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...together with a tribute to another notable who died just one day later: Barbaro. The horse got top billing. And does anyone remember when Mother Teresa died? The greatest saint of our time died on the frenzied eve of the funeral of the greatest diva of our time, Princess Di. In the popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron and jailer. Prokofiev had the extraordinary bad luck of dying on the same day as the great man, "ensconcing him forever in the tyrant's shadow," wrote critic...
...short-lived victory. On Friday, Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed won a court battle that means a jury will preside over the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. But now it looks like the jury won't get to hear what he has to say. Al Fayed, who has long held that Diana and his son were murdered by British security services on the orders of Diana's former father-in-law, Prince Philip, was hoping he would finally get the chance to defend his claims to a jury of "ordinary people." At a preliminary hearing...
...time that's passed since the deaths, with everyone waiting for something to happen," says Michael Zander, professor emeritus of law at the London School of Economics. "And the number of witnesses involved is much larger than normal. But, then, there is no 'normal' when you're talking about Princess Diana...
Nearly 10 years have passed since Princess Diana died, and the Windsors are still haunted by her. The royals expected an inquest into her death but thought it would be a quiet affair, presided over by a single judge. On Friday, however, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrod's, won an unprecedented legal battle to have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy...
...Fayed's challenge to Butler-Sloss' decision also took issue with the fact that she was presiding over the inquest as royal deputy coroner, which gave the perception that she "lacked [the] independence" needed to remain impartial in judging whether or not the Princess and Dodi Fayed were murdered. The High Court judges agreed, ruling that if Butler-Sloss is still going to hear the case, she can't do it as the royal coroner...