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The picture above is of Prince Charles And Princess Diana in November 1992, taken during a visit to Seoul – the couple’s last official trip together before the Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

Princess Diana’s death is still shrouded in mystery and controversy since the investigation ended in 1999.

Now, the former Metropolitan police chief John Stevens has disclosed that he questioned Prince Charles over allegations that he had plotted to kill Diana, The Guardian reports.

Interviewed as a witness in 2005, Prince Charles was also questioned about a note that his former wife had written in 1995.

The note seemed to predict that she would die through “brake failure and serious head injury” in order for Charles to marry his sons’ former nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, with whom Charles was rumoured to having an affair at the time.

The note, which was handed to Diana’s butler, Paul Burrell (also the person who was found to be responsible for her death in the investigation), read:

“I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.

“This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning an accident in my car. Brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy.

“Camilla is nothing but a decoy so we are being used by the man in every sense of the word.”

The Daily Mail reported that Lord Stevens read the note to Charles and asked him why he thought the princess would have written it, to which Charles replied:

“I did not know anything about [the note] until it was published in the media.”

The exchange continued:

Stevens asked: “You didn’t discuss this note with her, sir?” to which Charles responded: “No, I did not know it existed.”

Stevens also asked: “Do you know why the princess had these feelings, sir?” and Charles replied: “No, I don’t.”

Fascinatingly, Charles was not interviewed as a suspect.

As evidence for the inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi Fayed in 2007, an uncensored version of the note was made public:

The jury returned a narrative verdict in 2008 of unlawful killing as a result of “grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes” in which they were travelling.

Stevens said his team had found no other evidence during his investigation, codenamed Operation Paget, to support the scenario suggested in Diana’s note.

However, the note was written around the time that Diana gave her Panorama interview with Martin Bashir, who was recently found to have engaged in “deceitful behaviour” by commissioning fake documents to get Diana to speak:

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This was only found out last month in an inquiry conducted by former supreme court judge John Dyson.

Stevens is regretful that he and his officers did not know to interview Bashir at the time:

“If there’d been an allegation then that Bashir had produced allegedly fake documents to Princess Diana, which is a criminal offence, we’d have investigated it,” he said.

“And it would have been part and parcel of the inquiry to get to the bottom of it.”

I guess the bottom of it has not yet been found.

[source:guardian]