All Episodes
July 10, 2025 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
59:51
Why Was This Film Banned in the UK? Watch With Us and Find Out - SF612
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Hello there you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Wherever you're watching this, we'll be on Rumble Premium and Rumble for the next hour, watching an extraordinary controversial documentary that alleges that Princess Diana was sort of murdered by conspiracy.
What's amazing about it is that even though it's, what, 30 years ago, it functions as a piece of almost nostalgia porn.
Not that I'm suggesting you should use it in that manner.
The world has changed.
But what is clear is that however Princess Diana died, like so many high-profile public events, the story we are being told has definite anomalies and contradictions in it.
So whether it's the murder of JFK, the falling of the Twin Towers, the Epstein list, where is that list, by the way?
It seems that there's an official narrative and then an ulterior narrative that's usually concealed because the conclusions you would draw if you were given the truth is that you can't trust the media, you can't trust the establishment, and existing technology should be used to devolve power to its smallest possible units, which would mean we would all live in parallel economies and democracies.
It's available to us now.
Then there'll be no need for tension.
Let's get into this film.
It was made by the actor and I suppose broadcaster Keith Allen from the UK, whose daughter Lily Allen's a big pop star in the United Kingdom, or certainly was at one time.
Have a look at it.
Let's watch it with our crew here.
Beloved Jake, ever present.
You right, Jake?
Oh, yeah.
Care about the royal family?
I do.
This, you know, watching this now, it's like you believe it probably was planned.
That's right.
It's one of those things where you'll start watching it and you'll think, hmm, in studio also is, Isaac, you are Jewish and therefore probably was somehow involved in the murder of Diana for one way or another, I'd imagine.
Certainly one of the ancestors, I mean, they get their hands in a lot of pies.
Was it your king?
Well, yes, it seems likely from this is the current King of England.
God bless you, Your Highness.
And straight back from the UK is beloved Luke.
You liked it, did you, mate?
I absolutely loved it.
I got to get out of America, ASAP.
No, stay here.
Don't be disloyal.
That country has turned on me, as you're well aware.
Did you see any?
Where were you?
Mostly Oxford, wasn't it?
Yeah, it's mostly Oxford.
I went to London for a little bit, but I stayed in Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, so I got to walk around and see the schools and everything, and it was remarkable.
It was really cool.
Beautiful.
Hey, Massey, we're the only people that are sort of at least tangenti British.
Have you watched this before?
I haven't watched it.
No, but I just want to explain to Luke because Luke has no idea how big a deal this was when Diana died.
The best way to put it into context.
Well, because he's too young.
Well, he's too young, but like, I mean, Diana dying is our 9-11.
No, actually, better way of putting it is 9-11 was your Diana.
That's how big it was for us.
Really?
She's a lady.
But you've never, like, it's Marilyn Monroe meets Trump.
She was a sort of...
She heralded power.
She was the end of the age of glamour.
I can't believe that Luke doesn't know about it and yet he calls himself a Christian.
This is an interesting insight into conspiracies generally, the British establishment, and the power of independent media to tell new stories.
The reason I'm so interested in it is because when I first tried to watch it, it was really repressed and controlled.
First time I watched it, it had Russian subtitles.
Now they're like, give them this, give them this.
This will distract them.
Don't think about the Epstein list.
What list?
What list?
Look about Diana.
Do you know we murdered her?
Think about that for a while.
Lee Arthur Oswald, the poor fella.
He was a charity worker and an adorable communist.
Let's have a look now.
Let's get into this documentary.
Would I just press play?
Yes.
Yes.
Thank you.
Got a saxophone coming.
It's a little more like ethnic, you might say.
There's an interesting sort of baseline we're going for, given we're in Paris with Diana.
A lot of these people, I don't think, gave interviews.
I think they've pulled archive.
can't imagine that i mean tony curtis the american movie star has done an interview
so
so In 1997, the death of a princess and her lover rocked the world.
Ten years later, it led to the longest, most expensive, and most sensational inquest in British legal history.
Hundreds of witnesses were called.
There were arguments, lies, tears, and accusations, as intimate details of their private lives were dissected on the world stage.
Yet before the court case had even begun, the media had already decided what the verdict should be.
However, in Britain and around the world, millions of ordinary people were convinced, and after the inquest still are convinced, that the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodie fired were no accident.
I think it's murder.
Murder.
It was murder.
For me, I think it was a murder.
Murder.
My own opinion, there can be no doubt that she was actually murdered.
When the woman left a note saying, FYI, if I'm dead, here's how it's going to happen, and then it happens exactly like that, I think someone should pay attention.
I mean, I just know our initial reaction was, well, they finally killed her.
Because we're used to it.
I think it was murder.
If you go to a bar, you'll find three people who go, ooh, but the Royals did it, didn't they?
Oh, of course Diana was Barnator.
She that lady before, Lauren Bove.
She's the sister of the wife of Tony Blair.
Tony Blair, Tony Blair's married to Cheryl Bove, she was called.
Her father was a famous actor in a very famous British sitcom, which I think you got guys remade as all in the family.
And yeah, she was like one of those, you know how like a famous person will often have a crazy relative, like Sly Stallone's got Frank Stallone.
People had that.
Crazy relative.
She was like always coming out in public, saying crazy stuff.
Tony Blair's prime ministership was altered radically by the death of Diana.
It was like the first kind of crisis.
And it was a moment where he was very popular.
He was sitting like we were in the UK, glad to be rid of Margaret Thatcher and the Tories more generally.
And it was like he played the guitar, he played football, he was young, had a young family in there.
And this was before the Iraq War, of course, and before 9-11.
And in a way, actually, you can see that, yeah, this is a different era.
It's a different political and cultural era.
It's the pinnacle of what I like to like of pop culture.
It was when pop culture with Chicago Bulls, like these things were happening, rock stars felt like actual rock stars.
Before it got so big that it no longer, and it started becoming scripted and it didn't feel like these are actual stars.
Like that's, this is the perfect time.
Yeah, she's like the epitome.
I see her as a kind of almost like a human sacrifice in a way.
You know, like pre-Christian culture, human sacrifice was somewhat commonplace.
We understand.
And sometimes I feel like famous women in particular, like Amy Winehouse, who of course died, Britney Spears, who didn't, in my country, there were a couple of reality stars, Caroline Flack and Jade Goody, who like the sort of media treatment of them is so virulent and vicious that it, I think, is backed by the same energy that wants a sacrifice.
Like it wants.
And actually, God, this was like, gosh, I was thinking this, I was falling asleep.
I was thinking about in our country, Oasis, back together and touring, and it's like the big venues and stadia.
And I was thinking the culture, in a way, is sort of trying to reboot itself.
And in order to reboot and purge itself, it has to resurrect gods of a previous era.
But also there has to be sacrifices.
I thought, oh my God, I'm one of the sacrifices.
It has to sort of go, this thing, though, was bad.
Destroy that.
Destroy it.
It's interesting how a culture replicates at scale what we've understood it always to do at the level of the tribe.
Elevates figures, destroys figures, ceremony, ritual.
Like Princess Diana's the sort of clearest example.
Well, Monroe, Marian Monroe, if there's an American equivalent, this Marilyn Monroe, but you know, there's not quite because of royalty and stuff.
Oh, of course Diana was bumped off.
She knew she was going to be bumped off.
I wasn't sure if Diana's death was an accident or murder, but I suspected a cover-up by the British establishment.
An elaborate exercise in burying the truth rather than uncovering it.
I suspected a conspiracy, but this isn't just the old story about a conspiracy before the crash.
It's about a conspiracy after the crash.
We all know that the biggest scandals are always the cover-ups.
It isn't the watergate, it's not the break-in, it's the cover-up which is the big scandal.
When you have the head of the British security services calmly announcing we have never killed anybody in the last a young, plucky, fresh-faced Pierge Morgan participating interesting in the last 50 years, I laughed out loud.
What's the point of them then?
I didn't believe it.
And so if you don't believe that, where does that leave the rest of the establishment evidence?
I decided to watch and wait, then tell the story that the press and TV news wouldn't tell.
The result is a documentary that reveals what really happened during those six months in the Royal Courts of Justice.
It is the inquest of the inquest.
The royal family likes to present itself as part of a benign and freedom-loving tradition in films such as The King's Speech.
As you will have gathered by now, this film is the antidote to the King's speech.
The inquest was held in the royal family's own court, so is it any wonder that the coroner, the royal representative in charge, I've bunged that in to make this film promotable.
Because King's Speech isn't made by the Royal Family.
This is a Hollywood two-hander made from a play.
An adorable, if anything, sports movie, I would say.
It's like the Rocky of Statters.
Yeah.
Statter Rocky.
Is it any wonder that the coroner, the royal representative in charge, decided that the key royal suspects need not even appear at the inquest to be questioned?
Right from the inquest's first day, I thought, what if this woman's name had been Diana Smith, and she'd written in a note which had been subsequently unveiled: My husband Charles Smith wants me to die in a car accident.
And subsequently, she did.
In any other family or in any other country, surely Charles Smith would have been called to the witness stand at the inquest into his wife's death.
Every word you hear from the courtroom has been meticulously reconstructed just as it happened.
I also have my own undercover reporter in the president, Richard Wiseman, listening to the journalists' conversations.
Every word you hear them say is noted down exactly and precisely timed and dated.
I thought when we started that I had about a fortnight before somebody tripped over my notes and realised that I actually wasn't making notes on the inquest, I was making notes on what the other journalists were saying to each other.
And the longer it went on, the more I thought, I can't believe I'm getting away with this.
For once, a reporter was doing the dirty on his colleagues.
So the world could learn how they only reported one side of the story, ignoring anything that didn't fit their pre-written script.
This looks like six months of my life, I'm not gonna get back.
It's an absolute fucking nightmare, isn't it?
There's a road accent, for Christ's sake, get over it.
Young girls identify with the person who becomes the consort.
I see you nodding, you sickos.
Don't you be objectifying her in the comments and chat, Nida.
God rest you, ma'am.
Consort of the king.
The idea of being a princess and becoming queen is a fantasy.
There are fairy stories about it.
It's a constant fantasy for little girls.
Diana dreamed of becoming a princess, too.
But unfortunately for her, when her fairy tale fantasy came true, the reality was not a dream.
It was a nightmare.
We can't make this content without the support of our partners is a message from one now.
What if your coffee didn't just wake you up, but actually awakened you to new realms of consciousness?
That's what's being promised by 1775 Peaberry.
Less than 5% of all beans can become Peaberries.
They're the navy seals of coffee beans.
Some of them just can't take Hell Week.
Which basically means your morning brew is rarer than a mainstream journalist telling the truth.
Jake Tapper!
You must have seen that Joe Biden was old.
He was obviously old!
It's grown high in the Bolivian mountains where the air is thin, the vibes are thick, and the beans basically whisper ancient truths to the winds.
No acidic afterburn, no synthetic weirdness.
This coffee doesn't leave you hung over in a feather buber or speaking fluent nonsense.
Just bold, smooth, consciousness activating coffee with clean energy and antioxidants so potent I drank it and remembered three of my past lives.
Go to 1775coffee.com, use the code brand and get 15% off.
The royal family, it really is true, are much more, at least in that generation, are much more interested in animals than they are in human beings.
The royals are not a sentimental bunch and treat their wives like farmers treat cattle.
They're not big on romance.
They're very big on breeding.
And I suppose in love.
Of course.
Whatever in love means.
Whatever in love means.
Perhaps that was Diana's first intimation that this would be a loveless marriage.
He's punching hard, Charlie.
You have been my mate.
He's punching well above his.
I know he's a prince, a future king, but he's punching well above a weight class with Diana.
There was a bit where King Charles was sort of sold as sexy to the British public.
You know, they had him running in the water and that.
Psyop.
Here he is.
Yeah, they psyoped him into sexy.
Was that King Charles?
Yeah.
He looks kind of dorky to me.
Just based off of the king.
I beg your pardon, sir.
That is the king of England.
King of England.
You were just there.
Breeding.
You just said you wanted to move there.
I say it like it is.
I don't come to play.
I think Trump looks dorky too.
They all do.
Luke isn't getting a view.
King of America.
He's got this interview on Howard Stern.
He has Mohammed Al-Fayed, owner of Howard's, entrepreneur, father of Dodi Al-Fayed, boyfriend of Diana at the time of her death.
First of all, Mr. Al-Fayed, you have been saying for years that you believe your son was not the victim of an accident, that when he was with Lady D. Just because he's got a model of himself in the background wearing a kilt, don't let that undermine his testimony.
If your son was not the victim of an accident, that when he was with Lady Dye, the royal family was so upset with her dating him, the fact that he was Muslim, they had him bumped off.
In other words, this was a hit, a murder, and not an accident.
Absolutely.
He's a terrorist.
Stern, the Joe Rogan of his day, you know, to go on Howard Stern in those days, it was career-aughter him.
He was pushing boundaries continually on the medium.
So it was a big deal that this interview took place.
Absolutely.
He's a terrorist murder.
It's not a murder.
It's a slaughter of those bloody racist royal family.
You think Prince Philip is so smart that he can mastermind all this and orchestrate it?
Yeah, he's vicious.
Yeah, of course.
You think a guy like that will accept my son, different religion, different nationality, will be the future stepfather of the future king?
You think this bloody racist family, right, will accept that?
I feel for you.
If my daughters were in that car, would Lady Die and this was, you know.
Of course you'd want to get to the bottom of it.
I'd want to get to the bottom of it, and I don't blame you.
Mr. Alfaed, just as a background, are you a self-made guy?
I mean, did you just come to all I know is he owns Harrods, and that store is amazing.
I think the whole bloody thing, Frasis, I think that Muhammad, from the day that he came here and had the temerity to bid for the top people's store, has been considered to be some sort of a wog.
Nigger, if you like, who has sort of thrust him now?
John is a rubber premium.
Well, you can say whatever you want in the chat.
It's very British the way that it was handled.
I mean, I'm still not doing it.
And that's at the calf, by the way.
If you will.
Dare I said.
If you will.
Nice Zedo.
You know, nice calf.
You didn't go outred's look.
Oh, yeah.
No, it didn't go I was there.
I didn't even know what that was.
Well, there it is.
Look at that.
That's the CAF.
That's the Cafe in Harrods.
Lovely place.
Born in Alexandria under British colonial rule, Mohammed quickly left behind his humble Egyptian origins, making a fortune as a middleman for British firms in the Middle East, and whilst doing so, becoming a global billionaire.
Proving that it's not where you come from that matters, it's where you end up.
And he's ended up in a very nice place indeed.
Besides having owned Harrods for 25 years, Mohammed Al-Fayyed owns the Paris Ritz, a villa in Saint-Tropez, a Scottish castle, and a Tudor mansion on the edge of London.
But he chooses to spend much of his time in this tent, so he can be close to the burial place of his son.
This document should be crazy.
It's so good.
Most of his time is in that tent.
He's an N-word, if you will.
A wanderer.
A rare kid.
If you're watching this on Rumble, I hope you are, because we won't be allowed on YouTube.
But we're going to have to get through some interesting cultural anomalies.
So here's a question.
In his time, as from Egypt, a Muslim man, but he was still fascinating with wanting to be a part of what England had to offer.
Where you see now it feels like we want to completely maybe destroy from the outside, change England completely to look, you know, like what Tommy Robinson would say.
How has that changed since the 90s?
That's interesting.
I mean, also our understanding of the nature of migration is altered because there's a sense that Britain as a global imperial power that had conquered and exploited India, the Middle East and, you know, near countless other countries had this kind of obligation to participate in a kind of restitution for the damage done.
And someone like Muhammad Al-Fayed, he was a kind of a, regarded as a novelty and his attempts to fit in with the British establishment and obviously his financial success and business acumen made him in some spaces an admired individual.
But he was also, well, he was treated pretty bad by the establishment.
He was kind of mocked and ridiculed on TV pretty regular.
But yeah, there's an episode of The Crown actually that sort of covers him.
Yeah.
Because it's like he wanted to be a part of it, then he realized he couldn't.
So then it was like, I'm going to be, I don't know, more powerful than they were or try to go sort of battle it.
Yeah.
And then he had nothing to lose.
He had all the money and everything, you know, so he was just like, I'm going to attack it.
Yeah.
Then I'm going to impregnate it.
No, that's not worked either.
I'm going to my tent.
I'm going to my tent.
I'm just going to be in my tent.
Son Dodi.
He remembers the night of the tragedy all too clearly.
Straight away going to the mortar to see Dodi, you know.
If you're watching this on YouTube, click the link in the description.
Join us over on Rumble, where elderly British men can use the N-word freely in the past.
Click the link, join us over there.
It was a terrible scene, you know, it was so difficult.
And everything worked in my mind that's definitely there.
They killed him.
This is the place which he basically lived most of the time.
He liked to play polo.
This is the whole field which I planted as a forest.
I come sometime here, I have when I'm here, I have breakfast.
I sit with him because we believe soul comes out.
you know maybe his watch his soul watching us talking to us as if Who knows what fate will produce?
Who knows what circumstances will provoke?
The End I went.
Everyone went, you know, put down some flowers and stuff.
It was.
No, like I was more, when big cultural things happened, I was still always, and still sort of a little bit do, feel like, whoa, this is crazy.
I see it much more glitch in the matrix type stuff.
Like it wasn't, the energy was peculiar.
You could feel, well, hmm, all right.
If you think about faith in God, people might sort of ridicule faith in God because of the, because of the faith aspect, it requires what one might regard from another perspective as an imaginative leap.
But if you're supporting a football team, of course the football team is verifiably present.
You can sort of see that they are there.
But your connection to the football team is a faith-based connection.
Like my support of West Ham and my emotions being either positive or negative based on the outcome of West Ham's performance on a football field is a faith-based, I've believed myself into caring and believing that I'm personally impacted.
Now, there are rational reasons.
My dad supports West Ham.
It's a football team that's near where I'm from.
There are ways of rationally understanding it, but it's not rational that I'm so demonstrative or if I was at the stadium and when I've been at the stadium, cheering, singing, engaged and involved.
Now, when like the royal family and the belief that the royal family are a sort of symbol of power or the remember when I remember like I wasn't living in America at the time of Jan 6 and I felt like why are people outraged that they went in there because what like the capital why is the capital sacred don't we all feel now that politics is completely corrupt and that institutions and emblems of power aren't sacred but now I know a bit more about America I can see like why people would revere the
capital and what you say it represents now so when something happens like diana dies or 9 11 i feel you you're momentarily subject to the reality that it's all quite fragile that it's all just sort of hanging together like the royal family could have collapsed in this moment if it like it shook a little bit people could have gone yeah let's not have a royal family it wouldn't have been if you'd have had the right forces at play in that moment and
not that long after this in the uk there was the murder of a school girl and it was discovered that the newspapers as was standard practice at that time had hacked her phone and were able to listen to her messages like to try you know the the media were doing that they were doing that to celebrities but they also in this instance did it to a sort of a dead school girl's phone when people found out that that had happened you know people will take it that they listen to
hugh grant's messages or any number of famous people they were doing it to the royal family as well but when they sort of found out this they'd been doing it to a dead girl which meant that the parents when they investigated found that the messages on the answer phone had been listened to so they thought oh my god she must be alive because the answer phone messages have been listened to and like and then they went no what it is is newspapers have been doing that like people were like oh my god they had to shut the newspaper that was most culpable was called the news of the world which was a rupert murdoch owned news international which
owns for a while owned all of fox and owns uh the times to this day and other british prominent and australian and american news they calculated shut down that whole newspaper because if we don't this could spread we could be like it could destroy us now i think what we're living in now is there's such volatility and chaos i'm surprised watching this the keith allen got that access like he's speaking to mohammed al-fayyad like he's the father of a man that died in that
car who was good you know possibly maybe about to marry diana and and what i feel like now is this like look at what happened to joe like the biggest and best example is joe rogan had the temerity to use a word from this documentary to say i didn't get a vaccine i instead used ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine uh and uh these other methods and like look at the response to that the response was that the whole media machine tried to destroy him now it's only a little while
ago that happened and people are trying to reconfigure and move around and pretend that that didn't really happen and we can still trust the media but what exists now what i feel we live in now is a time where there is such potential fragility that if there was an event that people like you know like the death of a child is always a sort of a possibility or something that reaches symbolically deeply into people there could be real southern radical change yeah and i think that when
um you see stuff like this that captures the imagination it has an impact and by the way do you see it by the way isaac see if you can find this this is a real research gig there are clay there are i believe it's statistically true that in the nights after um high profile fights like boxing matches or probably the same mma matches the um incidences of violence and reports of er use goes up like people fight more when there's been a big fight right like there's public
imagination there's other information that suggests that when there's an event like 9/11 a mass consciousness event where everyone in the world's consciousness and attention's on it there's some binary machine that's continually crew generating random numbers and and during events of mass consciousness it goes into sequences and patterns let's see if we can find that thing before i because i like it suggests that consciousness impacts well yes no different than the double slit thing and probably a little more um sort of
hocus pocus i'm going to look it up let's watch a bit more of this so i think diana's a significant event because it was a moment where the world might have changed and isn't it marvelous how the establishment can accommodate these events and bring them back into sort of the fold like in a way if 9/11's anything other than literally what we were told in the first hours afterwards or weeks at least give them some time to investigate then that's reason enough to completely reorganize society and you know you know and i know that it isn't what they told us and yet we're not completely reorganizing society so
why is that the crash happened on the 31st of august 1997 the last day of an extraordinary month for diana
there was the whirlwind romance with dodie fevered speculation in the press that she was about to get married even that she might be pregnant where would it all end would the mother of the future king of england get hitched to a muslim and have children by him too and set up a rival court in the usa the princess of the world at that time the girl everybody wanted
i see this is tony coast this is a really weird documentary the girl everybody was from sparkus and trapeze and everything the girl everybody wanted i saw him with her jamie lee curtis's dad luke something really freaky friday lindsey loham how contemporary do we have to
get the girl everybody wanted i saw him with her i saw the house in
in malibu that todie was gonna buy we can't make this content without the support of our partners is a message from one now rumble is farting out the fierce cock of authoritarianism and clamping shut the butt cheeks of free speech baby when major advertisers conspired to pull their dollary dues even brands like dunking Donuts turned their back claiming Rumble had a right-wing culture.
But we're not here to fit a mold, we're here to defend free expression.
Content from creators like Russell Brand.
Yo, I'm that dude.
Doctor Disrespect, Timcast, and the Muck Club with Crowder.
It's more than a subscription, it's a stand for free speech.
Your voice matters.
For a limited time, you can get $10 off an annual plan using the Rumble code BRAND.
Visit rumble.com forward slash premium forward slash brand and claim your discount today.
Together, we can turn the tide, whether you join Rumble Premium or simply keep watching.
Your support helps keep free speech alive.
And with free speech, we can be free together.
Subscribe to Rumble Now.
For them.
Who knows what might have happened if she'd lived.
So whether you think it was an accident or murder, one fact is incontrovertibly true.
It was chillingly convenient for the Windsors that Diana died when she did.
The last holiday she spent with her boys, with me for nearly two weeks, she was worried and she told me exactly what's going to happen to her.
So she definitely rocked the boat in an extraordinary fashion.
And she's still rocking it.
She won't go quietly.
That's the problem.
I'll fight till the end.
I'll fight till the end.
It's day one of the inquest into Diane and Dodie's deaths.
Some say the cause was a drunken driver called Henri Paul.
Some blame the paparazzi.
Others suspect foul play, a staged crash involving a mysterious white feat Uno, perhaps on the orders of Prince Philip.
The French report into the crash has been kept secret.
The British report was riddled with contradictions.
Several coroners came and went, and attempts to hold the inquest without a jury were overturned.
So here we are, at last, at the start of an inquest that may finally turn the full floodlights onto the workings of the British establishment and the royal family.
The media call this the Diana inquest, forgetting that three people died in that clash, not just Diana, but Dodi Fired and Driver Enrip 2.
Apparently there is a meritocracy even in death, and some demises are considered more important than others.
That's me, Keith Allen, outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Note that name, Royal Courts of Justice.
A sure sign of impartiality in a case where the credibility of the royal family is on trial.
In the royal courts of justice with a judge, or coroner, as he's called here, who has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Queen and has Queen's counsellors on every side, and has already said that he is minded not to call senior royals as witnesses.
Historically, the relationship between the royal family courts has been difficult, mainly because every judge has taken an oath of allegiance to the Queen.
Now, if you've taken an oath of allegiance to the Queen and you have a legal case involving the monarchy, I mean, you're going to be biased, aren't you?
Curiously, the media have decided the outcome of the inquest before it's even begun and have already declared it a waste of time and money.
Many media organisations, including the BBC, have even sent their royal reporters to cover it rather than their legal reporters.
Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, is at the High Court, Nick.
Yet Diana was no longer royal at the time of her death, and BBC royal reporters are required to spend their lives shamelessly sucking up to the palace and presenting the Windsors to the public in a favourable light.
You're laughing at our culture.
When do I ever, ever mention your culture or your Jewishness?
Right, fair enough, fair enough.
Yeah, no, that's true.
So what chance is there of impartiality from them?
With most people getting their news about the inquest from journalists with such an obvious bias, I thought it was important that somebody with an open mind also reported on it.
Twis custodiet ipsos custodes.
Who judges the judges?
Well, on this occasion, it seemed to be me and my mole from the outset.
Interesting way, like he's really pleased he's gotten that mole in there.
Me, like a mole on his neck, and then he zooms in and he's like, moly, moly, moly.
Beast.
You like Keith Allen?
Have you seen his other stuff?
He did.
I've only, I know him because obviously Lily Allen's dad, but I saw a documentary he did on the Westboro Baptist Church, you know, the God Hates Fags people when they were really big, you know, in their heyday, 15 years ago, whatever.
And he's so funny because he, as he's talking to them about homosexuality, and maybe some guy from San Francisco is like a homosexual who joined the Westboro Baptist Church, and he's really quizzing them on their stuff about homosexuality.
It then goes to him narrating in the studio.
And then you notice that he's actually bent over, getting fucked by some guy.
And he's just staged it.
He goes, most Christians like to turn the other cheek.
I know that I do.
And then he just pays the guy and the guy walks off.
So even when he's doing a documentary about that, he's still making jokes which involve him getting boned by some guy and him paying him, like paying the male prostitute.
Yeah, yeah, he's hilarious.
His Westbrook Baptist Church things are probably worth a watch.
He's really, really funny guy.
I was actually rather offended by that.
I don't know about you, Luke.
I have no words.
It's one of the things that Massive brings up.
Dark guy.
He's a dark guy.
A dark guy.
It's what I like.
Now, what's behind that curtain?
Yeah, what's behind that curtain?
It's what I like.
There's nothing.
Don't worry about the people behind the curtain.
Ignore them.
Everybody's in.
Make a noise now.
This is your chance to escape.
If you're behind that curtain, this is a time where you pretty much squawk.
Me and my mole.
From the outset, it was clear that the coroner was firmly on the side of the establishment.
Hardly surprising, as he's part of it.
I thought the story of the opening day would be the coroner points the jury in the direction of it being an accident, which he clearly did.
And also the fact he was anticipating what the former leader of the London police was going to say without him being there.
I anticipate that Lord Stevens will give evidence that he was trying to reassure the Paul that their son had not been as drunk as a pig as had been alleged in some newspaper.
Seems to me that the establishment have been talking to each other and squaring their stories before the inquest gets underway.
Why aren't the media suspicious?
This is really fishy.
There's something very odd going on.
He better not be getting bummed while he's in that booth, Massey, there.
That's what it was.
It was literally a booth like that, and then it panned out.
So he puts jokes in.
I'm not sure if he's going to do anything in this, but I certainly went into Target like the Westboro Baptist Church.
I think he's fine to make jokes.
I don't even make any good diner jokes.
Maybe it'll pan out.
He'll be in a car in a tunnel next to a dead diamond.
Who knows where he could go?
She's still the queen of our hearts.
There's something very odd going on around here.
And what makes it all the more odd is that the juiciest bits, the bits that are striking me as being the murkiest of all, aren't being reported anywhere.
She would have been straight up queen.
Straight up Queen Diana.
We could have her now.
Dang it.
And it wasn't so many.
But if they're divorced queen other journalists, they've got divorced Massey.
You've got to honour your marriage vows.
But if they'd have stayed married and she'd not been murdered, then she would have been queen.
But like, Isaac says like queen consort.
Yeah, that's what Camilla is.
But they're trying to shift that.
And it wasn't so much that there was a conspiracy amongst other journalists, that there was an established consensus.
And anyone who sort of thought or spoke or wrote outside that consensus will regard it as being odd.
This has interesting echoes of the Merchant of Venice.
Because if we go back to the Merchant of Dennis, I mean, the fundamental point is about Shylock, he's different.
He's Jewish in this case, but also Oriental.
Despite what I remember being...
Despite what I remember being told.
Shylock.
Shakespeare Shylock wasn't actually a bad character at all.
He was just a foreigner who wanted justice, but was swindled out of it.
It's interesting that it's going on some interesting tangents.
me saying this at all he was just a foreigner who wanted justice but was swindled out of it by the venetian establishment you know here's fired the oriental going and saying by the way i want a fair trial and they're saying well no just a minute you know it's all over i mean don't bother Don't be serious.
It was an accident.
You know, we didn't really mean it.
No, he said, I'm coming into court.
I'm coming.
I'm going to use your judicial system against you.
And of course, he's robbed in court.
When you read that, you can also read it as an essay in the way in which the establishment, the Venetian establishment, suddenly find themselves confronted by an outsider who's demanding his rights.
He's saying, all I want is justice.
Can I have justice, please?
You set up all this judicial system.
I'd like it, please.
And they want to really say, well, it's not for you, you bastard.
The point of the inquest is to investigate.
That's nice.
That's very English.
It's not for you, you bastard.
Brilliant.
England looks great, man.
England's great.
It's a good country.
We've got to get it.
It was.
Now we're going to get it back.
Yeah, we need it back.
I think it's the banter.
Yes, good banter.
I'm going to go.
Let me see if I can figure it out.
Just send me over there.
We'll get it back.
We'll get it back.
We're going to bring it back here.
The best.
Take it over.
These suspicious circumstances surrounding the crash.
But will it answer these questions?
Was it pure coincidence that Diana told many people she would be deliberately killed in a car crash?
Why did these CCTV cameras along the route apparently not record anything?
Word driver on...
Oh, same thing.
Yes, missing minutes again.
It's missing minutes, Shylock.
Missing minutes.
Be careful.
He apparently not record anything.
Word driver Henri Paul's blood samples tampered with to make him appear wildly drunk, even though he seemed to be sober.
Why were Diana's phone calls being bugged by the American secret services?
And who was driving the white Fiat Uno, That may have caused the crash.
Poor Diana.
All the royals wanted was a brood mayor crossed with a clothes horse.
The establishment didn't want the idea of a future king of England having a Muslim half-brother or sister.
There's only one conspiracy theory, as far as I'm concerned, to do the death of Diana, and that is a conspiracy that has grown up that it was an accident.
Before a single witness had been called.
I think the remaining thing that needs to be done is the jury bailiffs need to be sworn for the journey to Paris.
See you in Paris.
This is where the jury will gather to retrace.
That's like high English, like that whole like standard.
Do you think you just get that way over a certain time?
Yeah, you learn it, I think.
I suppose Riv Starmer is sort of a bit strangled at the back of his throat.
Don't know what he's been doing with the back of his neck hole.
See you in Paris.
This is where the jury will gather to retrace Diana and Dodie's final journey.
We'll have to be careful not to film the jury, because we could be sent to prison for contempt if we show their faces, even though anyone who bothers to come here can see perfectly well who they are.
And oh, look.
Oh, there's Pos Spice, who just happens to walk out of the Ritz while the world's cameras are here.
Diana was a celebrity who was supposedly hounded by the paparazzi, yet now here's another celebrity using the inquest as a chance for a photo opportunity with the paparazzi.
They never learn.
Ah, you could have just been on holiday.
Yeah.
Ah, there's the legal charabang.
This bus is officially a courtroom, we've been told, and must be treated with the same dignity as the royal courts of justice themselves.
But oh dear, first it appears to have knocked a policeman off his motorcycle and now and our tire has just burst, thereby some Britain, man.
Britain can't do things properly.
This we will treat this bus exactly the same as a court of law.
Oh, no, we've run over a motorcycle.
We've blown it, oh, we've got it out for fuck's sake!
His motorcycle and now, and our tire has just burst, thereby somehow undermining the majesty of the law.
After the jury had visited the majesty of the law.
After the jury had visited the crash scene, so did I. This is it.
With my mole, my mole and I went straight down that tunnel.
Hi.
This is it?
Yeah.
This is the tunnel.
Yeah, you didn't know?
As well as endlessly debating whether Dodi might have impregnated Diana, the inquest devoted several weeks to a minute investigation of her periods, contraceptives, and sexual habits.
It's almost as though the establishment wanted to demythologize her in the eyes of ordinary people by putting her uterus on public display.
And by going in with Dodie Fayed and falling in love with him, as I believe she absolutely did, head over heels with the guy, you've got the ultimate cocktail of danger for the British establishment.
Perhaps it was unwise for Dino and Dodie together.
Not a posh then, is it?
They clearly fell deeply in love.
Piersburg was a bit different then, wasn't he?
He was talking about the British establishment.
And then Petersburg.
It was unwise for Dino and Dodie to get together, but they clearly fell deeply in love.
And thinking about the way their lives were prematurely snuffed out had a strangely melancholic effect on me that night.
Right from the start, the circumstances surrounding the crash were suspicious.
Within a day, before tests on Henri Paul's blood had even been completed, the French authorities had leaked a story to the press that this was a simple accident, caused by a driver who was drunk as a pig.
Although the only alcohol he seems to have consumed that night was two recards, less than one quarter of the amount the French authorities claimed he'd drunk.
He certainly seemed sober minutes before he drove to Mercedes, and within hours of the crash, French police had allowed a road-sweeping van to wash away all the evidence.
What a coincidence.
That's exactly what the Pakistan police did in 2007, when they immediately hosed down the place where Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
It's a matter of fact.
That stuff's that's when it starts getting weird.
And also there was some person, like, you know, the guy, the security dude, just disappeared from the face of the earth.
Like, there's one guy who didn't die, was badly wounded.
Like, the security, no one knows where he is, what he's doing.
It comes up in this.
He immediately hosed down the place where Benazir Bruto was assassinated.
It's so much easier to claim that a death was just an accident if the evidence has been washed away.
It's like my electrician.
I was at home last week when he arrived, told him what I was doing, and he immediately turned round and said, Oh yeah, but MI5 did that, didn't they?
And the trouble is, intelligent people believe this shit and get carried away with it.
I mean, people do love a conspiracy theory, don't they?
Yep.
Ah, the gentleman of the press.
This is the only way most people get to know what's going on at the inquest, and there's no doubt that almost all of the media had already reached their verdict long before the inquest started.
Yet most of the hacks covering it didn't understand the detailed evidence they were hearing and had no idea of how the establishment was manipulating events behind the scenes and deciding what could and could not be said.
The coroner even prevented the jury from knowing about the state of the relationship between Philip and Diana.
The prince's letters were redacted, as the court called it, or censored into incomprehensibility, as the rest of us call it.
When a close friend of Diana's wanted to tell the inquest about deeply hostile letters that the prince had written to Diana not long before her death, she was forbidden to do so.
Initially, I had great hopes for the inquest until I got the gagging order on me.
Somebody came in and said, are you not allowed to mention the content of the Prince Philip letters?
And in effect, it's like having gagging orders slapped on me.
The first one was making assertions on her moral character.
It was doubting her faithfulness to Charles before Harry was born.
And you just wonder how many people have been paid off in this whole charade.
It's not fully transparent.
There's a if I've had a gagging order, other people have had a gagging order.
Why weren't the press more suspicious?
Well, journalists have to answer to their editors who answer to their proprietors.
We all want knighthoods.
The upshot being that most journalists are instinctively pro-establishment and are unwilling to accept that the official story about Dinah's death just does not make sense.
Well, it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.
The most daunting aspect was the media attention.
And I seem to be on the front of a newspaper every single day.
And the higher the media put you, place you, is the bigger the drop.
Just after midnight on the 31st of August 1997, Diana and Dodie left the Paris Ritz in a Mercedes driven by Henri Paul.
Diana sat in the rear-right seat.
She habitually wore a seatbelt.
But on this occasion, she did not put it on.
When the car was subsequently examined by a crash expert on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, the rear-right seatbelt was found to be defective.
Had it been tampered with?
Was this why Diana was not wearing a seatbelt that night?
And why was the inquest not told about this?
Some of the paparazzi outside the hotel set off in pursuit, but their scooters and motorcycles were unable to keep up with the much more powerful car.
Police evidence given at the inquest confirmed that by the time the Mercedes entered the armour tunnel, all the pursuing paparazzi had been left far behind.
Yet eyewitnesses saw several motorcycles and a white Fiat Uno surrounding the Mercedes and blocking its progress as it entered the tunnel.
There was a very bright flash.
Then the white Fiat Uno collided with the Mercedes, which lost control and crashed headfirst into a concrete pillar.
All the other vehicles have never been identified.
And they've certainly been excluded as being paparazzi because there was a very close analysis done of all the known paparazzi who were on duty that night.
And they could all be accounted for.
So who was riding those motorcycles?
Who was driving the white Fiat Uno?
Witnesses saw The Mercedes being closely pursued and surrounded by several motorcycles as it drove into the Alma tunnel.
Now, the jury in their verdict found that following vehicles were guilty of manslaughter.
The media read following vehicles and translated into paparazzi.
Now, the jury never said that.
So the question is, who owned or who was driving the other vehicles, either motorcycle or car?
The jury decided that these unidentified drivers had committed a criminal act.
So why are neither the French nor British police trying to trace these killers?
Do MI6 kill people?
Are they allowed to?
Sir Richard Dearler said he was unaware of MI6 ever having assassinated anyone.
When you have the head of the British security services calmly announcing we have never killed anybody in the last 50 years, I laughed out loud.
What's the point of them then?
We've all been to James Bond movies, thanks.
We know the security services do a lot of dark stuff.
So the idea that we're supposed to believe that in 50 years the British secret agents Ask Pierce about himself then compared to, say, just say, hey.
It'd be kind of an interesting take because this is on the side of conspiracy theorists.
Yeah, at the beginning of the pandemic, he really came out to bat for the government and like get your shots and people should be shamed and all that stuff.
He was obviously his position is amended, but yeah, he's been in and around power for a long time now.
Have never actually killed anyone.
I didn't believe it.
And so if you don't believe that, where does that leave the rest of the establishment evidence?
Of all the lies told to the inquest, the most absurd was that the British Secret Services have never killed anybody.
This shameless lie was exposed by Richard Tomlinson, a former MI6 agent, who gave evidence to the inquest by video link from France.
He couldn't come to Britain because if he had, he would have been instantly arrested.
Tomlinson saw a secret MI6 plan to assassinate a Serbian leader in a car crash in a tunnel by flashing a very bright light into the driver's eyes.
At first I just thought it was a joke and I refused to believe the officer when he told me about it because he first of all outlined it to me verbally.
And then I went back to see him a couple of days later for another matter and he sort of gave me a copy of the, he showed me the minute to sort of prove that he hadn't been joking about it.
And so that's, I remember that very clearly.
Well there have been other times in my life where I have been involved in death, yes.
But I can't talk about that.
Curiously, several witnesses who were near the Alma Tunnel at the time of the crash.
It's very mysterious from that parallel.
Random.
That's true.
Yes, I've been involved in death.
Curiously, several witnesses who were near the Alma Tunnel at the time of the crash reported seeing a bright flash seconds before the collision.
Have you ever driven at night when some careless driver is coming at you with his headlights on full beam?
Imagine that.
A hundred times as bright in a narrow tunnel.
The result would be exactly what happened to Diana and Dodie's car.
I don't think many people would want me to be queen.
Actually, when I say many people, I mean the establishment that I'm married into, because they've decided that I'm a non-starter.
The question that haunts me is around the time of the crash that she wasn't taken more rapidly to a hospital.
There was a sort of time period that wasn't properly explained about her treatment on the ground.
The crash occurred at 12.23 a.m.
Dodie and Henri Paul died instantly.
The bodyguard, Trevor Rees, was seriously injured.
Diana was injured, but was conscious and alert.
And had she received prompt hospital treatment, she could well have survived.
But she didn't.
Instead, an ambulance containing Dr. Jean-Marc Martino arrived at the scene.
Although other ambulances were also present, he took sole charge of the princess and made a series of bizarre and disturbing decisions that sealed her fate.
It took an astonishing 37 minutes after the crash for Dr. Martino to remove the still-conscious Diana from the Mercedes and put her in his ambulance.
Odd, because the back of the car was undamaged.
It took an extraordinary 81 minutes after the crash before the ambulance even set up for the nearby hospital.
Oddly, it made no radio contact with Ambulance HQ throughout the journey.
It took an inexplicable one hour and 43 minutes after the crash before the ambulance arrived at the nearby hospital, having traveled there at a snail's place on empty roads.
By then, Diana's life was ebbing away.
At the inquest, experts agreed that her life could have been saved had it not been for the suspiciously slow and furtive actions of Dr. Martino and his crew, the other members of which have never been officially identified or interviewed.
There is no dispute that at about 12.26, the emergency services in Paris were notified that there had been a serious car crash.
There were two dead, two seriously injured.
So all he needed at 12.35, if I may say so, through you, was one call saying, look, I think we may have a real problem here.
Please be at the ready.
That is precisely the conclusion that we would have put in our report.
The BBC's chief royal correspondent used to pay particularly close attention.
Here's the guy that considers himself to be effectively the Walter Cronkite of British television.
He's in front of arguably the story of the decade.
It's unfolding, but he doesn't even have to dig it up.
It's happening right in front of him.
And the guy falls asleep.
And not just once, but several times.
I do things differently because I don't go by a rule book because I lead from the heart, not the head.
And albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
But someone's got to go out there and love people and show it.
There was a powerful reason why the secret service.
She's alright, she's Diana.
I know.
What a lady.
What a lady.
She's caused a lot of aggro.
Look, we could go back and do season three of Tommy Robinson wandering around the States in Sheffield, stirring it up.
There was a powerful reason why the secret services of Britain, France, and America might have wanted Diana dead.
It was Diana's involvement in the campaign to ban landmines.
Hey, if you want to come and see me at Turning Point in Tampa, there's a link in the description.
I'm appearing there with Charlie Kirk and Pete Hegsef and like Donald Trump Jr.
There's a load of people there.
Come if you want.
I'll be there talking.
I don't know what I'm going to do yet.
I'll work it out.
Come and see us.
That's all for this week.
Next week, we'll cover the second part of this if you want, or we'll look at something else.
It's up to you.
Let us know in the chat.
I'm thinking about Nazi UFOs a great deal.
What were they up to, those space Nazis?
All right.
Thanks for joining us.
See you next week.
Not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Export Selection