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The death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash happened after the vehicle she was meant to be travelling in failed to start.

Official documents have revealed she then got into a nearby Mercedes driven by chauffeur Henri Paul.


Tests later revealed he had been three times the legal alcohol limit.

Diana, 36, and her 42-year-old lover Dodi Al Fayed were killed along with Paul when they crashed in a Paris underpass in August 1997.

Papers released by the Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act reveal correspondence between officials in the aftermath of the event.

Conflicting accounts appear in the documents about why the couple had got into the car, and there is one suggestion that they were trying to avoid paparazzi photographers who were following them.


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But two other documents - including a memo to Prime Minister Tony Blair on August 31, the day of Diana's death - put forward the explanation that the car in which they were supposed to leave Paris's Ritz Hotel failed to start.

It told how the couple arrived at the Ritz the day before and were "immediately subject to media attention", and that when they left were surrounded by journalists.

"They tried to leave quickly but the first hire car failed to start," the document, whose author is not revealed, said.

"The second car then left the hotel at speed. It travelled along a stretch of the river and entered the tunnel in which the car crashed."


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