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Di's Guard: Inquest a 'Spectacle'

Claims daily headlines coming out of inquest the same old news

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Jan 20, 2008 3:00 PM CST
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(Newser) – The "latest" developments in the Princess Diana inquest are the same old news, and the monthslong proceeding has "degenerated" into a "theatrical, occasionally tawdry, spectacle," writes her former bodyguard in the Guardian. Most of the recent testimonies—including his own—were first made public years ago, claims Ken Wharfe

Wharfe testified last week on the "Squidgy" controversy, claiming that a government intelligence agency taped a series of conversations between Diana and friend James Gilbey. But he had already said as much in his 2002 book. Likewise, information such as Diana's secret plan to marry Hasnat Khan has already appeared in the pages of the Daily Mirror or the Paget report.

Businessman, Mohammed Al Fayed leaves the High Court today after attending the Diana, Princess of Wales inquest, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008, London. Fayed has alleged that his son Dodi Fayed and the princess were murdered in a plot directed by Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and carried...
Businessman, Mohammed Al Fayed leaves the High Court today after attending the Diana, Princess of Wales inquest, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008, London. Fayed has alleged that his son Dodi Fayed and the princess...   (Associated Press)
Ken Wharfe leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the inquest into the death of Princess Diana on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. Wharfe, a London police officer assigned to guard Diana from 1987 to 1993, told the inquest that Diana believed she and other royals were under...
Ken Wharfe leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the inquest into the death of Princess Diana on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. Wharfe, a London police officer assigned to guard Diana from...   (Associated Press)
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St Tropez in this Aug. 22, 1997, file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Bar-Nice Matin, file)
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St Tropez in this Aug. 22, 1997, file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Bar-Nice Matin, file)   (Associated Press)
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, The Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed leave the Ritz Hotel in Paris, on Aug. 30,...
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007,...   (Associated Press)
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