Princess Diana's heart-wrenching letter: did she predict her death?

A letter from the late Princess of Wales:

"I'm going to date this, and I want you to keep it. Just in case.," she wrote to her butler Paul Burrell. This letter, penned by the Princess of Wales was dated a few months after her marriage breakdown with the future king of England. Did she predict her demise?

Read on to find out more about the letter’s contents and why many believe it is proof her death was no accident.

Years leading up to the car crash that killed her on August 31, 1997, the Princess of Wales was consumed by anxiety, as the Royal Observer tells us. She was convinced her apartment in Kensington Palace was bugged and would pull up the floorboards to check for hidden recording devices with her trusted butler, Paul Burrell.

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure, and serious head injury,” the letter read.

Her highly publicised divorce from then-Prince Charles consumed the royal family and exposed Charles’ affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Their divorce was finalised in August 1996, but not after the world’s press had delved into every detail.

"I have become strong, and they don't like it when I am able to do good and stand on my own two feet without them," she wrote. But who was she referencing?

The late Princess Diana was talking about the machine of the British Royal family, as confirmed by The Royal Observer. The publication states the royal loyalists looked at her as a 'loose cannon' who would reveal deep family secrets.

This generated deep fear in the 36-year-old. She became paranoid and even fired her police security detail on the grounds that she didn’t trust them… or really didn’t trust anyone. 

The letter read, "I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high."

"I have been battered, bruised, and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now, but I feel no resentment. I carry no hatred."

"I am weary of the battles, but I will never surrender. I am strong inside, and maybe that (is) a problem for my enemies." 

This letter is not the only reference to the Princess of Wales feeling like something would happen to her. There is also the Mishcon note - taken by her legal advisor, Victor Mishcon, in a meeting they had in 1995 as The Independent tells us.

The notes he took, reveal that Diana reportedly said a source had informed her that there were people who would look to ‘get rid of her’.

To make matters even eerier, she had stated this would be in the form of a ‘car accident’ that would kill her or injure her to the point that anything she said would appear ‘unbalanced’.

Nevertheless, the inquest into her death concluded in 2006 with the findings. This came in the form of an 832 page document investigating into 104 allegations surrounding the death of the Princess. 

John Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner who led the inquiry concluded with "100 percent" certainty that there was no conspiracy to “get rid of” or murder Diana and that her death was an accident.

The driver, Henri Paul, was "under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs". It was ruled an unlawful killing as a result of "grossly negligent" driving. Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were not wearing seatbelts. That may have been the error that cost them their lives. 

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