Princess Diana died ‘after plan to frighten her went wrong'

By Lucy Halfhead  on Friday 12 March 2010

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Britain's best-known defence lawyer has claimed that the death of Princess Diana was brought about by a failed attempt to frighten her into leaving lover Dodi Fayed.

Michael Mansfield QC, who represented Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, at the six-month inquest in 2008 into the couple's deaths, said he was sure Diana's killers had no intention of ending her life in a Paris underpass in August 1997.


But he claimed an operation to torpedo her relationship with Dodi and silence her planned criticism of the Government over land mine sales abroad, backfired spectacularly.



 ‘I don't believe anyone wanted to see her dead. I think there was a plan to sabotage the relationship and alter her life, to try to stop her activities. But this plan went very badly and ended with her death,' the Daily Express quoted Mansfield as saying in an interview with the Barcelona-based newspaper El Periodico.



The radical QC outlined his views in memoirs published last year on his colourful 40-year career. But his latest comments offer further insight into his feelings about the case.



Mansfield said British authorities opposed several aspects of Diana's private and public life. 'I believe the relationship between Diana and Dodi displeased the authorities. In spite of all the work Mohamed Al Fayed did for children and hospitals, he was persona non grata in Britain,' he said.


An inquest jury concluded that the grossly negligent driving of chauffeur Henri Paul and pursuing vehicles had unlawfully killed Diana.

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Friday 12 March 2010

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Interesting theory, have never thought it was a genuine accident. She was too much of a threat to the Royals.
Comment by miss B on March 12 11:14

Nice one Miss B. I agree!
Comment by Mrs B on March 12 12:58

I totally agree with Miss B`s comment but I must add we will NEVER know the truth, because they would most certainly lose both William and Harry if it got out.
Comment by NannyD on March 12 14:23

Yet another theory re: Diana's death. I truly believe it was an unfortunate accident. The untimely end of a sad and beautiful woman.
Comment by kathy on March 12 20:12

..Probably sometime next century when all involved and family are gone..the truth will come out...
It will always be sad and I agree with miss B above..but the truth always outs in the end whether now or in a hundred years..
Comment by anon on March 16 20:16

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