Diana Bodyguard Starts New Life in E.Timor
L O N D O N, Sept. 5 -- Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the only survivor of the car crash that killed Princess Diana, has started a new life in one of the world’s most dangerous trouble spots, a British newspaper reported today.
Rees-Jones, 32, has taken up the post of deputy head ofsecurity for the United Nations in Suai, East Timor, which is atthe center of battles with pro-Indonesian militias based inadjoining West Timor, the Times said.
Rees-Jones underwent extensive facial surgery after thehorrific crash in Paris three years ago that killed Diana andher companion Dodi Fayed, son of Harrods department store ownerMohamed Al Fayed. Driver Henri Paul was also killed.
Fully Recovered
Rees-Jones has been living in his home town of Oswestry,near the border between England and Wales, where he has made afull physical recovery and started playing for a local rugbyclub.
The former paratrooper arrived quietly in East Timor, nowunder U.N. administration after residents voted to end Indonesian rule, amonth ago to take up a one-year contract with the U.N.peacekeeping force, the Times said.
Rees-Jones had earlier made an emotional pilgrimage for thefirst time to the princess’s last resting place, spending twohours at the grave on an island in a lake at Diana’s family homeat Althorp in central England.
Rees-Jones earlier this year published his own version ofthe events surrounding the crash in Paris, The Bodyguard’sStory, in which he rejects Mohamed Al Fayed’s conspiracytheories surrounding the incident.
Al Fayed contends Diana and his son were murdered byBritish security services at the behest of Queen Elizabeth II’shusband, Prince Philip. French investigators found that driver Henri, an Al Fayed employee, was drunk.
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