Princess Diana Conspiracy From Like Ten Years Ago

Gaddez

So, a few days ago, I wind up hearing for the first time about This man named Mohamed Al-Fayed and the ginat conspiracy he's cooked up surrounding the death of his son and princess diana.

As near as I can determine, Fayed is claiming that the british "establishment" had grave concerns about the possibility that Princess diana was pregnant with the child of a muslim (his son dodi), and that this would taint the monarchy. As a result, The royals (with the exception of the queen) concocted a plan with the assistance of MI6, the london police force, Parisian coroners, and a tabloid photographer to cause the car crash that killed her.

For those of us in north america, I have to ask the british forumites: Is there actually anything to these ridiculous accusations? To me, Fayed sounds like a father who, unable to deal with his son's death, is obsessed with dragging the good name of the royals through the mud so that there can be someone to hold accountable for what is esentially a tragic accident..

Qingu

Not to generalize, but Muslims do seem to love their conspiracy theories.

saint2e

But the man sure built a great store in Knightsbridge.

Æthelred

To answer your question: no.

Massive waste of money. A more plausible conspiracy theory is that the tabloid newspapers have somehow infiltrated the court services to keep this going for ten goddamn years.

edit:

the good name of the royals

LOL

MikeMan

Qingu wrote: »

Not to generalize, but here's a laughably ridiculous generalization.

WMain00

For those of us in north america, I have to ask the british forumites: Is there actually anything to these ridiculous accusations? To me, Fayed sounds like a father who, unable to deal with his son's death, is obsessed with dragging the good name of the royals through the mud so that there can be someone to hold accountable for what is esentially a tragic accident..

Uh, well...not really. Depends on your point of view i suppose. Certainly some of the accusations he came up with during the trial were a tad bizzare. A massive conspiracy? Don't really know.

For starters there's no real evidence, which Fayed has claimed was erased. By all likelyhoods; yes, it was a terrible accident, but it was no more than an accident. I can't quite see a reason behind the monarchy wanting to kill Diana merely because she may be having the child of Dodi. Muslim or not, i'd imagine it wouldn't of destabilised the monarchy. In fact what did destabilise the monarchy was the lack of response after Diana's death for days. The film the Queen does show a hint of truth i'd imagine in what happened. They chose not to speak, and in doing so they self destructed any faith most of the people of Britain had.*

Conspiracy? If you want my theory it is more along the lines that MI6 did kill her, backed up possibly by Phillip who was annoyed with her and the fact that she had divorced Charles and left to the Fayeds. He would be the only one involved in it, and used whatever power he may have had to rid her. But it's really a long shot, and i'm more inclined to think that it just was a terrible accident.

Why do we keep going on about her? Because the Daily Mail/Express can't stop it! There's always something about her in that damn paper and their probably always will be for years to come. Let her rest in peace is what most of us are saying.


(*And let me add here that apart from Southern areas of England and London, the monarchy isn't exactly supported in the "God save the Queen" way that America might see. Scotland and Northern England mostly don't care, and know perfectly well that the monarchy holds no real power anymore these days anyway. It's loss would not be earth shattering.)

Coldred

It's kind of sad really how the death of his son seems to have turned Al Fayed into a vindictive tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist. What's even sadder is that the papers, BBC News, etc. are taking this so seriously. I mean come on:
Ex-MI6 boss denies killing Diana

And besides, if the security services wanted to kill Diana they could've done it much less messily.

Octoparrot

Qingu wrote: »

Not to generalize, but Muslims do seem to love their conspiracy theories.

You mean she wasn't pregnant and she wasn't elaborately assassinated in order to prevent the birth of the Mahdi so that he may fight Harry, the incarnate antichrist? My sources have lied to me.

Æthelred

The supposed motive for an assassination is that the royal family didn't want a Muslim to be step-father to the future king, or for him to have a half-Muslim half-brother, which they indeed probably didn't want.

Bogart

Anyone believing that Prince Philip is somehow able to call on the services of assassains within Mi6 to do his personal bidding is living on the planet of woweeemadness. No-one gives a fuck about the supposed plot except conspiracy whackos and the right-wing loonball media which relies on this story to continually sell papers.

nosnibor

Æthelred wrote: »

The supposed motive for an assassination is that the royal family didn't want a Muslim to be step-father to the future king, or for him to have a half-Muslim half-brother, which they indeed probably didn't want.

Not to be a dick, but there's no such thing as a half-Muslim. You're either a Muslim or you're not.

WMain00

Bogart wrote: »

Anyone believing that Prince Philip is somehow able to call on the services of assassains within Mi6 to do his personal bidding is living on the planet of woweeemadness. No-one gives a fuck about the supposed plot except conspiracy whackos and the right-wing loonball media which relies on this story to continually sell papers.

What he said, basically. Right wingest papers go on and on about it.

Æthelred

nosnibor wrote: »

Æthelred wrote: »

The supposed motive for an assassination is that the royal family didn't want a Muslim to be step-father to the future king, or for him to have a half-Muslim half-brother, which they indeed probably didn't want.

Not to be a dick, but there's no such thing as a half-Muslim. You're either a Muslim or you're not.

Couldn't think of a better way to phrase "kid with a Muslim father who might make him Muslim but also with a Christian mother who might not".

Mr Bubbles

WMain00 wrote: »

Bogart wrote: »

Anyone believing that Prince Philip is somehow able to call on the services of assassains within Mi6 to do his personal bidding is living on the planet of woweeemadness. No-one gives a fuck about the supposed plot except conspiracy whackos and the right-wing loonball media which relies on this story to continually sell papers.

What he said, basically. Right wingest papers go on and on about it.

Also because the Daily Express (who are notorious for their Diana front pages) are owned by Mr Richard Desmond, porn baron and close friend of Mohammed Al Fayed

Safety Stick

A car crash always seemed like such an inconsistent way to kill someone. You'd have so little control over the way it hit something, its speed, etc. I mean, out of a car of four one serviced. Why couldn't that have been the intended target rather than just the hired help? Given the Princess's jet set lifestyle it would have been far easier to engineer an accident based on one of the private flights.

And at this point Fayed has so many people involved it would have been a security nightmare to control the planning or event the information that the crash was designed to suppress (pregnancy/engagement, take your pick).