alma Tunnel; the blinding of Paul by a flash of light in 

the tunnel; and the role of intelligence agencies, es-

pecially Britain’s MI6.

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6.  Sue Reid, “So is there ANY truth in the tawdry new play about 

Diana?”, Daily Mail, 15 Jan. 2015.

7.  EIR published 30 articles on the Alma Tunnel murders, between 

September 1997 and November 2002. Many of them broke certain 

elements of the events and the cover-up of them, for the first time 

internationally. In the 4 June 1998 Daily Telegraph, then owned by 

the now defunct Hollinger Corporation of Canadian Conrad Black, 

Ambrose Evans Pritchard laid the blame for all “theories” about 

Diana’s death, at the door of Lyndon LaRouche and EIR (Jeffrey 

Steinberg, “New ‘Diana Wars’ in Britain Put Focus on LaRouche”, 

EIR, 19 June 1998). Highlights of our coverage were summarised 

in EIR of 27 May 2011, in articles by Jeffrey Steinberg, “Battle 

Royal Shattering the British Empire”, and Susan Welsh, “The 14-

The thousands of pages of documentation assem-

bled by Morgan, and published in ten volumes, treat 

all these issues, and more. Morgan brought to the pro-

ject his professional experience as a forensic account-

ant, that is, a career of dealing not only with minute 

detail, but with issues of evidence-handing and court 

admissibility. In addition, Morgan’s research has been 

informed by leaks from dissident sources within the 

British establishment, enabling him to examine pre-

viously suppressed evidence.

Morgan’s minute-by-minute account of Diana’s 

mistreatment after the car crash is especially grip-

ping. Morgan called his volume on medical evidence 

(Part 2 of Diana Inquest), “including deliberate mis-

treatment in the ambulance”, the “most distressing 

volume” of his ten years of work. It evidently struck 

playwright Conway that way, too, as the John Mor-

gan character in Conway’s play says at one point, 

“You don’t get it, do you? They killed her in the am-

bulance”.

From the outset, a distinguishing feature of Mor-

gan’s work has been that he examines the evidence 

not only in its own right, but also through the prism 

of what was, and what was not, included in the 2006 

findings of the official British Metropolitan Police 

(“Scotland Yard”) inquiry called Operation Paget, or 

even heard during the 2007-08 RCJ inquest. Those 

hearings were only convened, over the Crown’s bit-

ter opposition, because of Mohamed Al-Fayed’s tire-

less pursuit, through publicity and legal actions, of 

justice for his son and Diana. The inquest, despite be-

ing presided over by a judge who swears allegiance 

to the Queen and who heavy-handedly directed the 

jury away from calling the deaths intentional, none-

theless returned a verdict of “unlawful killing”, mean-

ing that they were not accidental, but were homi-

cides by perpetrators unknown. “Unlawful Killing” 

became the title of a feature-length documentary by 

Year Cover-up of Princess Diana’s Death”. Key EIR articles on the 

topic are listed in “Additional Reading”,

 

p. 11.

London Evening Standard front-page headline in 2013 after de-

ceased entertainer Jimmy Savile was exposed as a sexual predator 

of children, whom the Metropolitan Police described as an abuser 

"on an unprecedented scale"; Savile is now also being exposed as 

Prince Charles's friend and "aide" for over three decades.

Like his brother Charles, Prince Andrew, the 2001-11 UK Special 

Representative for International Trade and Investment, has acted as a 

high-profile promoter and protector of the massive British-Saudi arms 

deal al-Yamamah, still today a centrepiece of international terrorism.

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British filmmaker Keith Allen, which de-

buted at the Cannes film festival in 2011, 

but has been almost entirely suppressed 

ever since.

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New Zealand-born John Morgan is a 

long-time resident of Australia. The head of 

state of both countries is the British Queen. 

Forced by illness to retire in 2003, Morgan 

was prompted to look into the death of Di-

ana upon seeing, in the book by her butler 

published that year, a photostat of a 1995 

handwritten note in which she worried that 

Charles was planning to have her killed in 

a car accident.

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 His first book, Cover-Up 

of a Royal Murder: Hundreds of Errors in 

the Paget Report, analysed Scotland Yard’s 

published report. It was followed by the 

six-part Diana Inquest series, published in 

2009-2013, and other volumes on the case, including 

a 2012 synopsis titled Paris-London Connection: The 

Assassination of Princess Diana and, in 2014, How 

They Murdered Princess Diana: the Shocking Truth, 

a more thoroughly documented, 800-page summa-

ry of the Diana Inquest series.

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Diana Inquest analyses the 2007-08 RCJ inquest, 

highlighting errors in its procedures and findings, as 

well as what evidence was withheld from the jury. 

Its volumes are: Part 1, The Untold Story, covering 

the pre-crash events at the Ritz Hotel and what hap-

pened in the Alma Tunnel; Part 2, How & Why Did 

Diana Die?, on her post-crash medical treatment 

and possible motives for murder; Part 3, The French 

Cover-up; Part 4, The British Cover-Up; Part 5, Who 

Killed Princess Diana?, on evidence concerning, in 

Morgan’s words, “the involvement of MI6 and sen-

ior British royals in the assassinations of Princess Di-

ana and Dodi Fayed”; and Part 6, Corruption at Scot-

land Yard. Especially Part 4, published in 2011 at the 

length of 722 pages, drew on a supplementary vol-

ume Morgan had issued the previous year under the 

title The Documents the Jury Never Saw, a compila-

tion of documents leaked to him by a source famil-

iar with Operation Paget from the inside, but not in-

cluded in its 832-page published report. 

Diana vs. the “Way Ahead Group”

In a bombshell interview on the BBC’s primetime 

Panorama program in Nov. 1995, Diana said that by 

1984, after the birth of her two sons, her three-year-

old marriage with Prince Charles had gone “down 

the drain”. Morgan’s summary of her situation ech-

oes the famous funeral eulogy by Diana’s brother, the 

Earl Spencer, about “the most bizarre-like life imag-

inable,” in which his sister had been caught. Writes 

Morgan, “She ends up finding herself living in a gild-

ed cage, but with her every move analysed by an in-

creasingly intrusive media…. In the end the pressure 

of the royal mistreatment and the public mispercep-

tions becomes too much for her, so she decides she 

8. Robert Barwick, “Suppressed Film Exposes Royal Stonewall 

of Diana Murder Probe,” EIR, 9 May 2014 (this pamphlet, p. 12).

9. Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 

2003).

10.  Issued through various publishers, the volumes are listed and 

available on the website “Princess Diana Death; The Evidence; 

John Morgan’s Investigation”, as well as through Amazon and 

other sellers.

must tell the public her story. This is unprecedented. 

And that action is completely unacceptable to the 

Queen—it is unacceptable that a princess feels she 

can speak out about unpalatable royal truths”.

Morgan’s formulation is remarkably similar to one 

written by none other than ex-Prime minister Tony 

Blair, which Morgan cites: “[Diana] was radicalising 

[the image] of the monarchy…. For someone as acute-

ly perceptive and long-termist about the monarchy 

and its future as the Queen, it must have been deep-

ly troubling. [The Queen] knew … that while there 

was a need for the monarchy to evolve with the peo-

ple, and that its covenant with them, unwritten and 

unspoken, was based on a relationship that allowed 

for evolution, it should be steady, carefully calibrat-

ed and controlled. Suddenly, an unpredictable me-

teor had come into this predictable and highly regu-

lated ecosystem, with equally uncertain consequenc-

es. [The Queen] had good cause to be worried”.

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In 1991, Diana began secretly recording inter-

views with Andrew Morton, whose book Diana: Her 

True Story would be serialised in The Times starting 

in Summer 1992. The Crown’s reactions included 

letters to Diana from Prince Philip, described by her 

friends as shockingly vicious, and the formation of 

the so-called Way Ahead Group (WAG) on the future 

of the monarchy, chaired by the Queen and compris-

ing Philip and their four children, Charles, Anne, An-

drew and Edward. The formal separation of Charles 

and Diana came in Dec. 1992, one month after the 

WAG’s first meeting. 

Diana’s bodyguard Ken Wharfe wrote about 1992, 

“These were dangerous times. The knives were be-

ing sharpened for the Princess”.

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 In October 1995, 

shortly before the Panorama interview, Diana at least 

twice—once in the note to Burrell and once verbally 

to her lawyer, whose notes on the conversation were 

revealed only years later, at the inquest—expressed 

fear of being killed at Charles’s behest, through sab-

otage of her car’s brakes. The lawyer, Lord Victor Mish-

con, was so shocked by “the serious statements made by 

Her Royal Highness” in their 30 Oct. 1995 conversa-

tion, that he “decided unusually to write this entry and 

to give instructions that it should be securely held”. 

11. Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life (London: Random 

House, 2010).

12. Ken Wharfe with Robert Jobson, Diana: Closely Guarded 

Secret (London: Michael O’Mara Books, 2002).

Source:  BBC Panorama, 20 November 1995

Princess Diana’s prime-time BBC Panorama interview in Nov. 1995, seen here, 

terrified the Crown. 

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