Royal Diana plot was 'impossible'

Princess Diana's former butler has told the inquest into her death it is "impossible" that she was murdered on the orders of the Royal Family.

When asked if Prince Charles could have planned her death, Paul Burrell said: "I could not possibly see the father of her children murdering her."

He also told the court that as butler to the princess, he connected Diana's network of friends and had been "at the hub of the wheel".

Diana, her companion Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul died in Paris in a car crash in August 1997.

Mr Burrell's comments about the likelihood of a royal murder plot followed a line of questioning about a note from the princess to him in which she said that her husband Prince Charles was "planning an accident in my car".

Asked by Ian Burnett QC, counsel to the inquest, if he knew of anything to support the idea that Diana and Mr Al Fayed were murdered, Mr Burrell said: "No, I can't begin to believe that.
"Knowing the members of the Royal Family as I do, and knowing them so well, I think that's impossible."

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This article rejects the possible murder of Princess Diana based on the testimony provided by her former butler, Paul Burrell.