Diana and the Duke

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by bryan.
Categories: General.

We can all sleep a little easier tonight. It turns out that neither the Duke of Edinburgh nor MI6 ordered or carried out the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. I’m glad LJ Scott Baker has cleared up this confusion, because I’d almost been persuaded by Mohamed al Fayed’s allegations that Prince Philip had a secret service control room in Balmoral Castle! The inquest has cost close to £7m of taxpayer’s money, but I’m sure we all agree that it was money well spent.

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A question of inquiries

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by bryan.
Categories: General.

Please, please, please can we get over the death of Princess Diana. Or, more accurately, will Mohamed Al Fayed please learn to deal with and to accept the tragic death of his son and the Princess. We have now had countless inquiries and reports into the events of that night in Paris in 1997, each of which has concluded that the deaths were accidental. But still Al Fayed draws out the affair, with accusations against anyone and everyone that crosses his path.

Is, as sketch-writer Simon Hoggart appears to hint, this whole exercise aimed at clearing the Al Fayed family name? As he recalls, ‘when the Princess died she had just left a Fayed hotel in a Fayed car, and was being driven to a Fayed house by a Fayed driver, protected by a Fayed security guard and sitting next to Fayed’s son’ (The Guardian, ‘A question of inquiries’, 23 February 2008).

It does give you something to think about.

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