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As one of the most renowned forensic pathologists in the world, Dr. Richard Shepherd has examined more than 23,000 bodies.
And one of them was that of Princess Diana.
Dr. Shepherd, now 65, has re-examined the Princess's body for official investigation into her death in a car accident in Paris twenty years ago.
Diana, 36, and her sweetheart Dodi Fayed, 42, were killed when their Mercedes crashed into an underpass in the French capital in August 1997.
And after performing a second autopsy on the body of the late Princess, Dr. Shepherd was seen asking odd questions about her appearance.
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Other people asked if she was pregnant.
"People asked:" Was she beautiful? "" Was she peaceful? "Was she pregnant?", Told the Daily Mail the father, whose new memoir has just been published .
"I always made sure never to say anything – in any case of public interest, I was involved – that had not already been published in the press."
He continued: "Pathologically, there was no evidence that Princess Diana was pregnant, but some women say they know they're pregnant right from conception." Was she one of those?
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The pathologist also claimed that Diana "would have come here" for Prince Harry's wedding with Meghan Markle in May if she had worn her seatbelt.
If she had taken that step, he thought he had survived the tragedy of the Alma Bridge road tunnel "with a black eye or perhaps a broken arm".
The chauffeur Henri Paul, who would have been twice the British limit of driving of alcohol, also died in this terrible accident. The only survivor was the bodyguard Trevor Rees.
A series of official inquiries later stated that Diana and Dodi had died in an accident when their French driver crashed while they were drunk in the tunnel.
The jury of the investigation of the princess concluded that the two men had been killed illegally and that their deaths were the result of "gross negligence" on the part of Henry and paparazzi who were following the vehicle on a motorcycle.
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During her career, Dr. Shepherd, who has two children, Chris, 37, and Anna, 35, and three stepdaughters, worked on other major incidents.
He worked on the Hungerford Massacre in Berkshire in 1987, a decade before Diana's death, performing autopsies on the deceased victims.
He also worked on the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the Marchioness disaster, where a pleasure boat sank in the Thames, reports the newspaper.
And after the attacks of September 11, he searched the bodies of the victims.
He first became interested in forensic pathology as a schoolboy.
- The unnatural causes of Dr. Richard Shepherd: "The life and the many deaths of the British medical examiner" are published by Michael Joseph and are available now.
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