The chauffeur for Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed was driving "like a maniac" on the day they died, the inquest into their deaths was told today.
"Henri Paul almost killed us. He drove way too fast and recklessly," said Myriah Daniels, a holistic healer who had flown back to Paris with Dodi and Diana after their holiday on a yacht in the Mediterranean in August, 1997.
"He was sh** for a driver and that is a fact," said Ms Daniels, who was driven from Paris's Le Bourget airport by Paul. He driving the limousine in which Dodi and Diana died.
"I was in a Range Rover driven by Henri Paul," she said. "I should be dead. I was positive I would be killed in that drive. He was driving like a maniac through the traffic."
The inquest, expected to last up to six months, was opened after major British and French police investigations. Both concluded Diana and Dodi died because Paul was drunk and driving too fast.
Dodi's father Mohamed al-Fayed, owner of the Harrods store in London, claims Diana and his son were killed by British security services on the orders of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband.
Mr Fayed alleges the killing was ordered because the royal family did not want the mother of the future king having a child with his son. He says Diana's body was embalmed to cover up evidence she was expecting a baby.
But the American holistic healer, who treated Diana on the al-Fayed family yacht while they were sailing in the Mediterranean, said: "She was not pregnant. Period."