Diana Car-Swop Riddle ; Secret Files On Her Death Reveal Giant Tv Screens Helped Ministers Not at the Abbey Service Jibe at Pounds 3m Funeral Cost: 'It's Scarcely a Deck On Royal Yacht' Mystery of the Last-Minute Paris Switch to Mercedes with a Drink-Driver

Daily Mail › March 16, 2005

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SPECULATION over why Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed switched to a different car minutes before their deaths has been reignited by newly released official papers.

The change to the Mercedes driven by Henri Paul has been explained as a bid to dodge photographers waiting for them outside the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

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Diana Car-Swop Riddle ; Secret Files On Her Death Reveal Giant Tv Screens Helped Ministers Not at the Abbey Service Jibe at Pounds 3m Funeral Cost: 'It's Scarcely a Deck On Royal Yacht' Mystery of the Last-Minute Paris Switch to Mercedes with a Drink-Driver

But papers released by the Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act suggest the car they originally planned to use had broken down.

They include a memo written to Tony Blair within hours of the crash on August 31, 1997.

One document the identity of its author has been kept secret says:...

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