Posted on 12/20/2007 6:02:02 AM PST by UKrepublican
'My husband is planning an accident in my car': Diana's sensational letter is revealed in full
A handwritten letter from Princess Diana claiming that Prince Charles was plotting to kill her was shown to her inquest yesterday.
In the note, sent to her butler Paul Burrell, Diana suggested that her husband was "planning an accident in my car".
She also made the astonishing suggestion that Camilla Parker Bowles was just a "decoy" while Charles's real desire was to marry William and Harry's nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
A copy of the letter has previously been published, but the references to "my husband" and to Miss Legge-Bourke were blacked out. The uncensored version was revealed to the public after being read to the London hearing into the death of Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed.
It was sent in October 1993, ten months after Charles and Diana's separation was announced. Handwritten in black pen, it reads: "I am sitting at my desk today longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.
"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning an accident in my car, brake failure or some serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy. Camilla is nothing more than a decoy so we are being used by the man in every sense of the word."
Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, is convinced that the couple were killed by MI6 on the orders of Prince Philip because she was pregnant and they were about to announce their engagement.
The jury has already heard that Diana told her solicitor she feared both she and Camilla would be assassinated to allow the prince to marry the nanny.
She insisted to Lord Mishcon at a tense private meeting in October 1995 that "reliable sources" had informed her of the plan.
He kept it secret until after the Paris crash in which she died almost two years later.
The respected royal lawyer and Labour peer, who died aged 90 last year after a long illness, also said that the princess told him that Tiggy had undergone an abortion and that she would obtain a medical certificate to prove it.
Charles and Diana finally divorced in July 1996. Tiggy Legge-Bourke is now 42-year-old Mrs Alexandra Pettifer and runs a bed-and-breakfast business near Abergavenny, South Wales.
The inquest had earlier heard claims that the letter is a fake.
Lucia Flecha de Lima, a close friend of the princess, said the butler was "perfectly capable of imitating" her handwriting.
She added: "I still don't believe in it. I still don't believe she was fearing for her life, especially from Prince Charles, the future king of your country."
The jury also heard yesterday that Diana could not have been pregnant because she was on the pill.
Debbie Gribble, former chief stewardess on Mr Al Fayed's yacht Jonikal, said she found a half-empty strip of contraceptives among the princess's belongings in August 1997.
Miss Gribble told the inquest that Diana was sleeping with Dodi and they shared a cabin during their two trips on the Jonikal.
"They were clearly having a relationship and were on board as a couple," she said via video link from her home in New Zealand.
But she recalled seeing a strip of contraceptive pills in their room while carrying out her housekeeping duties. "I believe there were pills missing from the packet."
The inquest has already heard from two witnesses that the princess could not have been pregnant because she had a period days before her death.
When Diana first went to stay with the Fayeds in the South of France in the summer of 1997, Dodi was on board another of the family's yachts, the Cujo, with his then girlfriend, Kelly Fisher.
Miss Fisher has claimed she was engaged to Dodi but he dumped her after meeting Diana.
Miss Gribble described how on one occasion Dodi took the former Calvin Klein model on to the Jonikal for lunch when the princess was on shore.
She said: "Kelly Fisher didn't seem very happy at all. In fact she seemed quite upset."
Miss Gribble told the jury that Henri Paul - chauffeur in the fatal crash in the early hours of August 31 1997 - had given her a lift to the Ritz Hotel in Paris from the airport the previous day. She said he drove like a "bat out of hell".
"I remember it to be a very hairy drive. It was fast and furious and I was actually quite scared in the back seat."
Another passenger in the Range Rover, the princess's holistic healer Myriah Daniels, has already told how she was convinced she was going to die because Paul was driving "like a maniac".
The hearing continues.
>>>“...planning an accident in my car.” And yet she didn’t wear a seat belt.” and had a drunk driver, speeding and weaving in and out of traffic to avoid papparazzi.
You hire a chauffeur named Toonces, you’re just asking for trouble.
Toonces may be a crappy driver, but he never drove drunk.
It pains me when I think of all the time, money and emotion expended by millions of people worldwide on ridiculous conspiracy theories.
‘The Princess was as nutty as her mother in law thought.’
And slutty to boot. I’ve never understood the facination with this bimbo.
I remember a British lady journalist who commented that if Diana’s IQ were two points lower, she would have had to be watered twice a week.
Double what the he11. She is now another person??
Never knowing who to cling to when the ...
A man’s relationship to the nanny can be a tricky thing. It is a close relationship because of the shared care of the children. Many men mistake this closeness for intimacy, and wind up doing something foolish. This happens over and over again. All young fathers should be warned against making this particular mistake.
Better get the upholstry treated for waterproofing and stain resistance, then.
I’d translate it as “Shiny Lime Fart.”
I guess you know you're really royalty when you have multiple persons keeping track of your menstrual cycle.
Not Guilty!
Ah, yes... Shiny... I missed that subtlety.
It gets worse. Taken to the logical conclusion, she’s now Tiggy Legge-Bourke Pettifer.
ack! Those Brits have such ugly names.
Diana,Princess of Wales.Stark....raving....mad.
"Waiting for the “Fasten Your Seatbelt” light to come on."
Diana, it’s a car! It doesn’t have a “Fasten Your Seatbelt” light, d^$% it!
She must have thought she was Governor of New Jersey or something.
The woman is dead get over it!
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