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The 'Marie Antoinette Factor' in the Diana Murder Coverup Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 26, Number 28, July 16, 1999 The ‘Marie Antoinette factor’ in the Diana murder coverup by Jeffrey Steinberg On July 2, 1999, a Paris appeals court rejected a petition of East India Company allies and assets—including the Duke from Mohamed Al Fayed, to compel Judge Herve´ Stephan to of Orle´ans, Lord George Gordon (of the famous London expand his investigation into the Aug. 31, 1997 fatal car crash “Gordon Riots” of 1779), Marat, Danton, and other leading that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Jacobins—the France of the Marquis de Lafayette was their chauffeur, Henri Paul. For nearly two years, Judge Ste- brought down in a frenzy of self-cannibalism and violence, phan has been investigating the causes of the fatal car crash. leading to the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. Now, with some important allegations emerging, that could France was saved from post-Napoleon dismemberment link officials of the British intelligence services and members by the military-defense actions of France’s Maj.-Gen. Lazare of the British royal family to the wrongful deaths, the judge Carnot; but the exile of Carnot, by Britain’s Duke of Welling- has decided to shut down his probe, without questioning three ton, prevented Carnot from being appointed, with support of possibly key witnesses, or attempting to access classified U.S. the Prussian military, as President of France. Wellington’s government documents that could shed further light on the puppet, the Restoration monarchy, was appointed instead of events in Paris two years ago. the patriot Carnot, and France descended into that spiral of The decision by the Paris appellate court to allow Judge degeneracy culminating in the regime and disgrace of Napo- Stephan to submit his final report and recommendations— leon III. unless reversed by a higher court—will almost certainly wed The early seeds of that doom were sown in 1785, when the French government to a monumental coverup of the death a notorious Venetian agent, Count Alessandro Cagliostro, of Princess Diana, a coverup desperately desired by the Brit- orchestrated the famous “Necklace Affair,” which began the ish royal family. process of discrediting King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie After her death, Princess Diana was given a solemn burial Antoinette, in the eyes of the French public. Napoleon him- by her family, accompanied by a general mourning for her self commented later that the manipulations of the French among the English population. The interment of those accom- court by Count Cagliostro marked the opening phase of plices who seek to cover up the fact of her wrongful death, the French Revolution, an event from which France has after the fact, will be much less generous. The latest turn never recovered. toward burying the truth of the case, in French proceedings, is one of that type of event which recalls the impact of the . and now case of the “Queen’s Necklace” in preparing the doom of If the French courts and Judge Stephan move forward France’s Louis XVI monarchy. with their coverup of the wrongful deaths of Princess Diana, In other words, it is France that is now once again on trial, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, France will sink deeper into as it was during the days of Marie Antoinette. And once again, moral quicksand. In contrast, a full airing of what is known the French leadership is in the process of failing the test of about the events surrounding the Aug. 31, 1997 car crash in history. the Place de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, while damaging to some French officials, and devastating to the British monarchy, Then . would transform the political landscape of Europe, very much In 1785, following its defeat in the American Revolution, for the better. the East India Company-centered British oligarchy was des- There are rumblings even in Britain against the coverup. perate to prevent the spread of republicanism on the European On June 22, 1999, Charles Wardle, a Conservative member continent. France, as the first modern European nation-state, of Parliament, raised several questions about the Paris events, and as a bastion of support for Benjamin Franklin and other and subsequent British government actions against Mohamed American Revolutionary leaders, was the primary target of Al Fayed (see Documentation). Wardle reviewed many of the Lord Shelburne, his Jeremy Bentham, and others in the unanswered questions about allegations of British intelli- “Venetian Party” of London. gence activities in Paris around the time of the fatal crash, and Through a series of intrigues, involving a lewd collection the efforts by the late Tiny Rowland, longtime boss of the 62 International EIR July 16, 1999 © 1999 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Lonrho African raw materials cartel, to have Mohamed Al efforts to get to the bottom of the Paris car crash of Aug. 31, Fayed wrongfully prosecuted and prevented from obtaining 1997. Excerpts follow. his British citizenship. A British appeals court has also launched a review of the Home Secretary’s rejection of the Mr. Charles Wardle (Bexhill and Battle): In this debate I Al Fayed citizenship petition. intend to question the accountability of the Metropolitan po- lice over their arrest of Mohamed Al Fayed last year. I shall What is known also question the accountability of the security services, No competent investigation can be concluded into the which influenced the decision to arrest him because he had events in Paris on Aug. 30-31, 1997, until a number of vital, openly challenged their role over the death of his son in unanswered questions have been resolved, with full public Paris. disclosure. Well before that arrest was made, those senior police of- 1. What was the role of the still-missing white Fiat Uno, ficers and the Crown Prosecution Service had in their posses- which forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts have con- sion clear evidence that Rowland had paid hundreds of thou- firmed, collided with the Mercedes 280-S, causing the fatal sands of pounds into the Jersey bank account of the key crash? The Fiat sped out of the Place de l’Alma and disap- prosecution witness and his common-law wife, but the police peared, along with the driver. At least one qualified police refused to consider that evidence until after the extremely witness saw the Fiat waiting at the entrance to the Place de damaging and high-profile arrest of Al Fayed. Shortly before l’Alma tunnel, seconds before the crash. he died, Rowland admitted his covert payments to the key 2. What factors contributed to the delay of two hours in witness in the discovery process for the civil action that he getting Princess Diana, still very much alive, to the La Pitie´- began after the police case collapsed. Salpeˆtrie`re Hospital? She died moments before being Al Fayed’s counsel, a former first Treasury counsel who wheeled into surgery. High-ranking French police and Inte- regularly prosecuted for the Crown, insisted that the payments rior Ministry officials were on the scene, or at the hospital, should first be investigated, on the ground that, if there had directing the emergency medical response and the initial in- been payments, they would jeopardize the entire validity of vestigation. the prosecution and no arrest should properly be made. Burton 3. What role, if any, did three senior British intelligence Copeland, Al Fayed’s solicitor, showed Scotland Yard that officials, alleged to have been in Paris prior to and after the Rowland’s allegations that valuables had been stolen from crash, play in the Aug. 31 events? Newspaper accounts in his deposit box [at Harrods, which is owned by Al Fayed] Britain, published before the crash, reported that the Royal were weak in the extreme. Rowland was unable to verify that Consort, Prince Philip, had personally ordered an MI6 cam- he had ever owned what he claimed to be stolen—let alone paign against Dodi Fayed. that he had placed it in the box 30 years earlier. Burton Cope- 4. What is contained in the more than 1,000 pages of U.S. land gave Scotland Yard the details of Rowland’s payments files from the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence to Robert Loftus, a disaffected ex-employee of Harrods, but Agency, and Defense Intelligence Agency on Princess Diana? the police deferred the investigation of payments to Loftus, A Federal District court judge in Washington, D.C. has or- arrested Al Fayed, and released him on bail which was period- dered the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelli- ically renewed amid frenzied media speculation. gence Agency to turn over the relevant files to attorneys for Why did the police, who had done little or nothing about Mohamed Al Fayed, but a protracted court battle is expected, Rowland’s patently false allegation from May to November before any of the classified material is released. 1997, suddenly acquire fresh enthusiasm for the case at the end of that year? Why did they arrest Al Fayed with a prior tip-off to the media in March 1998, despite having known for weeks about the bribery of the key witness, to which Rowland Documentation himself later admitted?... Significantly, Al Fayed’s solicitors now have in their pos- session a note from Rowland’s solicitors, Cameron Markby Hewitt, reporting that Rowland told them on 2 February 1996 MP demands probe of Crown, that he had been involved in activities for MI6 immediately after the war and had committed various unlawful acts. MI6 actions against Al Fayed The Scotland Yard and Home Office grapevine—which no one in Whitehall will discount—makes no secret of one On June 22, 1999, Conservative MP Charles Wardle raised interpretation of events.
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