By Michael Holden
Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Two major investigations by French and British police concluded that Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash was a tragic accident, but 10 years on many remain convinced she was murdered in a sinister plot.

The usual suspects cited by conspiracy theorists include Britain’s royal family — because they were unhappy Diana was to marry her lover, Muslim Dodi al-Fayed — or arms dealers, because they were angry at her support for a ban on landmines.

“They were killed as a result of a wicked conspiracy by people who did not want the princess to marry my son and were fearful of what she could say and do,” Dodi’s father Mohamed, the leading murder theory protagonist, told Reuters.

And there are some truly bizarre hypotheses.

These suggest leaders of a “new world order” assassinated her because she wouldn’t marry former President Bill Clinton, or that she was killed as part of a Satanic ritual, or even that she is still alive having faked her own death.

Alasdair Spark, at the Centre for Conspiracy Culture at Britain’s University of Winchester, said doubts about the official version of Diana’s death reflected a common belief that the public were always deliberately misled by the authorities.

“At the heart of it is this very strong belief we are always lied to, that any government never tells you the truth,” Spark told Reuters.

“People believe in conspiracy theories the way they believe in TV adverts. It’s a very casual belief, sometimes it’s more of a refusal to disbelieve. But people are prepared to entertain that it might be true,” he said.

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