There are three main conspiracy theories about Diana's death: 1) That Diana faked her own death with Dodi's help to escape media intrusion into her private life, though the crash may have gone wrong. However, it seems unlikely Diana would want to miss her children's lives. 2) That rogue MI6 elements killed Diana because they saw her as a threat to the monarchy. MI6 had bugged Diana before and some doubt they would risk further instability by killing her. 3) That Dodi's enemies in business orchestrated his assassination using Diana's death as cover, but targeting Dodi in Paris in a way that also killed Diana would have been an enormous risk.

2. THEORIES
There are there big conspiracy theories: Faked
death, mi6 killed Diana, target assignation Dodi
Fayed who was travelling with her.

3. FAKED DEATH: PLOT
Fed up with the constant intrusions into her
private life by the media, Diana, helped by the
huge resources of Dodi, arranges a spectacular
'death' from which she can retreat into blissful
isolation. One version of the theory claims that the
crash was an attempt at a faked death that went
horribly wrong.

4. EVIDENCE
a. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones still lives, but
testimony from Mercedes auto experts says that it
would have been almost impossible for anyone to
have survived a crash in the tunnel in a car going
at 121 mph. Maybe, as driver Henri Paul's lawyers
claim, the car was not going that fast. Maybe the
crash was faked by the army-trained Rees-Jones
who had previously deposited Diana and Dodi
elsewhere.

5. EVIDENCE
b. Dodi's usual driver was not used. Mystery still
surrounds Henri Paul, the security officer who
stepped in at the last minute to drive the Mercedes
S-280. It took a full two days for his name to be
revealed, for instance. Co-workers at the Ritz
Hotel say he kept himself to himself and never
socialized with them. One version of this
conspiracy has it that Paul simply did not exist,
another that he was quickly whisked away from
the hospital after being declared dead by doctors
in cahoots with the Al Fayed family.

6. EVIDENCE
c. Just six hours before she died Diana let slip to
Daily Mail reporter Richard Kray that she was
about to withdraw completely from public life.

7. LIKELIHOOD: 2/10
Parts of it sound feasible but what about Diana's
two children? It is almost inconceivable that she
would want to miss out on the rest of their lives.
The chances of her coming back to see them
without being noticed are surely slim, though
plastic surgery permitting it might be prudent to
look out for a similarly built 'nanny' appearing on
the scene in the future.

8. MI6 KILLED DIANA: PLOT
Rogue elements in the British secret service
decide that Diana is a threat to the throne, and
therefore the stability of the state. They take her
out.

9. EVIDENCE
a. Recent revelations have shown that there are
rogue elements in the secret service who act as
more or less autonomous cells. Some of these
have been revealed to have a pretty strange view
of what constitutes a threat to the state. For
instance, they have files on John Lennon, current
British Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Jack
Straw and they once tried to destabilize the 1970s
Labour government. It is not inconceivable that
the same agents who believed Lennon was
capable of leading revolution also believed Diana
was capable of fomenting popular unrest.

10. EVIDENCE
b. MI6 is suspected of bugging Diana throughout
her years in the Royal limelight, and many believe
they were behind the leaking of the 'Squidgygate'
phone tapping tapes which damaged her image
during the break up with Charles.

11. EVIDENCE
c. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was a former
member of the crack Parachute Regiment, one of
the most toughest in the British army. He also
completed two stints in Northern Ireland and
served in the Royal Military Police, Just the kind
of background that would have seen him come
into contact with members of the secret service.
Theorists cite the fact Rees-Jones survived the
crash as evidence that he was in on the plot to
snuff out the Diana threat.

12. LIKELIHOOD: 3/10
Few doubt that the nutters at MI6 are capable of
anything but surely even they would have had
qualms about bumping off Diana, if only for the
reason that her death might bring on the very
things they most fear, the drift toward a republican
state in the UK, as Charles loses still more
popularity.

13. TARGET DODI: PLOT
Business enemies of Dodi and his father
Mohammed Al Fayed assassinate Dodi, with the
death of Diana a magnificent cover for their
operation.

14. EVIDENCE
Al Fayed has not got to the top without making
some serious enemies along the way. The owner
of Harrods fought a bitter battle for the top
London store some years ago and has also been
denied British nationality after question marks
were raised about his business practices. His
activities have included under the counter
payments to Conservative MPs. as his oldest son
and heir, Dodi would be an obvious target for
anyone wanting to settle a score with Al Fayed.

15. LIKELIHOOD: 1/10
With Diana involved, the police operation
is likely to be one of the biggest in Paris
history so any assassin would be taking
one hell of a risk by cutting the break
cable, say, of Dodi's car. Then again, the
day of the Jackal is a Paris story.

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