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Ed Does anyone here believe that Princess Diana's car crash was suspicious?

BartholomewWest said:
According to the tabloids, he was forced out and even told not to contact fellow officers.

Hewitt was very bitter about it. It lead to a downward spiral.
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According to the tabloids there's a London bus on the moon and elvis is still alive.

Why didn't Charlie just have him killed?

Plenty of opportunities for a 'training accident ' or in Iraq some 'friendly fire'
 
Jack by the hedge said:
The bottom line still seems to be if this was intended to be an assassination why was the method so haphazard that it just looks exactly like dumb luck?

"See if we can encourage their driver to crash the car and there's a slim chance it might be fatal" is not a plan.
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It's about as plausible as the melodramatic device of sabotaging the brakes on her car.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Bare in mind that BatholomewWest probably thinks that being in the Life Guards means that Hewitt was responsible for minding the regimental swimming pool, so obviously sending him to the desert was part of some nefarious scheme. It's the desert, sheeple, there are no swimming pools in the desert!

(I find myself thinking of Timothy Spall saying "It was a clue, a blatant clue")
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Don't despair
 
Jack by the hedge said:
What constitutional crisis are you imagining?
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Presumably the one that (if fixing constitutional crises via clandestine murder was really a thing) would have been solved far more easily and effectively by knocking off a certain Mrs Parker-Bowles years earlier before C&D's marriage hit the rocks?
 
Jack by the hedge said:
The bottom line still seems to be if this was intended to be an assassination why was the method so haphazard that it just looks exactly like dumb luck?

"See if we can encourage their driver to crash the car and there's a slim chance it might be fatal" is not a plan.
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Makes more sense than sending someone to war with his regiment and hoping he will get killed.
 
BartholomewWest said:
If you think this was a "real promotion", you live in La La land. I am sorry - but there's no other way to put it.

People don't doubt he was sent there to remove him from Diana. They snort with amusement and disbelief that he could think it was real! That's the part they doubt. "Wait, Hewitt really thought it was a promotion!? No way! Are you sure he actually said that!?"

By the way, he was sent into a war zone. That was Iraq, during the Gulf War.

In his memoir, he said a bunch of people surrendered to him and he was told "Shoot them all." Even though they had surrendered.

He dodged the question of whether he did or didn't shoot them, though.

Part of me wonders if he was....being set up. Baited into committing war crimes.

He now works as a gardener or something. He's been reduced to that. So clearly his life didn't go well. He was also arrested for possessing drugs or something like that.

Eta: Hmm, he actually says that the end of the affair with Diana made him suicidal. That he was on the brink of committing suicide.
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Well, now you know, why Brits find the antics of the Royal Family endlessly entertaining.

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Andy_Ross said:
Most of the British Army was sent to Iraq.

Why do you think a Squadron Leader in an elite armoured cavalry regiment would not be sent along with his squadron?

The Life Guards is the most senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry,

They are a reconnaissance regiment.

A Squadron is a big command, it comprises

Squadron Headquarters Troop of two Land Rovers, Two FV105 Sultan command vehicles and FV104 Samaritan armoured ambulance
Three Reconnaissance Troops of four FV107 Scimitar tanks
Guided Weapons Troop of four FV102 Striker anti-tank guided missile vehicles
Support Troop of four FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carriers
Mechanical Engineer Section of FV103 Spartan and FV106 Samson armoured recovery vehicle

It's not an insignificant thing.
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Yes, according to my brother, when in the junior army cadets, it was the dream of every boy there to drive a tank.

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Jack by the hedge said:
What constitutional crisis are you imagining?
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We could perhaps consider the Mohammed Fayed aspect of it. Despite living in England for over fifty years and owning Harrods and was it Fulham FC, [iirc]? he was repeatedly refused British citizenship. Clearly, when vetted he was deemed dodgy and a persona non grata. Then there was his 'playboy' son trying to charm the future King's mum into marriage. Some sniffy courtier might have thought this most unsuitable and improper.

<shrug> Who knows.
 
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Vixen said:
We could perhaps consider the Mohammed Fayed aspect of it. Despite living in England for over fifty years and owning Harrods and was it Fulham FC, [iirc]? he was repeatedly refused British citizenship. Clearly, when vetted he was deemed dodgy and a persona non grata. Then there was his 'playboy' son trying to charm the future King;s mum into marriage. Some sniffy courtier might have thought this most unsuitable and improper.
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And? Does a random "sniffy courtier" have the power to order the security services to carry out assassinations?
 
Vixen said:
We could perhaps consider the Mohammed Fayed aspect of it. Despite living in England for over fifty years and owning Harrods and was it Fulham FC, [iirc]? he was repeatedly refused British citizenship. Clearly, when vetted he was deemed dodgy and a persona non grata. Then there was his 'playboy' son trying to charm the future King;s mum into marriage. Some sniffy courtier might have thought this most unsuitable and improper.

<shrug
> Who knows.
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We do - a drunk driver had a car accident, she was a passenger in that car and died from injuries sustained in the crash.
 
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