Diana was done for, say Brits
2003-09-01 10:16
London - A quarter of Britons believe Princess Diana was murdered, according to an opinion poll published six years after her death.
The survey in the Sunday Express newspaper found 27% of respondents believed Diana was murdered, 51 percent thought she wasn't and the remaining 22% had no opinion.
Forty-nine percent of people questioned in the poll, conducted by polling company NOP, said they thought there had been a cover-up of the circumstances of Diana's death following a car crash in a Paris tunnel on August 31 1999. Her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul were also killed.
Officials announced last week that a British coroner is preparing an inquest into the death of Fayed, although no date has been set.
NOP interviewed 1 002 people by phone for the Sunday Express poll, which had a margin of error of three percentage points. The newspaper didn't say when the poll was conducted.
- AP