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The car that Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were in was leaving the Ritz Hotel and traveling to a Paris villa. However, it crashed inside a tunnel near the hotel. One eyewitness reported that a motorcycle cut in front of the car before the car hit the inside of the tunnel. However, when French prosecutors took postmortem tests, it showed that the driver of the car, Henri Paul, had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit in France. The photographers at the scene ... played a part in Princess Diana's death. At the scene of the crash, Diana was still alive and moving and instead of helping her, the photographers took pictures of her and the car wretch.
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On the heels of Princess Diana's tragic death in August of 1997, rumors immediately began to swirl that there was a cover-up surrounding the fatal car crash in Paris' Pont d'Alma tunnel. Could it be that there is more to the death of this 20th Century icon than the public has been lead to believe? Now, thanks to revealing photographs, carefully crafted reenactments, and extraordinary revelations, the folks at The History Channel investigate the allegations that the death of the woman known as the "People's Princess" may not have been an accident after all. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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Perhaps the only thing more curious than the hazy details surrounding Princess Diana’s fatal car crash is the glacial pace by which new information about the actual woman trickles forth. Today’s news remains true to form. One of the late H.R.H.’s closest friends, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, just delivered some interesting testimony in London’s High Court. Contrary to repeated claims by Mohamed al-Fayed—owner of Harrods department store and father of Diana’s then-boyfriend, Dodi... killed in the crash—the princes considered marrying Mr. Fayed an impossibility.
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In August 1996 the marriage between Princess Diana and Prince Charles came to an end. Diana continued with her charity work and achieved high profile coverage for many of her charities the most famous been her campaign against land mines. In August 1997 Diana was tragically killed in a car accident in Paris. The death of the princess led to widespread mourning and her funeral took place at Westminster Abbey, the route was lined by thousands of mourners. It is estimated that 31 million people in Britain and two and a half billion people around the world viewed the funeral service on television. Diana was laid to rest at Althorp and in 1998 a memorial museum was opened in her memory.
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On August 31, 1997, Lady Diana popularly known as Princess Diana of Wales was pronounced dead at 4 a.m. Paris time, 10 p.m. Eastern (U.S.A.) time after a car crash following a chase by paparazzi- the commercial photographers. The photographers were hinted about Princess Diana was in Hotel Ritz in Paris with her new lover; Dodi Fayed, the son of an Egyptian billionaire, who was instantly killed in the accident. According to the story from Paris, on leaving the hotel in a 600 Mercedes Benz, the photographer pursued the couple's car in a chase which reached close to 120 m.p.h and led to a deadly crash as the driver lost control of the car while being pursued by the photographers on motorcycles. Seven photo-journalists have been arrested from the scene and detained for questioning by Paris police.
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"The Murder of Princess Diana" is produced by Working Title Television for Lifetime Television. Simon Wright ("Tales of the City") is the executive producer and Priscilla Parish ("The Robber Bride") serves as associate producer. Julia Stannard ("Sharpe's Challenge") is producer and John Strickland ("Big Love") is the director. Emma Reeves ("Doctors") and Reg Gadney ("Kennedy") wrote the teleplay.
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