Secret note hints if MURDER PLOT behind Princess Di’s death

Scotland Yard chiefs face new concerns over their handling of a note detailing Princess Diana’s fears she would be killed in a staged car accident.

Diana voiced her fears to her lawyer, Lord Mishcon, in October 1995. She died in a car crash in Paris two years later alongside Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul.

The mystery surrounding the note is revisited in a four-part documentary – Investigating Diana: Death In Paris – beginning tonight on British Channel 4 to mark the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.

After Diana’s death, Lord Mishcon passed his contemporaneous typed account of their meeting to senior Metropolitan Police officers who put it in a safe.

But the note was not passed to French authorities investigating her crash for six years.

Diana’s brother and sisters learned of its existence only more than a decade after it was written. Princes William and Harry were also left in the dark for a long time.

There have even been suggestions of a mysterious addition to the note, which it has been claimed was designed to give cover to the fact the original note was not released earlier.

According to John Morgan, author of ‘How They Murdered Princess Diana’, a second page was written in pen on a different pad and on different dates.

At his meeting with police chiefs the month after Diana’s death, Lord Mishcon read his note aloud to stress its importance.

He told officers that it recorded Diana saying that “efforts would be made if not to get rid of her by some accident in her car, such as a pre-prepared brake failure… at least to see that she was so injured or damaged as to be declared unbalanced [in her mind]”.

Michael Mansfield, a lawyer who represented Fayed’s father Mohamed Al Fayed, told the programme that “The note is important because it’s equivalent to somebody’s premonition”.

“If you were a police officer investigating it, you want to hand the account over to the French. They didn’t do that. They stick it in the safe and they don’t reveal it.”

The Mishcon Note, as it became known, may well feature in Prince Harry’s controversial memoir, due out later this year. Harry is said to be “intensely focused” on investigating his mother’s final hours.

Neither he nor his brother were aware of key details for almost a decade, according to the documentary.

In 2006, former Met commissioner Lord Stevens led Operation Paget, which investigated conspiracy theories surrounding the accident.

Later that year, he briefed William, then 24, and Harry, 22, at Kensington Palace for 90 minutes about his report’s detailed findings. Until then, the Princes had only “limited knowledge” of the accident.

Lord Stevens said he fielded “very pertinent questions” from the Princes, saying later it was a “difficult session for them”.

“I was in possession of the facts of what had taken place, from the beginning of the problem outside the Ritz with the car, to the death and bringing back the body,” he said.

“They wanted to know the circumstances of the death, what had happened to their mother, in every aspect. Some questions were in detail – which I answered, because they hadn’t been told of the circumstances.”