No answer ever to Di 'mystery'

February 19, 2008


No answer ever to Di 'mystery'

Mohammed Al Fayed, the owner of London's Harrods, is having his day the Royal Courts of Justice with "revelations" and allegations that there was a conspiracy behind the deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed in an air crash in Paris on Aug.31, 1997. These are not new. The world has been hearing Mohammed Al Fayed raising the charges since the day Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed died. The thrust of Mohammed Al Fayed's charges is that the princess and his son were murdered in a conspiracy involving the security services and the Duke of Edinburgh, who could not accept that an Egyptian Muslim as stepfather to the future king of England. French intelligence had helped British intelligence services to execute "the murder," according to Fayed.
Indeed, Fayed said a lot more to back his allegations during Monday's inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and his son. As he himself phrased it, he has been fighting for 10 years and "this is the moment for me to say exactly what I feel happened to my son and Diana."
Conspiracy theories have been too many since the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, and most of them lead everywhere and nowhere as was the case with the deaths of many other celebrities and world leaders including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.
Some say that Dodi Al Fayed was the target of an assassination plot linked to a business dispute and Prince Diana happened to be one of the unwary victims since she was with him at the time when the plotters carried out the scheme.
There are even those who argue that Diana is still alive. Proponents this theory content that the former wife of Prince Charles was fed up with the intrusions on her private life and used the resources of the Fayed family to fake her death. According to this theory, Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed are living on "a small tropical island near the Middle East," communicating with her sons by "satellite video conferencing."
From the early hours of dawn in this part of the world on Aug.31, 1997, when the news of Prince Diana broke, anyone and everyone who knew or even read anything about her life wanted to know more about her life and death. And clear answers eluded them. Now, 10 years later, many believe that the inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice might bring out the truth, whatever that might be. Others do not think that the inquest would learn all the details of her death if only because no one alive knows the details, and thus parts of the picture would have to be left blank for ever.
No matter what the Royal Courts of Justice verdict, there would never be an answer that would satisfy most, because the world always tends to find something strange in the way the rich and famous die. In this case, they have been and still are unable to accept that a commonplace accident killed someone as famous, celebrated and unique as Prince Diana and they are likely to remain so no matter what comes out of the inquest.