My confusion about the cctv footage of Diana's driver

Good article about Princess Diana and Henri Paul

This DM article from 2007 mentions many conflicting stories, unanswered questions and evidence that was ignored.

Was Henri Paul drunk or not? There are many medical details:

“…his doctor has since said that he felt Paul was worrying unnecessarily, as his drinking was moderate.
There is another dilemma, too.

The Henri Paul blood samples at the very heart of the Diana controversy reveal something else quite bizarre - that he had breathed in a very high quantity of carbon monoxide before his death: the same amount as a person committing suicide by putting a rubber hose from the exhaust through the window of his car.
Such a level would have left Paul visibly disorientated and almost certainly comatose. Yet at the Ritz that evening, minutes before he drove Diana, the CCTV cameras show him walking normally and even kneeling down to retie his shoe laces and gracefully standing up again.

It is now accepted that he never drew breath after the crash, ruling out the possibility that he inhaled poisonous exhaust fumes. Significantly, Dodi's blood was tested and was shown to contain no carbon monoxide.”


Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-483701/Diana-The-unseen-evidence-mysteriously-ignored-now.html#ixzz55yBL1PSr

I wonder why there are no comments for this article.

Why does his moustache appear and disappear?

Henri Paul's mustache looks weird here:

Here are all of Henri Paul's movements in the Ritz Hotel in the night Diana died:


Someone wrote an interesting comment:

This man had very intense eyes:

Very funny!

I suppose it could just be that he was very excited to be in the company of such famous people and it was this that made him restless and on edge.

“Could this also explain why he looks manic in the car picture?”

Maybe.

One account is that he was smiling at a joke, or ‘rigolard’.

It is also possibly true that he had been drinking alcohol. There is a small coincidence here: I recently came across the name Ricardian for a present-day supporter of Richard III; I learned today that Henri Paul is alleged to have drunk two shots of a spirit called Ricard before he got into that car.

See more at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/driver0915.htm

All we can be sure of is that there are many theories, conflicting stories and unanswered questions in this case.

Henri Paul’s elderly parents still believe that he was scapegoated.

Henri Paul as a young man:

I've just had a look at this thread as I have just come across Keith Allen's 2011 film about the Diana inquest held in London. I've read that this film was banned from being broadcast in the UK, but you can see it on archive.org. I selected the H.264 download option and it just starts to play, I found parts of the soundtrack to be annoying but the content is good.

archive.org/details/20180704002943

A few years back I read Princess Diana: The Evidence by Jon King and John Beveridge, which covers a lot of the points in this film in more detail. There is a lot of suspicion that Henri Paul was connected to the security services, whether the French DGSI, CIA or MI6 is unclear, but there were a lot of very large payments into his bank account prior to his death that cannot be explained. His blood samples at the time of the making of Allen's film had gone missing.

Another interesting point made in the book but not in the film is the car crash that Camilla had in Wiltshire in June 1997. It sounded like a Boston Brakes incident and she fled the scene after the crash fearing for her life, even though she had hit another car and the woman in that car was injured. I got the book after listening to an interview by Jon King and he mentioned something that I had completely forgotten about - the constitutional crisis that was widely talked about of Charles remarrying after a divorce, and his future status of head of the Church of England. He suggested that it was maybe felt that one or the other had to go - I remember just how unpopular and vilified Camilla was at that time.

Please do tell, UnseenI , what does it remind you of? Amy Robsart's strange accidental death, or something else?

I do find it strange to revisit the subject of Diana as it seems to me that she is largely forgotten these days. I remember vividly the shock and outpouring of feeling after her death but she is rarely mentioned now. Funnily enough, I remember that the press (especially the tabloids) were very negative about her in the months before she died.

I remembered a bit more about the constitutional crisis, the knotty problem was of Charles becoming head of the Church of England and married to Camilla whilst Diana was still living. It was discussed ad nauseam in the press.

I stayed for a while near Althorp a couple of years ago - a lot of people round there are convinced that Diana is buried in Chapel Brampton church and that the burial was done secretly on the Friday evening, the day before the funeral service.

Going back to the two car crashes, I've heard it said (it may have been in the Jon King interview) that MI5 tried to bump off Camilla, but the CIA did Paris as they were far less likely to bungle it as MI5 had.

This all happened 22 years ago, and society has moved on massively since then. These days people don't care whether anyone is divorced or not and the Church of England is in greater degree of decline than it was back then, but there was back then a lot of serious discussion about whether Charles could be head of the Church as a divorcee.

There always was a royal convention that British monarchs would never receive a divorcee at court, I don't know when that was relaxed but it was once pointed out in the press that if it were still in place, the Queen would not be in a position to meet three of her children and her sister!

After Diana's death, I remember that the consensus was that Charles and Camilla would never marry after the outpouring of grief for Diana and the widespread belief amongst the populace that she had been bumped off, but Camilla then kept a low profile for a long time and would not appear publicly with Charles. It took eight years for them to finally get hitched.

Recent rumours of divorce? I haven't heard that! Maybe she's fed up of the stepdaughters in law.

One point that Jon King makes in his book is that the arms industry was incensed at Diana's land mines campaign. She had managed to persuade Bill Clinton to back a land mines ban, though after her death he reneged on that. A ban would have cost the arms industry billions, and also threatened to expose a lot of murky dealings in Africa concerning civil wars and mineral resources. That is a fascinating yet harrowing topic to explore that never gets any mainstream media coverage.

So - the constitutional crisis and the arms trade were two reasons for some to be keen to see Diana disappear.

My main memory is of all the flowers and candles etc. outside Kensington Palace. I also remember that ‘the people’ demanded and got a flag at half mast.

I didn’t know or care much about Prince Charles and Camilla at the time.

I have since learned that Camilla doesn’t get called Princess of Wales because for older people it would be going too far and be an insult to Diana.

Another Diana crash

I don't remember this - Diana was involved in a car crash (involving a 'light-coloured Fiat Uno", what are the chances!) on 22 March 1996 on Cromwell Road, London.

"THE Princess of Wales escaped unhurt last night after her BMW car was involved in a five-vehicle crash in central London.
She was badly shaken when her car was rammed from the side by a Fiat which, in turn, had been in collision with a high-performance Porsche sports car. The princess leapt from her vehicle and, according to eye-witnesses, hailed a black cab and asked to be driven to Chelsea police station. From there, it is believed she was quickly taken home by police car to Kensington Palace, less than a mile away.
The Uno was struck by another Porsche, which sent it on to the wrong side of the road and into the path of oncoming traffic going towards Exhibition Road. It was then hit by the BMW, believed to have been driven by the princess, and a Mercedes."

www.heraldscotland.com/news/12052667.princess-shaken-in-five-car-accident/