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21/08/2007
Editor Speaks Of 'Guilt' Over Diana's Death
The former editor of the 'News of the World' has said he felt "huge responsibility" for the car crash in Paris in which Princess Diana was killed.
Speaking in the ITV documentary 'Diana's Last Summer', which will be broadcast on Wednesday night, Phil Hall said that the accident in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel might never have happened had the Princess not been being followed by paparazzi.
He told the programme: "It's difficult because we knew the full story, we knew that Diana was helping the newspapers and, yeah, the driver was drunk.
Dodi al Fayed and driver Henri Paul were also killed in the crash, which happened on August 31, 1997.
The documentary also features interviews and photographs from some of the photographers who had followed the Princess before the crash, as well as an interview with Diana's former head of security Ken Wharfe.
The Princess's former aide, Patrick Jephson, also told the programme that the paparazzi in Paris were "a kind of circus" and described how they would chase the Royal motorcade on motorcycles. He said: "It all contributed to the sense of being inside a Wild West stagecoach while bandits were attacking it."
An inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi al Fayed is scheduled to begin in October.
'Diana's Last Summer' will be shown on ITV1 at 9pm on Wednesday.
(KMcA)
Speaking in the ITV documentary 'Diana's Last Summer', which will be broadcast on Wednesday night, Phil Hall said that the accident in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel might never have happened had the Princess not been being followed by paparazzi.
He told the programme: "It's difficult because we knew the full story, we knew that Diana was helping the newspapers and, yeah, the driver was drunk.
Dodi al Fayed and driver Henri Paul were also killed in the crash, which happened on August 31, 1997.
The documentary also features interviews and photographs from some of the photographers who had followed the Princess before the crash, as well as an interview with Diana's former head of security Ken Wharfe.
The Princess's former aide, Patrick Jephson, also told the programme that the paparazzi in Paris were "a kind of circus" and described how they would chase the Royal motorcade on motorcycles. He said: "It all contributed to the sense of being inside a Wild West stagecoach while bandits were attacking it."
An inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi al Fayed is scheduled to begin in October.
'Diana's Last Summer' will be shown on ITV1 at 9pm on Wednesday.
(KMcA)
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