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Bittisode: 009 The Death of Diana, Princess of Wales · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, welcome to Hood. What now the history podcast?
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  Speaker 2: It's not your history class pittisodes, the little bits of
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  Speaker 2: history they don't quite friend anywhere else with me, your host,
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  Speaker 2: Kerry Charlewood, history harlote and reader of books. So I
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  Speaker 2: made this video on TikTok like for yonks Ago about
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  Speaker 2: how Diana, the Princess of Wales had not been assassinated
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  Speaker 2: by the royal family for being too much of a problem,
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  Speaker 2: and that the conspiracy theory surrounding the crash is just
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  Speaker 2: one ridiculous and too completely improbable, almost impossible, like the variables.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the variables alone are wild. See back in
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  Speaker 2: my adolescence, I had honored this unnatural obsession with celebrity deaths,
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  Speaker 2: and I was kind of until very macab things. I
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  Speaker 2: still am for a lot of things, especially being someone
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  Speaker 2: who yeah, I'm a social scientist who teach his history
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  Speaker 2: on the Internet, so clearly dead people are kind of
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  Speaker 2: a thing. I do feel like losing three grandparents in
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  Speaker 2: the space of eleven months. For some reason, I had
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  Speaker 2: it in my head it was thirteen, but it was eleven,
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  Speaker 2: like it was under a year. I'd lost like three grandparents,
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  Speaker 2: Like it was fun, fun, fun. I mean I was
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  Speaker 2: into dark history at the best of times. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in fairness, most history isn't exactly fluffy and light. It's
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  Speaker 2: usually quite sad. But anyway, I got really into like
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  Speaker 2: famous deaths and things. And i'd actually watched, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the news come out about Diana's death at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I watched the funeral on TV. I
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  Speaker 2: think I mentioned this before. I think I meant to
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  Speaker 2: this and the Prince Philip. So I grew up always
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  Speaker 2: knowing who Diana was, and I was very aware of
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  Speaker 2: her death, and I was very aware of everything going on.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll admit I fell hook line and sinker into
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  Speaker 2: this whole conspiracy. But one of the first things I
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  Speaker 2: remember being told when I was studying like history, psychology, sociology,
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  Speaker 2: was that if you want to prove that something is correct,
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  Speaker 2: you have to try and prove that it's incorrect, because
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  Speaker 2: it's all about internal bias, and you have to try
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  Speaker 2: and work against your own bias, because otherwise you could
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  Speaker 2: easily falsify data into you know, falling into your way
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  Speaker 2: of thinking. And I was very much convinced that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the royals were involved, and there was a massive conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: and all these kind of things. And the more I
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  Speaker 2: looked into it, and the more I tried to look
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  Speaker 2: for a rational explanation of ABA, and see the more
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  Speaker 2: I found it. Now, I don't expect everyone to agree
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  Speaker 2: with everything that I'm saying. You'll probably find some reason
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  Speaker 2: to disagree with me or some argument. But with this
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  Speaker 2: video that I posted ages ago, people started asking questions, well,
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  Speaker 2: what about this and what about that? And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it actually comes under misinformation. I'm kind of like
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  Speaker 2: the whole Mandela effect thing when someone is presented with
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  Speaker 2: false information and then that false information is reinforced. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm being really technical on this episode, aren't I Normally
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, fuck this, bollocks that. But anyway, I was
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  Speaker 2: getting asked all these questions, so I started making a
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  Speaker 2: couple of videos on it, and then I thought, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I'm being asked too many questions. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to make an episode and just work through the
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  Speaker 2: timeline and then hopefully answer the sort of conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 2: relating to it. Because a lot of mysteries I find
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  Speaker 2: have an explanation. I also find that most people are
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  Speaker 2: unhappy with those explanations, but that's figure her there. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you the events as I would any
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  Speaker 2: other historical event, and at the end, if I haven't
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  Speaker 2: already covered them, I'm going to go over the main
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  Speaker 2: conspiracy ideas as well. Are you sitting comfortably good, then
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  Speaker 2: let's begin. It's a summer's day in the late nineteen
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  Speaker 2: hundreds and Diana, Princess of Wales, the former wife to
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  Speaker 2: the current King Charles the third of England, she was
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  Speaker 2: out there, divorcee living her best life. You say, post
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  Speaker 2: divorced Diana, she was firmly out with the firm's grasp.
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  Speaker 2: She had a shitty marriage, she was out of that.
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  Speaker 2: She had a decent divorce settlement. She was traveling the
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  Speaker 2: world doing her charity work. And she had just spent
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  Speaker 2: the last eight days swanning about the Italian and French
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  Speaker 2: for every era on a yacht owned by her lover,
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  Speaker 2: Dorie al fayette So. Dorie al Fayet He was an
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian film producer and son of millionaire billionaire Muhammad Alpha
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  Speaker 2: ed So. After a short holiday in the Rivietra, the
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  Speaker 2: two of them land in Paris on the thirtieth of
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  Speaker 2: August nineteen ninety seven, and they weren't even supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be in Paris that night. The initial plan was for
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  Speaker 2: Diana to go straight to England because she wanted to
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  Speaker 2: see William and Harry because they were about to start
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  Speaker 2: back at school, but Dorry wanted to stop off in Paris,
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  Speaker 2: so last minute change of plans, they decide to go there.
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  Speaker 2: What's weirder still is that being with Dorry was another
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  Speaker 2: last minute plan because she was supposed to go to
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  Speaker 2: Italy with her friend, but her friend's father died suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: so last minute she's like, fuck it, a Gozie Dory instead,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's no harm and really wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: the most out of your summer. So they land in
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  Speaker 2: Paris and they try to go out to dinner, but
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  Speaker 2: they get swarmed by the paparazzi and they end up
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  Speaker 2: just trying to dine at the Hotel Ritz. So the
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  Speaker 2: alvay ed they owned the Hotel Ritz, and Dodie also
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  Speaker 2: had an apart on the Sean Stealazy, so they try
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  Speaker 2: and go out. It doesn't really work out because the
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  Speaker 2: paparazzi they're just warming like bees. So they decide fuck
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  Speaker 2: this for a game of soldiers and decide to just
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  Speaker 2: dine at the Rits. So they're in the dining room,
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  Speaker 2: they feel a bit weird because people keep looking at them, which,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm sorry, isn't really that surprising when a
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  Speaker 2: your dad owns the hotel and b you're a fucking princess,
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  Speaker 2: the people's princess, some might add, So you know people
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  Speaker 2: are gonna look at it. I feel like, hey, if
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  Speaker 2: you go to a public place and you're that famous,
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  Speaker 2: people are probably going to notice you. Anyway, they go
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  Speaker 2: up to his suite for a bit, and while they're
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  Speaker 2: up there, paparazzi are still hanging out outside. So the
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  Speaker 2: head of security of the Hotel Ritz and Cley Paul
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  Speaker 2: he is kind of being a dick to the photographers
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  Speaker 2: and stuff outside, which in fairness, is very much part
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  Speaker 2: of his job. And also he's from Paris. We kind
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  Speaker 2: of expect that if you're not a little bit rude,
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  Speaker 2: are you really Parisian? And it probably doesn't help that
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  Speaker 2: he had two locure wines over the course of the evening.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of spending the night in the suite at
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  Speaker 2: the Hotel Ritz, they decide that they're going to go
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  Speaker 2: to Dodie's apartment, which is just off the Avenue Lashonstonese.
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  Speaker 2: It was on the lue Er sinne Use. I think
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  Speaker 2: I've probably butchered the pronunciation as well. But there are
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  Speaker 2: two cars sitting outside the hotel, so they are armored
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  Speaker 2: Mercedes Benz S Class A Edan's there's probably a more
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  Speaker 2: technical name than that. I don't know. I don't know vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not my thing. So there's one at the
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  Speaker 2: front of the hotel and there's one at the rear
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  Speaker 2: entrance of the hotel. So there are two cars. So
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  Speaker 2: the decoy car at the front of the hotel, it
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  Speaker 2: fox off and about thirty or so photographers follow it,
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  Speaker 2: with the plan being that Dodi and Diana would be
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  Speaker 2: able to sort of escape how the back and not
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  Speaker 2: be noticed and wanted their other armored Mercedes whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: their rules had worked on some of the perhaps but
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  Speaker 2: not all, so they were still being followed. So Dodie, Diana,
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  Speaker 2: Henry Paul, and Trevor Reese Jones, who was one of
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  Speaker 2: the alfay Ed's like protection team basically one of his bodyguards. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So Paul and Reese Jones there in the front of
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  Speaker 2: the car and Dorrie and Diana are in the back right.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got some reports that are saying that Reycee
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  Speaker 2: Jones was the only member of the car to be
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  Speaker 2: wearing a seat belt, and then other reports are saying
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  Speaker 2: that nobody in the car was wearing a seat belt.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, so the car speeds away from the Rue Cambon,
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  Speaker 3: crosses the Place de la Concorde, goes down along the
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  Speaker 3: Corolla Rene and the Coulabe and then into the Bronte
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  Speaker 3: de la mad tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've only assumed that this direction was taken to
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  Speaker 2: like shake off paparazzi, because this is no when you
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  Speaker 2: were direct route to Doty's apartment, like you're crossing the river,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't need to cross the river. So this car
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  Speaker 2: is speeding through the tunnel. It twice the speed limit.
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  Speaker 2: The Alma tunnel speed limit is fifty kilometers per.
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  Speaker 4: Hour, so that's thirty one I think miles per hour,
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  Speaker 4: and so they were going as one hundred and five
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  Speaker 4: kilometers per hour, which is sixty five miles per hower.
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  Speaker 2: So they are going double the speed they should through
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  Speaker 2: this fucking tunnel, and the driver loses control of the car.
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  Speaker 2: Hits a white feet of all things, a feat. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know much about cars, but feats are really
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  Speaker 2: not the sturgiest of vehicles, especially when faced with a
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  Speaker 2: fucking armored car. So this is only three minutes after
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  Speaker 2: they've left the hotel. So twelve twenty three, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to the tunnel, hit the feet like the left of
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  Speaker 2: this two lane carriageway, and fucking head first, the car
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  Speaker 2: hits into this pillar. It's the thirteenth pillar that supports
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  Speaker 2: the roof of the tunnel because they don't have guardrails,
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  Speaker 2: or at least they didn't then, I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 2: they do now. So after smacking head first into this,
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  Speaker 2: the car spins and then hits the wall backwards, and
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  Speaker 2: even though it's an armored car, like the front of
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  Speaker 2: this is smooshed, I don't want to say, like an accordion.
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  Speaker 2: It's like if you've got a coke can and you
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  Speaker 2: just crush it in your hands like it it looks
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  Speaker 2: like you've just woffed the thing in like it does
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  Speaker 2: not look like an armored vehicle. I suppose that's what
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  Speaker 2: happens when it hits a mother fucking pillar. So this
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  Speaker 2: entire time, the car is being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes,
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  Speaker 2: so they were obviously traveling away a bit slower. So
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  Speaker 2: when as they come upon the scene and paparazzi, they
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  Speaker 2: kind of break into two groups. You have one kitten
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  Speaker 2: who rush in and are trying to help because there's
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  Speaker 2: smoke coming from the vehicle and they're worried of things
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  Speaker 2: just going to it. Probably the word it's going to explode,
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  Speaker 2: because movies make people think that cars explode, when really
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  Speaker 2: they just go on fire. And the other half of
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  Speaker 2: or I'm even not sure if it's half, but another
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  Speaker 2: group of the paparazzi just stood there taking photos of
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  Speaker 2: the incident, with at least.
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  Speaker 4: One photographer getting his ass kicked, like he gets the
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  Speaker 4: shit kicked out of them because he's standing there taking
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  Speaker 4: four thos instead of doing something to help.
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  Speaker 2: And I think like five photographers end up being arrested
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  Speaker 2: that night. On all so at half past twelve, so
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  Speaker 2: it's thirty minutes after midnight, seven minutes after the crash
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  Speaker 2: has occurred, the police are on the scene, so the
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  Speaker 2: French police are there and the ambulance arrives five minutes later.
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  Speaker 2: But just like the witnesses and paparazzi before them, They
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  Speaker 2: cannot get into this fucking car. In the meantime, however,
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  Speaker 2: police managed to arrest him photographers and then confiscate cameras
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  Speaker 2: in film. After all this, by the way, just so
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  Speaker 2: you know, the police end up impounding like a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of these paparazzis vehicles, you know, as evidence and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: So the fire brigade land on the scene and the
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  Speaker 2: only way to get anyone out of the vehicle is
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  Speaker 2: to cut open the roof to remove them. So inside
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  Speaker 2: the car, you've got four occupants. Really, You've got Diana
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  Speaker 2: who is on the floor huddled and crying, she's in shock.
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  Speaker 2: You've got Dodie al Fayed, who is clearly dead. You
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  Speaker 2: have the driver, Henry Paul, who also appears to be deceased.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got Trevor Rees Jones, who is he's
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  Speaker 2: visibly injured. He looks severely injured. When he's like to
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  Speaker 2: look at him, he looks like he is in a
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  Speaker 2: far worse kind of than Diana is. And so for
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  Speaker 2: about thirty minutes, Diana is trapped in a car wreck
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  Speaker 2: with two corpses and one severely intered person. The firefighters
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  Speaker 2: managed to cut open the roof and then remove Diana
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  Speaker 2: from the vehicle. So Diana, she's conscious. I mean, she
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  Speaker 2: is very clearly in shock and definitely disorientated. But like
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  Speaker 2: her wounds, they always seem very superficial because the ones
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  Speaker 2: you see are like a la minor head wound and
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  Speaker 2: it just seems like nothing right. So they have to
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  Speaker 2: sedate her because she's in shock. So you know, people
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  Speaker 2: are trying to grab her, they're trying to help her,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like pushing people away because again she's just
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  Speaker 2: been in a fucking car accident. And there are some
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  Speaker 2: paps still trying to take photos of her. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a doctor on the scene and he's like, this woman
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  Speaker 2: is clearly in shock, and they try to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: put a drip in her arm, and she just starts
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  Speaker 2: shouting like random shit, is very incoherent, and she rips
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  Speaker 2: the drip from her own arm, you know, because she's
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  Speaker 2: not I mean, you're not compassment us at that point,
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  Speaker 2: are you, Because again, fucking car accident. So because she
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  Speaker 2: is clearly disturbed, and you know, they need to be
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  Speaker 2: able to check what injury she has, because even though
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't have any visible injuries. They know that being
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  Speaker 2: in any kind of collision, there's probably gonna be some
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  Speaker 2: kind of damage there, so they sedate her and at
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  Speaker 2: one am she goes into cardiac arrest. Her heart stops,
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  Speaker 2: the ambulance team performs CPR, they get her heart pending again,
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  Speaker 2: and then they move her into the ambulance at one
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  Speaker 2: eighteen am, so eighteen minutes after the cardiac arrest. Now
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  Speaker 2: I need you to remember that this is France, Paris, France,
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  Speaker 2: and that wherever you are, your emergency responders might have
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  Speaker 2: a different way of doing things, and when incidents like
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  Speaker 2: this happens, a specialized ambulance is sent to the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's effectively an emergency room on wheels, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not only staffed by like paramedics and first responders. There's
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  Speaker 2: like a treash emergency doctor on board. So what they
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  Speaker 2: try and do is stabilize her. So they have to
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  Speaker 2: get her ventilated, they have to get everything going, they
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure she is stable before they travel,
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  Speaker 2: so her blood pressure drops and they're really worried she's
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  Speaker 2: going to have another cardiac arrest because at this point
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  Speaker 2: they are unaware of all of the internal injuries. That
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  Speaker 2: she has sustained in the impact of the crash. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: at one eighteen am, she has moved into the ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: They make sure she is stable, that she's on her ventilator,
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, and when they feel that
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  Speaker 2: she is stable enough to travel, they leave at one
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  Speaker 2: forty one am. Now they tell the driver of the
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  Speaker 2: ambulance to drive slowly because there are some things you
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  Speaker 2: just cannot do when you're being jostled around the back
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  Speaker 2: of an ambulance down a road and has so they're
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  Speaker 2: driving slowly and they have a police escort so that
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  Speaker 2: they can basically go down the road without there being
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  Speaker 2: any obstructions. And as they're approaching the hospital, Diana's blood
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  Speaker 2: pressure drops again and she goes into cardiac arrest, so
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  Speaker 2: they have to pull over the Ja Dunde plant. So
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  Speaker 2: the ambulance pulls over and they, you know, after making
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  Speaker 2: sure she's stable again, they then continue their journey to
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  Speaker 2: the Pt. Silpetia Hospital and they arrive at the hospital
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  Speaker 2: at two o six am, and that was twenty five minutes,
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  Speaker 2: so it took the ambulance twenty five minutes to leave
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  Speaker 2: the scene, restart her heart you know, stop on the
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  Speaker 2: way we start her heart and then get to the
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  Speaker 2: hospital twenty five minutes. Now, I look this up on
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  Speaker 2: the go maps, right, the average drive time from the
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  Speaker 2: tunnel to the hospital is twenty two minutes, which in
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  Speaker 2: fairness is pretty good going. And it's only when she's
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  Speaker 2: lying on the operating table do they realize how how
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  Speaker 2: fucking bad these internal injuries are. So because Nanna was
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  Speaker 2: sitting kind of like sideways in the car when the
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  Speaker 2: impact happened. Her right ribs and arm were fractured, and
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  Speaker 2: then her collarbone, her right collarbone was dislocated. She also
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  Speaker 2: had bruising and swelling of the brain. There was I
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  Speaker 2: think a gash on her thigh, and then there's the organs,
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  Speaker 2: So several organs had been displaced because of the you know, smack,
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  Speaker 2: the sudden desceileration of the car, and of course the
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  Speaker 2: force in which it was hurtled against that front passenger seat.
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  Speaker 2: Her heart was over on the right side of her chest,
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  Speaker 2: so the heart is usually kind of slightly to the left,
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  Speaker 2: it's not really that far left, it's like left of center.
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  Speaker 2: But her heart had been like displaced over to the right,
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  Speaker 2: and this had caused an aortic tear. So basically her
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  Speaker 2: pulmonary vein was just fucking ripped right, which caused her
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  Speaker 2: to bleed out into her chest cavity. So she was
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  Speaker 2: just internally bleeding. So for over fifty minutes, the staff
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  Speaker 2: of the hospital, they are trying to help keep her alive.
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  Speaker 2: You have staff constantly missaging her heart while they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to clamp this the palmonary vein, they're trying to stop
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  Speaker 2: the bleeding, they're trying to repair it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing the shocks, they're doing it all, but nothing
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  Speaker 2: is working. They're not it's it's a lost cause effectively,
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  Speaker 2: like so for over fifty minutes they work on her
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  Speaker 2: and it's clear she's not going to be revived, and
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  Speaker 2: at three am on the thirty first of August nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven, Diana, Princess of Wales is pronounced dead, with
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  Speaker 2: her death being officially announced three hours later at a
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  Speaker 2: conference outside the hospital. So Diana's body is brought back
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  Speaker 2: to England with her sisters, her ex husband and it
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  Speaker 2: goes for post mortem. And naturally with the post mortem,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's blood tests and examinations and everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: So Diana's bloods come back and the tests come back
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  Speaker 2: and everything is fairly normal, like for her, everything's typical,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So because Dodie alphay Ed and and Leypaul
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  Speaker 2: were pronounced dead at the scene, they were removed from
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  Speaker 2: the wreckage and then taken directly to the Paris mortuary
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  Speaker 2: because it's procedure. You don't take dead bodies to hospital,
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  Speaker 2: you take the dead bodies to the mortuary. So the driver,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: as it turns out, his blood alcohol level was three
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and a half times the French legal limit, so it
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: was was at one point seven grams pearly ter of blood.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: And they also discovered that he was on antidepressants and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: antipsychotic medication which are not really meant to be taken
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: with alcohol for obvious reasons. So Muhammad Alphayed, Dodie's father,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: he gets this British pathologist to challenge the blood alcohol level.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So the French authorities do one test, the British pathologist
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: does another test, and so they do a third test.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: The French authorities they do a third test where they
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have to stick a needle into the eyeball of the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: deceased and they take the vitreous liquid out of it,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: out of the vitreous humor as opposed to the aqueous humor,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: which are the only two things I can remember about
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the eyeball. I just like the fact that it's called
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: humor anyway. So they take the liquid out of.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: The eyeball, the eyeball juice, if you will, and they
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: test it, and it not only confirms the you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: the blood alcohol level, but it also confirms the traces
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: of antidepressants.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I think the driver had in total at least five
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: measures of lecald which is this licorice flavored liqueurs aperitief
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: And honestly, that sounds pretty nice. Actually, I like licorice,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: all right. I like liquorice. It was also discovered that
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: he had CO two in his bloodstream, so it was
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: at a twelve point eight percent carbon monoxide saturation, if
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. If I remember the number, I'm very
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: proud of myself because numbers and I usually don't get on. Now,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: this isn't too unusual because smokers in general have about
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a ten percent saturation, and his was twelve point eight.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Now they think they're the possibility of it being a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: little bit higher is because of the sudden impact of
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the crash. It basically kept the CO two in his
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: body instead of like releasing it out. But even so,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: he had been smoking these little cigarellos. They're like these
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: wee cigars. I actually think I smoked one of them
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: once back in my teens. Don't smoke. It's bad for
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: you. Your teeth get fucked up. Everything smells, everything's yellow l
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: l and also eck. Now, Doty's injuries are actually fairly
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: simple compared to everybody else. His ribs basically caved in
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and pierced his lungs in organs like like that, that's
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: not that difficult. And then Rys Jones he was the
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: only survivor, So Trevor Rees Jones is the only survivor
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: of the crash, and one he has no memory of it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And to be honest, maybe he doesn't want to remember it,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: or maybe it's you know, a trauma responds, or maybe
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: he does remember it but he just doesn't want to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: fucking talk about it. Who's to say. I mean, he
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: did write a book afterwards with the ghostwriter, but that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: neither here nor there. So there's this rumor that Rys
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Jones has actually lost his tongue in the accident, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it's basically his entire jaw has to get re attached, realigned,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: refixed something his was just fucked up, so it gets
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: put back together. And Muhammad alpha Ed pays for all
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: of his hospital care and treatment. But like the injuries
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to his like mouth and throat and everything were so
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: bad that he actually could only speak in a whisper,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: so he tended to just kind of whisper things or
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: write things down. Now, he does end up briating his
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: book a few years later, but he says he only
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: did it because, you know, he was getting accused of
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: not doing his job and all this kind of stuff,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: and he wanted to clear his name and probably wanted
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to make a way bit of money on the side.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. So there's an investigation
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in an inquest, and then another investigation, and you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: one country does an investigation and the other country does
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: an investigation, and the results from these inquests investigations, et cetera,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: et cetera. Is that Diana, Princess of Wales died because
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: a driver under the influence drove into a concrete tunnel
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: at one hundred and five kilometers per hour in a
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: car where no one was wearing a seat belt. So
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: let's get into conspiracy time now. A lot of these
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: actually stem from Muhammad al Fayed, Dory's father, and he
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: is very public and very open about it. He's also
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: had like pathologists and inquests and investigations happen, and one
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of the first things he comes up with is that
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Diana and Dodi were engaged and that she was pregnant
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: with his child. Now, as part of Operation Paget Pagette Paget,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not entirely sure of the pronunciation. So because of
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Muhammad Alphayed's claims, Diana has to get tested for everything,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: her body, her blood, everything gets tested, so there is
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: no sign of pregnancy either in her overweight and her wim.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: She also has no trace of the hCG hormone, which
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: is a hormone that your body produced when you're pregnant.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: In case you didn't know, it's basically the hormone that
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: is in your pee when you peel on the stick
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: on a pregnancy test, So there's none of that in
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: her body. And they also discover that Diana was on
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: birth control. Like she was on birth control, so she
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: was definitely trying not to be pregnant, and there's no
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: evidence that backs up the engagement thing. Now, Dodie did
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: purchase a ring for her, but her friends say that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it was a friendship ring. That Diana had said it
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: was a friendship ring and was not at all an
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: engagement ring. But here's the thing. If Diana was planning
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: on getting engaged, fine, maybe she didn't want to tell people.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Also fine, but she definitely wasn't pregnant, so we know
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: that much. Then of course we have the mysterious feat,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: you know, the white feat that the car hit on
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: its way in. Now, maybe the car didn't have insurance,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: maybe the driver was doing something dodgy, Maybe they were
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: scared fucking shitless because they got hit by another car
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and you don't really have insurance in certain roads in Paris.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Then of course we have the mysterious white feet, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: which Mohammadelphia had said was driven by six and was
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: deliberately there to cause the crash, which nobody knew what
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: route they were taking. And okay, now I don't know
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: what it's like in the Pont Delma tunnel, but there's
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: one roundabout. There's a roundabout in France, in Paris, I
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: think it's around the Arcta Triumph. I could be wrong,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: and there's like no insurance on it. Like if something
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: happens there, like you're fucked. Like I don't know if
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: you've ever driven through Paris or been a passenger through Paris.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: It's fucking terrifying. If you can do it, good for you.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It scares me shit. And like there's a fucking ton
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: of reasons why a car wouldn't stop after being hit
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: by another car, insurance doing something dodgy at that time
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of night. Somebody could have been out having an affair
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: with somebody in traveling in you know what I mean.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: There could have been any fucking number of reasons. But
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: somebody could have stole their parents' car, you know, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: being like fuck fuck Now, I can't really explain the
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: existence of the Fiat you know, or where it went.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: But first of all, if I'm going after an armored car,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I think, if you know, is more likely to turn
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: into an accordion than say something stronger. Oh so the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: car that Diana was in wasn't even supposed to be
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: going in that direction. So the fact that a car
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: would be coming towards it when it's going a completely
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: different route than it should be on. Doesn't really make sense, like,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: it doesn't. It doesn't add up. But if you want
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to sass over for you, you know, you can obsess
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: over for you. You know, just whatever, Oh, I have a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: helper for this one. So one of the things was CCTV.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: That's right, CCTV. So one of the questions was why
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: did none of these cameras pick up Okay, no problem.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Why did none of these cameras pick up the car
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: as it traveled from the hotel to the crash site.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So they picked the ten cameras along the route that
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: they thought would have seen something. But these cameras were
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: owned by individual businesses, not by the city of Paris,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: so the cameras were pointed at the entrances of their buildings,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: which is why they didn't pick up, you know, the
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: car along the road. Now, there was a camera which
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: could have seen something at the entrance to the Ponta
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: del Ma tunnel, but it was turned off. Nothing monitoring
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: camera was run by the Compagna powers up in twraffic
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: unit and their department that ran it it closed down
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: at eleven pm every single night, so that camera just
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: wasn't on. After eleven pm. It wasn't monitored, there was
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: no recordings, and this was typical of the time, like
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: it was the same for every camera and that tunnel
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: ran by the Paris Traffic Unit. So Muhammad Alpha Yed
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: he was really pushing a lot of these sort of
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: conspiracy theories, although to him, I don't think they were
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a conspiracy. To me, it just seems like a grieving
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: dad who's lost his son. He was so sad, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: he's really been pushing this idea that sex was charged
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: by the royal family to get rid of Diana and Dory.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Well Dotie was more by extension collateral damage, if you will.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: But the royal family doing this doesn't really make any sense.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, apart from the fact of anybody was involved
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: in this, the amount of dominoes you would have to have,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: like in a row, all your ducks in a row.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: That's I'm not mixing metaphors, and the amount of things
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: should have to have in place, the amount of people
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: that would have to be involved. I mean, not only
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: is it logistical nightmare, but someone at some point would
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: have spilled the beans. There is no way you could
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: have the amount of people you would need to have involved,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: because you would need to have a backup plan, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: your backup plans would need backup, backup, backups. You would
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: need to have so many things because again all of
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the variables. Because one, they weren't meant to be in Paris,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: this was Dotie's idea. They would have to have suddenly
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: all of these agents working in tandem in this location,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: even though she was supposed to be in a different
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: fucking country at that point, like there was no reason
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: for her to be there. You've also got the fact
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: that Diana was very much pushed as the people princess,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the princess of the people. By her having a horrific accident,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: anything that could even remotely put suspicious on the royals,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: on Charles, on all of that, it just makes them
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: look really bad. The firm may not be sure of
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: full pot or two, but they're not bloody stupid.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: They're not that bloody stupid, I should say, because why
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: would they orchestrate an event which could very easily paint
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Charles as the villain?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Like, what's the point Diana's premature death, especially something that
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: was in that kind of spectacle that was always gonna
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: put the focus in the blame back on Charles and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: again turn him into the bad guy, not that he
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: was the best guy. Now. To me, there is a
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: weey bit of a difference between a really awful, crabby,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: cheating husband and stone could killer. That's right, baby, that's right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, it just doesn't
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: add up. It doesn't make sense. And you know it's
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a tragic, horrific accident. And sometimes bad stuff just happens,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: and you need to accept that bad stuff happens, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: that not everything is orchestrated, not everything is some massive conspiracy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Sometimes bad things just happen because you're famous and people
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: are chasing you and you're not wearing a seatbelt and
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: your driver isn't being careful and you go ahead first
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: into a concrete pillar. You know, it's not good. But yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: that's the end. That's the end of the story. And
• 32:53
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• 32:58
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• 33:01
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• 33:05
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• 33:07
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• 33:10
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• 33:12
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• 33:15
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• 33:18
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• 33:20
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• 33:23
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• 33:25
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• 33:31
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• 33:35
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• 33:38
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• 33:41
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• 33:54
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