Diana ‘predicted car crash death’
Former royal Butler Paul Burrell has released details of a letter written by Diana, Princess of Wales, in which she predicted that she would die in a car crash.
The letter allegedly contains a claim by Diana that there was a plot to tamper with the brakes of her car.
Writing in the Daily Mirror newspaper, Mr Burrell says she gave the letter to him with orders that he should keep it as ‘insurance’ for the future.
Diana reportedly named her suspected killer, but the paper has chosen not to repeat the allegation and has blanked out part of the letter in today’s issue.
The document is expected to further fuel conspiracy theories around Diana’s death in 1997 following a crash in Paris.
Mr Burrell says that he is making the letter public in order to add weight to calls for a full inquest into the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed, son of the Harrod’s owner Mohamed Al Fayed.
He insists that the princess became worried about her personal safety two years before her death.
Burrell stated: “She certainly felt that ‘the system’ didn’t appreciate her work and that for as long as she was on the scene Prince Charles could never properly move on.”
The handwritten letter was dated October 1996, 10 months before the princess died.
In it, Diana writes about how she had been “battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now”.
Diana and Dodi were killed in the early hours of August 31 1997 when a Mercedes S280 they were travelling in careered into the Pont d’Alma tunnel in the French capital. Tests later showed chauffeur Henri Paul had been drunk and on drugs before losing control of the car.
Mr Burrell was cleared of the theft of a collection of Diana’s possessions earlier this year.
Mr Burrell concludes in the Daily Mirror article: “It may be futile in what it achieves because it can do no more than provide yet another question mark.
“But if that question mark leads to an inquest and a thorough investigation of the facts by the British authorities it will have achieved something.”
