'No proof' royals behind Diana death

The coroner at an inquest into the death of Britain's Princess Diana in a car crash said yesterday there was no evidence that her former father-in-law, the Duke of Edinburgh, had "ordered Diana's execution".

Diana died in a crash in Paris in 1997 along with Dodi al-Fayed, whose father Mohamed al-Fayed has accused Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip of being behind her death.

But after almost six months of listening to more than 250 witnesses, Lord Justice Scott Baker told the jury in his summing up: "There is no evidence that the Duke of Edinburgh ordered Diana's execution and there is no evidence that the security intelligence services or any other government agency organized it."