In yet another twist, in an ever twisting maze of a story, the Observer newspaper yesterday published an article claiming that the US Secret Service were bugging Princess Diana's telephone conversations on the night before she died.
This revelation will do little to dampen a widely held feeling amongst the British public, that all was very much not as it seemed where the death of the Princess of Wales was concerned.
This has been a long running saga in the British tabloid press. On various occasions it has shown signs of emerging from the heavily veiled shadows it has been cloaked in, only to be re-veiled, or re-obscured, by varying interpretations and misdirections folded into the narrative threads presented to the public.
For example, it has been revealed that the driver of the Mercedes, Henri Paul, was an asset of the French Secret Service and that £100,000 had been transfered into various French bank accounts owned by him, in the months before Diana's death.
Alongside this, there have been claims that the autopsy of the Princess was deliberately botched and that Henri Paul's blood samples were tampered with to make it appear that he was drunk on the night of the crash. The notorious white Fiat Uno, which has been linked by some to Diana paprazzo James Andanson, and which left paint traces on the body of the crashed Mercedes, has never been properly identified. Andanson eventually turned up dead, having apparently commited suicide, when his burnt remains were found in French woodland in May 2000.
Then of course there was the letter written by Diana 10 months before her death, in which she claimed that someone, who has yet to be named for 'legal reasons' was,
This latest twist, only confirms what has already become obvious from previous stories of phone tapping and intelligence agency involvement. Princess Diana's private affairs in the weeks and months leading up to her death were indeed considered of very great interest to certain people. The kind of people who are well known for having both very secret and potentially very lethal agendas.
This revelation will do little to dampen a widely held feeling amongst the British public, that all was very much not as it seemed where the death of the Princess of Wales was concerned.
This has been a long running saga in the British tabloid press. On various occasions it has shown signs of emerging from the heavily veiled shadows it has been cloaked in, only to be re-veiled, or re-obscured, by varying interpretations and misdirections folded into the narrative threads presented to the public.
For example, it has been revealed that the driver of the Mercedes, Henri Paul, was an asset of the French Secret Service and that £100,000 had been transfered into various French bank accounts owned by him, in the months before Diana's death.
Alongside this, there have been claims that the autopsy of the Princess was deliberately botched and that Henri Paul's blood samples were tampered with to make it appear that he was drunk on the night of the crash. The notorious white Fiat Uno, which has been linked by some to Diana paprazzo James Andanson, and which left paint traces on the body of the crashed Mercedes, has never been properly identified. Andanson eventually turned up dead, having apparently commited suicide, when his burnt remains were found in French woodland in May 2000.
Then of course there was the letter written by Diana 10 months before her death, in which she claimed that someone, who has yet to be named for 'legal reasons' was,
planning an ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry".
This latest twist, only confirms what has already become obvious from previous stories of phone tapping and intelligence agency involvement. Princess Diana's private affairs in the weeks and months leading up to her death were indeed considered of very great interest to certain people. The kind of people who are well known for having both very secret and potentially very lethal agendas.
