The jury at the inquest into the death of Diana, who was killed alongside her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed in a Paris car crash ten years ago, has been tracing the couple's final journey through the French capital.
The 11-member jury, accompanied by Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker, arrived in Paris on Monday and visited the Alma tunnel in which the fatal car crash took place on August 31, 1997.
The Coroner led the jurors into the tunnel and then stood silently next to the notorious 13th pillar, which still bears clear signs of the massive impact from the Mercedes which was carrying Diana and Dodi, their chauffeur Henri Paul and her bodyguard Trevor Rees Jones.
Lord Justice Baker broke the silence only to suggest to the jurors that they may wish to walk further up the tunnel in order to look back down the underpass from its entrance.
"It may be helpful to look back up the tunnel to see the angle and the dip (of the road) as you come into the underpass," he reportedly told the 50-member court party, including the jurors.
The jury will visit the Ritz Hotel on Wednesday, where Diana and Dodi spent the final hours of their lives. They will also visit the Piti Salptrire Hospital, where the Princess of Wales was declared dead.
The high-profile inquest still has six months before announcing the exact cause of Diana's death.
Dodi's father Mohammed Al-Fayed had alleged at the inquest, which opened this month, that the couple was assassinated by the British secret service on the orders of Prince Philip. The Harrods boss insists that the Princess of Wales was pregnant at the time of her death, and the couple were planning to get married.
According to reports, Al-Fayed's legal team will soon demand that top US intelligence files on Diana be presented at the inquest as they believe that the National Security Agency had amassed a wealth of information on her.
"I can see no reason why these documents should not be made available to the Coroner. For the sake of transparency and to determine whether they are germane to the inquest, the Coroner should ask to see the files," said John McNamara, head of security, Harrods.
"If they are to be made available they should be made available to all interested parties," said McNamara who worked with the police probe team that produced a report last year stating that Diana's death in 1997 was an accident.
