Evening Standard
By Robert Jobson, Evening Standard Royal Correspondent
9 September 2004
Princess Diana had a heart attack before she died, new evidence reveals today.
Experts say the princess stood no chance of surviving the car crash because of the heart damage - not because of internal bleeding, contradicting earlier reports. Conspiracy theorists have claimed that Diana could have lived had she received medical attention sooner.
Today's new twist - which comes amid a ?2million Scotland Yard inquiry ordered by the Royal Coroner - emerged after Vanity Fair magazine obtained the Princess's medical file and passed it to independent medical experts.
One of them, Dr Kenneth Mattox, chief of surgery at Houston's Ben Taub General Hospital, concluded: "The damage to her heart had already happened and her death would have been inevitable." Dr Mattox, a world renowned trauma expert, said: "The Princess would have died even if she had been promptly transported to the best trauma centre." He said that medical reports suggest Diana was sitting sideways when her car, driven by Henri Paul, crashed in a Paris tunnel.
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