Princess Diana: Is Her Memory Being Airbrushed Out?Just weeks after what would have been Princess Diana’s 50th birthday, the Diana Memorial Fund announced it will be closing down in 2012. Now, in a new development, the website for the inquest into her death has been removed from public view.
By: John Morgan Aug. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- A spokesman from the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ) has stated that the official Princess Diana inquest website has been closed down: “In line with UK government moves to decrease the number of .gov.uk websites and addresses, the Inquest site URL was not renewed this year.”
Although the spokesman went on to say that “the site will remain permanently available via the National Archives website”, there has been no automatic redirection set up to the new site. It is normal practice for a redirection to be placed when a website on the internet is shifted, but this has not occurred in the case of the Diana inquest website – despite repeated requests to officials at the RCJ. When the RCJ was initially told about this, two weeks ago, a spokesman replied: “Thanks for pointing this out to us. We will arrange for a redirect to the National Archive url.” After nothing happened, the RCJ was asked how long it would take for the problem to be remedied. We were then told by a spokesman from the Judicial Communications Office: “I will look into this again, however given the current government pressure to reduce websites and URLs I'm not certain we will be able to reinstate this URL link.” No one has ever asked the RCJ to reinstate the website – all that is required is a simple redirection from the old website address. Since then nothing has been done, even though just a click on a mouse at the RCJ would solve the problem. It has also been discovered that a person searching on Google is unable to find the new Diana inquest website. Google was promptly notified. That was a fortnight ago, yet Google have ignored this problem and have done nothing to enable internet users to locate the buried Diana inquest. It then turned out that a search on the National Archives (NA) website will also not reveal the existence of the Diana inquest. Instead the searcher is advised: “Access Conditions: Records Not Yet Transferred” The NA was asked about this and their spokesman replied: “We will ... be updating our web archive search ... in the coming weeks”. Paul Sparks, the co-writer and co-producer of the controversial new film Unlawful Killing – shown recently at both the Cannes and Galway festivals – said: “To allay suspicions of a cover-up, the British Establishment promised that the Diana inquest proceedings would remain available to the public in perpetuity, so that people could see they had nothing to hide. Yet now, after only three years ... the inquest web site has disappeared into the recesses of the National Archives, where not even Google – or the National Archives' own search engine – is able to locate it. Coincidence? With recent books exposing the incredible level of cover-up by British authorities surrounding the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, and the imminent worldwide – except UK – release of Unlawful Killing, the question is now being asked: Is this effort by the British Establishment to bury the Diana inquest website a continuation of that cover-up and an attempt to airbrush the memory of Princess Diana’s death out of the public record? John Morgan Author of the Diana Inquest series. Relevant website addresses: The official website address, which no longer works: http://www.scottbaker- The National Archives address, which cannot be found by members of the public: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Diana Inquest series: http://www.amazon.com/ Unlawful Killing: http://www.youtube.com/ End
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