Princess Diana's letters read at inquest

LONDON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Letters read at a London inquest into Princess Diana's death show a warm relationship with Prince Philip and a close one to Dodi Fayed.

Rosa Monckton, a friend of the princess, told the court Friday that the letters to Fayed, including phrases like "all the love in the world," did not necessarily mean that Diana was planning marriage, The Sun reported. She said that Diana tended to speak extravagantly with her friends.

But Monckton, questioned by a lawyer working for Dodi's father, Mohammed al-Fayed, said that they did show Diana was not just having a fling. One letter accompanied a gift, cufflinks, Diana had been given by her father shortly before his death.

Mohammed al-Fayed says that the car crash that killed his son and the princess in Paris in 1997 was engineered by British intelligence.

Letters to and from Prince Philip were read Thursday. Philip's secretary said that the prince released them to counter Mohammed al-Fayed's claim that he and Diana had a bad relationship, The Independent reported.

In the letters, Diana addressed her father-in-law as "Pa" and asked his advice during the summer of 1992 when her marriage to Prince Charles was foundering. She praises his "understanding and tact."