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Princess Diana's Secret Note Foretold Fatal Car Crash; Revealed In Chilling New Documentary

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By Favour Adegoke on August 20, 2022 at 3:00 PM EDT

Princess Diana's death shocked many who had revered her for her charity works and other kind deeds. The royal passed away in the most horrifying manner imaginable – a car accident, along with her partner Dodi Al-Fayed and the driver Henri Paul.

Investigations into the collision revealed many details, including that her driver was severely intoxicated and using prescription narcotics when he rammed it into a pillar in the Paris' Pont de l'Alma tunnel.

While questions about a possible foul play were purported after her death, even though they were never confirmed, one startling discovery at the time was that Diana seemed to predict her demise in a letter to her attorney written years before its occurrence.

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Princess Diana Shared Her Fears With Her Lawyer

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New information about the passing of one of the world's most adored royals has been revealed in the "The Diana Investigations" docuseries per Daily Beast. According to the show, which debuted on Discovery+, Diana informed her attorney Victor Mischon in 1995 about a potential assassination plot, saying that one approach might involve staging a car accident.

Diana allegedly revealed the details to her attorney in a private meeting that Patrick Jephson, her personal assistant, also witnessed. The demise princess stated during the ensuing conversations that "reliable sources" had alerted her to the potential attack.

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The royal was adamant about keeping the source's identity a secret, but she did admit that one of the plans included hurting her severely enough that, if she could not be eliminated, she would be labeled "unbalanced."

Even though the information shared during the meeting was considered secret, Mishcon still recorded the conversation in a note for unknown reasons. But in the end, it was the only proof that the princess had been concerned about a possible assassination attempt.

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The Princess' Death

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Diana's awful life prediction wouldn't come true until two years after that meeting. The princess, her boyfriend Al-Fayed, and the driver Paul were eluding throngs of paparazzi pursuing them on motorcycles on that fateful night of August 31, 1995.

They were traveling in a Mercedes at a speed of 65 mph, more than twice the legal limit, when they crashed into a pillar of the Paris' Pont de l'Alma tunnel. All three were killed, and the car was severely damaged.

On September 18, 1997, following the deadly collision, Mishcon gave the note to Sir Paul Condon, the then-commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, seemly to assist with the investigation. After that, it was kept in a safe in the station and was not talked about until an official inquiry was made into the death of the princess.

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Investigation Into The Mishcon's Note

Commissioner John Stevens, who had taken over as commissioner for Condon, began Operation Paget, the inquiry into the princess's death, on January 6, 2004. The note in the safe was quickly discovered, disclosing its shocking information.

"The letter was given by Lord Mishcon to my predecessor, Paul Condon, and he put it in his safe … I was only made aware of that when I was made commissioner myself," Stevens said per Daily Beast.

Stevens then contacted Diana's lawyer as part of his inquiry into her passing. On a few other occasions, he reached out again to extract any further possible details about the princess. However, his numerous conversations with Mischon yielded nothing, albeit getting to know that  

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the lawyer did not share the princess's concerns and further suggested that she was just "paranoid."

No Foul Play In Princess Diana's Death, Allegedly 

Stevens' inquiry thoroughly examined over a hundred allegations surrounding the death of Princess Diana, in addition to looking into the origins and veracity of the Mishcon's note. The investigation also checked out the credibility of another note that echoed similar concerns from the royal and was later published by her butler, Paul Burrell, in his 2003 book A Royal Duty.

Operation Paget was made public in December 2006, a while after Steven had concluded his investigation. The entire inquiry was detailed in 832 pages and highlighted that the police had followed all possible sources to unravel if there was foul play at work on Diana's death.

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As seen in the docuseries, attorney Michael Mansfield, the lawyer of Diana's deceased partner Al-Fayed, called the letter's content the "most important thing about that report." Lord Stevens' investigation ultimately came to the conclusion that Diana's accident was an act of fate and lacked any underlying scheme.

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