The inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi al Fayed in a 1997 car crash in Paris reopened today after a three-year break.
Three weeks ago, a lengthy police investigation ruled that the crash was an accident and the two were not the victims of a murder plot. A two-year French investigation had already come to that conclusion.
Diana (36) and 42-year-old Emad El-Din Mohamed Monein Abdel Fayed, who was nicknamed Dodi, died when the Mercedes limousine they were travelling in hit a pillar in a Paris underpass shortly after they sped away from the Ritz Hotel, pursued by paparazzi on motorbikes.
In the decade since the accident, a host of conspiracy theories flourished suggesting the couple were murdered because their relationship was embarrassing the royal family.
But a two-year French investigation ruled out foul play, saying Paul was responsible because he was drunk, under the influence of anti-depressants and driving too fast.