{"id":1379,"date":"2007-09-30T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fayed-lawyers-to-ask-for-queens-evidence\/1379\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T15:29:27","slug":"fayed-lawyers-to-ask-for-queens-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/fayed-lawyers-to-ask-for-queens-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayed lawyers to ask for Queen&#8217;s evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Jamie Doward<br \/>\n<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/\"><strong><font size=\"2\" color=\"#003366\" face=\"Arial\">The Observer<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p id=\"GuardianArticleBody\">Lawyers acting for Harrods chairman Mohamed al-Fayed want the Queen to give evidence at this week&#8217;s inquest into the death of Princess Diana.By law, the Queen cannot be forced to testify, but she could choose to do so. Fayed&#8217;s lawyers say her evidence is crucial to establishing the truth about the deaths of Diana and Dodi Fayed, which an extensive investigation has already concluded were the result of a &#8216;tragic accident&#8217;. Lawyers want to ask about a conversation after the 1997 Paris crash in which the Queen is alleged to have told Diana&#8217;s former butler Paul Burrell there were &#8216;powers at work about which we have no knowledge&#8217;. Fayed&#8217;s press director, Katharine Witty, said that it was important that the coroner called all witnesses.<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">    \t\t\t<!--  \t\t\t\t\/* set the domain in anticipation of the ad*\/ \t\t\t\tif(setDomainForAds) { \t\t\t\t\tsetDomainForAds(); \t\t\t\t};  \t\t\t\/\/--> \t\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Doward The Observer Lawyers acting for Harrods chairman Mohamed al-Fayed want the Queen to give evidence at this week&#8217;s inquest into the death of Princess Diana.By law, the Queen cannot be forced to testify, but she could choose to do so. Fayed&#8217;s lawyers say her evidence is crucial to establishing the truth about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[96],"class_list":{"0":"post-1379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-cover-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}