New Conspiracy About Princess Diana's Death Talk

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.