Diana "definitely not pregnant"

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By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - A holistic healer who treated Princess Diana just days before she died in a Paris car crash told the inquest into her death on Tuesday that Diana was definitely not pregnant at the time.

Myriah Daniels also told the court probing the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed that their chauffeur, Henri Paul, was driving "like a maniac" on the day the couple died.

Dodi’s father Mohamed al-Fayed, owner of the Harrods luxury store in London, says Diana and his son were killed by British security services on the orders of Prince Philip.

Fayed alleges the killing was ordered because the royal family did not want the mother of the future king having a child with his son. He says Diana’s body was embalmed to cover up evidence she was expecting a baby.

But the American healer, who treated Diana on the al-Fayed family yacht while they were sailing in the Mediterranean in August 1997, said: "She was not pregnant. Period."

"I am working on her cramps and she is bleeding while I am working on her," she told the court.

Without going into further details, Daniels said: "Can we give her a little bit of respect and privacy please?"

Daniels, who described the couple as being smitten with each other, said "Nobody ever know if they would have hooked up. It was .....continued below

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She said Dodi had ignored the advice of his overworked and overstretched bodyguards. The couple would take off without them.

Daniels was sharply critical of chauffeur Henri Paul, who drove her from Paris’ Le Bourget airport when the entourage came back to the French capital and was at the wheel of the limousine the night Dodi and Diana died.

"He was shit for a driver and that is a fact," Daniels told the court. "Henri Paul almost killed us. He drove way too fast and recklessly ... He was driving like a maniac through the traffic."

"I was in a Range Rover driven by Henri Paul," she said. "I should be dead. I was positive I would be killed in that drive."

The inquest, expected to last up to six months, was opened after major British and French police investigations, both of which concluded Diana and Dodi died because Paul was drunk and driving too fast.