It may have taken ten years for the inquiry into Princess Diana’s death to even start, probably because there wasn’t really a need for one. She was once a royal, but she did her duty – produced heirs for the throne. She was basically famous for being famous, and supporting worthy causes. One of the major controversies surrounding her death may have been solved. It turns out she wasn’t pregnant, according to evidence given at the British inquiry into the car crash by pathologist Robert Chapman.

“An established pregnancy will show one a change in the size of the uterus, a change in the thickness of the lining and presence of a gestation sac — an embryo with membranes — attached to the wall of the uterus, and there will be changes also in the appearance of the ovaries.”

“Were any of these indications present here?” counsel to the inquest Nicholas Hilliard asked.

“No,” Chapman said.

[Sydney Morning Herald]

Apparently it is standard practice to examine a woman of childbearing age’s womb and ovaries.

But the pathologist doesn’t rule out that she could have been less than 14 days pregnant. Of course, it is unlikely that Diana herself would have known she was pregnant in those early stages either.

“Certainly from day one to seven there could not or would not be anything to see,” he said.

“From day seven to 14 you might see something. Thereafter there is an increasing likelihood of being able to see things which would indicate pregnancy.”

Dodi’s own father Mohammed Al Fayed believed that the princess was pregnant and that Dodi and Diana were killed in a plot orchestrated by Prince Phillip and the British intelligence service M16. Two such conspiracy theorists were in the court, but were removed after causing a disruption.

The other big conspiracy was that Dodi and Diana were engaged to be married, and that she was going to reveal this outside the Ritz Hotel in Paris, which is why the photographers were there to chase her into that fateful tunnel. Or possibly she was going to announce the pregnancy. Which hardly seems likely – surely Diana would have given the exclusive to Hello magazine. Or done another Panorama interview.

Note by Celebitchy: I do think there’s more to this story than a simple car crash. Princess Diana wrote a letter 10 months before her death saying that factions were planning a car accident for her to clear the way for Charles to remarry. She may not have been pregnant, but it’s pretty suspicious that she died in the way she predicted.