I don't know how Mr Fayed can obtain closure but this public display he has brought can perhaps provide some insight for those who might have wondered whether there was any substance to his claims. He is searching for answers to one of life's perennial questions and we should not diminish the depth of grief of those who lose children of any age. Nevertheless, he has embarrassed himself and damaged the memory of those he sought to redeem.

Sean Cook, MD, San Antonio, Texas

The judge isn't having much success trying to get journalists to stop giving their opinions on whether this was an accident or not...

Inge Jones, London, UK

If you have a character like Fayed whose background is soaked in mystery, no amount of French transparency would
have satisfied. The French did a thourough job. Conspiracy theories were generated mostly by Fayed aided by the British press. We know know how hollow this theory is as Fayed produced not even a single evidence. He wanted a stage to rant and he did it. You could go on holding enquiries after enquiries until this millennium is passed. The truth is that a drunk driver killed three passengers who did not wear seat belts when he creashed his car in a tunnel.

Gary Smith, LONDON,

You honestly think that if there had been a swift report that all the conspiracy theorists would have been satisfied and that would have been the end of the affair? The report may have taken time to complete and been carried out in secrecy but the French had no reason for a cover up, unlike the Dreyfus affair which you allude to. This was a high profile case and inevitably it took a long time to complete the investigation. Yet Mr Al Fayed, who to my knowledge has not produced a shred of evidence to support his theories, refused to accept it. Why?
It most probably was an accident, but it cannot be proven with absolute certainty and thus it leaves room for speculation, especially when it is about the death of an iconic figure. It has nothing at all to do with the French.

charles, london, england

If, for arguments sake, there was something fishy about the accident, and those killed did not include someone who had a billionaire father, then what?

All those blaming Mr. Al Fayed are forgetting one very important thing.
If a British Citizen dies in a foreign country, due to unnatural causes, there is a legal requirement to have a Coroners Inquest in this country.
Why has it taken over 10 years for this to take place?

A Coroners Inquest should have taken place fairly shortly after the accident. All Mr. Al Fayed has done is to force the Authorities to comply with British Law - i.e. hold a Coroners Inquest!

Charles Knightsbridge, Liverpool, England

If only, if only, if only...................Ah! the 20-20 vision of hindsight. Time for everyone to let go now and let the dead rest in peace.

Pat Murray, Luton, UK

I want my money back !!!!
Whens the refund?

David, London,

My guess is that this was no accident; but I doubt it was ordered by any member of the Royal Family. The murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170 (by knights of Henry II) springs to mind. There is always a killer in the background, waiting for a chance to use his skills to a reasonable purpose; and whoever organised it, would have used unidentifiable contractors. I doubt anyone is wasting court time.

Howard, Johannesburg, RSA

Tom: spot on.

Mark, Glasgow,

Haha Tanguy /agree

Julien Gaucherot, Brussels, Belgium

Speculation is inevitable, as you admit, but but we cannot be sure of nothing in this case. Why Diana was embalmed in Paris? This is strangest point for me. Usually do French hospitals embalm foreign citizens dead in Paris? Don't blame
French, blame who gave the order to embalm Diana. It's easy to gave the guilt to the drunk driver, to the stupid Dodi, to the same Princess, but who gave the order to embalm Diana?

betty, turin,

Had the investigation been speedier, Mr MacIntyre, all other thing beeing equal, it would have been blamed as too speedy and, consequently, dashed, by the same hysterical papersellers who now get their pockets pretty full since 1997 with tales of conspiracy.
Are the French to be blamed because the English love beeing told fairy tales ending as Spy movies ?
Or blame Mercedes that doesn't make cars that can be driven when you're drunk !!?

Jibus, Avignon, France

I agree, everyone should just believe everything the government tells them. Life would be so much easier that way.

Arthur, Newcastle,

I blame the press. If the press stopped banging on about the death of Diana the whole roundabout would stop. I suspect that the majority of people in the country don't really care about the outcome of the current enquiry as we rightly concluded within days of the accident that it was just that, an accident. Ever sinec then it has been about selling papers.

Tom, Bristol,

1/ You can't prevent conspiarcy theories from emerging
2/ Al Fayed is to be blamed along with journalists (who are making enough publishing about it 10 years later)
3/ Significant amount of French tax payers' many went into this investigation, which rightly concluded it was an accident
So don't unfairly blame the French

Quentin, Paris, France

It is probably going to rain next week somewhere in England.
Blame the french Mr Macintyre .

TANGUY, COGNAC, France

Most people have already formed their conclusions about what happened long before the outcome of this inquest. I doubt whether any findings from the inquest will change anyone's mind. But the question that need to answer is not the manner in which the French conducted its investigation, the question should be why there had not been an open, transparent and speedy inquest in 1997. Isn't it, Ben?

Charles, Hong Kong,

Not fair on the French. There system generally works well, as does our ours. But neither was devised to cope with this sort of thing. One cannot devise procedures on the basis that a divorced Royal, with world wide fame, might be die in this manner, and have a very rich person determined to air an implausible scenario.

If there had been a speedy report it would have been dismissed by those given to fantasy as too quick and a cover up!

All authorities, officials, and the Royal Family were in a "no-win" position on this from the start. As they are all still.

If the inquest finds for accidental death there will be those who will say it just goes to show how clever the conspirators are, and how the Court officials were in on the cover-up.

One possible change is that cost orders should be awarded against those bringing implausible "evidence".

Michael Corby, London, England

Okay as far as it goes, but you're reckoning without the antics of a billionaire fantasist and the fact that simple solutions don't generate much copy. However quickly the French had responded, we'd still have faced this farce; look at the drivel that was already being voiced on the day of the woman's funeral.
If anyone's to blame, it's the Government and judiciary for pandering to this nonsense.

Ken Leyland, Liverpool, U.K.