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The death of Princess Diana was an accident, not a criminal conspiracy, an exhaustive, 400-page report released this week concludes. The report, the result of a two-year investigation by Lord Stevens, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner, debunks many of the conspiracy theories about the 1997 car crash that killed Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed, in a tunnel in Paris. The report says that the driver, Henri Paul, was drunk and high at the time, and that his blood sample had not been tampered with. Diana was neither pregnant nor secretly engaged to Fayed. Conspiracy buffs can take some solace in the revelation that U.S. intelligence had been "bugging" Diana. The U.S. National Security Agency confirmed that it had recorded some of her conversations, but said it did so inadvertently, while tapping someone else's phones.
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