Diana The Inquest (Princess Diana Documentary) | Real Stories

the mystery of how Princess Diana died has fascinated the world for more than a decade was she the victim of an accident or something more sinister this is the question a British jury of six women and five men must decide the answer this week three coaches carrying the coroner and his jury went to Paris to visit the Alma tunnel the place where the car carrying princess diana and dodi fayed crashed it is now 10 years since we first saw these shocking images the wrecked Mercedes the mourners who came to pay the respects in Paris the tragic spectacle of the funeral in London 10 years on the British inquest finally opened into the depths of diana and dodi it will cost some 10 million pounds and last six months from the outset the coroner has been unusually open releasing much unseen CCTV footage of Diana's last 12 hours it's now possible to tell the story of that night frame by frame the images reveal small details such as Dodi and Diana holding hands for almost eight minutes before they got into their car I think the footage that's been released by the coroner is actually very compelling because we get a second-by-second almost take on what was happening to Diana just before she died and there in that way it's quite haunting most haunting is what maybe the last two diana smiles that any camera captured [Music] the coroner produced a list of 20 likely issues that the jury must consider they range from whether Diana was pregnant - whether or appall was drunk - the role of the paparazzi and legends - Diana from Prince Philip William and Harry said they want the inquest to be transparent and to be as quick as possible well I think if by transparent they mean thorough there's no doubt that the coroner intends to be thoroughly we've seen that already and as for speed I think it would be a shame if fairness were sacrificed for speed I think good and we've waited this long for it it might as well take as long as it has to take particularly if at the end enough people are satisfied it has reached the truth two years after the crash the French inquiry headed by judge Herve stefa blamed the driver of the Mercedes ori paul and said he was drunk in britain a coroner was appointed but died before he started the inquest the second coroner asked Britain's most senior policeman Lord Stevens to investigate in December 2006 he reported on the evidence available now there was no conspiracy to murder any occupants of that car a few weeks after the report the second coroner resigned a third coroner lady Butler's loss was been appointed but as a family court judge she had a problem with the process and there was a suggestion at the outset that lady bought the start was not going to have jurors and she was not going to hear it in public now that would have been appalling I think and that would have added to the conspiracy theories when the Court of Appeal insisted on a jury lady Butler's loss resigned saying she did not have the necessary experience of working with juries last week the fourth coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker finally opened the inquest legally required when any British citizen dies abroad in unusual circumstances I am certain what happened to them I know they be made that and I'm sure the jury of ordinary people will confirm all my doubts for the last 10 years which I've been fighting to find justice for my son abra zire you have to ask yourself why are we having this inquest the only reason we're having it is because al fayed is rich and he's been able to manipulate the British legal system which is one of the fairest in the world he's been able to manipulate it to his own ends to bring this circus to town 80 would-be jurors was summoned to the Royal Courts of Justice in London and presented with a questionnaire they were asked are you associated with the royal family the al-fayed family or the Spencer family have you been employed by mi5 or mi6 have you been involved with investigating or reporting on the circumstances of the death of the 80 people who were questioned here 25 were deemed eligible to serve and asked to return here on Tuesday so 55 were disqualified because they were related to those involved worked for mi5 or mi6 or had definite views about the case in court 72 door justice Scott Baker began dramatically you will be in the public eye as no inquest jury has ever been before we all will but you must not let that deter you from approaching the facts dispassionately disregarding anything you hear or have heard outside this courtroom Katherine witchy-woo skies royal correspondent for now works for Mohammed al-fayed she was in court on day one I think there was expectation that something big was going to happen on that first day but then the corner began his opening statement and you could have heard a pin drop because this wasn't just a brief outline of uncontested facts he went straight in to talking about the evidence he went straight into putting across his point of view quite softly but it's definitely there and I think Mohammed to start with was a little bit surprised certainly our lawyers work but it just shows that even on that first day Diana and her phenomenon and the process around this still has the power to supply the court has spoke about a conversation that happened between Frank Klein who's the general manager of the Ritz Hotel and Mohamed al-fayed only a few moments after the crash and when Mohammed first found out about the news and he alluded is that the Mohammed then referred to it as murder and the coroner's own opinion on that was well how did he know it was murder just a few moments afterward the key images were captured on 31 of the 43 CCTV cameras in al fayeeds Ritz Hotel in the center of Paris so what do we see we see Dayanand only going into a lift she appears to be fairly happy why not no one is disputing they're not in a relationship is what people in a relationship normally do so they're believing that everything has been arranged they're going to the back of the hotel to leave to go to DotA's apartment they have no idea that minutes later of course there's gonna be dead of the 20 likely issues the inquest must consider one has dominated all others whether on RuPaul's ability to drive was impaired through drink or drugs good evening the Paris prosecutor's office disclosed today that the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was fatally injured had an illegal blood-alcohol level he said to be more than three times over the French limit then twice to British one one of the most intriguing images was showing four years ago on channel 5 at 11 minutes past 11:00 or appalls supposedly three times over the French limit manages to tie both shoelaces he squats switches his balance from right to left foot before standing up unaided he looked pretty sober to me and I think to everybody who was watching that footage so he certainly didn't look somebody who was intoxicated and most definitely he didn't look like somebody who was as drunk as a pig as the newspapers reported in the aftermath of that crash Lord Stevens report said Olli Paul was walking around the hotel apparently functioning normally with no indication he was unsteady but his verdict was that blood samples that were from Maury Paul did have a high alcohol content if the jury are not convinced only Paul was too drunk to drive they will challenge all previous judgments the coroner has already alerted them to what is called a major issue whether evidence has been fabricated to suggest Ari Paul was drunk when he was not in the Diana inquest one of the 20 issues the coroner has highlighted is whether and if so in what circumstances the princess of wales feared for her life in october 1996 in a letter to her butler princess donna expressed the fear that she would die in a car crash and it wouldn't be an accident and fishing here at my desk today in october longing for someone to hug me and encouraged me to keep strong and hold my head up high this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous ex is planning an accident in my car brake failure and serious head injury and at the inquest the coroner read out a note of a conversation Diana had in 1995 with her solicitor the late Lord Myshkin I told HRH but if she really believed her life was being threatened security measures including relating to her car must be increased I frankly could not believe that what I was hearing could be credible as to this alleged conspiracy and sought a private word with commander Jetson who surprisingly said he himself half believed in the accuracy of what HRH had said it gives you some idea actually how sane she was if I tell you that she reacted to some of the the rumors that were starting about her own mental health which humor they can rember going through a a fundraising lunch that she was speaking it and picking up something that had been in that morning's headlines and she said I hope that I'll be allowed to get the end of my speech before the men in white coats come to take me away this of course produced that lots of laughter I can honestly say as somebody the work with Diana for as long as I did and prior to that I work with her two young sons I saw Diane is a very level-headed individual working under extreme difficulties not least of all because of the public life that she was leading but also within the framework of a very unhappy marriage I never saw any evidence of somebody that was unstable mad or paranoid by July 1997 Donna was out of her unhappy marriage and living a single life Mohamed al-fayed invited Diana and her sons to San Tropez and southern France it was here that her romance with Dodi started three weeks later Donna went back without her children to join the Al Fayed family on their 12 million pound yacht the Joe Nickell [Music] during the cruise Diana made very public her new relationship with Dodi al-fayed the couple gave great headlines princess of the paradox diana yo-yoed between posing for stills and pleading for privacy on Saturday the 30th of August Diana Dodi and bodyguard Trevor rees-jones left the Joe Nickell and arrived at Olbia Airport in Sardinia there they boarded a private plane it took off for Paris where they were met at a small baroja airport by paparazzi one was Fabrice Shagari his pictures caught a moment in history know what they were I just bent into the smaller dragon thank you bye go the first time the four people who would drive in the doomed Mercedes ever met la rúa as formal only t25 their horror when you would that one by iana ducks were typos Dodie was close to or appalled deputy head of security at the Ritz all rapport was a man with a complicated past and that prompts another of the coroner's key issues for the inquest whether the British or any other security services had any involvement in the collision re polls closest friend told the Stevens inquiry that Paul was never paid by the security services but he did liaised with him it was consistent with what he told us in 2003 what is not superior I think it's a minim condition ie follows I card only DVD I have successfully removed sure at some point we can complete all going for 1415 keeps the consumer peter teleborian o younger no later to lose your identity among such a lot at first I shall want your perfect okay Lord Steven said that one of the French Secret Service's confirmed that Paul was known to them and specifically tasked with inquiries in hotel circles but as for mi6 we spent three weeks it's mainly in mi6 looking at the records being allowed to go where we wanted to go and examining all of their records in a way that's never been allowed before in this country we found no trace of information coming from on report we also found no trace in terms of anything who add and give evidence which would aid the theory of conspiracy to murder and those organizations being involved in that on the Saturday Ori Paul accompanied diana and dodi as they visited the villa windsor just outside paris it had been owned by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor now it belonged to the AL fayeeds I think she was aware that she was a potential Duchess of Windsor a sort of loose cannon who they were going to watch very carefully and she was not averse to upsetting them and I think she quite enjoyed how much the affair with Dodi would upset everybody back in buckingham palace as indeed it did and but in the or faceless was in her nature diana and dodi then went to another of AL fayeeds magnificent properties in paris the Ritz Hotel newly released footage of events recorded here give a remarkable insight into the couple's last hours at 4:35 they walked through the lobby behind them is Trevor Rhys Jones a minute later Diana and Dodi come out of the service lift and go to the best suite in the Ritz the Imperial ten years ago one night here cost 5,000 pounds at 5:40 Dodi leaves the hotel Orie Paul obras the door to a ritz car for him [Music] then Dodie is driven to riposte one of the smartest jewelers in Paris just the other side of the platform Dom what follows highlights two key issues for the inquest the circumstances relating to the purchase of the ring and whether the Princess of Wales and Dodi al-fayed were about to announce their engagement Dodi spends seven and a half minutes in repose he then comes back to the hotel with a brochure he hairs upstairs to Diana in the Imperial suite Dodi dispatches one of the hotel managers claw drool a torah posse he's marked by the red sport he returns to the Ritz with a bag inside our two rings he takes them upstairs to Dodi in the Imperial suite and claims Dodi chooses a gold band part of the dissing while we or say yes to me range valued at 130,000 pounds rouler is seen putting the ring in the rich safety deposit box and signing for it there is a debate as to whether it was really an engagement ring and there's also debate about the jeweller Albert reporters version of events when questioned by Lord Stevens inquiry team all matters for the jury to consider just before seven o'clock Dodi and Diana leave the hotel Ari Paul sees the car off at the rear exit and then goes off duty for the weekend or so he thinks neither the French police your Lord Stevens nor mi6 no the French Secret Service's have managed in more than 10 years to solve one of the coroners other key issues our repos movements between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. on 30th of August 1997 meanwhile Dodie and Diana went to dodi's apartment at one rooaarr San Hussein Ibish and Alizee they drank champagne Dodie booked a table at a smart Parisian restaurant for 9:30 but a 9:40 he cancelled because there was a large crowd outside so they decided to return to the Ritz for dinner where he said he'd be able to relax the CCTV says they came into the Ritz at about 10:00 to 10:00 Dodie appears to look tense as it was said the presence of the paparazzi had bothered him because the couple have come back unexpectedly all reporters suddenly summoned back and arrived in his mini outside the hotel there's a red dot here to mark him out this outside cameras it is nine minutes past 10:00 when he walks in the inside camera says it's seven minutes past 10:00 there are small discrepancies in all the camera timings the CCTV footage and actually shown so much and one of the interesting points that was shown was when once on reported return of the hotel we see him very quickly walking in with this air of authority which he did have and he goes to the bar and he's been called back we don't know exactly by who but now he's back at work before that he was off-duty doing what we don't know we have that 2-3 hours we don't know exactly where he went at 10:20 Dodie is seen talking to duty night manager Thierry Roche he later stayed sturdy outlander plan to leave the hotel and get back to his apartment the plan was confidential the donor Paul was one a few who could be told five minutes later Thierry Roche is talking with or appalled and another member of staff Paul then waves to the chauffeur who had driven Dodie and Diana back to the hotel six minutes later ori paul talks to one of the drivers again one of the key pointers for me in the release of this CCTV footage has been the role played by honoré Paul and it seems to me that he has a much stronger place in this organization than either Trevor Rhys Jones or qez Winkle now there's an answer there of course well your own rapport was a seasoned member of the fired establishment he'd been at the Ritz for many many years and he was halfway up this sort of hierarchical ladder at the Ritz and so he had this this relationship he had this contact with Dobby the two security officers on the other hand were way down the bottom in and they're waiting for pieces of information to drop off on recall at 10:30 for Ori Paul makes the first of what will be five trips out of the hotel and into the platform Dom where he spends seven minutes talking with the paparazzi at 10:43 only Paul reenters the ribs and goes to the bar to finish his arica and aniseed alcoholic drink one a two he ordered at the Ritz that night at 11:10 Ari Paul goes out again to the class bond on [Music] he goes to talk to the driver of Dodi's Range Rover then he walks towards the paparazzi some people begin to gather round him [Music] two minutes later he's back in the hotel and this is when he realizes his shoelaces have become undone the cameras show it takes Ori Paul 44 seconds to tie his shoelaces visitors mill around and he talks to her tell stop from here he will go upstairs to join the bodyguards outside the Imperial suite where Dodi and Diana are I must admit I was extremely surprised when I saw the bodyguards wingfield and rhys-jones sitting outside the Imperial suite and I was surprisingly the amount of activity in the ante room outside the suite one reason they were outside the suite was because they were to be briefed on the Getaway Plan it was eventually decided to use to decoy cars qez wingfield would lead from the front while to fool the paparazzi Trevor rees-jones diana and dodi would leave from the back with ori paul at the wheel ori paul went down the stairs and out to talk to the paparazzi again it's now 23 minutes past 11:00 the plan needs three cars Jodi's Range Rover and two identical Mercedes one at the front one at the back the trial which is now filling the plastron Dom and hoping to see Diana as no clue about all these methylations this is how one Australian tourist caught it all at 10:00 to midnight our Paul makes a fourth trip to the plus pond Dom with the CCTV spots I'm standing in front of a large crowd of onlookers and paparazzi for the coroner this is the prelude to another key issue whose decision it was that the Princess of Wales and Dodi al-fayed should leave from the rear entrance and that Omri Paul should drive the vehicle this is what Mohamed al-fayed told us four years ago Budhia for me was about 12 o'clock he say just I'm going now to the apartments and hit only some lot of paparazzi I don't what they do the plus-one dome is full of people I told him please is so dangerous just stay in a hotel everything is there no need for you to go out he told me I think I will follow your advice why after Dodi assured me that he is not going to go out pull a Henry Pohl gone to him at 12 o'clock after that he talking to me and convince him no problem we're gonna go from the back entrance everything is ok don't worry I know the way and please you know because you have already prepared everything there changed his mind but far from changing Dodie's mind Lord Stevens concluded the decoy car plan had been Dodie's idea all along Lord Stevens reports that Mohammed al-fayed told him that Dodi watched to go back to his apartment for a romantic reason to give Diana the engagement ring the jury will have to sit through this evidence and decide the truth just after midnight outside the front of the wits the crowd are waiting the decoy driver seen here with the beard enters the hotel and passes on reap all at the same time upstairs the bodyguards check the way diana and dodi will leave the hotel by the service lift at the back downstairs Olli Paul has his final meeting with the drivers of the decoy cars four minutes later we see Princess Anne had come out of the suite diana and dodi chat to the bodyguard cares Wingfield although there's been some apparent disagreements with the bodyguards over the plan to get away from the ribs it doesn't appear to be any sign of tension [Music] and as they get ready to go Diana seems to be giggling she seemed very relaxed I think when she was leaving the the Imperial suite as she went down into the lift she's quite jovial quite jokey without everyone concerned no one seemed particularly tense cares Wingfield has gone to the decoy cars at the front while Diana Dodi Horry Paul and Trevor rhys-jones continue down the corridor towards the service lift diana wags a finger at Dodi she's very playful Trevor Reese Jones is close to re Paul and as he testified to Lord Stevens he smelled no drink on the drivers breath she was at work as far as I was concerned and he was behaving in a very sober way there's nothing in his hair in the way he was that but that should have said to me that but he was I've been drinking alcohol if only port was drunk then he wasn't driving um that's not just that security professionalism thing that's just common sense at the end of the day and weather effects pour the atmosphere in so be it that's another thing for those things I can category say that as far as I was concerned he was stone-cold sober diana and dodi and the others now waited what is the tradesmen's exit for diana it's a stark contrast to royal routine and Scotland Yard protection she expected these decisions to be made for like many little family expect these decisions in the security we made like Prime Minister's presidents I went with every conceivable head of state in the Western world and I and they all it take that guidance that that steer from their security now on this occasion it would appear the warden this year the wasn't this advice what we see here suggests just how close diana and dodi were that night Diana's right arm is behind her back and their fingers are laced together at one point it looks like Dodi is muddling her neck only pole goes out to see if their Mercedes has arrived he appears to wave at one of the paparazzi inside diana and dodi are still holding hands this lasts for seven minutes 48 seconds the princess then mocks salute sorry Paul you can see her sense of humor in these images and particularly where staff servant ii said she was she rightly had a reputation of being somebody who was easy to work with at 19 minutes past midnight the mercedes finally arrived at the back of the ribs or appalled clever rhys-jones diana and dodi file out to the waiting vehicle the princess appears to be shielding her eyes the car moves off [Music] at the front of the hotel the decoy cars make their move the paparazzi scramble realizing they've been fooled diana and dodi with all repol driving now have a head start the chase is on Princess Diana's final hours were spent in the Ritz Hotel in Paris many of her last moments captured on video just released by the coroner at 20 minutes past midnight the Mercedes with Diana was moving away from the ritz ahead of the paparazzi the last thing I remember we got in the vehicle we pulled off and the couple of paparazzi vehicles over at the back of the hotel started to follow us the shortest route from the Ritz to dodi's flat is along the shores Alizee but as the Australian tourist video showed traffic was heavy that night at the Place de la Concorde instead of going up the shortly they re Paul drive straight on towards the embankment of the send the Mercedes should now exit right before the Alma tunnel as the red line shows once it goes into the tunnel the Mercedes is heading away from Dodi's flat we now know that the speed the Mercedes was traveling at was between 61 and 63 miles an hour the coroner has said hora Paul obviously knew Paris so something caused him to very be obvious route by going into the tunnel the question is why did he go past the exit slip road just before the underpass was the Mercedes blocked from exiting the slip road one issue the coroner had highlighted is whether a Fiat Uno or any other vehicles caused or contributed to the collision [Music] the Paris police found fragments of the rear light of a white Fiat Uno in the tunnel had it got in the way of the Mercedes news reports 18 days after the crash made the link the Mercedes wing mirror was found at this point with traces of another cars paintwork and shards of a Fiat tail light the Mercedes was thrown into the right hand wall then hurled across into the 13th pillar in the middle of the tunnel the French police examined four thousand six hundred and sixty eight vehicles but did not find any Fiat Uno which had been damaged in this way Al Fayed hired a team of senior retired French policeman and they claimed to have solved the mystery in a field they found this vid it's tear light had just been replaced and it belonged to a man who would spent the summer photographing Dodi and Diana James Jean Dussault he was one of the most famous paparazzi's in the world he had a white Fiat Uno and the inquest has raised as a likely issue whether James owned also was in Paris on the night of the collision he was a subject of a French television program in 2000 they dig dirt Casa de locas of insanity them at that now Milanese African Caputo's lusitania Nene essential Kathy Reichs been a soba soba to look at makea de quelques foto de la luna in walk on a yellow vinyl Bodhisattva Bay a religious prejudice a millimeter a cappella it was immense arena L medal artists got us a sawmill Guillemet there's the frycade ode in what you on DiSanto people he was in the tunnel on the night of the crash Elizabeth Dodd the widow of one of his friends told us five years ago he had claimed he was at the scene he may be can you think you did she's happy that such a weak start because many people appreciated honor Lord Stevens spoke to Elizabeth Dodd and her daughter Josephine and says they appear to be truthful witnesses who have nothing to gain by fabricating such a conversation nevertheless Lord Stevens does not believe on dance or story and concludes he was not in Paris on the night of the crash a footnote to all this is that on Dawson died later in 2000 after setting fire to himself in his own car in a deserted woodland Lord Stevens added there is no evidence whatsoever that he was murdered the jury will decide if he played any significant part in the crash still photographs released by the inquest offer an insight into what was going on in the Alma tunnel at 32 minutes past midnight Dodi al-fayed and re-poll were already dead Princess Diana was in a critical condition and being given first aid by dr. Maya a French doctor who was driving through the tunnel the pictures address another likely issue whether the actions of the paparazzi caused or contributed to the cause of the collision these still pictures shows the paparazzi milling around the tunnel although Lord Steven said some might see that behavior is morally questionable there was no evidence they did anything wrong but the first reaction of the French police was to arrest seven of the paparazzi and keep them in the cells overnight many of their photographs were confiscated and were never given back though every inquiry has found they didn't contribute to the crash the role of the paparazzi will be considered by the jury another issue for them to consider is whether the Princess of Wales's life would have been saved if she had reached hospital sooner the ambulance did not go to the nearest hospital but to La Petite saw Petre a still a distance of less than three miles it was 1 hour and 43 minutes after the accident when Diana got to hospital every inquiry has rejected suggestions that this was part of a conspiracy normal practice in France is for paramedics to try to stabilize and treat victims at the scene by the time Diana got to the operating theatre she was in a desperate State the French Minister of Justice and the British ambassador had arrived to the hospital and her the news everyone dreaded you know Frances liegelady fatima Sahin an action under sedation alone detest rape images mostly raja ali salman shahid a secular Venezuela as on arrival externality Jesus disfigure and presentation logic logic in the region so acid you have in my electorate in Toyota media rounds and young evidence in play and pop Tom DeLay gentlemen ago Mandela s tomatillo display a message cardiac x-ray on TNT on the juicer up unit audacity she appeared as well as create for a tablet it will decide upon such a jerk at Fordham when I trying to shop yeah I need some strange way and I can't have forever tonight there was a part of me that felt that it was inevitable that she never did anything by heart it was like being hit with a shovel it was there I don't know I don't know how I fight I think I tried to cry at one stage if I couldn't couldn't make any noise because there the track he was in and but it was just complete shock it was like like a parachute jump everything just falls out of the neck Lord Stevens in his report for the inquest examined claims that the tunnel had been reopened too swiftly and washed down not helping a forensic examination these images are from 7:00 a.m. the morning after the crash when one journalist went down to the Alma tunnel settled amantha arrested earlier receive okay able to nail a hominin villain out in a dilemma Oscar de voir la tarea FYE EDC opposite a 2-0 campaign may Mexico complement dare Osama Paco Sofia after a set Indiana Ella Taylor the peg on the hair a July Pensacola Police of a Samaritan le follow many p0r on a mess it a complete halt their Lord Stevens recorded the French traffic police view that the westbound carriageway of the tunnel wasn't reopened prematurely the Green vans went in to spray and sweep and officially the Alma tunnel was opened to traffic again by 10:30 that morning the coroner decided it would be useful for the inquest jury to see the Alma tunnel for themselves no one can remember another time when an inquest jury went abroad to visit the place where people died the trip had its moments a policeman came off his motorbike the wheels came off the coaches carrying the jury and this was not the only drama of the first week the coroner has told the jury they will have to consider a surprising development this time the man who has to answer the questions is the man who asked the questions on behalf of the inquest Lord Stevens the coroner told the jury there is an apparent discrepancy between what Lord Stevens said to Omri Paul's parents when he met with them in Paris on the 8th of November 2006 and what was said in the operation Padgett reports a few weeks later the al-fayed team have sensed the importance of the controversy and are demanding answers on the 8th of November 2006 Lord Stevens went to Oracle's parents and said don't worry your son won't be found drunk in childhood school as we know a few weeks later operation Padgett was published where he said that Oracle was three times over the drink-drive limit and had he been alive he'd be prosecuted of dangerous driving so there are three options to this discrepancy which is recorded in police notes he can't deny that be conversation took place there there are three reasons for this the certainly doesn't know what is a report which given that it cost three point seven million pounds of taxpayers money is pretty scandalous the second option is that he lied or we please parents which again is shocking well the third option is something happened between 8th November and when the pet operation Padgett report was published to somehow make him change his tune and that's what the inquest has to address we'll have to win see what evidence Lord Stephens gives but it is quite a strange thing for those teams to have done because in his report he clearly concludes operation Padgett concludes the on report was drunk the coroner said I anticipate Lord even's will give evidence that he was trying to reassure Paul's parents that their son had not been drunk as a pig one of the other issues the coroner highlighted was explosive the question that's always been seen as a major threat to the Royals whether the Princess of Wales was pregnant from the moment she died there have been questions about whether or not she might be carrying a baby through Diana's last week hours days and minutes showing them a series of photographs her bump led to much speculation the coroner told the jury you will also hear evidence that Diana was taking a contraceptive pill it is likely the pregnancy is not a matter that can be proved one way or another in scientific terms in this case but Lord Stevens has no doubts whatsoever the Princess of Wales was not pregnant at the time of her death our conclusions were strengthened by forensic tests carried out on blood recovered from the Mercedes car when we brought it back to this country from the evidence of a close friends and associates she was not engaged and she was not about to get engaged this is not what Dodi's father believes but it will be a matter for the jury to judge over the next six months the jury will hear many such claims and counterclaims inside court 72 and outside people will express deep passions and sharp scepticism and she wasn't just a princess she wasn't just some sort of pretty girl who did a bit of charity on the side and she had an enormous influence this woman and that's one of the reasons I get so cross about this inquest is to think that this is what she's being remembered for I just think is the ultimate tragedy for Diana the public certainly I feel and I having chatted about it with a few of my friends feel that you know she should just feel her to rest there's something fishy about it for sure but the fact is it's unlikely that we the common people are ever going to know the truth the royal family booted dialer out and they stripped her of HRH there is so much rubbish talked about Diana and people dismissed her as mentally unstable it's grossly unfair and her fears are very genuine fears internet safety needs to be examined properly in a court of law and that's why we're all here all I'd say is if you do turn up and look at it happen there is something rather reassuring about seeing the legal process however long it takes however expensive it is however cumbersome it seems to be there is something reassuring about it it's certainly given me the sense that once it's over we will be that much nearer the truth I think the inquest will now proceed more slowly I think there'll be a good look at the forensic evidence I don't believe that it will be as dramatic as we've had in the opening week or so the coroner said the inquests are expected to last up to six months it will start looking at more periphery stories which will make headlines in the newspapers but won't necessarily prove whether Dinah was murdered or or not what they will do is muddy the waters and leave possibly leave the jury open to believe there were questions that aren't answered [Music] the coroner has told the jury how important these proceedings are one of the purposes of these inquests is to investigate the facts thoroughly so that the public suspicion is either dispelled or substantiated we shall be conducting a vigorous and searching inquiry through the evidence so that the true cause of death may if possible be determined once and for all [Music] you [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Fri Aug 18 2017