People keep their eyes on royalty all the time, because they are this select group of people who have been born into a position that once held power and wealth but now is considered to be merely a position of added privilege (and not necessarily power and wealth, as opposed to the situation of the royalty of the past). So there was no surprise when, in 1997, everyone was tuned in when the news of Princess Diana’s death hit the airwaves. It’s also no surprise to the public when theories emerged in connection to her death.
When the accident took place, the first thing I remember hearing was the press being blamed for the accident. It was said that the press was chasing them and that they were speeding because of this. But according to the police investigation and the crash experts who studied the accident as well as those following them, while the paparazzi was following them, they fell behind before the car entered the tunnel and so it’s possible that it was Dodi Al Fayed who kept on insisting to the driver to speed up despite this fact. It is said that the car in front of them slowed down so the driver had to avoid it, bumped into a wall, maneuvered to prevent further damage on the side and ended up hitting a post in the tunnel.
Other conspiracy theories include what is allegedly the Queen’s plan to have them killed because she could not allow British royalty to marry into someone like Dodi Al Fayed and convert into Islam, and the Queen’s plan (again) to have them killed because Diana was allegedly pregnant with Al Fayed’s baby at the time of the accident. The former was, of course, considered preposterous by the royal family, and the latter was proven wrong because tests showed Diana was not pregnant at the time of her death. Of course, there’s also the popular theory that Diana was set up by Prince Charles so that he could go on an marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, whom he ended up marrying eight years after Diana’s passing.
Though the results of investigations have been released to the public, and the autopsy showed the deadly cocktail of drugs and alcohol in their driver Henri Paul’s body, people still keep these theories alive to this day. The craziest theory? That the late Princess staged her own death to get the paparazzi off her tail, and that she keeps in touch with her sons via Skype or some form of video conferencing. It’s funny, but if it were true, then more good things could’ve been done for those who need her charity work. Oh well.