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After decades of silence, Princess Diana’s ex-chauffeur has made the bold claim that she would still be alive today if he’d been the one driving on the night she died.
The former Princess of Wales passed away at the age of 36 on August 31, 1997, due to a fatal car crash in Paris.
Now, Steve Davies has opened up about BBC reporter Martin Bashir’s role in what happened.
Davies had been a royal chauffeur for eight years and had served as Princess Diana’s personal driver for half of that time. So, he was quite surprised when he was asked to leave his position in March 1996, without explanation.
But after years of wondering where he went wrong, Netflix’s The Crown finally allowed him to put the pieces together.
In a meeting in September 1995, Bashir allegedly lied to both Diana and her brother, Earl Spencer, in an attempt to win the princess’s trust and make her feel insecure, claiming that Davies had leaked information about her to the press.
“All I know is that if life had taken a different trajectory, if I’d been driving her that night in Paris, she would still be here today… because I would’ve kept her safe,” he said.
In May of this year, Davies received compensation for Bashir’s false
LadBible reported that Diana had been traveling in a car with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in the early hours of the morning on the day of her death. They were then chased by nine journalists through the Pont de l’Alma underpass when Henri Paul, the driver, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a column.
He was killed instantly, along with Fayed. Diana and Fayed’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, were critically injured.