[imagesource: David Levenson / Getty Images]

The four-part Discovery+ docuseries delving into the British and French inquiries of the death of Princess Diana has revealed something quite startling.

In The Diana Investigations, the mention of a mysterious note dubbed the “Mishcon Note” is making people question details surrounding the death of Diana.

This note was written during a closed-door meeting between Diana and Victor Mishcon, her personal legal representative, as well as her personal secretary, Patrick Jephson, reported The Daily Beast:

During the rendezvous, Diana told Mishcon that “reliable sources,” whom she would not disclose, had informed her that by April 1996, efforts would be made to either “get rid of her”—or injure her to the point where she would be deemed “unbalanced”—in a car accident via brake failure or other means. Mishcon prepared a contemporaneous note of the meeting.

That was on October 30, 1995.

Less than two years later, on August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car crash in Paris’ Pont de l’Alma tunnel along with her partner Dodi Al-Fayed.

Also in the car was Henri Paul, three times over the French drink-drive limit and also using prescription drugs, driving them to their deaths by hitting a wall at more than twice the speed limit.

Only in 2004 was an inquiry into Princess Diana’s death launched by the British Metropolitan Police – Operation Paget, as it was named, with findings totalling 832 pages.

Amidst those pages, the “Mishcon Note”:

“The most important thing about that report, and the wait-a-minute moment, light shining through the darkness suddenly, was the Mishcon Note,” Michael Mansfield, an attorney who represented Mohamed Al-Fayed, the billionaire father of Dodi, says in the docuseries.

“The note had been put in a safe at the New Scotland Yard.”

Lord Stevens, who headed the Diana death inquiry, said investigators had followed up with the note:

“I interviewed Lord Mishcon on three occasions and took further statements on that letter, because it’s something that caused me great concern. I saw Lord Mishcon about a month before he died, in about the spring of 2005, and he held course to the fact that he thought she was paranoid, and he hadn’t held much credence to it. He was her solicitor, and remember, a solicitor has legal obligations to their clients. He was kind enough to make no mistake about it.”

Watch the trailer for The Diana Investigations if you’re interested:

This is all eerily similar to another note written by Diana, in October 1996, two months after her divorce from Prince Charles:

“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,” Diana wrote.

“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 [Prince Charles’ personal assistant].”

It turns out that BBC journalist, Martin Bashir, had planted the idea of the Charles-Tiggy affair in Diana’s head using fake documentation of an abortion.

The publication was forced to pay Tiggy damages last year when this was revealed.

In The Diana Investigations, Burrell concludes that the note was born at a time when Diana “wasn’t stable and her feelings were erratic”.

Lord Stevens’ inquiry also chalked everything up “with 100 per cent certainty” that there was no conspiracy to murder Princess Diana.

If only Lee Sansum, the former bodyguard who was affectionately nicknamed ‘Rambo’ by Diana, was there to save the day. The royal’s death is a tragedy he said he would have helped avoid.

[source:dailybeast]