But will she ever be allowed to rest in peace?

As I wrote this column the judge in charge of the multi-million pound inquest into her tragic death was having a go at everyone.

Months of evidence, much of it too graphic for my taste, had already told anyone listening what they already knew.

The driver was over the limit as far as the British drink-drive laws were concerned.

There was a high-speed chase as photographers chased Diana and her companions to their deaths.

And the whole thing was a horrible tragedy.

Certain witnesses were told by the judge they certainly hadn't told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

As far as the judge was concerned, the conspiracy theories alleged against the Royal Family and secret services were so far wide of the mark they were laughable.

And the only verdicts allowed were going to involve negligence, misadventure or, quite simply, the whole thing was an accident.

But the inquest and attendant publicity have simply meant the whole sordid affair had been dragged out a bit longer.

By now, the jury has probably delivered a verdict.

But what difference can their findings make?

The poor woman was hounded to death.

And she is still being hounded in death.

Will it ever stop?

Probably not, especially as the conspiracy theorists are unlikely to shut up – even if they are thrown out of the country!

Certain sections of our beloved (!) national media seem to refuse to believe the truth staring them in the face.

Diana has been dead since August 31st, 1997.

But looking at some of our national newspapers it is difficult to believe she has been laid to rest for more than a decade.

She commands almost as much space in some of the press now as she did when she was alive.

Diana Princess of Wales and I were roughly the same age.

Our ages were just about the only thing we really had in common.

Did the world stop for me on the day she died?

Of course it didn't.

We're all going to be dead for a very, very long time.

But we should all be allowed to be dead with some dignity and not suffer the horrors of a protracted inquest which would appear to have done very little but show some people up to be charlatans and make some very rich lawyers even richer.

It has been a waste of millions and millions and millions of pounds.

And that is just about as criminal as anything alleged during the six months of a trial that would not appear to have made the slightest difference to anything that will appear in the history books in years to come.