Hidden note of Princess Diana predicting her own death by car crash raises big questions
A new documentary investigating Princess Diana’s tragic death nearly 25 years ago revisits the mystery surrounding the “Mishcon Note.”The princess voiced her fears of dying in a staged car accident to her lawyer, Lord Mishcon, in 1995, two years before the crash that took her life.
Her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, were also killed.Lord Mishcon provided a contemporaneous typed account his conversation with Diana to senior Metropolitan Police officers after the princess’ death.Rather than pass it on to French authorities investigating the crash, Met Police locked it away in a safe.
Diana’s family and the royal family didn’t learn of its existence for over a decade.Related: Journalist Martin Bashir “deceived” Princess Diana into bombshell interview: ReportChannel 4’s Investigating Diana: Death In Paris interviewed Michael Mansfield, the lawyer who represented Dodi’s father.
He believes the note was improperly handled.“The note is important because it’s equivalent to somebody’s premonition,” he said.“If you were a police officer investigating it, you want to hand the account over to the French.
