Princess Diana’s Sister Questions Her Death and Failure to Wear a Seatbelt

Lady Sarah McCorkadale, the sister of Princess Diana, has revealed she is still haunted by questions surrounding her death.

In particular, Lady Sarah wonders why her sister failed to wear a seatbelt on her last fateful car journey through Paris.

Speaking in a BBC documentary, Diana, Seven Days, Lady Sarah said that her youngest sister was religious about wearing seatbelts, making her failure to do so all the more puzzling.

The crash in Paris claimed the lives of Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur Henry Paul.

None of them were wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident.

However, Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was wearing a seatbelt, survived with serious injuries.

Lady Sarah expressed her confusion over why Diana didn't put on her seatbelt that night, saying, “Why didn't she put it on that night, I'll never know.”

A 2008 inquest into the accident found that the failure to wear a seatbelt had contributed to Diana's death, although it identified Henry Paul's driving as the main cause.

Lady Sarah's comments highlight the ongoing questions surrounding the tragedy.

In the documentary, Lady Sarah also spoke about her torment at hearing news broadcasters reporting official statements that Diana was injured but expected to recover, when her family knew she had died.

Initial reports from the crash said Diana was badly injured and in hospital, and her death was confirmed almost four hours later.

Lady Sarah said, “There was a period of two hours and I was talking obviously to other members of my family and learned that she hadn't made it, and for these two hours the presenters on every news channel were saying injured but expected to make a full recovery.

And I have no idea why but it made me so angry.”

Diana's brother Earl Spencer also spoke in the documentary, revealing that he had initially believed the car accident was a minor bump.

He was in South Africa at the time, but his sister Lady Jane Fellows had been called to say it was more serious.

Earl Spencer was still talking to his sister when her husband, Lord Robert Fellows, was told Diana had died.

At the time, Lord Fellows was a private secretary to the Queen.