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London police said re-examining Princess Diana's death

Princess Diana at Expo'86 in Vancouver, B.C., May 3, 1986. File Photo hr/Peter Tanner UPI
Princess Diana at Expo'86 in Vancouver, B.C., May 3, 1986. File Photo hr/Peter Tanner UPI | License Photo

LONDON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Police in London say they have been given new information about the death of Princess Diana in a 1997 car crash in Paris.

Officials said the information suggests Diana and her lover, Dodi al Fayed, were killed by a British military member, Sky News reported. They said the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime and Operations Command will review the information.

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Conspiracy theories about the crash have circulated for years, including one that suggested Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law, orchestrated her death.

A jury in 2008 blamed the crash on "grossly negligent driving" by Henri Paul, who was driving Diana and Fayed in a Mercedes and was also killed in the crash, and by cars pursuing them as photographers tried to get close.

Citing a source it did not identify, Sky News said the new information came to police from the parents of a former soldier's wife.

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