Ambassador denies ordering embalming of Diana's body

Britain’s ambassador in Paris at the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales emphatically denied today that he ordered the embalming of her body on the instructions of MI5 to “conceal the fact she was pregnant with Dodi Fayed’s child”.

Lord Jay, who was Sir Michael Jay at the time of the car crash that killed the couple in the early hours of August 31 1997, told the London inquest into their deaths: “There is no truth in this allegation whatsoever.”