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Princess Diana's butler to be questioned

LONDON, May 4 (UPI) -- Scotland Yard is preparing to question Princess Diana's butler as part of its investigation into her August 1997 death, the Mirror reported Tuesday.

Paul Burrell is set to be interviewed Wednesday at an undisclosed location outside London by Scotland Yard detectives as part of the official inquiry into the car crash ordered by Coroner Michael Burgess.

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Burrell said Monday he will tell officers that the princess talked to him about her fears for her safety shortly before her death.

And he said he will keep a long-held pledge to divulge full details about an infamous letter in which the princess confided there was a plot to make her the victim of a car "accident."

The letter was written 10 months before the princess and her lover, Dodi Fayed, were killed in Paris in August 1997.

"I will be discussing the letter, of course, explaining in fuller detail the actual fears the princess had and why, he said.

"I will also be able to tell them about private conversations I had with the princess. I have always maintained that she was not paranoid as many have tried to suggest. She was informed and then wrote her fears down. I want to give the officers every assistance regarding information relevant to the princess's death."

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