During the recent inquest into the 1997 death of Britain’s Princess Diana, it seems Mohammed al-Fayed’s lawyers dredged up a rather old “precedent” in their bid to summon Prince Philip to testify.
They formulated a “turbulent priest” theory, speculating that Philip created a climate in which British secret agents might have taken it upon themselves to eliminate the princess — a situation similar to that in which four of King Henry II’s knights murdered Thomas Becket in 1170.
The judges weren’t buying al-Fayed’s theory, though, and references to “the scraping of the bottom of the barrel” were heard.
Too bad, really. I was wondering who Prince Philip would be flogged by.
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