It's hard to believe it's been 16 years since Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, but 16 years or not, there's a new theory out about the way Prince William and Prince Harry's mother died. Would you believe that the Princess of Wales; her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed; and their driver Henri Paul were actually murdered by a member of the British military this week 16 years ago? It's wild, but not so wild that Scotland Yard isn't taking it seriously.
They're actually investigating the claims!
The allegation of military involvement in Diana's death reportedly comes from the parents-in-law of a former soldier, but they're rather surprising considering just how much time the tragedy has spent under the microscope. It was investigated first in August 1997, when the crash occurred in a Parisian road tunnel, and has been touched on in years since. In 2008, a British jury blamed the driver and the paparazzi chasing the princess' car for recklessness in causing the crash.
Whether the as-yet-unidentified people making these allegations are crackpots or not remains to be seen, but the information is solid enough that officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command of Scotland Yard are said to be reviewing it.
As if Prince William and Kate Middleton didn't have enough on their hands with a newborn baby at home?
What do you think of the new "news" about Diana's tragic death?
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