Thesis Statement The controversial life led by Princess Diana as well as her tragic death is a direct consequence of the pressures laid by fame and the pressures of royalty. A lot was expected of her as the Princess of Wales. Her elevation to royalty placed undue demands on a lady who could not bear being on the limelight. Her newly found matrimony did not help as her husband, Prince Charles became a philanderer. The Prince openly carried on his affair with an old flame, Camilla Parker. Any sensible woman should have deserted her husband but Diana was no ordinary woman. She was a mother to princes, one of whom was an heir to the British monarchy. Moreover, Diana had a public responsibility to the people of England to behave as the model princess and initially divorce was out of the question. Consequently she decided to put on a façade of happiness in order to fulfill her role as the peoples’ princess and proud wife. Beneath her superficial glamorous veneer, was a hurting woman who lacked an outlet to vent her gradually growing emotional turmoil. Unfortunately Diana had to live by the chauvinistic protocol of royalty. Just like the predecessors, Charles carried on with an affair in the full glare of the public and his wife was expected to tolerate his behavior. A good example is the infamous Tudor King, Henry VIII. Henry had numerous affairs but his wives did not object as it was indeed a man’s world. Apparently such norms are in play as exhibited by Prince Charles. Her station and decorum did not allow Diana to voice her true feelings. Instead she was expected carry herself with utmost dignity and elegance as befitting a princess. Once Diana dared to confront Charles and he only managed a retort, “Well, I refuse to be the only Prince of Wales who never had a mistress!"(Curry, 2004). It was tasking for Diana to live by such traditional customs. Diana was continually subjected to shame but she always amassed enough strength to carry herself with dignity and thereby fulfilling her role as the people’s princess.
Later Diana decided to do the unorthodox, when she revealed her true feelings in her memoir, Diana: Her true story. The unhappiness in her marriage is the main focus and its high magnitude is described as suicide. This action was a step in seeking closure by publicly addressing her problem. Unfortunately, this was not to be as Diana found herself immersed in the public lime light. Her troubled marriage became an instant sensation for the tabloids and it was a subject of wide public scrutiny. The revelation was a source of negative publicity as opposed to the initial motive of gaining comfort and closure. The marriage was a source of undue pressures for a woman who suffered from loneliness as a result of an emotionally unstable childhood. Her parents divorced when she was at the tender age of six and she lacked stable upbringing as she intermittently lived with each parent. In several interviews, Diana revealed her craving for attention. She felt unloved as no one seemed to express affection. In fact she was secretly aggrieved and was always on the brink of suicide. Such a background did not prepare her well enough to handle the pressures of a troubled marriage. Overall, her entire life was a mess as both her childhood and adulthood were laden with emotional strife. Diana was never afforded a chance to address and resolve her feelings. After divorcing Charles, Diana sought solace in an affair with Hasnat Khan and later Dodi Fayed. She was continuously tormented by the media and her private life was in the public domain. Her ghastly accident led to her demise and there are rumors that the media got in the way of a timely rescue that might have saved her life. Overall, Diana’s royalty catapulted her to the limelight and this greatly contributed to her troubled life as well as tragic death.

Conspiracies Related To The Death Of Diana
The Mercedes carrying the Princess Diana (Princess of Wales) and Dodi Al Fayed crashed into a bridge column in the Alma in Paris, August 31, 1997. Surprisingly, the investigation into the death of the couple postponed for a year. The fact that the royal family was afraid that if the wife of Prince Charles had Egyptians children with Dodi, who will be brothers of future heirs to the crown seem as enough reason to want her out of the way.
While escaping from the Paparazzi the car of Diana entered the tunnel at a speed of 190km/h, the car hit the right wall, and then skidded on two-lane road before the thirteenth pile embedded in the bridge where it stopped.
Dodi Al-Fayed and Henri Paul were dead; Trevor Rees-Jones was seriously injured but survived. Diana is freed, still alive from the wreckage, and after first aid on site, she was taken by ambulance to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, arriving shortly after 2 am. She died of his internal injuries, the doctors pronounced dead two hours later. At 5:30, they announced the death of Diana at a press conference held jointly by a hospital doctor, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, the Interior Minister, and Sir Michael Jay, Ambassador of the United Kingdom in France (Coward, 2005).
There was a controversy that the driver could be a patriot, who totally agreed to sacrifice his life for the "dignity" of the crown. There are many theories related to the death of Lady Di and Al Fayed. Among them is a theory that states that Diana is dead, but it is thought that the French secret service prepared a dummy death incident to facilitate her so that she and Dodi could rest easily anywhere in the world..Another theory related to the conspiracy is of the British secret service MI5 that states that an order from the British Royal Family sent an agent to head shot the drive of the car carrying Diana and Dodi, making it end up like as we saw in the pictures.
According to "Daily Mirror", shortly before her death, she wrote a letter to her butler Paul Burrell in which she stated that “This stage of my life is the most dangerous”. The letter, written in October 1996, a year before her death, got delivered by way of "life insurance" to Burrell, then her personal assistant, who revealed its contents to the London newspaper a year ago, but that legal reasons could not be known until now. Burrell has delivered the letter to Attorney Burgess. "It served its purpose. I wanted to give strength to the argument that this investigation should be carried out in Britain," said Burrell, who recently released his book "A Royal Duty" (A royal duty), with revelations about the life and issues of the Princess of Wales.
The accusatory letter against the heir to the British throne confirms the fears of conspiracy theories in the death of Diana. Dodi's father and owner of the store "Harrods", Mohamed Al Fayed, have repeatedly said that his son and Princess Diana of Wales killed by the British secret services under the express orders of Queen Elizabeth II so that Charles could marry Camilla Parker-Bowles. The news about the letter caused a great stir in Britain. Following the announcement that it will investigate the "speculation," Judge Burgess adjourned the official opening research "between 12 and 15 months." Burgess said he can not engage in real investigation and interrogation of witnesses before 2005 given the large amount of material and the need to collect more data (Jane, 2003).
Al Fayed, father of Dodi has continuously reiterated that both Diana and Dodi were the victims of a “clever murder” and blamed Prince Charles for it. The only official investigation into the case so far made by the French courts in 1999 determined that the accident caused by the driver, who drove the vehicle at high speed and under the influence of alcohol.
In his book, “Diana: Secrets and lies”, the British author Nicholas Davies says that the death of Diana and Dodi was not an accident but a plot that involved the British domestic intelligence service MI5, and the DTS, the French services and equivalent in Gaul. The reason would be that Diana had become a tragedy for the royal family and a political time bomb. According to Davies, the operation had all the hallmarks of the secret service. For the author, the Mercedes-Benz that crashed got stolen 15 days earlier and had installed listening devices and the breaking system sabotaged. The seal belts were also destabilized, and among the photographers who pursued Diana on their bikes, there were several Secret Service agents.
According to the hypothesis of Davies, the accident occurred when two officers fired a light used by NATO and U.S. forces from a white Fiat, in the eyes of the driver of Diana to lose control of the vehicle. Dodi and the driver died at the spot, Diana survived a few hours, and her bodyguard survived. Lady Di died in the early hours of August 31, 1997 along with Dodi Al Fayed and French driver Henri Paul, when the Mercedes Benz they were traveling in crashed at high speed into a pillar of the Pont d'Alma in Paris. While a group of "paparazzi" on motorcycles followed them. French investigators concluded that in the moment of impact Paul had a blood alcohol level three times higher than allowed (Rees, Trevor, 2000).
Rumours and conspiracies theories aside, one thing that is clear, that Diana, Dodi and Henri were not wearing seat belts when the car crashed. Her security guard Rees-Jones, the only who survived the crash, was wearing the seat belt. Also, the underpass at the Place de l’Alma is also known as an accident desolate spot; it is on a stretch of high-speed road but only has limited visibility ahead in places; and the presence of square-shaped pillars in the central reservation which could lead to collisions (Melley, 2002).

Conclusion The decision to reopen the case revives conspiracy theories of those who from the beginning did not believe that the couple's death was accidental. As the father of Dodi and owner of Harrods’s London chain, Mohammed Al Fayed, the crash was the result of a plot by the Crown and British intelligence. According to the millionaire, the royal family ordered the killing of Princess Diana to hide the fact that she was expecting a baby. Diana’s accident case still remains a mystery and awaits to be solved.

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