So, what do we think of her? Is Paul Burrell now portraying the real her? What do we think of him? Was it an accident?

Personally, I think that Paul Burrell is a grasping, nasty piece of work, betraying her secrets for financial gain... but as for the conspiracy theory over her death...

What do you all think?

Agree about Paul Burrell :( Think that Diana was too young to marry Charles, who should have been allowed to marry Camilla years before. Diana was already mentally unstable due to very unhappy childhood and the rest was inevitable. I feel very sorry for both Charles and Diana as, unlike most of us, they were not allowed to make THEIR OWN mistakes - the msitakes of others were thrust upon them :(

All a very tragic situation and one which the boys will have to come to terms with it as they understand more.

Daisy

Very true - and it can't help having her private life dragged across the newspapers every five minutes. I can't understand Charles marrying her though - perhaps he just thought she was naive enough not to notice him and Camilla....

Partly - but in those days, he was still only allowed to marry certain people (virgins, C of E , royal etc ) and probably hoped that he would be allowed to marry Camilla. I expect that he was more or less forced to marry Diana. His grandmother and her grandmother were friends.

The whole thing is very sad - I just wish that he would marry Camilla and they can get on with their lives. Both are now free to marry - if he wasn't the future king, he would have married her long ago. Some people are very hypocritical when they say that they should never marry :(

I am not a fanatical royalist - I just think that they are born into an impossible (OK - very privileged too) way of life. But having said that I DO NOT want a Republic - it would be twice as bad and twice as expensive as the Royal Family :D

Let's hope that William and Harry have more say in the way that they want to live.

Daisy

What do you think to the suggestion her death was set up? I'm in two minds to be fair... in some ways I think it was a tragic accident, in others, I can see why they would want her out of the way...

Can't see that it was anything other than an accident. Don't think that anyone would have wanted the boys to lose their mother like that. But maybe I'm just naive ........

Daisy

They could have wanted to get the boys away from their mother.... horrible thought though :(

Hellooooo Chloe et al, long time no see :)

Anyway, ages ago, I remember reading or hearing something about her saying that she suspects CI5 are planning to bump her off in a car accident......and then lo and behold, she dies shortly after in a car accident. Very strange.

Yeah, I guess Paul Burrel is a bit of a cad, but hey, everyone is at it nowadays..making money off someone else's back.

I reckon William will be the next onto the throne, when the Queen finally abdicates.

I have always thought there was a conspiracy theory.
After all if Di and Dodi were to wed and have a child it would not do for the English Royal Family to have the half brother to the future King of england being half arabic . (in the royal familys eyes I mean - not my view ) or the king of englands step father being half arabic . Shock horror
I feel she did genuinely love Charles and that when everything started to go wrong some of the things she did were a cry for help and trying to force Charles hand. I liked her actually which I cant say for the rest of them except for her children William and Harry.
Lel

Can't agree about the conspiracy theory tho' :) It was something out of Shakespeare - a tragedy waiting to happen :( He wasn't allowed to marry the woman he loved and was forced to marry a young and naive, unstable girl. She was very ill-advised to marry him - I expect that her parents were encouraging her as it was such an honour. She was just totally unsuitable - somebody older and more experienced would have had more idea what they were letting themselves in for.

Daisy

I agree entirely with everything you said, Daisy. You saved me having to type it! Thanks!
:)

The phrase 'SELL YOUR GRANNY FOR A FIVER' springs to mind now when I see what Paul Burrell is doing.With regard to a conspiracy over the death of Diana then yes I do not think it was an ordinary accident.

Just finished reading the rest of the posts here, I have to say I agree with what you say Lel. I don't think much of the rest of the royals, but Diana was more of a real and loving person than any of them and she did raise her boys in a very down to earth way.

As an outsider I can say I liked Diana. I always felt a bit of a bond with her as I was born as she and Charles were walking down the isle. My mom always likes to say I interupted their wedding. Have said that, you have now figured out exactly, to the day how old I am, so you know that I am to young to have any real views on her. I can say this though. I liked the way she portrayed her self as a long mother and caring individual.

Drai, you're never too young to have your own views :) I agree that she did come across as a loving mother.

Think Burrell is a money grabbing so and so. We were in a French hotel stopping over on driving back from France on hols when I saw TV and in shock I said 'they've killed her' (I do not mean Charles/Royal Family) and I still believe it now. No Diana and in comes Camilla good and proper. Real life isnt Mills & Boons as far as I am concerned and I think it will all come out in the future long after we have all gone.

Gina

The world seems to be divided into two groups. One group thinks she was a living saint, the other that she was a damaged individual who was pressured into a position for which she was temperamentally unsuited.

Paul Burrell is just beneath contempt.

I believe Paul Burrell , he was the closest anyone could be to a royal person he even chose her dress and got her presentable for her coffin which must have taken the greatest courage and the trust was there from the royal family to do all that.
I liked Diana and I think its disgusting how Charles treated her he and camilla derserve each other and I believe what goes around comes around and I certainly believe that though maybe not in my life time but that eventually the truth will come out and yes I belive she was got rid of nothing will ever convince me otherwise.
Diana did many things out of compassion that people dont know about she was a really caring person, Prince Charles came to blackburn some years ago and his helicopter landed in our local country park I was there walking my dogs there was a small welcome red carpet etc... but apart from some schoolchlidren no one else was there now picture if Diana had come the park would have been swamped with people.
Have you thought that Paul Burrel may not be doing this for money it could be because he wants people to know the truth.

i believe that it was just an accident. if it had been otherwise, surely by now the bodyguard who survived the crash would no longer be here - the risk of his memory returning, even giving the slightest hint of foul play, would be too great.
about time paul burrell shut up and got on with his life - as i imagine her sons are trying to do.
none of us really know what goes on in the royal family (or any other family) and it's awful that people can make money from gossip and dirt digging.

val

One thing that has always puzzled me is that the bodyguard had his seat belt on but no one else did. Or so I read. I am VERY VERY GLAD that he is still alive poor man but as I said this still puzzles me as I thought bodyguards/police etc did not have to wear seatbelts. Please correct me if I am wrong as I would like to know if I am wrong.

Gina

I don't think that him going on about her having 9 male suitors after her divorce, her ranking them in order of preference, and claiming she didn't love Dodi, but was in love with some surgeon is really in the public interest. Its attention grabbing for his book.

Nothing could convince me that he is not in this for personal gain - fame & fortune. Sad for her boys.

Interestingly - the princes have this evening issued a plea to Burrell to stop publishing revelations - he has apparently dismissed this request and refused.....

I think it was an accident, but the revelations of Paul Burell are beneath contempt in my opinion. I mean if he had in his possesion a letter saying she thought she was going to be killed why didn't he speak out before. I think Diana was a "troubled soul" and if anyone had any brains they would have seen it would not be a match of happiness I mean what did Charles say on the day of their engament " Whatever Love means?."

I think he was a pawn in the situation like Diana.

But Burrell is racing this all up for money. I hear William and Harry have issued a statement which is against his revelations.

We will probably be able to read most of it in the papers anyway without having to read the book :(
One thing that puzzles me is why now ? Why release the letter now and not after the crash ?
Lesley

It's William and Harry I really feel for:-(

It's very sad what some people will do for money.
I have never had any doubts from the minute I heard about her death that this was no accident. We will probably never know the truth.
Lorna

I think there are still too many unanswered questions about the crash. I never thought it was an accident. Although it is strange that Trevor Rees Jones, the bodyguard (who fortunately has no memory) hasn't had an unfortunate accident.
Perhaps Paul Burrell would like certain people to know, he has a great deal of information about the Royals, which may become public should something happen to him???

Then again, I love a good conspiracy theory :D :D

liberty:)

Hmmm lots of odd things about the crash too...
If someone as driving that fast and erretically wouldnt you put your seat belt on .
Also the chauffur had thousands stashed away in different bank acounts although he wasnt on that good a wage . he had passed an advanced driving test or something just a few day before and there was no alcohol in his system yet he was claimed to be a really bad alcoholic ( and no one realised....??? )

By the waY - if I go missing or anything happens to me-
show the police this post ;)

Too true Lel. If Henri Paul was as drunk as the tests indicated, he would have been 'legless', and you would have smelt him (alcohol) before you saw him. So someone would have noticed that. Still no explanation for the toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood (so probably not his), plus all the stuff about the ambulance taking so long to get to the hospital, when they would have knowen her blood pressure was alarming low, and only swift surgery could save her.

liberty

Pretty scarey really but not very nice for her boys to read :(

I agree entirely Lel :(

Interesting to see there is a vote on AOL at the moment and currently there are 78% that say there WAS a conspiracy and 22% say there wasnt
Lel

Hi we watched the Tonight programme ,and like most people on here i think that Diana's death was suspicious, and too convienient....(by the way i am a royalist) but my husband was saying ,that if there was a plot to kill her a car was not a fullproof way to do it ,i think he is right ,there must have been many other ways to make sure no one would survive !!as for Paul Burrell...if he was supposed to be "her rock" i would hate to see what he would have done had he DISliked her !!if he had any feelings for William and Harry,he would never have written this book in the first place ...i think this is his revenge ......i think he will go the same way as Hewitt,i hope so, they are both parasites !! Bye Sue T.

There could have been several attempts on her life at any one point - all so subtle that if they failed they wouldn't be detected - if you know what I mean. For all we know, the bodyguard could well have been SAS or something similar, and tasked with making it go to plan - and DOES have a memory. Far more complicated things have been pulled off than organising a fatal car crash :(

Ive always said there was something dodgy about that crash, Di was in the way, she was popular and the other royals didnt like it one bit, dont suppose we will ever know the truth, I feel for the boys.
Heidi

It didn't even need to be a fatal car crash though, as long as they got her in the 'ambulance', they could then make sure she didn't survive her injuries

Yes that is one of the things that bothered me - the bodyguard was the only one with his seat belt on and he survived with horrific injuries!

Gina

lol :D @ lel

I don't understand wht you're LOL@Lel, I thought she had a valid point

liberty

it was the part were she put <<<<if anything happens to me then show the police this post>>>>

i never meant it in a bad way liberty, i just liked the way she put that part at the end, i think she has a valid point too, my post never went under the one it was suppose to...not my fault :)

Thought that he was a creep from the start :( When he had his trial he was going on about how he was trying to protect HIS sons(?) from everything - he certainly doesn't want to protect the sons of the person that he supposedly worshipped :( :( :( Just in it for the publicity AND the money - off with his head :D

Daisy

I can't understand why P Burrell waited so long to divulge this 'evidence'. I think Diana was a very beautiful but mixed up lady. She was too young to marry Charles and because he didn't want her I don't think he treated her well. Charles shouldn't have been pressured into marrying anyone just because they were 'suitable' - suitable for who? the monarchy or Prince Charles? Now we have a very unhappy (he may be priviliged but I wouldn't be in his shoes for a million pounds!) future King, a dead princess and motherless young Prince's - how sad :-(

I personally dont think prince Charles should be king,

And I can't think of a person better suited for the job! I certainly wouldn't wish it onto William quite yet - let the poor lad have some life!
JMO
:)

Personally I have always believed that the crash was no accident. I think it would be really naive to believe that the Royals and the british government would not have the inclination or ability to 'remove' someone who they thought could compromise the monarchy. I find it amazing that an inquest has not looked into her death after 6 years, questions do not even appear to have been asked, let alone answered. There are too many inconsistencies in the facts surrounding what is supposed to have happened for it to have been a total accident.

If I disappear without my dog please show this to anyone who may investigate.

Dill

I agree dill , i think that paul just came out with what the public were thinking all along.. i think the investigation should have been done by now!
also the doctor said he delt with diana and could have saved her . the camaras where faced inwards in the tunnel why?the paparats were no where near. the drivers alchol in blood was so high he could have had alchol posioning.never mind walk!he dident look like he was stagering to me in the video.funny they lost his blood samples.
Why did the queen ring dianas mother up tellin her she couldent go to see her? and never let her do a single thing for the funeral. very selfish dont you think. think they dident want the future kings mother marrying a muslim.
I dont think paul should have taken any money for his story ,
Dont know how diana could rest in peace if she was killed.... this whole thing wouldent have been draged up so big if they had of done the investigation right away.
Ps dill if i go too you know where ive gone let sumone know;)
i really hope the church dont change the rules so charles can marry his bit on the side finaly . i hope everyone took a note of wat he was doing on his wedding day with Camilla;)he should have picked one or the other sorry mate but you cant have your cake and eat it!

I think that they should let :
Diana rest in peace
Charles and Camilla get on with their lives

I also think the crash was no accident and that she was too young and niave to marry Charles. Paul Burrell should stop going to the papers every time he finds himself low on cash and stop dragging her name through the papers. She is not here to defend herself and her name.

William and Harry should be allowed to live alittle too, they are still young and have alot of fun to have (if they would be allowed to!). I cannot imagine what they must think about all the things they read in the papers about their mum.

I am afraid I think PB is right in doing what he is doing.

The Royal families' Courtiers, and the 'hidden force' who ever they are are in a world of their own and dictate what the Royals do and feel it was dispicable the way they let PB go through a year of absolute hell to be let of at the last minute when the Queen suddenly remembered what he was saying all true all along!! How much did it cost the tax payer and it ruined his business and put his family through hell.

He has made money yes form Publishing a book but there are no real surprises in it and again through the extracts published in the papers it is another media manipulation of the written word !

JMHO ! :)

Lucy

I can understand why he is doing it - but its not very dignified, and he is coming across as being completely disillusioned in his actual place in the household. Yes they put him through hell, but is publishing a book about his "beloved" Diana's secrets the way in which to avenge it?

Personally, he would have earned more respect had he kept a dignified silence - and simply refused to comment. If, however, he is doing it for the money because he has been financially ruined - then why not just say so and stop pretending to be a "guardian of her secrets" whilst busy spilling them to the highest bidder?

And people should stop buying the bl**dy book aswell - hypocrites.

JMO too :)

PS - Hows the old girl settled in Lucy?

It may well have earned him more respect by staying silent but it would not have made sure his family are financially secure for the rest of their lifes which thanks to what happened was not going to happen :( It is not morally right but at the end of the day he is doing it yes for the money but I genuinely think he still holds her in the highest regard !

I think it all stinks personally and that they all need to get into the real world! Was it like the modern version of beheading to get rid ?

Pudding is fine but we have to work on a woofing problem ! :)