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Jeff Rense Sightings
Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt has given a bizarre account of a drunken high-speed drive through Paris, recreating her own fatal last journey.
The former Army officer and GQ magazine interviewer, Martin Deeson, consumed two bottles of wine between them and three ports each before Hewitt revealed: "I was in Paris about a year after the car crash that killed Diana and I was having lunch with these four Venezuelan women, who were all very beautiful.
"And there's all these paparazzi waiting outside to get a picture of us together. Now, one of the women had a Mercedes, same model as Diana was in that night. So I decided to conduct a little test.
"I reckoned I was about as drunk as Dodi's driver was that night. I'd had one, maybe two, bottles of wine. So I got all the girls into the Merc' and started bombing round the périphérique until we got to the underpass where she died.
"Of course, as soon as we got near the tunnel all the paparazzi started peeling off - they weren't about to make the same mistake twice. I get the Merc up to about 100, 120 - about the speed they reckon Henri Paul was going that night and, guess what? I shot straight through the tunnel. It's a completely straight road. I don't care how drunk you are.
"There's no way you'd hit that pillar unless something happened to make you veer off the road. It was definitely a set-up."
PARIS (AP) -- The city of Paris has approved an Italian architect's design for a tribute to Princess Diana -- an above-ground extension of the traffic tunnel pillar into which her Mercedes crashed last year.
Gaetano Pesce, a well-known and renegade architect interested in the human spirit, said he was motivated to build the four-metre concrete-and-resin column by a desire to capture the public response to Diana's death and funeral.
"Diana was a symbol of our time. She symbolized fragility. But Diana's fragility was positive because it allowed her to be open to other values," he said.
British foreign office officials said they were aware of the project, but no substantive proposal had been made to them about raising the column.
The Diana Memorial Column would be a continuation of the 13th pillar, which Diana's car struck at a high speed last August, killing the princess, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver, Henri Paul.
The lower portion of the column will be in concrete to re-create the pillar, while the upper part is to be made of translucent resin that will shine at night. During the day, the resin will be nearly invisible.
"The resin is flexible, soft, organic. It's like a part of the body," he said. "It's feminine, like Diana."
The project -- which would be the first on-site monument to Diana's death -- would further transform the Place de l'Alma, a small city park, into a sort of public tribute to the princess.
In recent months, the gilded Flame of Liberty, which stands adjacent to the park, has become a shrine to Diana, decked with handwritten condolence notes, rain-soaked photographs and flowers left by visitors drawn to the site.
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