Princess Diana's Priest Breaks
Silence - Says Marriage Was
On The Way

From Executive Intelligence Review
12-15-00

Rev. Frank Gelli, who in 1997 was parish priest of St Mary Abbots Church, next door to Princess Diana's Kensington Palace, decided to break his three-year silence about their conversations, prompted by the appearance of "Shadows of a Princess", by her former pesonal secretary, P.D. Jephson, according to Germany's largest daily, Bildzetung.

"It is time to tell the truth. This is what Diana would have wished," he said.

Gelli said that he met with Diana two months before her death. He related: "I lived in Turkey for two years. She asked me how Muslims treat their wives. Diana seemed deeply impressed by the respect shown to her by Dodi (Fayed). She was so happy and in love. She was gladly looking to the future, and told me how much Dodi loved her two sons, how much the children liked to spend their time with him."

"When I saw her for the last time, that was before her vacation in France, she asked me, whether I could preside over the ceremony at her wedding. She wanted a Christian blessing for her relation to the Muslim Dodi".

Gelli said that the last time he spoke with her, she had phoned him from her yacht off the Cote d'Azure, and she said she had good news for him which she wanted to tell him when she returned to Kensington Palace. "I wholeheartedly believe had the accident not occurred, the two would long ago have been married to each other."

Bildzeitung adds:

"The consequences of the priest's confession could be enormous. For none of the court reporters believed that the royal family could possibly approve of Lady Di's marraige to a Muslim. Yes, there are quite a few who even see therein a motive for the couple's sudden death - that it wasn't an accident, but murder."

According to Bildseitung, Dodi's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, has been encouraged by the priest's revelations to continue his search for evidence that they were murdered.