Diana 'death plot' royal named

The senior member of the Royal family who Diana, Princess of Wales, believed was plotting to kill her in a car crash was named today.

Diana’s allegation was made in a letter written 10 months before she died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

The letter was included in a book by her former butler Paul Burrell last year.

Penguin, the book’s publishers, and the Daily Mirror, which serialised A Royal Duty, blanked out the name at the time.

The relevant passage read: “** ******* is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury...”

But the Daily Mirror today revealed what it claimed was the identity of the person named by Diana in the letter.

The newspaper said Mr Burrell was prepared to hand over the letter to Royal coroner Michael Burgess, who opens inquests into the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed today.

The newspaper said it had “decided to publish the blanked out name because it will inevitably appear in the public domain”.