Mohamed Al Fayed spent years insisting Princess Diana was carrying his son’s baby when she died, a claim that became central to an explosive royal conspiracy theory that nearly 30 years later is being dragged back into the spotlight.
Diana was 36 when she and Dodi Fayed were killed following a car crash inside Paris’ Pont de l’Alma tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, along with driver Henri Paul.
In the years that followed, Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, reportedly made an extraordinary allegation about the couple’s final weeks together, claiming the Princess of Wales had been pregnant with his son’s child and that their deaths were not an accident.
The pregnancy claim was eventually scrutinized during the lengthy British inquest into Diana and Dodi’s deaths, where jurors heard evidence pointing strongly in the opposite direction.
Pathologist found no signs of pregnancy
Dr. Robert Chapman, the pathologist who carried out Diana’s postmortem, testified that he saw no physical signs of pregnancy in her womb or ovaries.
“No, I did not,” he said when asked whether he had noticed any indication she was pregnant, according to the Guardian.
But there was an important scientific caveat.
Chapman explained that signs of pregnancy would not necessarily have been visible during its earliest stages, particularly within the first few weeks after conception.
