Posted on 02/18/2008 12:12:52 PM PST by propertius
Mohamed Fayed has accused the Duke of Edinburgh of being a "racist Nazi" who ordered MI6 to assassinate Diana, Princess of Wales, because she was pregnant with a Muslim baby.
In a series of extraordinary allegations at the inquest into Diana’s death, Mr Fayed also accused her former husband the Prince of Wales of plotting her "murder" so he could marry his new "crocodile wife" Camilla Parker Bowles.
Mr Fayed told the princess’s High Court inquest that he had fought a 10 year battle against a vast, international conspiracy encompassing both the British and French Establishments as he tried to prove that she and his son Dodi were assassinated by MI6, on the orders of the Duke, in a staged car crash in Paris on Aug 31, 1997.
The alleged conspiracy and subsequent cover-up included senior members of the Royal Family, MI6, two former Scotland Yard Commissioners Lord Condon and Lord Stevens, the French police and medical services, the princess’s own sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale and several of her close friends.
At the centre of Mr Fayed’s case was a claim that his son and the princess telephoned him an hour before the crash to say they were expecting a baby and would announce their engagement in two days' time.
Mr Fayed said: "Diana told me on the telephone that she was pregnant. I’m the only person that they told. They told me they were engaged and would announce it on Monday when she had spoken to her sons.
"Princess Diana told me personally before and during the holiday we shared in July 1997 of her fears. She told me that she knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her."
He said the Royal Family were a "Dracula family" who had murdered the princess the moment she had found happiness.
Mr Fayed said: "Prince Philip would not accept my son or anyone who is a person of different religion, naturally tanned, curly hair. They would not accept that he would have anything to do with the future King.
"Prince Philip rules the country behind the scenes. I think Prince Philip is the actual head of the Royal Family. He is a racist. He was brought up by his aunt who married one of Hitler’s generals. This is the man who is in charge, who is manipulating and can do anything. They are still living in the 18th or 19th Century.
"It’s time to send him back to Germany from where he comes. You want to know his original name – it ends in Frankenstein."
Ian Burnett QC, for the coroner, asked Mr Fayed: "All this stems from your belief that Prince Philip is not only a racist but a Nazi as well?" Mr Fayed replied: "That’s right."
Mr Fayed claimed the murder was "executed" by a photographer James Andanson, who has since died, in a white Fiat Uno and that Mr Andanson was later "got rid of".
He said Mr Andanson was employed by MI6 and "pushed" the couple’s Mercedes as strobe lights were flashed to blind their driver Henri Paul, who was also in the pay of MI6 but had been "duped" by them.
Following the crash two French pathologists swapped Henri Paul’s blood for that of someone else to show he was drunk, according to Mr Fayed.
Mr Burnett said there had been an "avalanche" of evidence from friends of the princess that she was not pregnant but Mr Fayed said they were "lying".
He claimed that Rosa Monckton, the princess’s close friend, was in fact working for MI6 and "spying" on the princess.
Mr Fayed said he was convinced there was a cover-up because of a document, dubbed the Mishcon note, which was written by the princess’s divorce lawyer Lord Mishcon following an October 1995 meeting in which she said there was a plot to kill her in a staged car crash.
The document was locked in a safe at Scotland Yard and eventually sent to the coroner in December 2003.
Mr Fayed said: "I cannot believe that they sat upon such an important note and did not pass it on."
He said the note was "devastating" and explained Diana’s fears in "black and white".
The Duke of Edinburgh was originally a member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg. Mr Fayed was thought to have been comparing that name to "Frankenstein" The Duke later changed his name to Mountbatten.
Mr Fayed later claimed former prime minister Tony Blair was also implicated in the murder plot. He believed the assassins were acting on orders from "the prime minister and his henchmen" as well as the royal family.
In a heated exchange Richard Horwell QC, counsel for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, drew laughter as he suggested the conspiracy seemed to involve everyone including "James Andanson and his dog".
Mr Fayed replied: "You are talking a lot of rubbish. You are trying to protect the Establishment, the intelligence services and Scotland Yard for something they have done - the crime of the century."
To laughter Mr Horwell said: "Can you tell us why James Andanson took his dog on this criminal enterprise? Why the might and power of the Royal Family, the British government and MI6 chose a Fiat Uno, one of the world’s lightest and least powerful cars?" The coroner added: "Well, a clapped out Fiat Uno."
Mr Fayed replied: "Well, it’s his own car and he chose to use his own car."
Mr Fayed alleged the conspiracy also involved three of his own security men, including bodyguard Trevor Rees who had "betrayed" him, the Ambassador in Paris Sir Michael Jay and two French pathologists Professor Dominique Lecomte, who conducted driver Henri Paul’s post-mortem, and Dr Gilbert Pepin who tested his blood.
The "dark forces" ranged against him also included the former Home Secretary Jack Straw, Judge Herve Stephan who conducted the French investigation and Lord Fellowes, the princess’s brother-in-law and private secretary to the Queen and paparazzo James Andanson.
At one point the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, commented: "A lot of people were involved in the plot."
How could that be when Diana was fearful to the point of paranoia that her phone was constantly bugged.
Leni
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