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A 12-part documentary podcast called Fatal Voyage: Diana Case Solved follows the last few months of Diana’s life. She died at the age of 36 in 1997 after being fatally injured in a crash in Paris after being chased by paparazzi. Former detective Colin McLaren interviewed a number of people who met the Princess over the years.
He said: “What seemed horribly eerie with the benefit of hindsight, Diana was most paranoid about her car.”
Ken Wharfe, who was Diana’s former bodyguard and a former Met Police Inspector, also said the same
He said on the podcast: “She said to me, ‘I can be killed in a car accident.”
“I said, ‘Do we not every Friday night see an accident somewhere on the N4? So it’s possible we could be involved in an accident.’”
Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, also spoke on the podcast.
Ms Seward, who is close with the Royal Family, revealed how she knew about Diana’s concerns about being on the road too.
The royal expert said: “She said, actually, ‘It sounds ridiculous now,’ as we were sitting there in the comfort of her sitting room in Kensington Palace, she said, ‘But I really did believe, genuinely, believe that someone was going to tamper with my car.’
“She said, ‘I really believed that.’ She said, ‘I was too much of a problem. They wanted to get rid of me.’”
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“So, I’d scramble underneath the car in my uniform, or my suit, and try and find something which looked out of place.
“Of course, I never did, but she was convinced that the system was out to get her.”
Daily Mail royal writer Richard Kay added Diana had a good reason for being worried about her car.
He said: “She was prone to these sort of fears, that something might happen to her.
“People convinced her that she was somehow some sort of present danger to the royal family and that she should therefore be very careful.”
Patrick Jephson, Diana’s chief of staff and private secretary from 1988 until 1996, claimed to Fox News last August that Diana became “reckless” with her security after she divorced Prince Charles ended.
He said: “I never entirely understood. I think part of it was to make a contrast between herself and the other members of the royal family.
“Getting rid of the bodyguards, the support organization, I think appealed that side of her…
“Instead, she put her trust in people who were not capable of keeping her safe as it was tragically proved to be the case that night in Paris.”
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