On August 31, 1997, Princess Diana of Wales was spending a night out at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with Dodi Al-Fayed. They were found by the paparazzi and decided to leave. They got in a car with Diana’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, and driver, Henri Paul. They sped off through the streets attempting to outrun the paparazzi when they entered the Pont de I’Alma tunnel and crashed into a beam. Henri and Dodi died upon impact. Trevor survived and Princess Diana was taken to the hospital where she later died from her injuries. A tragic end to a tragic night. However, there are some details that don’t quite fit the story, some things that don’t make sense.
First and foremost there’s the diary entry. In 1995, two years before her death, Diana wrote a diary entry that held interesting information about what Diana thought of her life at the time and what she thought was coming to her. It read, “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous- my husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure, or serious head injuries in order to make the path clear for him to marry Camilla.”
To any conspiracy theorist, this information is concerning. The fact that she was predicting her own death two years before it happened seems quite odd.
Another odd thing about Diana’s death is the amount of time the ambulance took to get to the hospital. Diana was put in an ambulance at 1:00 in the morning but the vehicle didn’t leave the site of the accident until 1:40. Police claim that this was because her heart wasn’t stable enough for them to drive so they had to wait. While this is most likely the truth, it took the ambulance until 2:06 in the morning to arrive at the hospital; almost two hours after the crash.
For all the conspiracy theorists out there, this last claim made by the police is the most confusing. They claimed that the driver of the car was above the legal alcohol limit; however, security camera footage at the Ritz suggests otherwise. Just minutes before the Princess and her acquaintances left Paul was seen tying his shoes. Seems simple but the way he performs the act is very normal, not at all suggestive of him being drunk. He simply bent down tied one shoe and easily shifted his weight to tie the other before standing up and walking away in a straight line without any loss of balance.
What happened to Princess Diana was a tragedy but not everything adds up. So what really happened to Diana? It will most likely always be a mystery.
