Who Killed Diana, and Why? Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

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Honouring John Morgan

Gabrielle Peut

Executive member, Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

On the 19th of November 2015, Australia and the world lost an 

irreplaceable treasure—John Morgan. While many may not know of John, 

his work is immortalised in the multi-volume books he wrote on the 

assassinations of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed. His extraordinary 

work will not only outlive that “gilded monument” of the perpetrators of that 

crime, Buckingham Palace, but may even be instrumental in achieving the 

justice that Princess Diana and Dodi deserve, and contribute to bringing down 

the evil House of Windsor.

In 2003 after being diagnosed with the incurable neurological illness 

multiple system atrophy, John was forced to retire in preparation for his 

early death. Inspired by his wife Lana’s suggestion that he start writing 

again, a passion he had since he was a young boy, John commenced his epic 

investigation when Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s butler, released a handwritten 

note from 1995 in which Diana wrote of her fear that her husband was 

planning “an accident in my car”. Trained as a forensic accountant, John 

immediately questioned: Why wasn’t Prince Charles ever called to testify in 

court since Diana did indeed die in a car accident?

From that moment, with a rare courage and a passion to pursue the truth, 

John embarked on a 12-year meticulous examination, using all the skills of his 

prior career as a forensic accountant. The result of this labour was a powerful 

body of evidence, largely not heard at the official 2007-08 inquest in the UK, in 

support of the charge that Diana and Dodi had been murdered under orders 

from Queen Elizabeth II, carried out by MI6.

It was not until 2013 that my organisation, the Citizens Electoral Council 

of Australia (CEC), crossed paths with John and Lana, when we viewed a rare 

public screening of Keith Allen’s documentary film Unlawful Killing at the 

Sydney Underground Film Festival in September of that year. We saw that 

the film credited John Morgan for his input, and then we came upon John’s 

published works for the first time. We at the CEC had published in Australia 

many of the exposés on the murder of Diana and Dodi written since 1997 by 

our colleagues at the U.S. weekly Executive Intelligence Review, investigative 

journalists Allen Douglas and Jeffrey Steinberg. As we later discovered, John 

himself had drawn upon EIR’s work as a key initial source.

It was a great privilege and honour to meet John and Lana in early 2015. 

After discussions with this extraordinary couple, and knowing John’s time was 

short, the CEC started to produce this volume in John’s honour—a compilation 

of tributes he could read while he still lived. In the following pages you will 

read some of the tributes to John, received after his courageous announcement  

of the imminent end of his mortal life. Both then, and in eulogies and 

additional tributes and messages of condolence after his passing, prominent 

figures from around the world acknowledged and celebrated the profound 

mission John had adopted—a cause higher than his own mortal life.

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It is very rare in life to meet a person who ennobles everyone he meets, 

as John Morgan did. So we must now lift the torch he so gallantly and bravely 

carried in his fight for justice for Diana and Dodi, and take it forward. John 

shall forever live in our hearts, and, as it has been and will continue to be for 

generations to come, his work is a gift to all in the fight for truth and justice. 

Dedicated to John Morgan

Sonnet 55

William Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments  

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; 

But you shall shine more bright in these contents  

Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time. 

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,  

And broils root out the work of masonry,  

Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn 

The living record of your memory. 

’Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity 

Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room 

Even in the eyes of all posterity  

That wear this world out to the ending doom.

So, till the judgment that yourself arise,  

You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

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John Morgan’s life and works

John Morgan was born in Rotorua, New Zealand in 1957, and lived in Australia 

beginning in 1988, the year after he met his future wife, Lana. They resided on the northern 

beaches of Sydney until 2002, when they moved to South East Queensland.

Earlier in life, John had been an accountant for various 

organisations in Auckland and Sydney. During the 1990s, 

he and Lana became retailers, operating a shop on Sydney’s 

northern beaches. Starting in the 1980s, John travelled widely 

throughout the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East. 

He retired in 2003 at the age of 46, after being diagnosed 

with a severe neurological illness called multiple system atrophy. 

After a year or two of coming to terms with that devastating 

turn of events, he found that the forced retirement had created 

an opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition to write. 

An investigative writer with a diploma in journalism from 

the Australian College of Journalism, John completed his first 

book, Flying Free, in 2005—about life inside a fundamentalist 

cult. 

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, 

John developed an interest in the events that had led to the Paris 

automobile crash that took her life. In 2005 he began extensive, 

full-time research into those events, and studied the official British police report published 

in late 2006. John completed a book on that subject in 

September 2007: Cover-Up of a Royal Murder: Hundreds 

of Errors in the Paget Report. That book was read and used 

by the lawyers at the London inquest into the deaths of 

Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, which commenced in 

October of that year. 

Throughout 2008 John Morgan continued his 

investigations into the crash. He closely followed the six-

month inquest, which concluded in April. That research 

resulted in the six evidence-based volumes of the highly 

acclaimed Diana Inquest series, written and published 

between 2009 and 2013.

After publicising the second volume of that series, in late 2009 John received a 

large volume of unpublished documentation from within the official British police Paget 

investigation. As a result, in 2010 he compiled a dedicated volume: Diana Inquest: The 

Documents the Jury Never Saw. 

During 2012 John completed a page-turning summary of 

the shocking story of Diana’s death, Paris-London Connection: 

The Assassination of Princess Diana. Kopp Verlag translated this 

book and published the German edition in 2014.

Despite the continuing deterioration of his health, John 

was able by late 2014 to publish his most important work yet—

the narrative abridgement of the six-volume Diana Inquest 

series. It was entitled How They Murdered Princess Diana: The 

Shocking Truth.

Early in 2015 Jon Conway’s play Truth, Lies, Diana 

commenced a five-week season at the Charing Cross Theatre in 

John and Lana Morgan in 

the 1980s.

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