Overview
In DEATH OF A PRINCESS, Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod investigate the questions everyone has been asking since Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash in the small hours of August 31, 1997.How was a drunken, drugged, nonlicensed driver allowed at the wheel of the Mercedes?
Why was the driver, off-duty Ritz Hotel assistant security director Henri Paul, called back to the hotel that night and assigned a job that was not his?
Didn't senior officials of the Al Fayed-owned Ritz know that Paul was a chronic alcoholic and that he was drinking in the hotel that very night?
What was the role of the paparazzi who had stalked the couple all day long and pursued them in that final high-speed chase?
Why was Dodi so spooked by the photographers, to the point of changing normal security procedures and exposing himself and the Princess to unwarranted risks?
What do skid marks, paint, and glass fragments tell us about the involvement of a second car?
Who was the driver of the second car, why didn't he stop, how did he escape, and how did the police organize a nationwide manhunt aimed at tracking him down?