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- The bodyguard who survived the Paris car crash in which
Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed were killed says he wished
he could have died instead of them.
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- In an interview in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, Trevor
Rees-Jones said he was still haunted by the knowledge that Diana had died
"on my shift".
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- First editions of the daily were delayed overnight Friday,
but the paper's website trailed the interview which was to appear there
in full later.
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- According to the website, Rees-Jones told the paper he
would have swapped his life for hers and that of the two other victims,
Fayed -- son of Egyptian millionaire Mohammed al-Fayed -- and chauffeur
Henri Paul.
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- "If I could have died and those three survived,
I would have done it," he said.
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- Diana, Fayed and Paul died in the early hours of August
31, 1997 when the Mercedes car they were travelling in crashed into a pillar
in the Alma road tunnel in Paris.
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- An exhaustive official investigation concluded Paul had
been speeding, was drunk and under medication when the accident happened.
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- Mohammed al-Fayed has consistently claimed that it was
not an accident but the result of a plot by the British secret services
and royal family. He has also said Diana and his son were set to marry.
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