“In 2005, about 38,000 people were killed in a tragic car accident” (Zic 1). In August 31, 1997, the most loved princess of Paris was killed in a car accident. Princess Diana of Wales and boyfriend Dodi Fayed both were killed while trying to escape frompaparazzis the night of the tragic accident. Sources say, the driver Henri Paul was driving very fast and was also drunk while he drove (Agencies 1). After her death, many conspiracy theories have developed:
1. Did Princess Diana fake her own death?
2. Did the Royal family have her killed?
3. Was the accident just an accident?
Let’s take a look and analyze some of the conspiracy theories that been around since the night of Princess Diana’s death, and what really went on that night of her fatal accident.
Princess Diana also known as the "the people’s princess" felt unwanted by many. On July 1, 1961, Diana Spencer was born into the British aristocracy (Johnson 1). Diana was the third of four children, but before Diana was born the Spencer family has a lost of a son. When Diana was born, they wanted another boy but instead they had a girl the third girl in the family (1). The British aristocracy family lived in East of England with the British royal family as one of their neighbors (1). Diana always felt unwanted, her family always had that rejection against her and even the people that were close to her (1). "When I was born, I was not wanted, they wanted a boy. When I was married to Charles, I was not wanted by the royal family", Diana said to her close friend, Lady Elsa Bowker (Princess Diana Biography).
Diana’s feelings of being unwanted started as a child. After Diana's parents divorced when Diana was eight, her father gained custody of her and her 3 other siblings (Johnson 1). Soon after the divorce Diana's dad, Earl Spencer, married, Raine Legge, Diana did not get along well with her stepmother. Diana didn’t do so well in school, but she did have an interest in ballet (1).
When Diana left school. She lived in a house purchased by her father, and had three roommates (Johnson 1). In 1980, Diana and Charles met again when she visited her sister, whose husband worked for the queen (1). Prince Charles' love life had always been the subject of press speculation, and he was linked to many women (Princess Diana Biography 1). In his mid-thirties, he was being pressure to marry (1). So, he could get his families approval and their advisors, including his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten of Burma, any potential bride had to have an aristocratic background, could not have been previously married, should be Protestant and, preferably, a virgin (1). Diana was the best candidate that qualified (1). Diana felt wanted at the time, but she did not know want was soon to happen after her marriage with her Prince.
Sources say, the Prince’s open relationship at the time (and, eventually, his second wife) Camilla Parker Bowles helped him select the 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer as a potential bride (Princess Diana Biography 1). Seven months into the relationship with Prince Charles, Diana felt overwhelm with the wedding to a point where she was not sure if she still wanted to marry him (1). Buckingham Palace announced the engagement on February 24, 1981 (1). Six months later, on July 29, 1981, the Prince and Princess married at the St. Paul Cathedral (1). Where everyone around the world watched the wedding of the century (1). Diana finally felt loved by everyone around the world, she was the princess everyone was waiting on.
Diana had a lot of medical issues, she once said,
"It was my escape mechanism, and it worked for me at that time. You fill your stomach up four or five times a day. It gives you a feeling of comfort. Feeling of being no good at anything and failed in every direction; the comforting effects of a binge were fleeting to be replaced with the negative feelings of shame and low self-esteem. The relief from these emotions was found in vomiting," said the Princess. (Kay 1)
At the beginning of Princess Diana’s marriage, she suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder that is a very dangerous sickness (Princess Diana Biography 1). Six months into her marriage, Diana had lost five and a half inches (1). This was Diana’s easy way to battle with the problems in her life (Kay1). Diana’s life with Charles was not the life she was looking for (1). He left her depressed, and she would often cut herself or purposely injured herself in attempts to get attention from her husband (1). She claimed he never showed her any emotion (1). Unfortunately, after 12 years of marriage “the fairy tale wedding” of Princess Diana and Prince Charles did not end in a happily-ever-after marriage (Princess Diana Biography 1). While both stilled married they became estranged over the years, and there were reports of infidelities from both parties (1). Princess Diana and Prince Charles announced their separation on December 1992, and was finalized in 1996 (1). Therefore, she was left feeling unwanted by the man of her life.
Princess Diana and Prince Charles had two children in their marriage. Prince Willian was born on July 21,1982 and Prince Henry was born on September 15,1984 (Princess Diana Biography 1). “I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human being and in the public duties” she said (1). Diana wanted the most normal life for her royal children. Prince William was the first to be born outside of the palace walls (Wallace 1). Reports said, she was going to be the first to breast feed the King of England (1). Diana also broke protocol and would leave her children and would go to the Commonweath tour for months, but at one point she took Prince Charles wither for the first time in Australia (1). Princess Diana did take her kids to public places such as cinema, McDonalds or even amusement parks (1). She even sent them to public schools (1). She wanted her children to have a normal life even though they were royal children. Princess Diana was a beautiful woman on the outside, she was very tall, slim, and had blue eyes (Princess Diana Biography 1). Not only was she beautiful in the outside she was also beautiful in the inside. Diana was a caring, lovable and kind woman to the public and especially her children (Princess Diana Biography 1).
Princess Diana from a young age loved and cared for those in need. She volunteered at hospitals (Princess Diana Biography 1). Diana was the first high profile person to be photograph with Aids victims (1). Her love for children and helping the sick was incredible. She had many charities; Centerpoint, a group of homeless Aids children,Lyprosy Mission, cancer benefits, and many more (1). Diana wanted to be the people’s princess, the princess all would remembered; for all the good she did and all the help she gave to those that needed it the most.
The night of Princess Diana's death was one of the most tragic accident that stopped the world. Since that night in 1997, many conspiracies came to life. First, did the royal family had a hand in it? Second, did Princess Diana had faked her own death so she could be out of the publics eyes? Third, was the car accident just an accident?
Did the royal Family had a hand in it? Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s father, believed Princess Diana was pregnant by his son and soon to be married to him (Was Princess Diana Murdered by the British Military 1). After their deaths, Mohamed Al Fayed blame the royal family, because the royal family and the inner circle did not like the idea that prince William who is the second in line to the British throne to have a half- Egyptian and half- Muslim brother (1). Mohamed believed that Prince Philip had instructed MI6 to carry out the hit (1). “Prince Philip is the one responsible for giving the order” he said. “He is very racist. He is of German blood, and I’m sure he is a Nazi sympathizer” (1).
Diana herself thought the royal family were planning to have her killed. About a decade after her death, news came out that she had sent a letter to her butler Paul Burrel, in which she told that her husband Prince Charles was planning to have her killer (Was Princess Diana Murdered by the British Military 1). “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous”, she wrote, in the 1993, “My husband is planning ’an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury” (1).
Princess Diana fear for her life at the palace, she had talked to her butler and even look around for listening devices (Was Princess Diana Murdered by the British Military). She knew Prince Charles wanted to be remarried, but the only way he could was when she was dead. That’s why she wrote the letter to her butler and for him to keep it safe until it was necessary to show it to the public.
Did Princess Diana fake her own death, so she could be out of the publics eyes? In 1993, Diana said
“When I started my public life, 12 years ago, I understood the media might be interested in what I did. I realized then their attention would inevitably focus on both our private and public lives. But I was not aware of how overwhelming that attention would become. Nor the extent to which it would affect both my public duties and my personal life, in a manner, that's been hard to bear. At the end of this year, when I've completed my diary of official engagements, I will be reducing the extent of the public life I've lead so far” (Biography 1).
Diana had stated that she was tired of being out in the public (1). She wanted to have a personal life with not having camera’s in her face all the time (1). For the second time, she had said that she was getting ready to withdraw from the publics eyes (1).
Princess Diana’s accident just an accident? Princess Diana was traveling with boyfriend Dodi fayed, driver Henri Paul and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones (Henri Paul 'not Supposed to Be Diana's Driver 1). Reports said, Henri Paul, the driver, had no signs that he had been drinking that night, but on the blood test they did on Henri, he had more than drink-drive limit (1). Diana and boyfriend Dodi were trying to escape from the paparazzi when they were at the Ritz hotel
(1). Dodi was mad, angry and annoyed at the activities by the paparazzi and Diana did everything to calm him down (1). Henri Paul was instructed to take them to Dodi’s hotel that night. As the escaped from the hotel 5 monocycles where chasing them at a very high speed. Diana and Dodi were not wearing their seat belts at the time of the crash (1). Many believe that Henri was paid off very large amount of money for him to have the accident where Princess Diana could die. But nothing has been proven, they have not found when Henri’s money came from (1).
Could it had been a terrible accident? No one was arrested for the accident. No one really knows how the event truly happen. The only one to survive was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, but has not said how the crash happen (Biography). What happen to the paparazzi’s? So many questions asked about the case. This was another sad story where a beautiful Princess was killed in a terrible accident.
As the survey of 20 people 50% of them believed that the Royal Family had a hand in it and 35% of them believed that princess Diana faked her own death to be out of the public eyes and she is still out there. The other 15% believed that it was just a terrible accident who took “the people’s Princess” away.
Until this day, more than a decade of her death, Princess Diana is still in people’s heart and she will never be forgotten. Even though her accident was unexplainable and no one wanted to believe that she was gone.
Princess Diana was one of the 38,000 people that died, because of a tragic car accident cause by high speed and drinking-driving (Zic 1). After Diana’s deadly car crash on August 31, 1997, a lot of conspiracy theories came to life.
1. Did Princess Diana fake her own death?
2. Did the Royal family have her killed?
3. Was the accident just an accident?
Until this, day Princess Diana “the people’s princess” is remember all around the world. The cause of death was a car accident. Car accidents have been one of the most dangerous death of all times. Speeding, drinking and driving have taken so many people’s lives, taken to soon from their love ones.
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