This is my favourite scene from The Crown.
It points to the essential rationale for why the royal family might not just want, but *need*, Diana to die.
My article The Conspiracy Theory of Hearts: This Valentine's Day, I STILL Reckon They Killed Diana! is here: open.substack.com/pub/drmatta...
You know the worst reported news story, ever? It’s when the Queen privately told Princess Diana’s butler in 2002 to “be careful” because there are “there are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”.
All the papers were like, ooohh, what are these “dark forces”? Who could the Queen possibly mean??
The reason the Queen spoke to the butler in the first place was that she had just personally secured his acquittal just prior to trial for theft of Diana’s belongings.
I hate to ruin our image of the nice old lady who ran our country since 1952 but, come on - the only dark forces the Queen could have possibly been referring to are her own.
The butler knew the meeting was heavily coded, too: "She fixed me with her eye and made sure I knew she was being deadly serious. … I told Her Majesty I intended to protect the princess's world and keep safe her secrets. The Queen responded by nodding her approval and smiling," he told the press.
Had she lived, Diana would have set up a rival court with a strong claim to the throne. Even if the charges of her being about to marry a Muslim, her alleged pregnancy, and her opposition to the arms industry are all exaggerated, Diana was undeniably hated, isolated and vulnerable. Plus it’s a well-accepted fact that the fortunes of the Royal Family improved tremendously as soon as she died.
All those public inquiries answered a million questions about the Diana mythology but that is not the best way to prove or disprove a conspiracy. You have to home in on the best evidence and falsify wherever possible.
Key aspects of the apparent cover-up and alternative narrative have simple explanations and might reasonably be treated as red herrings. The ten cameras along the car’s route that one might have thought would shed light on what happened were all turned off but these were mostly private security cameras and it’s not clear that they would have helped prove criminal activity. Hospital staff embalmed Diana on just the verbal authority from the police due to time pressures to prepare the body for viewing by the French President, not necessarily to conceal any evidence. Nor was the very slow ambulance trip necessarily dodgy - the ambulance departed the crash scene at 1:41am, about an hour after the crash was reported to emergency services, and arrived at the hospital at 2:06am. This did involve suspicious stops but allegedly these were due to Diana’s heart attacks and drops in blood pressure, in line with French rules, and although they did pass a hospital (Hôtel-Dieu) this was because it was not equipped to deal with the injuries Diana had sustained. Maybe that “accidents can happen” phone call from Nicholas Soames was just a friendly warning about landmines. But even so…
But nonetheless Diana’s car could have been deliberately nudged off the road by a white Fiat Uno (paintwork was found) and/or by other intimidation and distraction (some have suggested a strobe light to blind the driver).
Numerous publications claimed that the Uno belonged to Le Van Thanh but he always refused to talk. Thanh's father said his son had re-sprayed his car hours after the crash, allegedly waking up his brother in the night to help him. He matched witness descriptions and was physically able to be at the scene. There is nothing to indicate illicit intent but even so…
The leading conspiracy researcher on Diana, John Morgan thought that the Uno driver was actually a shifty paparazzi photographer James Andanson, who bragged to friends he was in the tunnel when Diana crashed. Investigators used receipts, forensics and witnesses to demonstrate Andanson was miles away from Diana that night (which Morgan disputes) and the Uno he owned was not compatible with the scrape on the Merc or roadworthy at the time. However, Andanson’s role was intriguing, especially as he wound up in dead in a remote forest in Southern France). Suicide - he had talked about it - but even so…
Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson fed claims of MI6 using techniques like strobe lights in assassinations overseas, which spy chiefs later claimed were only formed at a low level and never implemented. Three eyewitnesses at the crash scene claimed to see a bright flash of light. François Levistre made a clear, specific claim that he saw a bright flash, but his statements were in conflict...
Continues here... open.substack.com/pub/drmatta...
29 янв 2024
