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BBC: New tests show Diana's driver drunk

LONDON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- DNA testing on blood samples taken from Princess Diana's chauffeur shows he was drunk when he crashed in a Paris tunnel in 1997, the BBC reports.

The princess; her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, son of Egyptian tycoon Mohammed al-Fayed; and the driver, Henri Paul, who worked for the elder Fayed, all died.

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The BBC program "The Conspiracy Files" looks at supposed evidence that Diana was killed. Some believers have suggested that someone else's blood was exchanged for Paul's as part of a coverup.

A source close to French investigators said that recent DNA testing showed that the blood was Paul's. The blood alcohol level was reportedly three times the legal limit in France.

Mohammed al-Fayed, in an interview for the program, said that Diana told him just before her death that she and his son were engaged and that she was pregnant. He claims that would have been a motive for British officials to want her dead.

But a friend of the princess says she could not have been pregnant and that Diana told her a ring Dodi Fayed had given her was going on her right hand and was not an engagement ring.

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