Most of us commoners are well aware that VIPs (Very Important Person(s)) get far better care and treatment than we do.

Take the instance of Paris Hilton in the now notorious incident (sigh...what's new) where her family and friends were preferentially allowed to jump the queue at the jail in which she's atoning her sins so that they could see for themselves how well those orange prison stripes complimented her pale complexion; conveniently bypassing people who'd been waiting on line upwards of 4 hours to see their loved ones.

NOTE: Paris Hilton is not a Very Important Person (as she'd like to belive) but rather a Very Irritating Person hence the VIP status!

But I'm sure you get the point I am trying to get across: Celebrities, Heads of State and Royalty are normally accorded preferential and special treatment. Which brings me to the main point of this post:

WHY DID IT TAKE 2 HOURS TO GET PRINCESS DIANA TO A HOSPITAL 3.25 MILES AWAY?

The night she died Princess Diana was en route to hospital (and thus access to intensive care treatment that would have saved her life) for a whopping two hours! The hospital was a mere 3.25 miles away!

It Takes The Average Person 1 Hour To Walk A Distance Of 5 Miles!


3.25 miles...do you know how short that distance is?

It takes the average person 1 hour at a leisurely pace to walk a distance of 5 miles. Yet here we have the authorities taking their sweet-ole-time to get the critically injured mother of the future King of England to a hospital that was a mere 3.25 miles away.

And as if that wasn't enough would you believe that the ambulance carrying Princess Diana bypassed a couple or so nearer hospitals to get to the one in which she eventually died. The final bizarre straw to the perplexing events of that tragic night of August 31, 1997 was how when the ambulance FINALLY got to the hospital IT STOPPED FOR ANOTHER 10 MINUTES OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL GATES!

One can only wonder what in heavens name were they doing in that ambulance?

Were they literally allowing Princess Diana to hemorrhage (bleed) to death? After all that was the official explanation for her death: that Princess Diana died from massive internal bleeding!

But let's just get back to the snail's pace that the ambulance took that night; maybe the ambulance had good reason to crawl slower than your average toddler!

Perhaps there was a lot of traffic snarling the Paris roads that night?

It's possible, but guess what? That actually wasn't the case! And even if there had been a lot of traffic, what of it?

They were transporting the Princess of Wales (or at least used to be) for gods sake! And though the House of Windsor may have stripped her of the title "Princess of Wales" the one title they could not relieve her of was: Mother of The Future King of England!

Surely for that fact alone Diana warranted expedited delivery to hospital!

In fact the usual case is to chopper (take by helicopter) a person of Princess Diana's status immediately to hospital. Diana was not even taken to the best equipped hospital that VIPs are normally rushed to in Paris and that particular hospital was less than five minutes away by helicopter and less than 20 minutes away by car; don't forget it took them 2 hours to eventually get her to hospital.

The authorities cited a number of pathetic reasons why it took so long to get the Princess to hospital foremost of which was the one where they said "Oh in France the ambulances are equipped with intensive care units with life saving equipment so usually such measures are conducted there first" (note: those aren't the exact words but the general gist of the official explanation at the time). Well anyway it sure looks like those measures failed miserably!

But honestly that explanation is a load of premium crap! The more plausible explanation is that they (whoever was behind the plot) could not risk Diana getting to an uncontrolled environment such as a public hospital before she'd reached the point of no return; in other words to the critical medical point where nobody...not even the best surgeons in the world could save her life!

This aspect is just one of the many very disturbing incidents surrounding the untimely death of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul on that fateful night of August 31, 1997!

Princess Diana