In an interview with the Every day Mail, former head of Scotland Yard John Stevens stated Prince Charles – now King Charles III – was questioned by the U.Ok. police in 2005 over allegations he had plotted to kill Princess Diana.
Operation Paget, a three-year investigation into Princess Diana’s 1997 deadly automotive crash, discovered the observe the late Princess of Wales wrote in 1995, which learn, “My husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my automotive, brake failure and severe head harm,” so King Charles may marry Prince William and Prince Harry’s nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
“Sure, allegations had been made in regards to the Prince of Wales and different royals, however we needed to discover or look at the [existing] proof earlier than we approached him with formal questions,” stated Stevens. “We discovered no different proof to assist the situation instructed in Diana’s observe.”
He added, “We have been left with the observe, which, in itself, was not sufficient to make Charles a proper suspect. If he selected to help [Operation] Paget, he could be doing so voluntarily as a possible witness. We’d not be interviewing him beneath warning.”
When Stevens requested King Charles in regards to the observe, the now-reigning monarch reportedly replied, “I didn’t know something about [the note] till it was revealed within the media.”
King Charles expressed he didn’t understand it existed and that he had no concept his ex-wife “had these emotions.”
“On the finish of the day, he was extremely cooperative as a result of he had nothing to cover,” Stevens advised the outlet.