Tony Blair says conspiracy theorists accused him of being involved in the death of Princess Diana.
The former Prime Minister said he had to fight off suggestions of a “Secret Service plot”. Mr Blair revealed: “I have so regularly been the subject of conspiracy theories that I have just grown to live with them.
“When I was prime minister I had to deal with innumerable conspiracy theories arising out of the tragic death of Princess Diana.
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“To this day there are those who are convinced it was part of some nefarious Secret Service plot.
“It’s all complete nonsense, driven by a paranoid belief that there has to be a deeply concealed reason for such a terrible and unexpected event.”
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The Princess of Wales died in the early hours of August 31, 1997 after a horror car crash in a tunnel in Paris.
Her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul were killed while Dodi’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor.
In his new book On Leadership, Mr Blair added: “The conspiracy theories about Princess Diana’s death also exemplify the belief some people have in the existence of the deep state – a belief that generates a whole encyclopedia of paranoia of its own.”
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