One in four think Diana was murdered
Updated on 31 August 2007
A quarter of people think Princess Diana's death wasn't an accident, according to a Channel 4 News poll.
Mystery has always surrounded the car crash in which Diana died, along with her lover Dodi al-Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul.
Dodi's father Mohammed al-Fayed, owner of Harrods and Fulham Football Club, claims that the death was part of a British establishment plot to murder his son.
Diana's death in Paris is still the subject of an ongoing inquest, which has been beset by problems.
In June Lord Justice Scott Baker took in June, becoming the fourth royal coroner to serve since the case began.
Fifty-nine per cent of people told the pollsters that they believe the death is an accident.
Overreaction
The survey also asked whether there had been an overreaction to Princess Diana's death, when vast crowds surrounded Kensington Palace.
Forty-three per cent of people said that they felt there had been an overreaction to the death, and 53 per cent said there hadn't been.
The poll of 1016 adults was conducted for Channel 4 News by ICM.
