Today marks the beginning of a very pointless, rather expensive, inquest in to the death of Diana. I don’t think I need to explain who Diana was unless this blog is being read by a life form inhabiting a planet in the Abell 1835 IR1916 galaxy, approximately 13,230 million light-years from Earth. I say this since sales of Candle In The Wind ’97 were disappointing in that neck of the woods, only reaching number 32 in the charts. Incidentally, my copy is still in HMV, waiting to be picked up.

More than ten years on from that tragic day in August 1997, what have we had? A funeral watched by almost the entire world. Millions of tear-stained entries in memorial books. A rather disappointing turn out for the memorial service last month. A very disappointing concert at a very disappointing, expensive and late football stadium. Forensic analysis of almost every aspect of that car crash from almost every angle from almost every expert from almost every corner of the earth. Oh, and a ten year memorial edition of the Daily Express, which just about manages to print some aspect of the life and death of Diana almost every bloody day. Incidentally, my copy is still in the newsagents, waiting to be picked up.

This inquest will most likely solve nothing, do nothing, other than rehash old evidence and arrive at exactly the same conclusions as every other previous investigation.

I suspect the only reason the inquest is going ahead is to silence Mohammed Al Fayed, and the Daily Express. But I doubt it will. Anyone ever heard of a former American President named John Fitzgerald Kennedy? How many times has that old chestnut been revisited?

Everyone, well the Daily Express at least, keeps on about the tragic death of Diana. And it was tragic, don’t get me wrong. But so were the deaths of Dodi Al Fayed and Henri Paul. Mohammed Al Fayed believes his sons’ life was wrongly taken from him. And it was. However, I don’t think he is looking in the right places.

But if anyone, let alone the British Royal family, really wanted Diana dead, would they have opted to make her into a martyr, even a modern deity? Honestly!

It was a tragedy; three young people lost their lives because of drunk and dangerous drivers. When you have very squidgy, easily breakable human beings inside two tons of metal travelling at high speeds between very hard concrete pillars, care must be taken. That should be a lesson learnt by us all, if we don’t already know it.

Now, please, let her go.