PASSAGE TWO Diana, Princess of Wales, once devoted her life to the charity. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is an independent grant-giving charity established in September 1997 to continue the Princess’s humanitarian work in the United Kingdom and overseas. This warm-hearted princess died on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car crash in Paris. There was widespread public mourning at the death of this popular figure, culminating with her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6 September 1997. Several years passed; British hearings into the deaths of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed will be held in public after a decision that they should be conducted in secret was reversed, judicial authorities said on Thursday (Dec. 7). The original decision of the presiding judge Dame Elizabeth Bulter-Sloss had been strongly criticized by Fayed’s father Mohamed, the owner of the exclusive London store Harrods. He said he had tirelessly fought for truth and justice against an army of dark forces who do not want the truth to become public and he simply asked for honesty, fairness and openness. The preliminary hearings, scheduled for next month, are the latest step in efforts to get to the bottom of the death of the Diana, ex-wife of British heir to the throne Britain’s Prince Charles. Diana, who was 36, Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul died when their Mercedes limousine smashed into the wall in a Paris road tunnel in 1997. A two-year French inquiry blamed the crash on the chauffeur Paul, saying he was drunk, under the influence of anti-depressants and driving too fast. The British inquest was opened in January 2004 and then royal coroner Michel Burgess asked police to hold a top-level investigation into the circumstances and surroundings which led to the deaths. Burgess said he wanted John Stevens to examine conspiracy theories. This theory states that the couples were murdered by British spies to cover the royal embarrassment about their relationship. Diana and Charles had two sons, Princes William and Henry, but their marriage ended in divorce. Stevens is due to unveil his three-year investigation next week. His report, scheduled to be published on Dec.14, is widely expected to a conclusion that the car crash which killed the Princess was an accident. The Judicial Communications Office said Lady Bulter-Sloss, the retired senior judge who will sit as the coroner, originally decided to held the hearings on Jan.8 and 9 in private without the press or the public resent for practical reasons such as the size of the court room available. But this decision is to be challenged in the high court by Mohamed Fayed, whose son Dodi, died with the Princess in 1997. Then, finally, a spokesman said “Lady Bulter-Sloss has considered in view of the public interest in these particular hearings that they should be held in public. ”And Lady Bulter-Sloss had invited lawyers for the Royal Houses hold to attend. A spokesman for Mohamed Al Fayed, who remains convinced that the couple was murdered by British spies to prevent his son, a Muslim, from marrying Diana, welcomed the decision. “He doesn’t believe that anything should be held behind the doors. There’s no reason for it, nobody has anything to fear from the cold light of day than those who may be guilty,” the spokesman told the Skynews.