Coroner clears Prince Philip of ordering 'MI6 to execute Diana'

There is no evidence Prince Philip orchestrated the murder of Diana, Princess of Wales, the coroner at her inquest has declared.

Mohamed al Fayed last month sensationally dubbed the Duke of Edinburgh a "Nazi racist" while in the witness box and claimed he had conspired with Prince Charles to murder Diana.

But Lord Justice Scott Baker today attacked Mohamed al Fayed's theories as "demonstrably without foundation" and insisted neither Philip nor MI6 were involved in her death.

In his summing up after the six-month hearing, he swept aside the Harrods boss's claims which he said had been fuelled by the media over the past decade.

He told the jury: "Various propositions were being asserted, have been shown to be so demonstrably without foundation that they are no longer being pursued by Mohamed al Fayed's lawyer, even if he still continues to believe in their truth in his own mind.

"They are not being pursued because there is not a shred of evidence to support them.

"Foremost among them is the proposition that Diana was assassinated by the secret intelligence service (MI6) on the orders of the Duke of Edinburgh.

"There is no evidence that the Duke of Edinburgh ordered Diana's execution, and there is no evidence that the secret intelligence service or any other Government agency organised it."

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