London - The fate of Princess Diana was raised by the former Chief Rabbi last night, in a passionate defence of marriage.
In a toughly-worded Lords speech about selfishness in society and broken marriages that result, Lord Jakobovits spoke of the affair between the princess after her divorce from Prince Charles and Dodi Fayed.
He said: "The People's Princess would still be alive and so would her lover if they had observed absolute fidelity within marriage as an inviolate principle. What a price the nation had to pay for marital infidelity."
Lord Jakobovits, in a debate on the role of marriage, also attacked the Chancellor, Mr Gordon Brown, for scrapping the married couple's allowance in the Budget and the Home Secretary, Mr Jack Straw, for saying the state should not make moral judgments about marriage.