NEWS.COM.AU: A FRENCH investigative journalist has made the claim Princess Diana was nine weeks pregnant when she died, which is set to inflame the inquest into her death expected to begin in October.
The claims by French investigator Chris Laffaille appears to lend gentle support to long-standing claims by Mohamed Al Fayed that Diana was pregnant at the time of her death and murdered by the British establishment because the royal family could not bear to have the mother of the future king married to a Muslim.
His son Dodi was dating Diana, 36, at the time of her death.
But in a dramatic twist, if Laffaille's claim is true then Dodi Fayed could not have been the father - he had not met Diana nine weeks before their death.
She was dating London doctor Hasnat Khan at the time.
Laffaille said he uncovered evidence of a pregnancy from official archives at the Paris hospital where she was taken on the night of her fatal crash on August 31, 1997.
He claimed the letter has remained hidden for 10 years because of "ethical and privacy" concerns.
He has written a book on his findings, which some dismissed as a blatant attempt to cash in on the 10th anniversary of her death.
"It is a near certainty that Diana was nine to 10 weeks pregnant at the time she died, according to papers from the Paris Public Hospitals archives," he said. [Source: Diana ‘nine weeks pregnant’ says journo]
Mark Alexander
