A
newly revealed claim of conspiracy in the death of Princess Diana has
royal watchers buzzing once again, nearly 16 years after the woman, who
would now be a royal grandmother, died in a Paris car crash.
But British police seem to be knocking
down the claim – that the British military was involved in the death of
Diana, her boyfriend and their driver in August 1997.
“This is not a re-investigation,” London
Metropolitan Police tersely stressed, in a statement that revealed none
of what it had been told.
The latest claim appears to have been
sent first to military authorities and then to London police by the
parents-in-law of a British special forces sniper after his marriage had
fallen apart, according to an article on the website of the Sunday
People newspaper. It did not offer a source for its reporting.
Sunday People said it had seen a
seven-page handwritten letter by the in-laws alleging that the soldier,
whom the newspaper did not name, had boasted to his wife that the elite
British Special Air Service commando unit was behind the deaths.
The UK Ministry of Defence told CNN only that “this is for Metropolitan Police to investigate.”
Military authorities have been aware of
the claim since the 2011 court-martial of the soldier’s former roommate
on weapons charges, Sunday People reported. The unnamed soldier
mentioned in the letter was a witness in that case, according to the
newspaper.
Neither the Sunday People piece nor an
earlier version carried by Press Association offered details of the
claimed involvement by soldiers in the deaths.
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