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

9

Among other things, Mishcon recorded that Diana 

told him that the information about a threat to her 

life came from “reliable sources whom she did not 

wish to reveal”.

13

 The next month, as Morgan cites 

Diana’s friend Simone Simmons, she did experience 

brake failure in her Audi.

14

 

Describing herself as “a liability” to the Royals 

ever since the separation, Diana in the Panorama in-

terview declared, “I shall not go quietly”. She vowed 

to play a role in raising the next heir to the throne, 

her son Prince William, and expressed hope of be-

ing “a queen of people’s hearts”. She also questioned 

Charles’s fitness to be King, saying that “I know the 

character, … and I don’t know whether he could 

adapt” to the rigors of “the top job”.

In retaliation, the Queen promptly cancelled the 

BBC’s sole rights to broadcast her annual Christmas 

message, while Charles’s former equerry, Minister 

for the Armed Forces Nicholas Soames, went on na-

tional TV to question Diana’s mental stability. Prom-

inent establishment figures pointed to the profound 

issues at stake in the conflict between Diana and the 

Windsors, placing it on the canvas of several centu-

ries of British history.

15

 Referring to Diana’s descent 

from the Stuart dynasty, ousted in the Dutch inva-

sion known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and 

replaced by the Hanoverians (later called the House 

of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, after Queen Victoria’s spouse 

Albert, and then renamed as the Windsors), ex-edi-

tor of The Times Lord William Rees-Mogg wrote in 

the paper on 20 Nov. 1995, “Like other historic co-

inheritors of Stuart PR gene, the Princess is brilliant 

at the kingcraft of public image building”, but Stu-

art brilliance “almost always ends in personal trag-

edy, like that of Mary Queen of Scots”.

“God Help the Princess of Wales”, was the title of 

a column by Germaine Greer, recounting the tragic 

fate of earlier Princesses of Wales at the hands of the 

Hanoverians. Military historian John Keegan, writing 

in The Telegraph of 24 Nov. warned that Diana must 

not “go too far”, or else “it is she who will become 

the casualty, not the monarchy”. British author A.N. 

Wilson laid out the stakes in the 25 Nov. New York 

Times, calling Diana’s Panorama interview “a skilful-

ly organised attack on the institution of the monarchy 

itself”. If Diana were to continue, Wilson warned, 

“the Establishment will simply get rid of her”.

In the wake of the Panorama interview, the Queen 

demanded that Charles and Diana divorce. That pro-

cess was completed in August 1996.

Enter the Al-Fayeds

That Diana’s view of the evil of the British Crown 

was deeper than merely a reaction to the flawed per-

sonalities of her husband and in-laws, was reflect-

ed in her 1994-97 correspondence with an EIR staff 

member, which began when she acknowledged re-

ceiving the 28 Oct. 1994 issue of EIR, “The Coming 

Fall of the House of Windsor”.

16

 The first in a series lat-

er issued as an EIR Special Report of the same title, this 

13. John Morgan, How They Murdered Princess Diana: the 

Shocking Truth (Australia: Shining Bright Publishing, 2014), p. 80.

14.  Simone Simmons and Ingrid Seward, Diana: The Last Word 

(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005).

15.  Scott Thompson, “Princess Diana’s War with the Windsors,” 

EIR, 12 Sept. 1997. 

16.  “The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor,” EIR, 28 Oct. 1994.

feature documented, including from sources within 

the UK, that the World Wildlife Fund, co-founded in 

1961 by Prince Philip and the notorious eugenicists 

Sir Julian Huxley and former Privy Council secretary 

Max Nicholson, was committing genocide in Africa 

through the deployment of mercenary units to stoke 

armed conflicts, in order to control the continent’s 

riches. It also showed that big-game hunter Philip and 

others of the WWF had contributed to the extinction 

of the endangered species they claimed to protect. 

In the final, March 1997 letter in the exchange, re-

sponding to documentation received on strategic is-

sues (including the threat of world war arising from 

Russia’s devastation by “free-market” reforms), Di-

ana’s secretary wrote, “The Princess of Wales asked 

me to thank you for your letter of 19th February and 

the most interesting enclosures. The Princess was 

touched that you took the trouble to write following 

her visit to Angola [where she had been campaign-

ing against land mines]. … Your letter meant a great 

deal to the Princess, who has asked me to send you 

her sincere thanks”.

17

In July 1997, Diana accepted an invitation from 

Mohamed Al-Fayed to holiday with her sons at his 

villa in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. The Egyp-

tian-born billionaire Al-Fayed had already incurred 

the Crown’s wrath himself, during a protracted strug-

gle in the 1980s and 1990s for control of Harrods de-

partment store in London. His opponent in the bat-

tle for Harrods was Tiny Rowland, a long-time MI5 

agent and head, since 1961, of the Crown-linked 

giant multinational firm Lonrho, specialising in the 

looting of Africa.

18

By the end of this holiday, during which she 

met Dodi Fayed, Diana had less than six weeks to 

live. Events unfolded rapidly. As the vacation end-

ed, the Daily Mirror, alluding to leaks from the Roy-

al household, wrote: “Speculation about Diana’s fu-

ture, which is as strong at Buckingham Palace as it 

is in the Princess’s camp, comes as plans are made 

for the next meeting of the Way Ahead Group…. 

Top of the agenda at the forthcoming meeting is Di-

ana”. Morgan suggests that that WAG meeting, held 

at Balmoral Castle on 23 July, may have been moved 

up from later in the summer, out of urgency. The Di-

ana-Dodi relationship blossomed quickly, leading to 

a second Mediterranean vacation and exchanges of 

gifts and love letters. Diana had expressed a wish to 

spend time or even live in America (hoping to take 

her sons there), a desire that meshed with Dodi’s pur-

chase of a house in Malibu, California. 

17.  “Can the House of Windsor Survive Diana’s Death?”, EIR, 12 

Sept. 1997. In his books, Morgan explores Diana’s anti-land mine 

activity itself as another dimension of her conflict with the Royals, 

who are personally committed to the British arms industry, starting 

with the giant munitions company BAE Systems.

18.  Tiny Rowland: The Ugly Face of Necolonialism in Africa (EIR: 

Washington, D.C., 1993). The old London and Rhodesia Mining 

Company, reinvented as Lonrho in 1961 under the guidance of 

Crown financier Harley Drayton, has a history of tight links with 

the Crown’s household. On the board sat Drayton’s long-time 

personal assistant, Royal family member Sir Angus Ogilvy, who 

was married to the Queen’s first cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent. 

His brother David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, was Lord Chamber-

lain of the Royal Household in 1984-97, whose activity on the 

day of Diana’s death and thereafter is documented by Morgan 

in Diana Inquest: Part 4, along with the failure of the 2007-08 

inquest to question him. Sir Joseph Ball, former head of MI5, was 

also active in Lonrho.

---