Diana wasn't pregnant says mortuary boss

The head of the mortuary where the body of Diana, Princess of Wales, was examined has flatly denied lingering claims that she was pregnant.

Harrod's owner Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Dodi who also perished in the Paris road crash in 1997, is convinced that the Princess, 36, was carrying his son's child and that her body was quickly embalmed in France to hide the truth.

But in a documentary to be screened in Britain this week, mortuary chief Robert Thompson insists that she was not. Speaking on the Sky One programme Who Killed Diana?, he said: "It was only after the autopsy had been completed in Fulham that Princess Diana's body was actually fully embalmed elsewhere in London.

"I saw no evidence of pregnancy exposed during the post-mortem procedure and indeed the pathologist said that she wasn't pregnant. Drawing together what I saw on that day in the post-mortem room and what the pathologist said to me, I saw no evidence of pregnancy within the body. My conclusion must be that she wasn't."

The programme investigates the long-held theory of an MI6 plot against the Princess, retracing events before her death and examining evidence using computer imaging and video footage. It also says that there was no last message from the dying Princess.

Dr Frederic Mailliez, the first to attend to the Princess, said he never heard her speak.

- REUTERS