Princess Diana would be alive today if I was in charge, says ex-top cop. **I warned Royals, trip to France was unsafe.

A former head of Royal Protection in the Metropolitan Police Service has claimed Princess Diana would still be alive if he had been in charge on that fateful night in Paris.

Dai Davies told GB News: “Where has 25 years gone? It is quite amazing. I had the privilege and pleasure of knowing Princess Diana, an amazing woman.

“I don’t think in my lifetime I can think of any other woman who has such international fame and I’m delighted in one sense that we are commemorating her, because her good points far outweighed anything derogatory that some people might say.

“There are many thoughts that go through my head as we approach the anniversary. The first one is that if my officers had been looking after her in Paris, this would never ever have happened.

“I wish I could tell you a great deal more as to my own thoughts and my own advice to the royal family before she went to the Fayed family for her holiday, but I can’t.”

Mr Davies also said he raised concerns about Diana going to France in the lead-up to her death.

In July 1997, Diana was seen on holiday in St. Tropez in the South of France visiting former partner Dodi Al-Fayed.

During the trip, she stayed in the family’s 30-bedroom villa, Castle St. Therese, with her sons, William and Harry.

She is said to have grown close to Dodi here, and she stayed in the villa several times throughout the summer before the pair died in Paris.

He said: “When she first accepted the invitation to go to the south of France with the two princes, I raised issues with the royal family through their Queen’s private secretary about this.

“I won’t go into detail because it’s passed now, but I had grave concerns, one after the itinerary and also what was going on there, but that’s in the history.

“I remember her saying to me when I first took command back in the mid 90s, ‘you poor man, do you know what you’ve taken on?’

“And I can honestly say, having been a street cop most of my life, that when I went into this particular role, I simply did not know I was walking into a civil war.

“A civil war, it really was, between her husband and herself.”

Speaking during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he added: “It’s a tragedy. It is an accident and I’ve lectured and investigated all the events that happened in Paris, in parallel with Lord Stevens.

“I have to say it would never have happened if seatbelts had been worn. I’m pleased, hopefully now that the nonsense of the conspiracy issues have, I hope, been put to bed.

“I agree with the head of the French authorities, I agree with the judge in France, or two judges’ in France ruling. I gave evidence at the inquest, and I 100% support the findings.

“Of the inquest, that there was simply no evidence, this nonsense. Everything around it should never have happened. This was an accident.

“I’m sorry, we wasted so much public money satisfying the needs of one individual but there we are, that is history.

“We should all move on.”

“I hope the conspiracy nonsense can be put to bed once and for all, and we remember Diana, for what she achieved, what she stood for, and the way she has changed the royal family for good.

“I think Prince William particularly emphasises the way he was brought up and the way he will behave when he is King.”