The Weekly Tribune

2007 marked the passage of a decade since the tragic car crash that took the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed. It also marks ten years of ferocious determination on the part of Harrod's owner Mohammed al Fayed to lay blame squarely on the shoulders of the British royal family. Some see al Fayed as a man driven mad by grief while others share his conspiracy theories.

The private letters of the late princess have been read at the official inquest and they clearly illustrate her great affection for Dodi. However, the princess was also clearly fond of her former father-in-law, the Duke of Edinburgh, who she described as a man of "great understanding and tact". One has to wonder at Diana's judgment, considering that Prince Philip is famous for such acid remarks as:

"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."*

There have been reports that the late princess was only seeing Dodi al Fayed to make the true object of her affections jealous. Several publications have claimed that Diana was really in love with Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon. The story first surfaced in former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown's book, The Diana Chronicles.

Mohammed al Fayed is unmoved by any of the rumors. His official blog declares:

"This year has been an eventful one. Not only did we win a drawn-out campaign to have the inquests into the deaths of my beloved son Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales held together, but we overturned the ruling of Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss who wanted to hear the evidence by herself without a jury of ordinary members of the public."

* (From Prince Philip's 1987 book If I Were an Animal)