We’re coming up to thirty years since the tragic death of Princess Diana and she remains a hot-button topic for the British royal family. There remain many unanswered questions about her death, but let’s dig into one that we actually have the answer to: the fate of the highly controversial final photos taken of her.
The broad facts of what happened on Aug. 31, 1997 in Paris are well-known. Diana, her partner Dodi Fayed, her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, and driver Henri Paul departed the Hôtel Ritz Paris just after midnight in a black Mercedes, heading for an apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. En route, they were pursued by several paparazzi photographers.
