Diana was ‘not pregnant at death’

DIANA showed no signs of being pregnant, the man who carried out her postmortem examination said last night.

Pathologist Dr Robert Chapman checked her womb and ovaries in the mortuary on the evening after her death.

He told her inquest his examination of her body gave no indication she was expecting a baby.

But he did acknowledge it was possible a very early pregnancy would not have been detected.

Dr Chapman said he was “very satisfied” his examination of Diana at a public mortuary in west London was thorough enough to support his view that she was not pregnant.

The jury have heard Dodi Fayed’s father Mohamed al Fayed is convinced the couple were murdered by MI6 because Diana was carrying Dodi’s child. He believes Diana’s body was embalmed in Paris deliberately to obscure the results of any chemical pregnancy test, had one been conducted.

The jury at the High Court in London heard that Dr Chapman did not take a tissue sample from Diana’s uterus as a “more complete” check for pregnancy. Dr Chapman denied he had said, “At least she is not pregnant” during the postmortem examination.

Dr Chapman also said the embalming fluids would not affect the physical evidence of a pregnancy in an inspection of the womb or ovaries.