{"id":173383,"date":"2015-08-16T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=173383"},"modified":"2015-08-16T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T11:52:59","slug":"someone-must-greased-brakes-dianas-car-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/someone-must-greased-brakes-dianas-car-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone must have greased the brakes in Diana\u2019s car: Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A new book reveals the British queen spoke of \u2018greased brakes\u2019 in Diana\u2019s car upon hearing of the late princess\u2019s road accident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The queen\u2019s first reaction to the news of Princess Diana\u2019s car accident was that \u201csomeone must have greased the brakes,\u201d that is according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward\u2019s new book, \u2018An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Diana was killed in Paris in August 1997 while traveling along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, the son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed.<\/p>\n<p>Seward wrote in the <em>Daily Mail <\/em>that \u201cat first it was thought that, though the car crash in the Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel was serious, Diana had not been killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to one witness present when the queen heard the initial news, she mused out loud: \u2018Someone must have greased the brakes&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diana\u2019s death sparked national mourning, with the queen facing public criticism for not leaving her holiday retreat at Balmoral and returning to London immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/16\/424972\/Queen-Diana-car-greased-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book reveals the British queen spoke of \u2018greased brakes\u2019 in Diana\u2019s car upon hearing of the late princess\u2019s road accident. The queen\u2019s first reaction to the news of Princess Diana\u2019s car accident was that \u201csomeone must have greased the brakes,\u201d that is according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward\u2019s new book, \u2018An Intimate Portrait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173383","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=173383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}