Prince Charles' wives and auto accidents

[Paul Rigby]

Morgan is very interesting but I find Fetzer almost impossible to listen to. You can hear him breathing down the microphone the whole time and he has a tendency to come out with completely ridiculous shite as though it's established fact (LBJ, McCloy, Hoover etc. meeting the night before the assassination.)

Haven't listened to the Barrett show yet but I suspect that that will be a lot better.

I know what you mean about Fetzer, but the interview is still worth the listen: How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth is the distillation of his previous, remarkably diligent, research and is unquestionably the gold standard on the subject. That I finished the book with profound reservations about his conclusions left me wondering whether I had failed to follow the evidence presented - the besetting sin - or that my doubts had real merit. One example.

Morgan is convinced that Diana's last journey saw her chased not by paparazzi, but rather an SAS-simulacrum, driving much more powerful bikes: he makes a compelling case for this and I rather suspect he's right. But is it really conceivable, as he insists, that the SAS hit squad would have entrusted the driving of the blocking Fiat Uno to James Adanson, the photographer, even if the latter role was essentially a cover for an MI6 asset of long-standing? Why entrust such a role to a figure from outside the special forces milieu? In the event that Henri Paul had either panicked or made the conscious decision to use the vastly superior weight, strength and speed of the Mercedes to smash the impeding Uno out the way, who would have reacted better - a special forces guy who had trained for such eventualities, or Adanson, a man with no obvious or suspected expertise in this sort of thing?

Now, it is perfectly conceivable that Morgan is right - and the eye-witness descriptions of the Uno driver and his distinctivly attired canine companion strongly suggest so - and that the answer lies in an accurate account of Adanson's career and background. But the evidence on that background is not available, or, at any rate, not adduced by Morgan; and I am left with my reservation.