A leading forensic pathologist who worked on the case of Princess Diana’s death has given startling new insights into the case – including her true cause of death, and the allegation that she was pregnant when she died.
WATCH: Was Princess Di pregnant before fatal car crash?
Renowned expert Dr Richard Shepherd, who has worked on 26,000 cases, has cast disturbing light on the passing of the royal, who was involved in a fatal car smash in a Paris tunnel back in 1997.
‘She was involved in a relatively low-speed impact in a very safe vehicle, and yet she was the one that was injured least in that impact,’ Dr Shepherd told The Morning Show.
The car crash also infamously killed Di’s lover Dodi Fayed, driver Henri Paul, and left bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones severely injured.
‘’When people first got there [the scene of the accident], she was actually talking and able to communicate, and seemed to be OK.
‘But on her journey to hospital she became worse and worse, and actually needed emergency thoracic surgery – and it was all caused by a tiny tear in a vein within her lungs, and that’s a really unusual injury.’
With many conspiracy theories swirling about whether the crash was really an accident or perhaps an elaborate assassination, Shepherd says the simple fact is that the princess would have survived the crash had she taken a basic safety precaution.
‘Had she been wearing a seatbelt she would have walked out of the car,’ he affirms.
As for the alleged motivation for a possible assassination, Shepherd was asked if there was any chance she could have been carrying a baby at the time of her death; was Princess Diana really pregnant when she died?
‘I’ve seen no evidence,’ Shepherd says. ‘I’ve seen all of the medical and pathologic information, and I’ve seen absolutely nothing to support that she was pregnant.’
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