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CHARLES PLANS TO MURDER ME

Princess Diana

Wednesday December 19,2007

By Richard Palmer

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THE dramatic letter in which Princess Diana outlined her fears that she would be killed in a staged car crash has been shown in full for the first time.

The first page, written in Diana’s distinctive large, rounded hand, was made public after it was discussed at the inquest into the deaths of the Princess and her lover Dodi Fayed.

It shows that at the time the letter was written, apparently in October 1996 – 10 months before her death – the Princess feared she was to be bumped off to clear the path for Prince Charles to marry their children’s nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

“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,” she 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. Camilla is nothing but a decoy.”

I still don’t believe in it. I still don’t believe she was fearing for her life, especially from Prince Charles, the future King of your country

Lucia Flecha de Lima

The first sheet of the four-page letter was published after Diana’s friend, Brazilian diplomat’s wife Lucia Flecha de Lima, insisted it could be a forgery.

She claimed that Diana’s butler Paul Burrell, who produced the letter in 2003 but with the names blanked out, was perfectly capable of imitating the Princess’s handwriting.

“I still don’t believe in it. I still don’t believe she was fearing for her life, especially from Prince Charles, the future King of your country,” she said.

But the note, which the butler said was given him for safekeeping in case anything happened to her, reflected concerns that she shared with some of her closest advisors.

Diana confided her fears – that she would be “put aside” to clear the way for Prince Charles to marry Tiggy and assume the Throne – to another key confidant, her lawyer Lord Mishcon, two years before her death.

In the tense private meeting with Lord Mishcon in October 1995, Diana told the stunned lawyer that “reliable sources” had informed her of the plan.

He kept it secret until after the Paris crash in which she died almost two years later.

Lord Mishcon, who admitted he could “not believe what I was hearing”, added that Diana “was convinced that there was a conspiracy that she and Camilla would be put aside”.

The respected royal lawyer and Labour peer, who died aged 90 last year, also said that the princess told him that Miss Legge-Bourke had undergone an abortion and that she would obtain a medical certificate to prove it.

In his note of the meeting he wrote: “I told HRH if she really believed her life had been threatened then security measures, including that to her car, would be increased.”

The inquest has heard that Diana left several friends, including Mrs Flecha de Lima, out of the loop over fears for their safety.

By 1995 Diana had become increasingly convinced that Charles and Tiggy were having an affair and that he wanted to marry the young woman who became a surrogate mother to William and Harry as their parents’ marriage broke apart.

Believing unfounded gossip that Tiggy had been made pregnant by Charles and then undergone the abortion, she even confronted her at a Christmas party. “So sorry to hear about the baby,” she said icily.

Her comments left a tearful Tiggy threatening legal action and the Princess was forced to back down.

But friends have said that suspicion of Tiggy was one of the few things that Diana shared with Camilla, who used to refer to her as “the hired help”. Diana’s fears that both were to be put aside to clear the way for her husband to marry Tiggy were revealed in the £3.69million Operation Paget report into the Princess’s death published by ex Met commissioner Lord Stevens in December last year.

He didn’t name her but pointed out that in the letter and 1995 talk with Lord Mishcon it wasn’t Camilla Diana was worried about.

Sources close to the inquiry immediately identified Tiggy as the third woman. Miss Legge-Bourke, 42, is now married and lives with her family in South Wales.

The inquest is examining claims that Diana and Dodi, a Muslim, were murdered by British spies on the orders of Prince Philip because the Royal Family feared the couple were about to get engaged and have a baby.

ANOTHER LETTER?

20.12.07, 3:43pm

Diana could not have been thinking straight,whatever her innermost thoughts might have been while she was in such turmoil, how could she,if she loved those boys so much,hurt them by saying that their father was out to murder her,when he wanted to marry Tiggy?
Did he want to marry Tiggy and didn't she mention that Camilla was the decoy? Was there ever any truth in it ,or another figment of her imagination. She seemed to be very confused as to what was fact and what was fiction.

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

COLONEL MUSTARD IN THE LIBRARY WITH A CANDLESTICK

20.12.07, 12:08pm

This all sounds like a Brian Rix farce ......

• Posted by: Expressdownunder • Report Comment

THOSE POOR PRINCES!! - LIES, LIES, LIES!!!

20.12.07, 12:04pm

I feel so sorry for Prince Charles and his sons with these heartbreaking headlines in the newspapers today and just before Christmas too, the time of goodwill. You couldn't meet a kinder, more humane person than Prince Charles. OK they had problems in their marriage and he was not innocent in that, but he has always gone out of his way to help others, especially young people in this country, and he and Diana both cared about their sons too much to allow a wedge to come between them. I don't believe for one moment that Princess Diana wrote this at all - it's obviously a fake letter written by someone who wants the fall of the Royal Family. Another fairy tale!

• Posted by: Wooram • Report Comment

LEAVE IT - YOU MIGHT END UP JOINING HER!

20.12.07, 9:49am

It seems pretty obvious that Diana's death was not through bad luck and that the shadowy forces of covert operations were involved in some way or another.

However any ops teams that may have been involved have covered their tracks brilliantly and even Mohammed Al Fayed with all his millions can't fully uncover the truth. He may even know all the answers but cant prove it. So if he can't get to the bottom of it and other countries are involved (France at a minimum is almost certainly involved) take my advice and leave it you may end up dead!

• Posted by: CMcInall1 • Report Comment

CHARLES PLANS TO MURDER ME

20.12.07, 9:17am

Her accusation sounds like ordinary paranoia.

• Posted by: geedee • Report Comment

DIANA WAS NO ANGEL!

20.12.07, 9:07am

A woman that knew how to use the media, a woman with a charitable nature but certainly not a saint.

Now she is just another reason for Islamic extremists to try and cause trouble, I admire the work she did as much as anyone, but she is just another statistic of either drunk driving or the nations lust for gossip!

• Posted by: The_Way_I_See_It • Report Comment