Overview

• On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed struck a pillar in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma tunnel after leaving the Ritz and heading to Al-Fayed’s private residence.
• Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul died at the scene; Diana succumbed to her injuries hours later, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the sole survivor.
• Reports detail high speed in an effort to evade paparazzi, and French tests found the driver was over the legal alcohol limit that night.
• Vanidades cites The Sun in attributing the reported last words “Dios mío, ¿qué pasó” to firefighter chief Xavier Gourmelon, a claim not newly corroborated in the latest pieces.
• Diana was 36 and the mother of William, 15, and Harry, 12, and public interest continues alongside long-running theories that persisted despite French and UK probes finding no plot.