All language subtitles for Investigating.Diana.Death.in.Paris.S01E04

Diana, Princess of Wales, has died.

This is according
to British sources.

The most photographed woman in
the world has died trying not

to have her photo taken,
that doesn't make sense.

Hundreds of millions
of people across

the world use Facebook daily
to interact.

If you look at how we're growing,
we're really just at the beginning.

It's very difficult to defeat
a conspiracy theory.

Rubbish, cover up,
definitely a cover-up.

I think it's a little bit suspicious
for an accident.

Why would someone want to kill
the Princess of Wales?

This was one of the most important
investigations

that the UK had ever had.

There's so many coincidences,

so many odd things that
just don't add up.

12 members of the public will decide
how Princess Diana

and her lover died.

Mr Al Fayed hopes they'll conclude
it was murder.

85% of the ordinary people

of this country believe
Diana was murdered with my son.

The former Commissioner of
the Metropolitan Police,

Lord Stevens, is to publish

the findings of his three-year
investigation

into the death of Princess Diana.

We'd done the report,
we'd come to conclusions.

We had done a very,
very thorough job.

We knew in our own heart of hearts
we'd done everything

as best as we
possibly could.

I felt a lot of
pressure towards the end

because you think,
"Have I missed something here?"

Every single allegation,
the 104, has been investigated.

Every single one.

MARKER SQUEAKS

Well, there is the report.

You can't do any more than say,
"This is what we did."

Have a look, pick it apart.

We knew every amateur sleuth in
the world

would be going through that,

not to mention some serious
legal people.

It was not just
a high-profile dramatic case,

but there are serious questions
about members of the Royal family.

Maybe it was pure accident,

but I found that difficult
to believe.

The basic question was,
what's gone on here?

The primary purpose
of this investigation has been

to assess whether there is credible
evidence to support

an allegation of conspiracy
to murder.

If, you know, 85% of
the population think that

the most popular woman in
the world has been murdered by

the Queen's husband,
together with MI6,

then the whole of the legal system

and the way we do things
is in jeopardy.

It had to be dealt with.

The inquiry is largely
concentrated on

a number of separate claims made by
Mr Mohamed Al-Fayed in documents

and public appearances over
the nine years since the crash.

And she told me personally,
"If anything happened to me,

"Be sure the finger is, the person
who has done it, is Prince Philip."

She said that to you?
Definitely, definitely.

Why I'm so...

..overwhelmed, you know?
Why I am so convinced.

At the heart of Mr Al-Fayed's
allegation is his belief

that the crash was murder

because of the relationship between
Mr Dodi Al-Fayed

and the Princess of Wales.

You also believe, Mohamed, strongly,
that Diana was pregnant

at the time that she died,
don't you?

This was 100%.

How can you be sure of that?

Because she told me herself

and Dodi told me,
I know this personally.

Our responsibility was to show
to Mr Al-Fayed,

who'd made the allegation,
this is what we've discovered.

We weren't saying,
"Mohamed, we're doubting you."

But we have to be able to prove that
all these things took place,

because that's how
the police operate.

We are certain that the Princess of
Wales was not pregnant

at the time of her death,
she was not engaged,

and she was not about
to get engaged.

As you go through an investigation,

you may look at more
and more of the allegations

and think, "This is nonsense,
this just isn't true."

But you have to keep saying
to yourself, "Keep an open mind."

If there's evidence of a conspiracy,
go and follow it.

And that led to an issue for Lord
Stevens, in deciding

what he did with the inquiry when it
got towards Prince Philip.

The allegations about Prince Philip
were not specific, they didn't

regard to any other evidence that
we'd got in in our possession.

We contacted him, saying,

"Do you want to reply to any of
what's been said?"

And he said he didn't
have anything to add.

No, just the odd one..

There's not a single piece
of evidence

that Prince Philip was
involved in a plot

to kill the mother
of his two grandchildren.

We've looked, and looked, and
looked, and looked, and looked.

"Mohamed, have you produced anything
evidence-wise?"

Nothing, nothing, nothing.

I have a lot of sympathy
for Mohamed Al-Fayed,

he lost his son.

What I have trouble with is that he
made allegations

without any evidence at all

against people who loved
the Princess of Wales.

We have spoken to many of her family
and closest friends.

I mean, I went to
the press conference.

They clearly were working on the
basis that

everything that came out of
Mohamed's mouth

was not to be believed and that,
you know, he'd lost it,

and he was just fantasising.

The establishment were very anxious
to close Mohamed down.

I had a good relationship
with him from the very beginning.

He always used to have a glass of
champagne ready for me

when I went in there.

I used to think it churlish not
to have one glass with him.

And this was a way of actually
getting to know him better.

Mohamed had wanted the Commissioner
to do this investigation.

He thought he's the one
person who will be prepared

to stand up to the establishment,
because he had done it before.

I believe that any police officer
has a duty to the public.

The report was honest,
we'd done it with integrity,

and all of this relates to trust.

The police will never get anywhere
without the public trust.

Together, we have examined...

The most important thing about
that report

and the "wait a minute" moment,

light shining through
the darkness, suddenly,

was the Mishcon Note.

The note had been put in
a safe at New Scotland Yard.

SAFE BEEPS

I first saw it when I
became Commissioner.

you know the Commissioner has a safe
in his office where things are kept

which are just for his eyes only.

When you take over, as I did from
Lord Condon,

he produced the Mishcon Letter.

Late October, 1995,
two years before the fatal crash,

the Princess of Wales went
to see her personal legal adviser,

A man called Lord Mishcon.

A very well-respected lawyer, and
clearly the Princess trusted him.

She went to see him to tell him
about something

that was on her mind,

and he recorded exactly what
was said.

So, he's writing here,

"I attended an HRH..."
Obviously the Princess of Wales.

"..at Kensington Palace yesterday,

the 30th of October,
at approximately 4pm."

"And what the Princess said then
was that she'd been informed by

"reliable sources, whom
she did not wish to reveal,

"that a car accident might be staged

"in which she would either end up
dead or be seriously injured

"and removed from the scene."

So, she wrote at least two notes.

One was to her butler
and then there's this one.

It seems to me,
what she wanted to do was

to leave a marker down

with somebody connected
with the legal profession.

After the crash,

Lord Mishcon takes his note
of that meeting

to Lord Condon, who was

the Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police, and says,

"Bearing in mind what happened
in Paris, I think

"you need to see this note of
my meeting with the Princess."

The note is important

because it's equivalent
to somebody's premonition.

If you were
a police officer investigating it,

you want to hand
the account over to the French.

They didn't do that.

They stick it in a safe
and they don't reveal it.

Well, that was a decision
made by Paul Condon.

Paul Condon had discussed
it with Lord Mishcon,

and he said he didn't think
there was anything in there.

Because at that time of course,
it's just a crash.

These, shall I call it
strange musings of Diana

from two years ago,
are they relevant to it?

The assessment at that time was no.

From 1997 onwards, when

the Metropolitan Police were
in possession of that note,

it was always a judgment call
about what you did with it,

and the note was released to
the coroner in December 2003,

just before Paget started.

They sat on it for years
to protect

part of the establishment,
namely the Royal family.

What it demonstrates
is serious reluctance

to have this properly investigated
from the beginning.

Mohamed Al Fayed remains convinced

that the Princess of Wales
and his son Dodi died as a result

of a conspiracy orchestrated by
the British secret services.

MI6 have spied on Dodi
and Diana during that trip,

by bugging their phones,
all the satellites on the boat.

Know where they are, find
everywhere, every step.

They've been murdered.

There was a lot in the media about

an alleged conversation between
Paul Burrell and the Queen.

This morning it was the Queen

who was at the centre
of the revelations.

Mr Burrell says his meeting
with her took place

just a few days before
he received an honour from her

in November, 1997.

He says it took place in her private
sitting room at the Palace.

When you think about this
as a conspiracy theory,

you must not forget people,
financially, had something

to gain by it being peddled.

People like Paul Burrell
were making a lot of money.

I'm not saying he made it up,

I just mean that
the temptation, of course,

would always be there
to kind of just, just give us

a little one-liner because then
we'll give you lots of money

and we'll serialise your book.

I can only tell you the truth.

I'm not going to embroider,

I am not going to make anything up,

I will tell you the truth,

exactly what I heard
and what I saw.

From Mr Burrell's
book, A Royal Duty,

he writes,
"As the meeting neared its end,

"the Queen said one more thing
to me.

"Looking over her half-rimmed
spectacles, she said...

"Do be careful, Paul.

"There are forces at work
in my country

"of which even I have no knowledge."

"And she fixed me with
a stare where her eyes made clear

the, "Do you understand?"

We view that books, not Mr
Burrell's, any book like this,

is written for commercial purposes.

Police reports are written

to get to the truth of what happened
and rely on evidence.

Basically,
that is the truth of what happened,

and she did look at me over
her half-rimmed spectacles

and I remember her doing
that and looking at me

and saying, erm,

"Be aware that there are forces
at work in my country."

Since then,
I've thought about that...

..and I think the Queen
must be referring to

the security forces.

That's the only explanation
that I can have.

It's an interesting viewpoint,
Mr Burrell,

erm, but that's your version

of what you think
another person said

and you don't know
what's inside her head.

I'm not gonna go and ask the Queen,

"Do you remember a conversation
with Paul Burrell where you

"allegedly said this,
that and the other?"

She'll say, 'Well, what's that got
to do with Operation Paget

"and what happened in Paris?"

And I'd say, "Nothing, Ma'am."
"Why are you asking me?"

"Because it was in
Paul Burrell's book."

It's like,
no, we just deal with evidence.

My son's been murdered,
and I can't get to the truth.

The campaign which MI6 are doing,
how can I prove?

Now it's important
to bear in mind

Mr Al Fayed didn't suddenly start
accusing MI6.

Everything that related
to allegations about MI6

stemmed from an ex-MI6 officer by
the name of Richard Tomlinson.

Richard Tomlinson worked for MI6,
he was an MI6 officer,

he actually was posted abroad,

he's done all that stuff you might
think of as being a spy.

He worked from 1991 until 1995.

In 1995, they released him,
dismissed him.

He was extremely upset about this.

In 1998 Richard Tomlinson
saw a, I think it was

a TV documentary about the crash,

and he saw that in there,
there was this talk about this

bright, white flashing strobe light
that caused the crash.

Now, Monsieur Levistre,
there will be two flashes... Yeah.

..behind you here. The distance
I think will be just about

the distance you say
when there was a flash

in the tunnel that night.
So, if you look out carefully here.

No.
That's the first one, and now wait,

we should see another
one coming up.

Yeah...Yeah.

That second one? Yeah.

That was. The second one. That
was... Yeah, yeah, sure.

You're absolutely certain?
Yeah, sure.

Mr Tomlinson says that,
at this point in 1998,

this is a year after the crash,

that it reminded him

of something he'd seen

while he was working in MI6,

which was a plot to assassinate
a Serbian leader.

And that plot involved a plan

to kill them by staging
a car accident in a tunnel,

with bright, flashing strobe lights
disabling the chauffeur.

Mr Levistre identified the much
bigger flash, the second one,

and that came from
THIS piece of kit.

Now, this is an anti-personnel
device,

quite legal to buy in the UK,
which sets off

one enormously powerful
flash of light.

Shine this in somebody's eyes and

they'll be stunned, disabled,
blinded for several minutes.

If you're driving
a car when it happens,

you'll almost certainly crash.

I mean, I have seen a plan

to kill President Milosevic
of Serbia,

so they do plan to kill people.

To say that they were directly
involved in the death of

the Princess of Wales is a big step,

but everyone has got a right
to know what MI6 are capable of,

what they actually do

and clearly there are
a lot of information,

there's a lot of details in
MI6 files which are relevant,

and I think those should be
handed over.

So, you've got an ex-MI6 officer,
who's inside

the organisation, saying these
things. It has to be dealt with.

In order for us
to fully understand whether

there was any credible evidence,

meant that we had to go
and speak with MI6.

There was Lord Stevens,

myself and David Douglas drove to,

to Vauxhall Cross to ask them
for access to their files

and their records.

We were in territory that no-one
had ever been in before

asking for those records
to be opened up

in a way that was unprecedented.

We hoped, at the end of the day,

we would convince them it was
in the public interest,

THE public interest, that they
should open up their records

so that we could do a proper job.

If we'd have turned round and said,

"We've found no credible evidence,

"but we haven't been to MI6.

"We haven't managed
to gain access to their files,"

we would have left a gaping door
for those who wish to continue

the conspiracy theories
to do just that.

We went to see the Director General
of MI6

and we had a discussion
about what we wanted to see

and what we didn't want to see.

And during that meeting, MI6 said,

"We know that the central plank
of the allegation here

"is Richard Tomlinson
saying there was this idea

"to assassinate someone
in the Balkans."

There was that awkward moment
where they did reveal that,

you know, there was some element
of truth in the suggestion.

An officer,
Witness A as he was known as,

put it forward briefly
to the senior officer.

And it was only an idea.

So, it didn't go any further
than that.

The thing is, that Witness A
showed Tomlinson.

He said, "Look, this is my idea."

What Witness A is crystal-clear
about is

there's no reference
here to a tunnel or

a bright, strobing light
or all of this sort of stuff.

There's just no reference
to it at all.

I interviewed Tomlinson during Paget

and he said, "Yes, because of my
anger, you know, at MI6,

"I may have mixed up my
understanding of what I knew then

"and combined certain things."

When bright strobing lights
and everything else falls away,

this becomes completely
divorced from 1997.

But you can't blame Mr Al Fayed

for listening to that in
the first place.

At the core of what Tomlinson
was saying

was this scintilla
of truth, that there was a plan

to assassinate somebody
in the Balkans.

I think it demonstrates

there is a state within a state

which is not accountable

and trying to get hold of
the truth is not straightforward.

MI6's records are meticulous.

Every single thing they do
is actually documented

and put on record.

I wanted access to everything.

Only three people in
MI6 would have that type of access.

It's called God's Access.

The lady who helped us was
an MI6 officer, Miss X.

She was given God's Access.

She could go anywhere
in that system.

Basically, we checked hundreds
and hundreds of things.

We wanted to find out

if certain names appeared
anywhere in their database.

We did every search that we wanted
to do for Operation Paget.

You can take it from me, there was
nothing in there that had relevance

to what we were doing

in terms of evidence or
taking our inquiries forward.

What we're not telling you
is some of

the precise details that we're not
allowed to tell you.

I looked at lots of files

which really didn't have any link
or relevance to the princess,

and I found them
extremely interesting

but that's, goes with me
and Dave Douglas to our graves.

I'm in a privileged position.

I know that we checked everything.

Make your own mind up,

but I know I'm telling the truth.

Of all the conspiracy theories that
have swirled around

Diana and Dodi's death,

the white Fiat Uno
is one of the most persistent.

Mohamed Al Fayed claims that
a white Fiat deliberately crashed

into their Mercedes as part of
a plot by the Duke of Edinburgh

to kill the couple.

We do believe that there was
a glancing contact between

the Mercedes driven by Henri Paul

and a white Fiat Uno just before
the Alma underpass...

..and much has been made of
the French photo-journalist,

Mr James Andanson.

It's been alleged that he was
the driver of the Fiat Uno.

Mr Al Fayed thought James Andanson
was the man

who was a spy for somebody.
He was in Paris,

he drove his battered-up old
Fiat Uno into the Mercedes.

In 2000,
he died in strange circumstances.

James Andanson's body was found in

a locked car which had
completely burnt out.

Now, James Andanson was burnt
beyond recognition.

There's a hole in his head
which, you could say,

"Oh, that was a gunshot wound."

There was all sorts of things
in the newspapers saying

"Well, that's clearly
the authorities murdering him,"

and therefore,
we had to look at him

to definitively rule him
in or rule him out.

I got to see the photographs,

I got to see the postmortem reports

and the criminal reports

from the firemen
and the police officers.

There's no doubt that there was
an accelerant used

to cause the damage to the car,
and to him.

His body was so badly damaged by
the intensity of the fire.

The damage to the skull
is entirely explained

by the ferocity and the length
of the burning.

There was nothing
to suggest that these

were gunshot wounds in any way,
shape or form.

There was nothing in my mind that

moved it out of suicide
into murder.

We saw Mrs Andanson, his widow.

She said he couldn't have been
in Paris when the crash happened.

He flew down to Corsica that morning
on an assignment

to photograph Gilbert Becaud,

who apparently is
a very famous French musician.

There was a photograph that he'd
taken of Gilbert Becaud in his house

and behind Gilbert

the television was on,

and you can see
the TV cameras outside

the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital

clearly focusing on
what happened to Diana.

So, the bottom line,

James Andanson, he wasn't involved,
it wasn't his car,

he had nothing to do with it.
It wasn't James Andanson.

Diana and Dodi's Mercedes
was involved in

a glancing collision
with a white Fiat Uno,

but the driver of that car
has never been traced,

despite a massive investigation
by French police.

In the overall scheme of things,

it probably didn't matter
in identifying the driver,

but the type of vehicle
was important

because the allegation being
that the Fiat was used

to deflect the Mercedes
and cause the crash.

Well, in my opinion, that's almost
a laughable suggestion.

The Mercedes is nearly two tonnes
in weight.

It was travelling at something
approaching 70mph.

It has a colossal amount
of momentum.

The Fiat is a little less than a ton

and it was travelling
significantly slower,

and you can liken that to

a huge New Zealand rugby player

running down the high street
and banging into a pensioner.

Purely and simply from the speeds
and masses of the vehicles,

the Fiat cannot have been used

to deliberately crash
into the Mercedes

to cause it
to go on and have a further crash.

Another question
that had been left open

was an allegation that there was
a defect with the brakes

on the Mercedes.

Something had been done to
the car to make it crash.

She had mentioned
that she thought that

the brakes might be tampered with

and, erm, that she might be
the victim of an accident.

I drove her car sometimes,
to reassure her,

but she thought her life
was in danger.

The Diana I first knew,

three or so years earlier,
was not like that.

This was different,
this was sinister.

She now firmly believed that
there were certain people

who had an agenda against her.

We examined the Mercedes in great
detail, looking for defects

or conditions that caused
or contributed to the crash.

We didn't find anything like that.

It hadn't been tampered with at all.

When you know the facts,
it's quite simple.

What we know happened,
from the forensic evidence,

from the debris,

the work that Tony Read did on
the reconstruction,

the front right-hand side

of the Mercedes just clipped

the rear left-hand side of
the Fiat Uno.

He tried to correct
the movement of the Mercedes,

steered left and, sadly, went
directly into the 13th pillar...

..doing around 64 miles per hour.

The Mercedes hit the pillar,
more or less in the front,

which meant that all the momentum
was concentrated

in one very, very small area.

One massive impact where
the occupants were subject

to tremendous forces.

Neither of the rear occupants
were wearing a seat belt

and I'm firmly convinced
that if both of the occupants

had been wearing seat belts, they
almost certainly would've survived.

It was a survivable crash.

I'm confident on the evidence
that we have now that

a full and comprehensive picture
of the events is there.

Now, what exactly happened

is a matter for the inquest
to decide.

However, our conclusion is that

there was no conspiracy
to murder any occupants

of that car.

This was a tragic accident.

We'd decided that...

..we were gonna give the report
on the morning to the Princes,

representing Diana and to Mohamed
Al-Fayed, representing Dodi.

And Lord Stevens made himself
available to go to Harrods

to deliver it.

Mr Al-Fayed, at that point,

that was it, he wasn't going to
see Lord Stevens again.

Do you still categorically
believe that members

of the Royal family conspired to
have your son and Diana murdered?

I am certain.

100%.

Mr Al Fayed, when it was put
to Lord Steven's this morning

that you thought the inquiry
is a cover-up and a whitewash,

he dismissed you as a grieving
parent, that your judgment...

That I go crazy
and do things like that. ..clouded.

Yeah, because he's himself mental
case to say that. No, no, sir...

Just to do that, to say that
I'm a grieving father,

I'm gonna talk nonsense.
90% of the ordinary people

of this country support me and
with this support, I have the power.

With God's blessing, I'm not
gonna rest until I expose...

..the devastation those
gangsters have inflicted on me.

THROUGH PHONE: What evidence do
you have that Lord Stevens,

whom you described,
when he was appointed,

as a man of total integrity, who's
determined to discover the truth,

what evidence do you have
that he's not behaving properly?

There's so many unanswered
questions.

Is this really an honest inquiry?

Well... He's just done what
British Intelligence have asked.

He has betrayed me,
betrayed the country...

Unfortunately, I'm being let down.

I suppose when you put
that type of effort in,

you hope you've got a kind of
a mutual trust between

the two of you, that he's gonna
give you a little bit

of credibility for what you've done

and he didn't give any
credibility to me at all.

In fact, he accused me of being
a criminal and a liar.

If Lord Stevens was corrupt,

if he was a tool of the state,
then, we were, by extension,

the same thing.

You're talking about officers from
all aspects of the police service,

they come along, they do the best
job they can...

To suggest that we'd all got
together and decided to conspire,

to make up this version
of events is ridiculous.

We did a really, really thorough job

and you take a sense of pride in
that you've done a good job and...

..that, yeah, at the end of it,

we are all 100% sure
there was no conspiracy.

It was an honest,
straight-down-the-line-investigation

by a bunch of people,
ordinary detectives,

brought in, who just thought,
"Yeah, let's get on and do this."

PRESENTER: William and Harry have
said today that they hoped

the Stevens' report would bring an
end to the speculation

surrounding their mother's death.

What they can clearly never forget,
though, is how the paparazzi

behaved in the
last moments of her life.

Before the report came out, I had a
one-to-one with both Princes,

to take them through the inquiry

and answer any of the questions
that they wanted to ask.

It was a difficult session
for them and...

..probably quite difficult
for me, really,

because they wanted to know...

..they had very pertinent questions
about what had happened

to their mother.

It was the first time they'd heard
in detail what had taken place.

Harry in particular

was almost angry that this
big distraction about conspiracy,

that she was murdered,

was given so much air time
and so much legitimacy.

And I've had that discussion
with him.

I mean, imagine what it's like,

not only do you lose your mother
when you're 12 years old

in a car accident, but then the only
thing anyone ever says about them

for the next ten years,
15 years of your life,

is whether or not
they were murdered.

William and Harry,

we are all chewed up
with sadness at the loss of a woman

who wasn't even our mother.

How great your suffering is,
we cannot even imagine.

Ultimately, you had
two young boys grieving.

They were probably more affected
than anybody else.

To have somebody suggest that
their father

and their grandfather had
some responsibility

for their mother's death...

You know, no matter how small
that kind of concern was

and the fact that it
was constantly being repeated

in the press,

to be able to give them confidence
as to what happened

and why it happened in itself
was really important.

All of the matters contained
in the Stevens Report

need to be thoroughly tested.

Lord Stevens said that such matters
were best decided by an inquest,

and we certainly concur
that everything

should be put before a jury
of ordinary people in public,

in a coroner's court.

Having an inquest
was extremely important.

I have a great belief
in the jury system.

I would much prefer an issue
to be tried

by a number of ordinary people
than, um, a professional judge

who may have prejudiced views
about particular issues.

Michael Mansfield was doing his job,
and highly proficiently,

and, when a jury's involved,
there's a bit of theatre around it

and you've got to be aware of that,
and the theatre is, you know,

"Is he going to impress a jury that
what we were saying wasn't right?

"Was he going to try and influence
the jury in coming to a conclusion

"that all those three years
were not done

"in the thorough fashion
they were done?"

And if he can put a kind of question
mark over all of that, then,

you know, he's done the job that
he's been paid to do by his client.

It was the day that
Al-Fayed's personal obsessions

would get their public hearing.

There were clues on the court steps
that he was going to let rip.

This is moment for me
to say exactly what I feel,

and, with God's help,
I hope the truth will come out.

He produces photographs
of the Duke of Edinburgh

marching alongside certain
undesirable Nazis before the War.

I mean, you know,
it's sort of, um...

Yeah, he did all that.

But, in a way,
that was half-expected

because he'd been doing it -
that's how he's always performed.

Mr Al-Fayed left the court looking
delighted with his performance

but wasn't pleased
to be questioned by journalists.

But the evidence doesn't
back you up, does it, Mr Al-Fayed?

What evidence? The evidence is
that she was not pregnant.

I'm not talking to you
because you are a bloody idiot,

you're part of the establishment
and you journalists belong...

You work for MI... The evidence...
You work for MI6, you idiot.

Come on, come on.

Always in the back of my mind

was the jury had
to come to their verdict

based on the evidence
that we presented,

and what was presented also
by, er...

..Mr Fayed's team and other people.

The jury could have been
highly critical,

and, you know, that's the chance -

you never...you never know
what's going to happen,

and you hope for the best,
and you do your best,

but you don't really know what's
gonna happen at the end of the day.

So, yeah, I was nervous all right.

She died in the prime of her life
at the height of her fame.

A tragic death
clouded by rumour and suspicion.

But the jury's decision?

There was no conspiracy, no murder.

Diana and Dodi wouldn't have died

had Henri Paul and the photographers
he fled from acted differently.

They also pointed to Diana and
Dodi's failure to wear seat belts

and said the fact the car
hit a pillar

rather than the tunnel wall
contributed to their deaths.

I was relieved when they came out
with the verdict they did.

I really was.

The team deserved that,

because they had worked their guts
out to get to where we did.

I just hope
that this can bring closure

to what has been a traumatic event
for a lot of people.

Mr Al-Fayed has said that he will
accept the verdict of the jury.

On hearing the verdict
he least wanted,

Mr Al-Fayed cancelled
a planned press conference

and swept away from court by car,

leaving his spokeswoman to suggest
that, in his mind, at least,

the conspiracy theories rage on.

I am disappointed.

The verdicts will come as a blow to
the many millions of people

around the world who supported
my struggle, and I thank them.

I've always believed
that Prince Philip and the Queen

hold valuable evidence
that only they know.

They were not even questioned,
but they should have been.

No-one should be above the law.

At the end of it,
there has to be a line in the sand.

You have to reflect,
and you've done everything

that was as human...
was humanly possible.

Now, difficult though it is...

..let it go,

because otherwise it'll eat you up.

Mr Al-Fayed,
you said during the inquest

that you would accept its verdict.
Do you do so now?

I have decided...

..I think, time for me now,

I accept the verdict,
but with a lot of...

..really things
which I am not approving 100%.

There's still a lot of option,
but I'm tired, you know?

So you don't
want to go on any further?

It's difficult for me.

For your own preservation,
your own peace of mind,

your own stability,

you can say to yourself, "I've done
everything I can do for my son,"

and, to give him his due,
he's let it go.

OFF-SCREEN: I think that's enough.
Mr Al-Fayed, thank you so much.

I'm sorry to have put you through
this. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir.

By all means, question everything
that's in that Paget Report.

Question anything you want,

but question it on the evidence
and the facts.

Don't question it on a headline
that you saw last week

or what your Aunt Mabel told you
she'd heard the week before.

Look at the facts.

That is just a dreadful story.

Oh, God.

You write utter nonsense
because you know it's gonna sell.

My job was to write something
people wanted to read.

My job was to, you know,

write a newspaper article
that five million people

would put their hands
in their pocket and pay a pound for.

Quite a lot of what I wrote
was not true,

but it was equally
a little bit true,

and that's why the papers
absolutely loved conspiracy theories

because they were, um...

You'd just make them up, basically.

Whereas the truth
was much less interesting.

I never met a journalist who thought
Princess Diana was murdered,

but I know a lot of newspapers
that published stories -

including my own, at times -

that wouldn't have probably given
that impression to the public.

And you get in a situation
where everyone can gain financially,

and the one thing that just
disappears out of the room

is the truth.

But my view of it never changed
from start to finish.

I wanted it to be a murder.
It's a far better story.

I mean, she's dead, so it might as
well be a good story how she died.

It's not, it was an accident.
It should never have happened,

and it's an incredibly tragic one,
at that,

and that's the end of the story.

24 years after the event.

Probably wasn't even alive
at the time of the crash.

Not true.

Not true. Just look at the facts.

There's something, I think,
in the human psyche

where you just can't believe
that the Princess of Wales

died in such a...

I hate to say mundane,
but a straightforward way,

just in a car crash. That cannot
be true, it can't be true.

So they look for other explanations
for it.

There is no other explanation.

The conspiracy theories
will never go away.

It's just gonna go on. Full stop.

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