London, December 20
A handwritten letter from Princess Diana, in which she claims that Prince Charles was plotting to kill her, has been shown in full for the first time at the ongoing inquest into her death. The letter, written in October 1996, 10 months before the fatal car crash which killed Diana and her lover Dodi Al Fayed, shows that the princess feared she was to be killed to clear the way for Prince Charles to marry their children's nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

Diana was wrongly convinced that Charles was having an affair with Legge-Bourke and had got her pregnant. She also dismissed Camilla Parker Bowles, Charles' present wife, as "nothing but a decoy." Diana gave the note to her then butler Paul Burrell, who revealed its existence in his 2003 book.

However, a sensational page of the letter was seen publicly in full for the first time on Dec 19.

She wrote: "I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high." "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous - my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy.

"Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word," she added.

The first sheet of the four-page letter was revealed after Diana's friend, Brazilian diplomat's wife Lucia Flecha de Lima, asserted it could be fake.

She claimed that Burrell, who produced the letter in 2003 but with the names blanked out, was capable of imitating the princess' handwriting. "I still don't believe in it. I still don't believe she was fearing for her life, especially from Prince Charles, the future king of your country," she said.

"Paul Burrell was perfectly capable of imitating Princess Diana's handwriting," she added. — ANI