I think that when Diana did her absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented interview with the BBC,

I think that there was one particular phrase that she said that, in my opinion, really effectively signed her death warrant.

She said that she didn't think that Charles was suitable to be king.

I'm Joanna Coles and this is the Daily Beast podcast and today we're going to be talking

to the author of the Substack and Daily Beast newsletter, the Royalist Tom Sykes,

about his conviction 20 years after she died that in fact Princess Diana may have

been murdered. Now, for the first 10 years after reporting this story, Diana's death, Tom assumed,

like I think most of us did, that actually Diana had died a somewhat ordinary death for a

princess. She was the victim of a very unfortunate, tragic drink driving accident. But the more

he's thought about it, the more people he's talked to, the more he's looked into it, the more

official investigations he's read, he's now convinced that actually she was murdered.

I was not convinced of Tom's argument until I read his newsletter.

And then I decided we needed to talk to him 28 years after her death.

This story will not go away.

So let's get into it.

Tom, welcome.

I must admit, when I heard you were writing this piece, I slightly rolled my eyes because I just

thought, you know, come on, this was a drunk driving accident, a car chase by paparazzi,

three of them not wearing their seatbelts,

and of course the bodyguard who was wearing his seatbelt survived.

But then I read your piece and I too now have doubts.

When did you first start having doubts that the official story, drunk driving paparazzi chase, was in fact full of holes?

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