Original Diana car failed to start, documents reveal

THE death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash happened after the vehicle she was meant to be travelling in failed to start, according to official documents released yesterday.

Instead she got into a nearby Mercedes driven by chauffeur Henri Paul, who, tests later revealed, had been three times over the legal alcohol limit.

Diana, 36, and her 42-year-old lover Dodi Al Fayed were killed along with Paul when they crashed in a Paris underpass in August 1997.