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Topic: People

Di And Dodi: Let's Conspire To Be Open Minded

By Gareth Eastwood   2008-02-22

Dodi's dad thinks Di and his son were deliberately done in. It's easy to dismiss that suggestion with a claim that he is just a silly old bugger grieving for his dead child. There are some pretty good reasons for not doing that. Clearly, the lovers' death must be regarded as an accident. But if there is one thing modern, educated minds ought to know by now it is that not much of life is as it seems on the surface. The higher you climb up the ladder of money and influence the more intricate and determined the background machinations become.

The strings of power in Britain are pulled by a vast array of strongly opposing interests. Labour governments sympathising with bottom-rung battlers are pitted against elitist old money and an ancient monarchy. It's pretty obvious that a large number of staunch royalists must occupy key positions of power or neither the royal family nor the aristocracy could survive at all.

It isn't hard to imagine that those people would have been seriously concerned about the lifestyle and partner choice of the future monarch's mum. Her highly public romance with a Muslim would have outraged some of them to the same extent that the fictional Lady Chatterley's dalliance with a gardener did in the nineteen-twenties. Conservative thinking doesn't advance in a hurry. People whose power is firmly rooted in ancient chimeras guess very accurately that to concede even a fraction is fatal for them. If they hadn't agreed to having Di eliminated previously, perhaps Dodi tipped the scales.

No matter how silly he may now appear, Al Fayed senior is no fool. Silly buggers of any age cannot rise to the level of retail billionaire and stay there. To achieve that pinnacle requires extraordinary insights into the game of life. Magnates understand the moves of other people and they are very clever at second-guessing ingenious opponents. If I had to back the judgment of either Mohamed Al Fayed or Jo(e) Blow on the street in a sly game of cat and mouse I'd bet my money on the former any day.

But there is another consideration with such people that has never been publicly explored in relation to his son's death. Those who enjoy the money and power that this man has can buy themselves ears that are very close to the ground. They have their own set of loyal informers and string-pullers. They know of whispers and happenings in hidden circles that the person on the street is oblivious to. Whether or not Mohamed Al Fayed is right in his claims, it would be a miracle if he hadn't heard of goings-on in relation Di and Dodi that we have not.

We must also wonder in view of the outlandish, savage attacks he has made post-accident on the Royal Family just what sort of things he might have said about them out of public earshot before Di and Dodi commenced their affair. Royalists have spies also.

The one thing that must be admitted about the world's most famous car crash is what an astonishing co-incidence it was. How often do we hear of a celebrity of any sort being killed by a drunken chauffeur trying to outrun paparazzi in the middle of suburbia? I can't think of one other instance. For it to happen to the mother of the British royal heirs while she was back-seat canoodling with a Muslim is astounding.

If you wanted to knock off the world's most popular princess how would you do it?

A mob hit such as may have occurred to JFK would be easily exposed nowadays. The first instance of it had the advantage that the public would never suspect that such a thing could happen. As with Oswald, their focus could be easily shifted elsewhere. A second such hit would be too obvious.

Neither could you reliably get away with making the death look like an accident. The slightest gap in the illusion would surely see the whole plot exposed naked to the world, with fingers pointed very accurately at the likely culprits.

The way you would do it would be to pull strings on opportune occasions that maximised the chances of an accident occurring. You would hope to get lucky in a game of patient perserverence. That is exactly the sort of game that the knights-in-chief of the old British establishment have a long and successful history of playing and winning.

Perhaps background dealings of that nature led to the death of Di and Dodi. Some of what took place appeared consistent with an attempted set-up. Perhaps that is just an illusion. I don't believe we are in a position to call it either way. But the suggestion of foul play cannot be written off.

Let's have our own conspiracy to keep our minds open and always remember that her sudden death in a motor accident was very convenient for certain people.