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Was the People’s Princess Murdered ?

There are few things more haunting than Princess Diana's Panorama interview, which happened a mere two years before her passing in 1997. In that interview, it's always said that you could see it in her eyes: the fear, anxiety and deep sadness caused by her relationship with whom she ominously called 'the establishment'.

no doubt. From hugging victims with HIV un-gloved to continuing with charitable and Royal engagements even after her divorce, it was clear that this 'princess of people's hearts' refused to be sidelined or disappear from relevance in the way the family would've preferred.

By 'the establishment', she means the British Royal family, who are well beyond your typical nightmare in-laws. In her jaw-dropping interview, she makes a series of allegations which caused definite harm to their reputation, including their perception of her as a 'problem' that needed to be 'solved', their interception of correspondence and opportunities directed at her and, most memorably, her confirmation of long-standing rumours relating to Prince Charles' infidelity, with her softly explaining that 'there were three people in this marriage, so it was rather crowded.'

With this bubbling suspicion coupled with various rumours and scrutiny about her moving on and being in another relationship (a bit of a double standard given her husband was involved with Camilla from the outset, but that's an issue for another article), some would say that her death was inevitable. Diana, at least, thought so. In a letter that was disclosed by butler Paul Burrell after her death (she had given it to him for safekeeping), she said this: 'This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. [...] [The Royal Family] is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry'.

Although it had been long suspected that the innerworkings of the Windsor dynasty weren't always at they seemed, this was the first time it was confirmed - and by someone that the family greatly considered to be a threat,

Eerily so, it cannot be ignored that the circumstances of her death are pretty much parallel. With these similarities, it becomes increasingly plausible that foul play was involved. There are several different theories and evidence that point

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