{"id":3851,"date":"2026-08-23T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:54:49","slug":"princess-dianas-alleged-secret-pregnancy-reignites-chilling-royal-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana\u2019s alleged \u2018secret pregnancy\u2019 reignites chilling royal conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mohamed Al Fayed spent years insisting Princess Diana was carrying his son\u2019s baby when she died, a claim that became central to an explosive royal conspiracy theory that nearly 30 years later is being dragged back into the spotlight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"show-inline-featured-image wp-caption alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-main-thumbnail size-main-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/21131123\/dianaaodi-664x350.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/21131123\/dianaaodi-664x350.jpg 664w, https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/21131123\/dianaaodi-400x210.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/21131123\/dianaaodi-412x216.jpg 412w, https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/21131123\/dianaaodi.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Credit: Getty Images\" width=\"664\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mohamed Al Fayed spent years insisting Princess Diana was carrying his son\u2019s baby when she died, a claim that became central to an explosive royal conspiracy theory that nearly 30 years later is being dragged back into the spotlight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-680412270\" class=\"newsner-after_first_paragraph\">\n<div id=\"intext_198566_1_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diana was 36 when she and Dodi Fayed were killed following a car crash inside Paris\u2019 Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, along with driver Henri Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the years that followed, Dodi\u2019s father, Mohamed Al Fayed,\u00a0reportedly\u00a0made an extraordinary allegation about the couple\u2019s final weeks together, claiming the\u00a0Princess\u00a0of Wales had been pregnant with his son\u2019s child and that their deaths were not an accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pregnancy claim was eventually scrutinized during the lengthy British inquest into Diana and Dodi\u2019s deaths, where jurors heard evidence pointing strongly in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-5dd29e8dee8ec221fea0ddcb7f5f99c1\" class=\"newsner-5dd29e8dee8ec221fea0ddcb7f5f99c1 newsner-incide_content_once\"><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"h-pathologist-found-no-signs-of-pregnancy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pathologist found no signs of pregnancy<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Robert Chapman, the pathologist who carried out Diana\u2019s postmortem, testified that he saw no physical signs of pregnancy in her womb or ovaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo, I did not,\u201d he said when asked whether he had noticed any indication she was pregnant, according to the\u00a0Guardian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there was an important scientific caveat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapman explained that signs of pregnancy would not necessarily have been visible during its earliest stages, particularly within the first few weeks after conception.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-1814148636\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\">\n<div id=\"intext_198566_2_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-26f6a648eb63f481cee62e25cc8118a0\" class=\"newsner-26f6a648eb63f481cee62e25cc8118a0 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf one is dealing with a pregnancy, the appearance will vary depending, of course, on the duration of that pregnancy, but an established pregnancy will show as a change in the size of the uterus, a change in the thickness of the lining and the presence of a gestation sac,\u201d Chapman said during the inquest, which started in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continued, \u201cI would say that from day one to seven, one could not or would not see anything. From day seven to fourteen, one might see something, although it is rather unlikely. Thereafter, there is an increasing likelihood of being able to see things which would indicate pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=newsner&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=703662332975718400&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com%2Froyal%2Fprincess-dianas-alleged-secret-pregnancy-reignites-chilling-royal-conspiracy-theory%2F&amp;sessionId=c0cc6ce18d380acf99cf9d4124182d35d7211636&amp;siteScreenName=newsner&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"703662332975718400\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sliver of scientific uncertainty helped fuel the theory that she was carrying the younger sibling to\u00a0Prince William\u00a0and Harry, and now, almost three decades after Diana\u2019s death, it is being examined all over again.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-diana-s-final-hours-revisited\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diana\u2019s final hours revisited<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pregnancy claim is among the theories revisited in\u00a0<em>Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana<\/em>, a new FOX special co-produced by\u00a0TMZ\u00a0that premiered Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using virtual reconstruction technology, the program recreates the crash from different perspectives while examining questions that have surrounded Diana\u2019s death for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the most explosive allegations came directly from Dodi\u2019s father, who died at 94 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Fayed claimed that\u00a0Lady Di\u00a0and his son had told him they were planning to marry and were expecting a child. He also accused authorities of embalming Diana\u2019s body in Paris to conceal evidence of the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that particular allegation was challenged during the inquest by Chapman, who told jurors that embalming fluid would not have interfered with his ability to identify physical signs of pregnancy during his examination of Diana\u2019s womb and ovaries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-1339196781\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\">\n<div id=\"intext_198566_3_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-d51153b49f00279e5920ed1bd7d4613b\" class=\"newsner-d51153b49f00279e5920ed1bd7d4613b newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Fayed\u2019s claims, however, extended far beyond whether Diana was pregnant.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-that-car-didn-t-accidentally-crash\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018That car didn\u2019t accidentally crash\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former owner of Harrods alleged that British security services had orchestrated the couple\u2019s deaths because of their relationship and plans for the future, eventually pointing the finger at MI6 and Prince Philip as part of a sprawling assassination conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI believe in my heart 99.9% that it was not an accident,\u201d Al Fayed told the\u00a0BBC\u00a0in 1998. \u201cThat car didn\u2019t accidentally crash. There was a conspiracy. I will not rest until I have established exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those accusations were examined extensively during the inquest, and the coroner ultimately found no evidence that Prince Philip, MI6 or another government agency had orchestrated Diana and Dodi\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-contraceptives-and-conspiracies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contraceptives and conspiracies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the assassination allegations expanded the theory far beyond Diana\u2019s pregnancy, the question at the heart of Al Fayed\u2019s original claim received its own extensive scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inquest heard that Diana had been taking contraceptive pills and had given no indication to her doctor, relatives, friends or associates that she believed she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=newsner&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1938922985768866037&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com%2Froyal%2Fprincess-dianas-alleged-secret-pregnancy-reignites-chilling-royal-conspiracy-theory%2F&amp;sessionId=c0cc6ce18d380acf99cf9d4124182d35d7211636&amp;siteScreenName=newsner&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1938922985768866037\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators also examined scientific evidence as part of Operation Paget, the British police inquiry established to investigate the conspiracy allegations surrounding Diana and Dodi\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blood recovered from the wrecked Mercedes was tested for human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), the hormone associated with pregnancy, but none was detected.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-1593660090\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\">\n<div id=\"intext_198566_4_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-e06598848e0d056ea3b22c5097fee6c4\" class=\"newsner-e06598848e0d056ea3b22c5097fee6c4 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taken together, the evidence pointed away from Al Fayed\u2019s claim, although Lord Justice Scott Baker acknowledged there was one question science could not conclusively settle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is likely that pregnancy is a matter that cannot be proved one way or the other in scientific terms in this case,\u201d he told jurors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That uncertainty, however, did not mean the evidence was evenly balanced.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-she-was-not-pregnant\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018She was not\u2019 pregnant<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time Baker summed up the case months later, his assessment was much clearer, telling the jury that \u201cthere was a great deal of evidence that she was not\u201d pregnant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wider conspiracy theory fared no better, with the inquest finding no evidence to support allegations that Prince Philip or British intelligence had ordered Diana\u2019s death, while earlier French and British investigations had also rejected claims of an assassination plot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet Al Fayed\u2019s pregnancy allegation has proved remarkably difficult to bury and nearly three decades after Diana\u2019s death, that small gap in certainty is enough for the pregnancy theory to be pulled back into the spotlight once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Have you watched\u00a0<em>Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana<\/em>? Please let us know what your thoughts on the documentary and then share this story so we can hear from others!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Al Fayed spent years insisting Princess Diana was carrying his son\u2019s baby when she died, a claim that became central to an explosive royal conspiracy theory that nearly 30 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}