LONDON _ An inquest has opened in London into the deaths of the former Princess of Wales and her lover Dodi Al Fayed, killed in a car crash in Paris over a decade ago.
A jury of six women and five men has been chosen for the hearing. They were selected by ballot from a shortlist of 25. The inquest is expected to last for up to six months.
Princess Diana and Al Fayed, son of Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of London's Harrods, perished alongside chauffeur Henri Paul when their Mercedes slammed into a pillar in the Pont d'Alma tunnel, in Paris, on 31 August 1997.
Their deaths saw subsequent mass mourning in Britain, with an unparalleled outpouring of grief and shock, as ...