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May 18, 2024

The mysterious death of Diana: Was it really just an accident?

Princess Diana has been dead for nearly 20 years and yet there are still countless myths surrounding the tragic accident that cost her her life. What really happened on 31st August 1997?

Officially it says that Diana and her friend Dodi Al-Fayed bounced in Paris at 0:26 clock with her black Mercedes against a concrete pillar. Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul died at the scene of the accident. Diana was not pronounced dead at the hospital until 4 am Survived only the bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who suffered severe head injuries in the crash and can still remember anything to this day.

As later also became known, the driver should have had 1.8 per thousand in the blood and sat under the influence of several drugs at the wheel, which he lost control of his vehicle.

Was the ambulance moving too slowly?

The conspiracy theorists, however, do not believe this version of the story. They are sure to this day that the English court had its fingers in the accident. Why else did the ambulance take an hour and a half to bring the surviving Diana to the hospital?

The clinic Pitié-Salpètrière is only six kilometers away from the scene of the accident and the roads were blocked by the police at that time, so that the ambulance could drive unhindered.

In various test drives at all imaginable day and night times and under various traffic conditions, reporters needed loud "Focus? In addition, a journey time of a maximum of 18 minutes.

However, experts explain the delay as follows: The doctor should have given the ambulance the instruction to drive extremely slowly, because the blood pressure of the princess had to be stabilized again and again.

How innocent is the queen really?

This rumor has been iron for 20 years. Diana's independence and the divorce of Prince Charles is said to have always been a thorn in the side of the Queen. After Diana then even with the French businessman Dodi Al-Fayed attached and allegedly even wanted to marry, the monarch saw the reputation of her royal house seriously endangered.

Diana should have become a big problem for her, is it? so the theorists? to eliminate. Even Dodi Al-Fayed's father Mohamed believes to this day not a disaster.

Scotland Yard also investigated the accident for several years. However, the investigators came to the conclusion that it was not a murder, but an accident? caused by the drunk driver? acted.

Curious, however: The wreckage of the accident car later completely burned out completely in the hall of the French Ministry of Justice and could not be investigated further. In addition, journalists repeatedly reported that they were massively threatened for doing research on the case.

Diana was not dead, but submerged?

However, the most bizarre theory is that the? Queen of Hearts? not dead, but submerged. She and Dodi Al-Fayed were alleged to disappear from the public eye and pretended to be dead. She is now living on a secret island for 20 years.