Princess Diana
Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were murdered, Mohamed Al Fayed has told the inquest into their deaths in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Mr Al Fayed, Harrods owner and father of Dodi, told the Royal Courts of Justice he would “make no allegations”.
However, he said Princess Diana “knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her”.
The Harrods boss also raised concerns about a note written by Diana’s divorce lawyer Lord Mishcon after an October 1995 meeting. It outlined her fears there was a plot to kill her in a car crash.
My belief (they) were murdered was confirmed when I learned Lord Condon and Lord Stevens did not show the coroner the note
Mohamed Al Fayed
Lord Mishcon passed it on to police when the princess died in 1997, and after a meeting with the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon.
The police agreed to hand it to the coroner only after Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, produced a note from the Princess making similar allegations in the Daily Mirror in October 2003. By that time, Sir John Stevens led the Met.
Mr Al Fayed said this delay confirmed his “belief that my son and Princess Diana were murdered”.
He said the Commissioners “acted unprofessionally” and “must have no conscience”.
The note was “devastating” and explained Diana’s fears in “black and white”, he said.
Mr Al Fayed also told the jury that Diana told him in a telephone call that she was pregnant, and that the couple said they were engaged.
He read out a statement detailing his main concerns about the crash, and the points he felt the inquest should address.
Diana told him she kept a wooden box and if anything happened to her, the contents should be made public, he said. But it had not been kept safe by Diana’s butler Paul Burrell, or her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale.
For Mohamed Fayed, doting father of Diana’s boyfriend Dodi, is still convinced the pair were just hours from announcing wedding plans — and that they were killed by security services, on the orders of Prince Philip, to prevent the Princess marrying a Muslim.
His outrageous claim made the then Harrods owner a pariah in many circles. In 2000 the store was stripped of its four royal warrants — the right to declare that a company supplies goods by appointment to the Royal Family.
The tycoon then funded a £2million documentary which alleged that the Duke of Edinburgh had a Nazi background.
In the film — never aired for legal reasons — he set fire to the royal warrant emblems which had hung outside the department store.
In the 1990s Egyptian-born Fayed twice applied for British citizenship but was turned down by the Government. The first time he was rejected in 1994 led him to claim he had paid MPs to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf.
The episode became known as the “cash for questions” affair and led to the end of several Tory MPs’ careers.
It took nearly 37 miniutes to get Princess Diana into the ambulance, which is odd because the back of the car was undamaged. (AM
It took an extraordinary 81 minutes after the crash before the ambulance even set off for the hospital (A,M
It took nearly two hours to get Princess Diana from the scene of the accident to La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, only four miles away.
Diana's ambulance passed five other hospitals along the way, including one reserved for VIPs
An 80-year-old retired MI5 agent, John Hopkins, has made a series of astonishing confessions since he was released from hospital in London on Wednesday and told he has weeks to live. Hopkins claims to have been involved in 23 assassinations for the British intelligence agency between 1973 and 1999, including Princess Diana.
Mr. Hopkins, who worked for M15 for 38 years as an operative, claims he was often used as an hitman by the agency, to discreetly assassinate individuals considered a threat to the domestic security of the United Kingdom.
Trained as both a mechanical engineer and munitions expert, Mr. Hopkins claims he also has extensive experience of less conventional methods of inflicting death and destruction, including chemicals and poisons.
The 80-year-old British man claims he was involved with MI5 assassinations between June 1973 and December 1999, during a period he says “the MI5 operated with less external oversight.” Hopkins says he was part of a cell of seven operatives who were trusted to carry out political assassinations across the UK. Most victims were politicians, activists, journalists and union leaders.
He claims to feel “ambivalent” about Princess Diana’s death. On the one hand, Diana was “a beautiful, kind-hearted woman” who did not deserve to have her life cut short. But according to Mr. Hopkins, she was also placing the British Crown at risk:
“She knew too many Royal secrets. She had a huge grudge and she was going to go public with all sorts of wild claims. My boss told me she had to die – he’d received orders directly from Prince Philip – and we had to make it look like an accident. I’d never killed a woman before, much less a princess, but I obeyed orders. I did it for Queen and country.”
The next stage of the high-level conspiracy involved the media, under tight Palace control, talking to each other to “square their stories, make sure everybody was on the same page. It was a well run operation.”
“British journalists all answer to editors who answer to oligarchs who all want knighthoods from the crime family at Buckingham Palace. There is no free press in Britain,” said Mr. Hopkins.
“We got away with murder.”
The 80-year-old, spending his final weeks at home, said he expects to be taken into custody following his admissions, but says “I can’t say that I care an awful lot.” Hopkins explained that any investigation into the affair would “take forever” and be “very complicated” because there are few written records around secret MI5 activities and “most of my colleagues are already dead“.
The most important witness in the case, Mr. Hopkin’s boss, died of a heart attack in “the early 2000s” and the alleged ringleader, Prince Philip, “will never be charged with anything, of course“
“If Prince Philip ever let himself be analyzed by a psychiatrist I’m sure he’d be diagnosed a psychopath. He has all the dark triad traits.”
Asked why he didn’t refuse the job, or expose the plot at the time, he explained “MI5 agents swear allegiance to the Crown, we can’t be impartial when it comes to the Royal family. At best I would have been done for treason, at worst Philip would have designed a grisly fate for me.”
American Services admitted to monitoring Princess Dianas phone calls, after years of denial, they finally admitted to having almost 1200 pages of transcripts, although they refused to make most of them public, claiming it would threaten national security.
Mr. Hopkins says Princess Diana is unique among his victims, as she is the only female he ever assassinated, as well as the only Royal. She is also the only victim that the Royal Family themselves ordered to be taken out.
Letter from Diana to her explaining how she would die,
The note written by Diana, Princess of Wales to her butler Paul Burrell
"my husband is planning "an accident" in my car. break failure & serious head injury"
Simone Simmons, friend of Diana:,
"Of course she was bumped off, she knew she was going to be bumped off"
Diana had said she feared for her life to several close friends and Lord Mishkum.
They all knew she felt her life was in danger from the Royal Family and that threats had been made.
Lord Mishkum was an old British establishment lawyer and must have known how devastating this piece of evidence was.
Three weeks after Diana's death, he handed it over to Britain's police chief, Lord Condon, who also realised
it's danger to the Royal Family, and so he concealed it for three years! He wasn't the only police chief to
hold onto the note. His successor, Lord Stevens, concealed the letter for another three years.
Both police chiefs broke the law by withholding this evidence, and both were made Lords by the Queen!
I would advise anyone reading to look up "Unlawful Killing – full uncut Princess Diana film".
Mr Al Fayed, Harrods owner and father of Dodi, told the Royal Courts of Justice he would “make no allegations”.
However, he said Princess Diana “knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her”.
The Harrods boss also raised concerns about a note written by Diana’s divorce lawyer Lord Mishcon after an October 1995 meeting. It outlined her fears there was a plot to kill her in a car crash.
My belief (they) were murdered was confirmed when I learned Lord Condon and Lord Stevens did not show the coroner the note
Mohamed Al Fayed
Lord Mishcon passed it on to police when the princess died in 1997, and after a meeting with the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon.
The police agreed to hand it to the coroner only after Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, produced a note from the Princess making similar allegations in the Daily Mirror in October 2003. By that time, Sir John Stevens led the Met.
Mr Al Fayed said this delay confirmed his “belief that my son and Princess Diana were murdered”.
He said the Commissioners “acted unprofessionally” and “must have no conscience”.
The note was “devastating” and explained Diana’s fears in “black and white”, he said.
Mr Al Fayed also told the jury that Diana told him in a telephone call that she was pregnant, and that the couple said they were engaged.
He read out a statement detailing his main concerns about the crash, and the points he felt the inquest should address.
Diana told him she kept a wooden box and if anything happened to her, the contents should be made public, he said. But it had not been kept safe by Diana’s butler Paul Burrell, or her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale.
For Mohamed Fayed, doting father of Diana’s boyfriend Dodi, is still convinced the pair were just hours from announcing wedding plans — and that they were killed by security services, on the orders of Prince Philip, to prevent the Princess marrying a Muslim.
His outrageous claim made the then Harrods owner a pariah in many circles. In 2000 the store was stripped of its four royal warrants — the right to declare that a company supplies goods by appointment to the Royal Family.
The tycoon then funded a £2million documentary which alleged that the Duke of Edinburgh had a Nazi background.
In the film — never aired for legal reasons — he set fire to the royal warrant emblems which had hung outside the department store.
In the 1990s Egyptian-born Fayed twice applied for British citizenship but was turned down by the Government. The first time he was rejected in 1994 led him to claim he had paid MPs to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf.
The episode became known as the “cash for questions” affair and led to the end of several Tory MPs’ careers.
It took nearly 37 miniutes to get Princess Diana into the ambulance, which is odd because the back of the car was undamaged. (AM
It took an extraordinary 81 minutes after the crash before the ambulance even set off for the hospital (A,M
It took nearly two hours to get Princess Diana from the scene of the accident to La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, only four miles away.
Diana's ambulance passed five other hospitals along the way, including one reserved for VIPs
An 80-year-old retired MI5 agent, John Hopkins, has made a series of astonishing confessions since he was released from hospital in London on Wednesday and told he has weeks to live. Hopkins claims to have been involved in 23 assassinations for the British intelligence agency between 1973 and 1999, including Princess Diana.
Mr. Hopkins, who worked for M15 for 38 years as an operative, claims he was often used as an hitman by the agency, to discreetly assassinate individuals considered a threat to the domestic security of the United Kingdom.
Trained as both a mechanical engineer and munitions expert, Mr. Hopkins claims he also has extensive experience of less conventional methods of inflicting death and destruction, including chemicals and poisons.
The 80-year-old British man claims he was involved with MI5 assassinations between June 1973 and December 1999, during a period he says “the MI5 operated with less external oversight.” Hopkins says he was part of a cell of seven operatives who were trusted to carry out political assassinations across the UK. Most victims were politicians, activists, journalists and union leaders.
He claims to feel “ambivalent” about Princess Diana’s death. On the one hand, Diana was “a beautiful, kind-hearted woman” who did not deserve to have her life cut short. But according to Mr. Hopkins, she was also placing the British Crown at risk:
“She knew too many Royal secrets. She had a huge grudge and she was going to go public with all sorts of wild claims. My boss told me she had to die – he’d received orders directly from Prince Philip – and we had to make it look like an accident. I’d never killed a woman before, much less a princess, but I obeyed orders. I did it for Queen and country.”
The next stage of the high-level conspiracy involved the media, under tight Palace control, talking to each other to “square their stories, make sure everybody was on the same page. It was a well run operation.”
“British journalists all answer to editors who answer to oligarchs who all want knighthoods from the crime family at Buckingham Palace. There is no free press in Britain,” said Mr. Hopkins.
“We got away with murder.”
The 80-year-old, spending his final weeks at home, said he expects to be taken into custody following his admissions, but says “I can’t say that I care an awful lot.” Hopkins explained that any investigation into the affair would “take forever” and be “very complicated” because there are few written records around secret MI5 activities and “most of my colleagues are already dead“.
The most important witness in the case, Mr. Hopkin’s boss, died of a heart attack in “the early 2000s” and the alleged ringleader, Prince Philip, “will never be charged with anything, of course“
“If Prince Philip ever let himself be analyzed by a psychiatrist I’m sure he’d be diagnosed a psychopath. He has all the dark triad traits.”
Asked why he didn’t refuse the job, or expose the plot at the time, he explained “MI5 agents swear allegiance to the Crown, we can’t be impartial when it comes to the Royal family. At best I would have been done for treason, at worst Philip would have designed a grisly fate for me.”
American Services admitted to monitoring Princess Dianas phone calls, after years of denial, they finally admitted to having almost 1200 pages of transcripts, although they refused to make most of them public, claiming it would threaten national security.
Mr. Hopkins says Princess Diana is unique among his victims, as she is the only female he ever assassinated, as well as the only Royal. She is also the only victim that the Royal Family themselves ordered to be taken out.
Letter from Diana to her explaining how she would die,
The note written by Diana, Princess of Wales to her butler Paul Burrell
"my husband is planning "an accident" in my car. break failure & serious head injury"
Simone Simmons, friend of Diana:,
"Of course she was bumped off, she knew she was going to be bumped off"
Diana had said she feared for her life to several close friends and Lord Mishkum.
They all knew she felt her life was in danger from the Royal Family and that threats had been made.
Lord Mishkum was an old British establishment lawyer and must have known how devastating this piece of evidence was.
Three weeks after Diana's death, he handed it over to Britain's police chief, Lord Condon, who also realised
it's danger to the Royal Family, and so he concealed it for three years! He wasn't the only police chief to
hold onto the note. His successor, Lord Stevens, concealed the letter for another three years.
Both police chiefs broke the law by withholding this evidence, and both were made Lords by the Queen!
I would advise anyone reading to look up "Unlawful Killing – full uncut Princess Diana film".
