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By the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, the world will learn more and more sensational and often shocking facts about the life of the idol of millions. So, the resonance today was produced by news that had not been heard before: a seriously ill 80-year-old agent of the British counterintelligence Mi-5, John Hopkins, made a sensational statement about the tragic death of Princess Diana.

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Recently, audio recordings of Princess Diana were deciphered, where she admitted that, that she was, and also to the last. Unfortunately, Princess Diana lived a short life. Recall that she died in a car accident that occurred in Paris on August 30, 1997. But now the scout, who had less than two weeks left to live, before his death decided to ease his soul with a confession. According to Agent Hopkins, it was he who organized the murder of Princess Diana.

According to Neonnettle, Agent Hopkins participated from 1973 to 1999 in 23 covert operations in the UK. Politicians, journalists and social activists became its victims. Only one woman was among them: Princess Diana. The shock of history is added by the fact that Hopkins, in his own words, acted on the instructions of Buckingham Palace. Like, then she knew too much and was a serious threat to the British monarchy.

In addition, she was overwhelmed with a desire for revenge, and she could turn to the public with any statements. My boss told me that she would have to die: he received an order from Prince Philip. I had to organize everything so that everyone would think that there was a car accident.

In the end, that's what happened. The British jury ruled that the tragedy was caused by the negligence of the driver. While under the influence of alcohol and antidepressants, Henri Paul lost control of his car in the Alma tunnel.

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born Diana Francis Spencer died at the age of 36, a year after her divorce from her first and only legal husband, Prince Charles. Princess Diana was one of the most popular women in the world. She was called "Lady Di", "People's Princess", "Queen of Hearts". On the night of August 31, 1997, in a car accident that occurred in an underground tunnel under Alma Square in Paris, the "People's Princess" died. Was it murder or an accident? Until now, the answer to this question excites the hearts and minds of many people.

Paparazzi

The first version of the death of Princess Diana, which was expressed by the investigation: several reporters who traveled on scooters were to blame for the accident. They were chasing Diana's black Mercedes, and one of them may have interfered with the princess's car. The driver of the Mercedes, trying to avoid the collision, crashed into the concrete support of the bridge.

But, according to eyewitnesses, they entered the tunnel a few seconds after Diana's Mercedes, which means they could not provoke an accident.

According to lawyer Virginie Bardet, in fact, there is no evidence of the guilt of the photographers.

Mystery car

The investigation put forward another version: the cause of the accident was a car, which by that time was already in the tunnel. In the immediate vicinity of the crashed Mercedes, detective police found fragments of a Fiat Uno.

When interviewing eyewitnesses, the police allegedly found out that a white Fiat Uno zigzagged out of the tunnel a few seconds after the accident. Moreover, the driver did not look at the road, but in the rear-view mirror, as if he saw something, for example, a crashed car.

The detective police also determined the exact characteristics of the car, its color and year of manufacture. But, even having information about the car and a description of the appearance of the driver, the investigation failed to find either the car or the driver.

Francis Gilleri, the author of her own independent investigation into the death of Lady Dee, once wrote: “All the cars of this brand in the country were checked, but none of them had traces of a similar collision. The white Fiat Uno fell through the ground! And the eyewitnesses of the accident, those who saw him began to get confused in the testimony, from which it did not become clear whether the white Fiat was at the scene of the tragedy at the unfortunate moment.

It is also interesting that the version about the white Fiat, which allegedly became the cause of the accident, was not made public immediately, but only two weeks after the incident.

British intelligence agencies

Later, other details of the accident became known and more and more new versions of the death of Princess Diana were put forward.

For example, as many media wrote, when a black Mercedes drove into the tunnel, a bright flash of light suddenly cut through the twilight, so strong that everyone who watched it was blinded for a few seconds. And in a moment the screech of brakes and the sound of a terrible blow blow up the silence of the night.

According to the media, the version was spread at the suggestion of a former agent of the British special services, who said that the circumstances of the death of Princess Diana remind him of a plan to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic, developed by the British special services. The Yugoslav president was about to be blinded in a tunnel by a powerful flash.

A few months later, British and French newspapers published a sensational statement by former British intelligence agent Richard Tomplison that the latest laser weapons that are in service with the special services may have been used in the Alma Tunnel.

After this statement, the media suggested that the Fiat fragments were planted by those who prepared this accident in advance and wanted to disguise it as an ordinary accident. The press insisted for a long time that these were British intelligence agencies.

"Lucky" Photographer

There is another version associated with the mysterious Fiat. The media version is that the Fiat fragments were planted by those who prepared this accident in advance and wanted to disguise it as an ordinary accident.

There were rumors in the press that the secret services knew that a white Fiat would definitely be next to Princess Diana's car that night. It was on the white "Fiat" that one of the most famous and successful paparazzi of Paris, James Andanson, moved.

The media suggested that they simply could not prove the involvement of the photographer and his car in the accident, although they really hoped. Andanson was indeed in the tunnel that night. True, according to some of his colleagues who were at the Ritz Hotel on the evening of August 30, 1997, it was a rare case when a photographer arrived at work without a car. Andanson has come under the radar of the al-Fayed family's security team on numerous occasions, and of course it was no secret to them that Andanson is not only a successful photographer. Evidence that the photographer is a British intelligence agent was allegedly obtained by al-Fayed's security service. But Father Dodi, for some reason, now does not consider it necessary to present them to the investigation. James Andanson was not an accidental figure in this tragedy.

Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed

Andanson was seen in the tunnel, and there he really was one of the first. We saw at the scene of the tragedy a car very similar to his car, however, with different numbers, possibly fake ones.

After the accident, Andanson, without even waiting for the denouement, when a crowd had just begun to gather in the tunnel, suddenly disappears. Literally in the middle of the night - at 4 o'clock in the morning - he leaves Paris on the next flight to Corsica.

Some time later, in the French Pyrenees, his body will be found in a burned-out car. While the police are establishing the identity of the deceased, in the office of his Parisian photo agency, unknown people steal all the papers, pictures and computer disks related to the death of Princess Diana.

The media assumed that if this was not a fatal coincidence, then Andanson was eliminated either as an unwanted witness or as the perpetrator of the murder.

Drunk Driver

On July 5, 1999, almost two years later, newspapers from all over the world publish a sensational statement from the investigation: the main blame for what happened in the Alma tunnel lies with the driver of the Mercedes, Henri Paul. He was the security chief of the Ritz Hotel and also died in the crash. Investigators accused him of driving drunk.

The statement that the driver was drunk came out of the blue. The examination data, indicating a state of severe intoxication, were ready within 24 hours after the autopsy. But this was officially announced only two years later. For 24 months, the investigation worked out a deliberately weaker version of the guilt of the paparazzi or the presence of Fiat Uno.

Jacques Mules, who was the first of the representatives of the investigating authorities to arrive at the scene of the tragedy, said that a blood test showed the true state of affairs, which means that Henri Paul was really very drunk. According to him, before leaving the Ritz, Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed were nervous. But the main thing that indicated the accident was the presence of alcohol - 1.78 ppm in the blood of the driver, Mr. Henri Paul, and in addition, that he was taking antidepressants.

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"Used" dress - a gift, at first glance, more than dubious; Not every woman will like an outfit in which another one once shone. Much, however, depends on the person "other" - and a relatively recent transaction made at a major London auction, proof of this. One of the lots of the auction was a dress that once flaunted Princess Diana herself (Princess Diana); under the hammer, the lot went for an extremely impressive amount - 240,000 pounds sterling.

Princess Diana's luxurious blue dress - which she once danced with John Travolta himself - was by no means the only wonderful dress exhibited at this auction. A total of 10 princess dresses were offered in the themed auction; Buyers from Europe (Europe) and Australia (Australia), USA (USA) and Asia (Asia) "fought" for these dresses. Dresses were of value not only fashionable - although the former owner of these dresses clearly did not complain about the taste; much more valuable lots of the London auctions were of a historical nature - each of them was associated, albeit a relatively small, but extremely important piece of world history.

Princess Diana's dress went to a British gentleman who wished to remain anonymous; it is known that this gentleman never bought women's dresses in his life - and only now decided to give his wife such an expensive gift. The new mistress of the dress was an ardent admirer of Lady Dee - and the dress that once belonged to her was an incredibly pleasant surprise.

At least two more dresses were bought by representatives of Kensington Palace; a good selection of princess dresses is already on display in their palace, and two new lots will complement this collection very organically.

The exhibited selection of dresses was once sold to the organizers of the auction by Princess Diana herself - literally a month before her tragic death. American businesswoman Maureen Rorech Dunkel bought these dresses as a kind of investment. After Diana's death, Morin exhibited dresses for some time at charity events; alas, recently her financial condition has been somewhat shaken, and she ultimately decided to get rid of the dresses.

A blue dress by Victor Edelstein was the highlight of the auction. Considerable interest among buyers was also caused by other lots. A green dress by the same Edelstein was sold for £24,000; in it, Lady Dee did not speak to the general public, limiting herself exclusively to private events. The burgundy velvet dress worn by the princess to Korea in 1992 was sold to an unknown buyer for £50,400. The black velvet dress in which Diana posed for Mario Testino (Mario Testino) as part of a Vanity Fair photo shoot (just a few months before her death) went for 108,000 pounds; by the way, this dress was the only one of 10 in which the princess went out after her divorce from Prince Charles (Prince Charles).

All 10 dresses were valued at £719,000 in total.

This auction is not the first official sale of the outfits of the late favorite of the British public. So, in 2010, Princess Diana's black taffeta dress - in which Lady Dee first appeared in the company of Prince Charles, who was only her fiancé at that time - was sold for 192,000 pounds. The price was almost four times higher than the most optimistic preliminary estimates.

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August 31, 2017 marks exactly 20 years since the tragic death of Princess Diana of Wales, mother of two crown princes and wife of the only son of Queen Elizabeth II.

This sad date was surrounded by a British scandal on a national scale, as previously unknown videos of Princess Diana surfaced, which not only add details to the history of her marriage to the heir to the throne, Charles, but also, perhaps, shed light on the causes of her death.

Rumors that the ruling house of Windsor is directly related to the mysterious death of Diana arose immediately after the tragedy. And only now, it seems, a motive for the murder has been named.

On the anniversary of Lady Dee's death, a documentary was released, which included tapes of Princess Diana's long monologues about her personal life, which were still kept secret by the British television channel Channel 4.

And perhaps it is Princess Diana's personal stories about the most personal that can shed light on one of the most mysterious deaths of celebrities.

Princess Diana in 1991 (in her tenth year with Prince Charles) began taking rhetoric lessons. Her marriage was cracking at the seams, her husband almost openly cheated on her with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Diana needed to learn to control herself and answer journalists' questions elegantly, calmly and evasively. In addition, she was not liked in the royal family - Elizabeth II herself did not have particularly warm feelings for Diana, and the princess's chagrin about this also needed to be hidden.

Princess Diana spoke on camera about the most personal

The teacher Peter Setterin, who studied with Diana, decided to record her speech on video, so that later, together with the student, correct the mistakes and make out the features with which she speaks. Setterin asked Princess Diana to tell something about herself, when suddenly she began to talk about the personal - that her marriage almost fell apart, despite two children, Princes Harry and William. In addition, Diana said that she herself entered into a new relationship.

The release of this film was preceded by a noisy press campaign, and Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and friends of the royal family categorically demanded that the management of Channel 4 not show scandalous evidence, not exploit the bright image of the "people's princess" and not injure her sons.

Princess Diana with her husband and sons

But the television people did not hear these demands, and the film "Diana: In Their Own Words" went on the air 25 days before the 20th anniversary of the tragic death of the princess.
The reason why the royal family was against the film is understandable - sometimes the Princess says very harsh things, for example, when she told how clumsily Prince Charles was courting her: “When he climbed on me and started kissing and stuff, I thought: “Ugh -y! It doesn't do the same!"

No less shocking are stories about the fact that in the first years of their married life they had sex only once every three weeks. Moreover, in the last seven years, her husband generally stopped sharing a bed with her and spent his free time with his mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Diana told Settelen about her true love. Four years after the wedding, she fell in love with her bodyguard, the handsome brunette Barry Manaki. He was married, and Diana claimed that she "saw him as a father figure, nothing more." True or not, Manaki was soon transferred to another job, and three weeks after that, he crashed to death on his motorcycle.

“Everything was revealed, and he was fired, and then killed. It was the worst blow in my life, ”Diana said about it.

Subsequently, Settelen admitted to reporters that he was "really frightened" by these revelations, but quickly understood Diana's goal.
She was already thinking about a divorce and wanted to rehearse in advance how she would behave in front of journalists.

Roughly speaking, Settelen helped her to outline the "line of defense." They rehearsed accusations against Charles and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, until the end of 1993, and in 1996 the famous couple really divorced.

During Diana's lifetime, all videos of Settelen were kept in her house.

Immediately after her death (August 31, 1997), they disappeared, but were found a few years later by her butler. Diana's brother Count Spencer and Settelen as the author of the notes disputed the ownership of them. After winning the case, he sold the tapes to Channel 4.

The publication of these films once again raises questions that are extremely painful for the British royal family. The declaration of love for Manaki is also reminiscent of Diana's other lovers who accompanied her failed marriage. There was also a riding instructor James Hewitt, and court officer David Waterhouse, and businessman James Gilbey.

This inevitably raises doubts that the heir to the British throne was the real father of Princes William and Harry.

Diana's memories of Manaka's death also look creepy. Suspicions that he was purposefully killed because of his affair with the princess were revived after the mysterious death of Diana herself. The car crash, which also killed her lover Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver, has given rise to various conspiracy theories over the past 20 years.

Almost everything seemed strange. Why did Al Fayed's highly professional driver fail to manage? Why is the only surviving passenger, Reese-Jones' bodyguard sitting in the front seat, silent?

The story that Diana was killed by MI6 on the orders of Prince Philip, wife of Queen Elizabeth, was launched into the public by Dodi's father, oligarch Mohammed Al-Fayed.
He was involved in several investigations and always stated that the royal family cracked down on Diana to prevent her from marrying a Muslim.

However, Al-Fayed also claimed that Diana was already pregnant by Dodi at the time of her death, but the autopsy did not confirm this. To this, the billionaire said that the results of the autopsy were forged at the request of the royal family.

Photo of the accident that killed Princess Diana

In 2007, after numerous litigations, an official version of what happened took shape. The main culprit was the driver, in whose blood alcohol was found, Al-Fayed's version was branded as baseless conspiracy theories. Moreover, the oligarch played a dubious role in the fate of Diana, too diligently bringing her together with his son.

All the conspiracy theories surrounding Diana's death had one weak link: the conspirators' lack of motive. Yes, in her scandalous interviews, the ex-wife of the heir to the throne made all the dirty laundry of the royal family public property. But this, paradoxically, only increased the popularity of the House of Windsor. Thanks to Diana, they became participants in an endless soap opera, followed by the whole world.

Yes, Diana was not distinguished by chastity and flaunted her novels. But Prince Charles was not inferior to her in terms of scandalousness. He did not hide from anyone his long-term relationship with the married Camilla Parker-Bowles and naturally spat on public opinion.

It would seem that the frivolous and charming Diana did not pose any threat to the House of Windsor. After all, the English monarchy experienced not such scandals. The love affairs of the heirs to the throne - the Princes of Wales - have long become a tradition. Great-great-grandmother Parker-Bowles is said to have been the mistress of Prince Charles' great-great-grandfather.

But on the eve of the airing of the film "In Your Own Words", The Sun newspaper, owned by oligarch Rupert Murdoch, announced that it had at its disposal 12 more hours of video recordings made by Lady Dee shortly before her death.

The operator was an unnamed employee of the BBC, who lives in the United States today. These films confirm that the former princess had serious plans for the English throne.

On the recording, Diana again exposes her husband's immoral behavior, talking about how the heir, hiding from her in the toilet, had indecent phone conversations with Camilla.

And then she declares to the camera that she is “ready to do everything to prevent Charles from becoming king.”

In his filming diary, the cameraman wrote that Diana plans to enthrone her eldest son Prince William after the death of Queen Elizabeth: “She had such a romantic idea to become a “kingmaker”, a mother behind her son’s back.

The beautiful princess managed to please the public. She dressed well, behaved democratically and simply, but the people were especially captivated by the way the wife of the heir to the throne in her numerous interviews complains about a hard life: her husband is cheating, her mother-in-law despises, tears flow like a river. To calm down, Diana starts eating and cannot stop. Any housewife recognized herself in this list of grievances. "The rich also cry."

For this frankness, the nation "forgave" Diana for her high birth. The princess belonged to one of the most noble families in Britain and was the daughter of Earl Spencer, but in the popular imagination she became a poor Cinderella, who was tortured in the royal palace.

At the same time, the "People's Princess" portrayed her own husband - the heir to the throne - in the darkest light. With her filing, monstrous scandals flared up, the most unpleasant of which was Camille Gate. It began with the fact that someone leaked to the press a telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla. In it, the Prince of Wales told his mistress that he would like to be her tampon.

Having ridiculed Charles, the audience easily forgave Diana. She was also a style icon and the "queen of hearts."

By the end of their marriage, Charles was completely compromised and Diana looked like an innocent victim. After the divorce, the princess tried to denigrate the royal family even more.

In the light of her plan, this looks logical: the princess hoped that, under pressure from public opinion, the queen would be forced to make her son Diana, Prince William, her heir. After his accession, Diana would become the all-powerful "gray eminence".

If Diana really had such a plan, the conspiracy theories of her death no longer look extravagant.

The main characters of the game of thrones always walk on the edge of a knife. Especially at a time when the authority of the monarchy is steadily declining, and that is exactly what is happening in Britain right now.
Once the most powerful crown in the world, even staunch conservatives no longer promise bright prospects, many of whom grimly admit in private conversations that the fall of the House of Windsor is nothing more than a matter of time.

But no matter how it really was, we can only guess why on August 31, 1997 in Paris, the car in which Lady Diana and Dodi al-Fayed tried to escape the persecution of the paparazzi drove at high speed into the tunnel in front of the Alma Bridge on the embankment Seine and crashed into a support. Dodi died instantly, and Diana died for about an hour in fragments of twisted metal under the flashes of cameras of journalists who came to the scene of the tragedy. The scoundrels, thirsting for sensations, did not even try to help ...

Dedicated to Princess Diana of Wales...

The crash happened just after midnight on August 31, 1997. Limousine carrying Diana, Princess of Walesand her then-lover Dodi Al-Fayed, the son of an Egyptian billionaire, collided with a pole in the Alma Tunnel in central Paris. Al Fayed and driver Henri Paul died at the scene. Diana was taken by ambulance to the Piti-Salpêtrière hospital, where she died a few hours later from cardiac arrest.

Only Al Fayed's bodyguard survived the accident.

When Diana was buriedOn September 6, millions of people lined the streets of London to watch the funeral procession. And on TV, at least two billion people around the world watched her funeral.

Her brother, the 9th Earl Spencer, praised Diana as "the very essence of compassion, duty, style, beauty".

Conspiracy Theory #1: The paparazzi did it

From the moment Prince Charles showed interest in the young and attractive Lady Diana Spencer in 1980, she has been hounded by the press. She was to become the most famous woman in the world - her every act, no matter how private or trivial, was carefully photographed, documented and splashed all over the pages of the tabloids.

Up until the moment of her death, the press pursued her.

Among the first details about the crash in which Diana died was the fact that the limousine driver was accelerating to avoid the paparazzi. No wonder they were immediately blamed. Critics called them "legalized stalkers", "cowardly killers" and simply "murderers". And, of course, they are responsible for participating in a high-speed chase in very dangerous conditions.

However, autopsy results soon showed that Henri Paul, the driver, had a blood alcohol level of at least three times the legal limit. At the end of the two-year investigation, the paparazzi were largely acquitted, and the dominance of the blame in official circles at least shifted to Paul.

Conspiracy Theory #2: The Royal Family Did It

However, not everyone was happy with the official version of events. Hours after the announcement of her death, rumors began to swirl of a plot to kill Princess Diana. The main culprits: the royal family with the assistance of British intelligence.

Why, you ask windsor house wanted Princess Diana to die? There was talk that Diana was going to marry a Muslim Dodi Al Fayed, who would become a stepfather to Princes William and Harry, heirs to the British throne. There was even speculation that Diana was pregnant with Al Fayed's child.

Mohamed Al-Fayeda, Dodi's father, who still refuses to believe that the fatal accident was a mere accident, was and remains a fierce proponent of this theory.

It has also been suggested that the conspirators used an unnamed Fiat Uno to block the limousine's path, causing it to collide with a pole. Finally, it was suspicious that not a single surveillance camera was working along the route of the car. Etc.

But no conclusive evidence of government involvement in the accident has ever been found.

Conspiracy Theory #3: Al Fayed's enemies did it

Another theory put forward by those who refuse to accept the official explanation is a group of shadowy figures clustered under the heading "Enemies of Al Fayed". In this version of events, the real target of the assassination was Dodi Al Fayed. The motive was revenge on his father. Diana's death was accidental or a diversion at best.

Of course, a man as rich and powerful as Mohamed Al Fayed could acquire powerful enemies over the years, but… who are they? What are their names? Where is the proof? Nothing tangible has ever been put forward. One would think that if this scenario were even true, Al Fayed himself would long ago have demanded a proper investigation and punishment of the actual offenders.

Conspiracy Theory #4: Diana did it herself

Without a doubt, the most bizarre conspiracy theory put forward to explain the events of August 31, 1997 revolves around the allegation that Princess Diana faked her own death. With the help of Dodi and his family's vast wealth, Diana carefully planned the "accident" as a front so the couple could slip away, change their identities, and start a new life away from public scrutiny. This, of course, would mean that the bodies buried in the graves of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed really belong to someone else.

This might be plausible if there were no post-mortem examination of Diana's body, which is clearly false.

Complete post-mortem autopsy It was carried out on 31 August by Home Office pathologist Dr Robert Chapman, as soon as Diana's remains were returned to England.

Investigators: "It was a tragic accident"

It is hard to imagine a government request more thorough than the 900-page Operation Paget, led by Lord Stephens, a former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, worth £4 million. Investigators have tested every element of the prevailing conspiracy theory. Their conclusions were clear:

“We have concluded that, on all evidence currently available, there was no conspiracy to kill any of the occupants of the car. It was a tragic incident."