Diana Frances Spencer (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997)

Diana, Princess of Wales

An

English princess

with

an

Egyptian boyfriend

crashes

in a French

tunnel,

driving

a

German

car
with a

Dutch engine,

driven

by a Belgian

who was drunk

on

Scottish whisky,

followed

closely by

Italian

Paparazzi,
on

Japanese motorcycles;

treated

by an American doctor,

using

Brazilian medicines.

This is

sent to you by

someone

using

Bill Gates's technology,

and

you're probably reading

this on your computer,
that

uses Taiwanese

chips,

and a

Korean monitor,

assembled by Malaysian

workers

in a

Singapore plant.

The above is just part of a mass email that was circulating around that Diana’s death truly defines what globlisation is about.

I learned about Diana's death when I was at the waiting lounge in Bangkok on 31 August 1997 after checking in for my returned flight. Everyone was solemn with eyes focused on the projection screen. It was there and then that I learned that the car crash happened at 12.23 am. Diana arrived at the hospital at 2.06 am and was pronounced dead at 4.00 am.

Lord John Stevens conducted a three-year investigation into Diana’s and Dodi Al Fayed’s death and published an 832-page report on 14 December 2006 which basically concluded that there was no evidence of conspiracy and that it was merely a tragic accident.

There are people who questioned the depth and hence the reliability of the inquiry, especially Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods and father of Dodi Fayed.

Perhaps we will never know.

The full 832-page Operation Paget Report (3.9MB) can be downloaded here.

A 9-page Overview of the Report (83KB) can be downloaded here.