Princess Diana reportedly called her friend Simone Simmons saying that someone had tampered with her brakes and was trying to bump her off. Simon has revealed in the book that as Princess of Wales approached some traffic lights she put her foot on the brake, but nothing happened and the car kept coasting forward.
"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. "But as far as we know they never were."
According to Prince Diana's former lover Dr Hasnat Khan, the royal switched cars after experiencing faulty brakes. In his statement at the 2008 inquest into her death, Dr Khan said: “One day, in 1995, I had finished work and bumped into Diana outside the hospital.
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.
The crash. 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.
FRENCH bodyguard and driver Henri Paul died at the scene of the crash which killed Princess Diana and her partner Dodi Fayed on August 31, 1997. Her death shocked millions around the world, but an inquest found that Paul was over the alcohol limit when the car crashed in a Paris tunnel.
“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.
Margaret chose not to bow her head in respect. Instead, she gave a lazy salute to the casket. that has been compared to shooting away a fly. According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess.
The death of Lady Di shook the whole United Kingdom, millions of people came to say their last goodbye to her at Buckinham Palace, although the funeral was held privately in the royal chapel of St. James's Palace, as Diana did not belong to the royal family since her divorce with Prince Charles.
Princess Diana was one of those people - so much so that for a while, she felt "terrified" to be attending any events at all. Often confused for simply sulking, Diana would tend to show up to events with her head down upon arrival, literally just because she was scared.
But only one man has been called the "love of her life"—British Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom Diana dated from 1995 to 1997.
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.
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.
Diana eventually admitted in 1995 — after she and Charles had separated — that she, too, had been having an affair. Diana had fallen in love with James Hewitt, her riding instructor, and claimed they carried on a five-year relationship.
"I threw myself down the stairs [at Sandringham]," Diana said in the interviews. "Charles said I was crying wolf and I said I felt so desperate and I was crying my eyes out and he said: 'I'm not going to listen. You're always doing this to me. I'm going riding now.
It is nearly 20 years since William and Harry lost their mother, Diana. Prince William and Prince Harry have attended a private service to rededicate the grave of their mother, Princess of Wales, almost 20 years after her death.
But the princes attended her funeral in London, and they chose to walk behind Diana's casket during its one-mile procession to Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997. William was 15 at the time, and Harry was just 12.
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.
"According to sources, when Diana passed away in 1997, Margaret didn't even bow her head in respect. "Apparently she gave a lazy salute to the casket that has been compared to shooing away a fly." According to TheTalko, Margaret felt as though "Diana had turned her back on the Royal Family".
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana. As the Head of State, Her Majesty was under no obligation to bow to anyone, making the gesture even more poignant.
But when an alternative plan was suggested of having Prince William, then aged 15, walk alone behind the coffin Harry objected - saying he did not want his brother to undergo the ordeal on his own.
John Stevens, former head of Scotland Yard, told the Daily Mail that he spoke to then-Prince Charles about a note that Princess Diana wrote in 1995, which read: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury," so that he could marry Tiggy Legge-Bourke, a nanny for Prince William ...
King Charles' shocking reaction to Princess Diana's death: 'Almost fainted' King Charles III's reaction to the death of his former wife Princess Diana in 1997 reportedly shocked royal aides, with an expert claiming that he 'collapsed' and cried uncontrollably despite his differences with Diana.
When the trio arrived at the hospital, Diana's body was alone with her butler, Paul Burrell, and her driver, Colin Tebbutt.
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.