I recall how surreal it all seemed as it unfolded. I was in Rome at the time and as one watched CNN, it didn't even feel real.
I think it was due to all of the circumstances surrounding the accident that made it unreal. I mean, when I heard where the limo had crashed, it seemed like the last place one would have thought to set the death of Diana. I'd been in that tunnel myself so many times over the years. And while it could have certainly happened - any accident - there, it just seemed the last place one would be speeding through. Not just because its a tunnel but because its right there in the heart of the city and it was a very busy night. It seemed so odd that anyone - even someone being chased - wouldn't slow down just out of some normal reflex (or some concern for other motorists).
And it made really no sense why they had to leave the Ritz. I mean, Dodi's father owned the joint. I'm sure they could have put them up for the night. Their original plan was to remain at the Ritz that night.
You could see even as they were leaving the Ritz how wound up they all were and how some weird energy was in the air. It perhaps would have made more sense to have had to get to the Fayed apartment blocks (8 mins.) away had Diana not been planning to leave France, like, the next day.
Even their destination seemed to change. When first reported back then, I remember they said that they were leaving the Ritz to go to Mohammed's Villa Windsor which is the Bois du Boulogne. One could take a similar route back there from the Ritz (a 14 min drive). In fact, that's where Dodi and Diana had been earlier that day. And its the villa palace which Mohammed SOLD (for some reason) just following their deaths. It would have actually made MORE sense that the villa was their target destination than an apartment just a block from the Arc de Triomphe (if one's goal is escape the paparazzi).
But someone seemed so last-minute-desperate to get out of the Ritz. And when you look at the hotel video footage of Diana, it doesn't seem to be she who is in any hurry or anxious to leave the hotel. Even the driver had called it a night as he was officially off duty before he proceeded to hit the bottle...before suddenly being summoned again into duty. And his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit. A monkey could have driven that limo better than a person in such a condition. And yet he never mentions it, no one asks, no one senses the guy is not in a condition to drive? The French may like to drink but they aren't all hopping behind the wheel to drive the most famous person in the world.
Problem is that it was said he was not an alcoholic. So to get so drunk and so quickly is suspicious. Its why some still feel that someone tampered with his blood results.
And it also never made any sense that Diana of all the people in the world would have been so unnerved by being followed - even chased - by paparazzi. It was not her first time in the bull ring, so to speak.
Then you also had the fact that there was no attempt to contact Paris police for some sort of an escort. I'm POSITIVE that they would have been happy to comply with such a request coming from Diana's limo.
It was just so many - too many - weird elements all converging at once. Its not to say it isn't possible it was indeed all just just a freak, twisted accident, the result of lots of bad decisions. But one can understand the conspiracy theories. I mean, if there is ever an incident that could call for a conspiracy theory, that was it.
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