XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   I don't think Noel Botham's book 'The Murder of Princess Diana' has been   
   mentioned on any Usenet newsgroup.   
      
   (New York: Kensington, 2004, ISBN 0786007001).   
      
   The author worked as an 'investigative reporter' for 'News of the World'   
   (ref. Rupert Murdoch), the 'People', and, interestingly, was chief   
   'investigative reporter' for 'France Dimanche', so presumably he ain't a   
   complete stranger to matters concerning the French desk of the British   
   foreign service...   
      
   He's also been - ahem! - a 'war correspondent' in the Middle East,   
   Africa, Europe, and elsewhere. Oh yes, and he's been on many 'royal'   
   tours, and claims to have broken many 'royal' exclusives - after which,   
   presumably, he continued to be invited on those tours...   
      
   I got a copy of the book recently but haven't read it yet. It   
   doesn't look as though there's much new in it...but like I said, I   
   haven't read it, and this impression may be wrong.   
      
   Has anyone reading this read it? If so, what do you think?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)