What if princess diana survived

In his book, Unnatural Causes , he claimed that, if Diana had worn a seatbelt, she could have survived. Shepherd noted that Rees-Jones was the only person wearing a seatbelt in the car at the time of the crash.

Bodyguards typically do not wear seatbelts, but Shepherd believed Rees-Jones buckled up at the last minute. In the years following her death, some people have put forth conspiracy theories about her death. Many of these theories come from the belief that her death was not an accident. Diana was initially conscious and talking, but she soon fell into cardiac arrest. During surgery, medical staff identified the problem - a tear to a vital vein.

Shepherd describes the injury and the location of the injury as something he's never seen in his decades as a pathologist and says it explains why Diana was initially conscious and able to communicate.

When she suffered a cardiac arrest, every effort was made to resuscitate her and in hospital she went into surgery, where they did identify the problem and attempted to repair the vein.

But, sadly, by then it was too late. Anatomically, it's hidden away, deep in the centre of the chest. They bleed much more slowly.

In fact, they bleed so slowly that identifying the problem is hard enough. In her quest for a good-looking, sympathetic soulmate, she would have eventually found happiness with another sophisticated, publicity- shy man, possibly a professional New Yorker. With a partner rich enough to give her sanctuary in a Manhattan townhouse and provide a retreat behind the walls of a country estate, she would have regularly crossed the Atlantic in his private jet to visit her sons when they were still at Eton.

She would live in her new Gloucestershire house over the weekends, and her new husband would also have provided privacy in a seaside summer house, probably in the Hamptons — not only for her, William and Harry, but also possibly for their own child. Peace would have broken out. As she grew older, she would have remained a fashion icon and, more important, a guide to women of all backgrounds, seeking help to rebuild their lives after similarly troubled childhoods and unhappy marriages.

In speeches, TV interviews and visits to homes and refuges, Diana would have encouraged her own generation not to give up. The mental torment vividly described later by William and Harry would not have occurred. There seems a certain logic with refugees from the House of Windsor that they wind up in exile. Harry and Meghan have established themselves in California. Diana might well have found herself abroad, too.

Would she have had more children? She was of course only 36 when she died. But her love life was basically a long line of disappointments, with Charles, James Gilbey, Will Carling and James Hewitt variously letting her down. The Palace could have launched their own guerrilla war against her, leaking tales of breakdowns and self-harm.