believed' the accuracy of her remarks regarding her safety." However, police found no evidence that Diana's brakes had actually been tampered with and the report concluded: 'Operation Paget has found no evidence to support the Princess of Wales' stated concerns.
According to the book, the brake failure occurred when Diana was driving back to Kensington Palace from a doctor's appointment in Marylebone in her green Audi in November 1995. Princess Diana reportedly called her friend Simone Simmons saying that someone had tampered with her brakes and was trying to bump her off.
At 00:23, Paul lost control of the car at the entrance to the Pont de l'Alma underpass. The car reportedly struck a passing white Fiat, swerved to the left of the two-lane carriageway and collided head-on with the thirteenth pillar that supported the roof.
Queen Elizabeth II thought "someone must have greased the brakes" upon hearing of Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash, a new biography states.
Diana suffered several injuries in the crash. She had a concussion, broken arm and a cut to her thigh, according to United Press International. But her most lethal injuries were severe chest wounds. She had a tear to her left pulmonary vein that caused internal bleeding, The Independent reported.
"There's no evidence that the brakes of her car were ever tampered with, and what it's doing is trying to illustrate her fears at the time. "Diana said that she feared that her brakes might be tampered with, she said that. On the record that's known," the royal expert continued.
Before she was taken out of the car, he held her hand and comforted her. "My God, what's happened," Diana then asked him, in what proved to be her final words. "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again.
The Queen uses hers to send signals to her staff, Kate Middleton always carries a clutch for this specific reason, while Princess Diana had a bag secret herself. Her trick? Using clutch bags to hide her cleavage when exiting cars at evening events, so as to avoid any lurid shots making the tabloid covers the next day.
It's unknown whether Princess Diana actually warned the Queen about the interview before it aired. Whether this conversation – or a more true-to-life version of it, anyway – happened, is up for debate.
“I was only made aware of that when I was made commissioner myself… and I had been made aware that Lord Mishcon had said he hadn't actually attached much importance to it. For the unversed, this is not the first time when any letter about Diana's death mystery has come out.
A production source told Deadline that the crew was “dreading” filming Diana's death and that there is a “certain anxiety, a palpable sense of being slightly on edge” among the production team.
Police protection
During her marriage, Diana's personal safety was of paramount importance. Post-divorce, Diana was able to use police protection only when she attended a public event.
LONDON -- The year before Princess Diana died, she was alienated from her brother, Earl Spencer, and he wrote to her saying she had mental problems and was manipulative and deceitful, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
After Sotheby's commission I made just a modest profit. The Escort sold, as I recall, for a paltry £12,000. I was told, not long after Diana's death in 1997, that the Audi had been sold for £1 million to someone in the Far East.
Diana was extremely serious about her relationship with Hasnat (whom she called Mr. Wonderful) and had big plans for their future together. Bradford writes that she “did everything she could to advance his career” and hoped that he could find work away from England so they could “marry and live together in peace.”
According to Seward in The Queen & Di, although Elizabeth was initially sympathetic to Diana, eventually the stoic monarch felt that the emotional Princess was simply too much to handle. “A footman said, 'The Princess cried three times in a half an hour while she was waiting to see you.
Princess Diana's BFF, Jemima Khan, is calling it like she sees it when it comes to her late friend's marriage to Prince Charles. And many royal watchers would agree with her assessment even though they probably prefer not to say it publicly: Diana and Charles' marriage was planned by palace insiders.
The late Monarch reportedly had some concerns about their relationship in the early days, but she eventually welcomed Kate to the family with open arms. Despite Her Majesty's initial worries, they soon faded away once the two began to bond.
Princess Diana would have had an 80 percent chance of surviving the car crash that took her life if she had worn a seat belt, according to a policeman who took part in the official investigation into the tragedy.
Additionally, Diana, Fayed and Paul were not wearing seat belts, CNN reports. Whether Rees-Jones was wearing a seatbelt remained a question. Rees-Jones told “60 Minutes” in 2000 he did not remember anything from the crash.
Princess Diana wore two watches in 1981
Her choice was a purely practical one; people believe she was simply looking after her then-husband, King Charles' watch, while he took to the polo pitch, but Prince William's decision is likely to be more considered.
Diana had hyperplasia and heavy bleeding. She was advised that these issues would be resolved by removing the uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes. She chose to keep her ovaries so they could continue to supply her body with hormones that help protect her heart, bones, skin and libido.
She's spotted crying at Heathrow airport upon his departure—not because she is sad, but because before he left, he had taken a phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. “It just broke my heart,” she later recalled, according to Diana: In Her Own Words.
The ambulance carrying the dying Diana, Princess of Wales to hospital was deliberately driven slowly due to the severity of her injuries, an inquest heard today. The ambulance driver told the inquest jury that the onboard doctor ordered him to drive slowly in an attempt to save the princess's life.