‘Nazi Philip wanted Diana dead’: Al Fayed
February 19, 2008 - 0:0
LONDON (The Guardian) -- Mohamed Al Fayed branded Prince Philip a “Nazi” and a “racist” in the high court on Monday as he detailed his belief that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales were murdered at the request of the royal family.
The Harrods owner repeated to the court his claims that Diana was killed because she was pregnant at the time of her death, and that she and Dodi had been planning to announce their engagement.“Diana told me on the telephone that she was pregnant,” he told the inquest. “I was the only person that they told.”
“They told me they were engaged and would announce their engagement on Monday morning. She would speak to her sons when she returned from Paris.”
He said Diana told him “she knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her” a month before the crash.
He named the photographer James Andanson, who has since died, as the most likely suspect to have carried out the murder on the orders of the security services.
“There was one paparazzi member in the pay of the security services. This is likely to have been James Andanson, who exacted the murder in his own Fiat, pushed the car and a strobe light having been used to blind Henri Paul,” Fayed said.
A “steel wall from the security services” prevented him from providing proof of all his claims, Fayed said. “I have been fighting for 10 years to be where we are,” he told the jury.
Fayed claims the royal family would never have accepted a marriage between the mother of the second heir to the throne and an Egyptian Muslim, and alleges the Queen’s husband worked with the security services to stage the car crash in Paris in August 1997 that killed the couple and their driver.
“It’s time to send (Philip) back to Germany from where he comes,” Fayed said. “You want to know his original name -- it ends with Frankenstein.”
Charles participated in the hope that he would then be able to marry his long-term mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, Fayed said.
Fayed described Parker Bowles as a “crocodile wife” and the Windsors as “that Dracula family”, according to reports of his testimony by Sky News.
He disputed evidence that Henri Paul, the driver, was drunk. Paul was part of the plot, Fayed said.
“When he was killed, they find 20,000 francs in his pocket, because he disappeared three hours before the murder being briefed on what to do.”
Fayed said it had been proved “black and white” that blood samples from Paul proving the driver was intoxicated were not his.
“The blood had been taken from someone in the mortuary who had been breathing carbon monoxide by the pathologist who refused to appear because they know their arguments are false and it’s baloney and it’s not facts,” he said.
Fayed said the withholding of a lawyer’s note recording Diana’s fears for her safety proved she had been deliberately killed. He said she had kept letters from Prince Philip to be revealed in the event of her death, but those letters had now gone missing.
The coroner at the inquest, Lord Justice Scott Baker, announced he was seeking a copy of a video in which Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell apparently admitted not telling “the whole truth” when he testified last month. The video was obtained by the Sun.
The coroner refused to allow Fayed to read the Sun’s article to the jury. -