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Al Fayed Outlines His Diana Conspiracy

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By JOHN F. BURNS, The New York Times

Published: February 19, 2008

LONDON - Mohamed Al Fayed waited more than 10 years for the day in open court when he could lay out his theory of high-level conspiracy in the deaths of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi, her lover, when both died in a Paris car crash in August 1997.

When the moment came Monday in the fifth month of the long-delayed inquest into their deaths, Al Fayed, the 75-year-old owner of the Harrod's department store, outdid himself with sensational new twists to his allegations that Britain's royal family was behind the crash.

In a written statement that he read, and under questioning, Al Fayed repeated his central claim: What caused the high-speed impact with a pillar in the Pont d'Alma tunnel beside the Seine was not, as lengthy official inquiries by French and British authorities found, that the Mercedes car was traveling at excessive speed and driven by a man who had been drinking heavily, but a conspiracy led by Prince Philip, the now 86-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth.

He also said it was executed by the British and French secret intelligence services, with help from the CIA.

This time, however, Al Fayed added a new co-conspirator: Prince Charles, Diana's divorced husband and 59-year-old heir to the throne. Al Fayed said Charles had participated in the plot so that he could marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

For the first time, Al Fayed said that Diana had told him she was pregnant in a telephone call an hour before the couple left the Ritz Hotel on the brief journey that ended with the crash.

He said the couple told him during the call that they planned to announce their engagement within days, after she told her sons.

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