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It has been 25 years since Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris. Her death changed the royal family for good.
On August 31, 1997, the Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul all died in a car owned by Etoile Limousines. The car was owned by Jean-Francois Musa.
Musa, who is 63 years old, is now saying that the French government won't let him get back his stolen Mercedes-Benz S280.
He told the Mirror, "Legally, it's mine, but I have no idea where the car is." "All I know is that it's mine legally, and I want it back. It should have been given back by now, but that hasn't happened. I've always been the sole owner. There was no way to pay for it."
Musa has said that he wants the wreckage, which experts say could be worth more than $10 million, to be put in an American museum to honor the beloved people's princess. He has also said that the royal family would rather the car be destroyed in secret.
In 2017, it was said that the car was in a shipping container at a police impound lot in Creteil, a city near Paris.
Many people have said that Diana's death was not an accident, and these theories have been around for a long time.
Musa was adamant that there was no plan. "This was a common accident on the road, the kind we all fear. Everything is very sad."
Lord Stevens, the former head of the Metropolitan Police, recently told Times of London that theories about the accident are more popular than ever this year, which is the 25th anniversary.
The 79-year-old man was also in charge of Operation Paget, which looked into what happened.
"She was so well-known. People have a hard time understanding how someone like that could die in an accident like that," he said.
He went on to say, "There will be some people who, no matter what evidence you show them, will still think there is a conspiracy here. I think it would be hard, if not impossible, to change their minds."
"The Diana Investigations," a new docuseries on Discovery+, said that Princess Diana knew she would die two years before the accident.
The new investigation found that Princess Diana told her lawyer, Victor Mishcon, in 1995 that she would be "gotten rid of" the next year, and that a car accident was one of the ways that could happen.
Diana said she got the information from "reliable sources," but she wouldn't say who they were. This is shown in a letter written by Mishcon.
The conversation, which was called the "Mishcon Note," gave an eerie look at what might have happened the night of August 31, 1997, when her driver Henri Paul crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris.
Paul was high on prescription drugs and alcohol and driving 65 miles per hour when he tried to get away from paparazzi on motorbikes. Instead, he crashed the Mercedes that Princess Diana and her partner Dodi Al-Fayed were in into a pillar.
After the crash, Mishcon gave the note to Sir Paul Condon, who was the head of the Metropolitan Police at the time. However, an official investigation into the princess's death didn't start until January 6, 2004.
The investigation was started by John Stevens, who was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner at the time. It was called "Operation Paget," and the shocking note was found in a safe that Condon had kept.
Stevens talked to Mishcon before the lawyer died in 2005, and Mishcon confirmed that he "hadn't given much weight" to the princess's worries. He thought "she was crazy" instead.
