There's one particular type of urban legend that I prefer not to cover on Skeptoid, and

that's one that involves the death of someone.

It's exploitative, and to me that's over the line.

But sometimes it's unavoidable, such as when the death is one of the world's most famous

and beloved people, and the death is graffitied with distasteful conspiracy theories.

The death of Princess Diana is one such case.

And we're going to give it the Skeptical Eye.

Next, Un Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Killing Princess Diana.

It was perhaps a certainty that the most famous royal celebrity death of the 20th century

would attract conspiracy theories.

So it's not surprising that that's exactly what happened when Diana, Princess of Wales,

died in a car accident in 1997.

She'd been divorced from Charles, Princess of Wales, for about a year, and she and her

boyfriend, Doty Alphayed, were in Paris.

The story of that evening had all the elements of an international caper, money, royalty,

luxury, celebrity, sex, drugs, and death.

How could this calamity, at once a small family tragedy and the greatest show on the worldwide

stage, have not attracted attention of every kind, sadness, anger, outrage, and charges

of crime and conspiracy?

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