Princess Diana (1961-1997)

Phenomenological Analysis of Obscured Events
  Chapter I Tragedy at Mayerling
Chapter II Death of a Princess
  Chapter III Malediction
  Chapter IV The First Casualty of War
  Chapter V Credibility of Foreign Informants
  Chapter VI Confabulations of Nurse Nayirah
  Chapter VII Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
  Chapter VIII Origins of the First World War
  Chapter IX Ritual Slaughter
  Chapter X Search for Implausible Narratives

Death of a Princess

According to the autopsy, Princess Diana died of internal bleeding as the result of injury to the pulmonary vein. This type of injury does not lead to rapid loss of blood, but can be only stopped by surgery. Injuries of this type do not typically end in the death of a patient, if the injured person arrives at a hospital within 15 to 20 minutes after the accident. French physician Frederic Maillez, who was the first medical professional to arrive at the scene of the accident, was quoted by the Telegraph as saying that Diana had “looked pretty fine. I thought this woman had a chance.” His opinion was shared by the prominent surgeon Christian Barnard who on March 3, 2001 in a signed article in the Telegraph wrote that

"Princess Diana could have been saved if she had reached
 hospital on time."

 Other events that could be relevant in this context are that on January 4th 1997, Princess Diana was quoted in Sunday Mirror that

"One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. The M I 6 (British
Secret Service, before WWII abbreviated as SS) will do away with me."

On October 20, 2003 Daily Mail published the letter Diana wrote to her brother ten months before her death. Quote:

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. (Name blackened out
for legal reasons, but widely suspected to be either 'Prince Philip' or 'my husband')
is planning 'an accident' in my car, a brake failure ..."

On September 18, 1997, France-Presse reported that Diana may have been

"six-weeks pregnant at the time of the crash."


Such an affair is racially and morally repugnant.
No son of a Bedouin camel trader is fit for the
mother of a future king ...

Diana's conversations had been monitored by the Echelon satellite surveillance system and lawyers of Mohamed Al Fayed suspect that recordings of these conversations contain information about her views on Prince Philip who was highly critical of her, and her pregnancy and planned marriage with Dodi Fayed.

Mohammed Al Fayed, father of Dodi Fayed to whom the Princess was engaged, claims that according to his sources the British Royal Family saw the relationship between Diana and his son as:

"A serious threat to the dynasty should the relationship endure"

and that, during the MI6 briefing transpired that

"Such an affair is racially and morally repugnant. No son of a
Bedouin camel trader is fit for the mother of a future king."


Entry to the de l'Alma tunnel.

When Mohammed Al Fayed's lawyers requested copies of the tapes from traffic cameras located inside the Point d’Alma tunnel, they were told by French police that the cameras were

"not recording any images at the time of the crash since the electricity
supplies in the road tunnel failed 25 minutes before Diana’s car entered it."

However, even with no electricity supplied to the tunnel, Francoise and Valerie Levistre who were driving inside of the tunnel as the crash happened saw

"strong lights, like flashes"

(France-Soir, 10th September, 1997). British army uses a hand-held laser to produce stroboscopic bursts of light to disorient pilots of enemy’s helicopters so that they'll crash.


Crucial Fact: Ambulance traveled 3.8 miles to the hospital 43 minutes.

The flow of time  As the flow of time cannot be reversed, the temporal sequence of event is of prime importance in assessment of causal relationships. This is obvious in the experimental (pre-, post-) research, but less obvious in the area of social studies. Among the numerous details given about the circumstances surrounding the accident inside the Paris' de l’Alma tunnel and Princess Diane's death at La Sal Petriere hospital, the distance between the the de l’Alma tunnel and the La Sal Petriere hospital (3.8 miles) and the time sequence of events leading to Princess Diana's death at 4:04 a.m. are of prime importance.

Report of the Paris police prefecture Accident Mortel de la Circulation Date 31/8/97 states that within five minutes of the accident two ambulances arrived, each with a doctor and gives the Diana's ambulance arrival time at La Sal Petriere hospital as 1:05 a.m., noting that the travel to the hospital took 43 minutes. The distance between Pont de l'Alma and La Sal Petriere hospital is 3.8 miles, thus the speed of the ambulance would be 5.3 miles per hour, close to that of a pedestrian. The driver of the ambulance explained the slow speed that he had to

"park the ambulance on a side street since
 Diana had to be injected with adrenaline'

and that after this interruption, he drove to the hospital. Parking the ambulance with an accident victims on a "side street" is the the most incriminating event among the reports promulgated by the "mainstream" media describing the death of Princess Diane as a result of an ordinary car accident. Medications are routinely administered to accident victims while the ambulance is driven at a high speed toward the hospital. However, even allowing 2-3 minutes for the administration of the adrenaline, the ambulance would be moving toward the hospital at the implausible speed of 5.7 miles per hour.

Heart surgeon Christian Barnard maintains that Princess Diane's life could have been saved if she have had reached a hospital in 15 to 20 minutes. The reason why the ambulance was parked in a side street could have been to allow her internal bleeding to continue beyond the point of possible recovery. Even more sinister motive could have been to perform abortion. As the surgical abortion typically takes about 20-30 minutes, these time estimates in conjunction with reports that Diana may have been pregnant, gives credence to the claims that the ambulance was stopped to complete abortion of Princess Diane's unborn baby.

Notes


Figure 1. Responses to a polled question whether the death
of Princess Diana was an accident or assassination.

Polls  With the passage of time, the percentage of people who think that Princess Diana was murdered is increasing (cf., Figure 1.) While in the poll reported by the Daily Express on October 19, 2003 the percentage of people who endorsed this opinion was 85 percent, the most recent poll by Daily Express revealed that 94% of the people polled think Princess Diana was murdered.

Al Fayed to Paul Murphy  Excerpts from the February 14, 2006 letter from Al Fayed to Paul Murphy, chairperson of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

There are those in power who believe that they can do whatever they want, however horrendous, without being accountable. Your committee has responsibility for ensuring that democracy is not trampled underfoot by those gangsters who believe that justice and fair play count for nothing. They believe that they are above the law. That may have been the case in the 18th Century but is not acceptable today. However, your committee seems to be obsessed with the fight against foreign terrorists, while ignoring the terrorism and criminality of those in authority in this country.

Speed of the Ambulance  Some narratives of the events surrounding the death of Princess Diana claim that the slow speed of ambulance vehicles in Paris is customary, as to prevent adverse influence of acceleration and deceleration on the transported patient's blood pressure. However, several personal narratives contradict this assertion. Thus, e.g., Professor of the Northern Kentucky University Howard Storm in his 2005 narrative about him participating in an art tour of Europe during which, in Paris, France, he experienced a health emergency, says that

After an amazing ride traveling at high speed, with the little ambulance swaying
dangerously around each corner, we arrived at the emergency room of a large
public hospital in Paris ....

An article on Wikipedia (as of July, 23, 2007) maintains that the stop of the ambulance was ordered by Dr. Jean-Marc Martino because of the drop in the blood pressure of the Princess of Wales and the necessity to deal with it. A question submitted to several heart surgeons whether to deal with a drop in blood pressure in an ambulance moving toward a hospital necessitates the stopping of the ambulance was the unanimous "No."