The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, London

The judge overseeing the inquest into the death of princess Diana told a London court Wednesday that it might never be possible to prove conclusively whether or not she was pregnant when she died. Speaking on the second day of the long-awaited formal probe into her death, judge Scot Baker told the 11 inquest jurors that they would hear "intimate" details of her private life. He added that there was evidence Diana was taking the contraceptive pill when she died and warned that scientific evidence may not be able to demonstrate "one way or the other" whether Diana was carrying a baby. Diana, ex-wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles, was killed alongside her Egyptian boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul in a high speed car crash in Paris in August 1997. Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed, the millionaire owner of London's upscale Harrods department store, believes they were killed in a plot hatched by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and the British security services.