Help! They've Kidnapped Me! Lady Di

"A Fairytale to Rock the Establisment" - Review by Miller Caldwell

2010-10-20T05:22:00.000-07:00

This review of the Lady Di book by the Scottish author Miller Caldwell appeared in the London Times of May 22nd 2010. Below he points at the book banner displayed at the Dutch Pavilion of the London Book Fair in 2010.

On the Quest For Lady Di

2010-10-19T07:00:00.000-07:00

Note: This review first appeared in the Dutch magazine “SAMPO For Transformation” (Nr. 12, Summer and Autumn, 2010) and can be read in the original here. It was not signed but penned by its editor Nicolaas de Jong. The title “On the Quest for Lady Di” was not the original one, but taken from the last promising line of the review. This note and the commentary at the end is by the translator of this review and publisher of the book Robert J. Kelder (see image above at the gate of Kensington Palace, former residence of Lady Di in London, with a banner portrayed at the Dutch Pavilion of the 2010 London Book Fair).

This book was written as a crossing between a modern fairytale and a non-fiction detective novel. The author is Serbian born Slobodan Mitric, a former spy. He was for some time a [political] refugee in our country [The Netherlands] and also spent some time in prison, even incarcerated naked in isolation because of his espionage work. His alias Karate Bob arose from the fact that he trained the military police and security services in Karate. Residing in Amsterdam, he has in the meantime grown quite old and very ill. This book is for him a partial disclosure of his knowledge concerning a number of quite hidden connections due to his contacts with the heads of the upper- and underworld, which are closely entwined. A reason for his isolation: he knows too much.

The book itself describes the meeting between the British Crown Prince Charles and his future wife Lady Diana, at that time only 17 years old, cooked up by his mistress Camilla. The reason was that in this way those two could maintain a free relation in secret: this woman was married with the head of Charles’ bodyguards. At the beginning, the couple truly loves each other, until Diana discovers that Charles has an extra-marital relationship, of all people with the protectress, who introduced her to him. She attempts to win Charles for herself and when that does not succeed, she lives it up herself with a number of more or less serious affairs. Finally at a complete loss what to do, she airs her predicament and Charles’ secret liaison to the media. She presses for a divorce, much against the will of Charles, and wants to take her still young sons with her. Through malicious gossip, she suspects him of wanting to murder her. Therefore, she leaves England and journeys to a number of countries, also to gain support for her cause. In Washington, she receives support, but also the amorous attention of a multi-millionaire, who wants to marry her. This she turns down.

There are a number of intrigues running through the book. One of these is a criminal syndicate dealing primarily in heroin in which the police and the secret services of Great Britain, the USA, France and The Netherlands are involved, and also a Parisian connected to the Ritz Hotel, the starting point of the fatal ride that Lady Di would later embark on. The drug trafficking and heroin production are much enlarged upon (a little too broad; here the author spews out too much detail knowledge, such as the name and address of a lab in Amsterdam). The actions of a number of personages are also described, one of whom is slaughtered by mistake.

Another narrative thread is that of the Egyptian multi-millionaire Al Fayed and his son, the playboy and film producer Dodi al Fayed. The latter begins an affair with the girlfriend of his youth Diana, which eventually leads to the afore-mentioned Ritz Hotel. Father Fayed has a private chat with a king of one of the Arab Emirates with the aim, as it later turns out, to kidnap her for himself for a lot of money.

The criminal syndicate, it turns out later, has itself organized a scheme to abduct Diana and deliver her to the rich American, whom she did not want.

Diana is all the time depicted as an angel, who is manipulated by people with excessive sexual urges and taken away from her dream prince. A somewhat one-sided view, because she also overindulged herself in various sexual escapades, but only out of primitive urges. In order to accentuate this view, a thread is spun that began with the evangelist Luke. The latter is described as a pupil of Christ, who receives the mission from Him to bring the cup of the Last Supper, in which Christ’s blood was collected during the crucifixion, to a hill in London where in a well-hidden underground cave complex this cup, unjustly named the Holy Grail, is kept. Later St. Paul’s Cathedral is built on this hill and it is in this church that Charles and Diana are, against the custom as the place of the British royal marriages, are married. A martyr for this cup in the 17th century, Frances, according to the insinuations in the book, was incarnated in Diana, whose second name is Frances. Unfortunate in this context is that Luke, according to the book continuously incarnated from the year 33 onwards, was no direct apostle of Christ, but of Paul; he heard the story a generation later from Paul and wrote the gospel “second hand”, he never got to know Christ. Here is alas too much fiction that detracts from the credibility of the story.

The story lines converge in the Paris Ritz Hotel, which is owned by Al Fayed. First, an Arabian prince with his wife from the Emirates enters the hotel. They have booked a suite next to the one of Lady Di and her friend Dodi al Fayed. After a change of clothes, they turn out to be doubles for Diana and her friend in order to divert the attention of the press so that the couple can depart unnoticed. The doubles (members of an American and English secret service) take their place without anyone becoming aware of it. And they leave the hotel by the limousine. The syndicate has in collaboration with the Paris police organized a kidnapping that is supposed to take place in a tunnel after they have beaten off the press. The driver of the limousine, however, is a member of the security service of the Ritz and the one from the criminal syndicate, who by mistake has murdered a colleague. A former buddy of his, together with the brother of the murdered colleague, recognize the limousine (used often for drug hauls), and pursue the car. The limousine and their pursuers drive into a tunnel, which has been closed off by the police, because the kidnapping is supposed to take place at the end of it. In the tunnel, the pursuants force the limousine to crash and kill the driver in order to take revenge. Diana’s double is scared to death and wants to resign immediately. Dodi’s double squeezes her throat artery, just long enough for her to pass out. And when the police arrive on the spot, he has taken an ampoule in order to feign death. The bodies are transported to the hospitals, which are run by the syndicate and the corrupt police forces, and disappear from view. The place of the dead Diana is taken by the corpse of a girl: for this occasion a girl, as it turns out, who was killed in an accident and who looked very much like her; she is put into the coffin.

The real Diana and Dodi leave unnoticed and arrive at the end on the super yacht of his father, which sets course from Marseille for international waters. Here, Dodi locks Diana up, treats here as an inferior, the way he is used to out of his muslin background, and tells her that she will be sold off to become part of a harem. He himself will, after undergoing a plastic operation, work to increase Arab power by undertaking terrorist actions. They have, after all, both been declared death. She manages to write a note with her blood that she puts in an empty champagne bottle and pitches into the sea. That is the title of the book.

The question remains whether all this is true and in which harem Diana would have come. It is unfortunately difficult to verify and one can only rely here on the information of the author, who according to the book was passed the note by a British secret service for the purpose of investigation.

All in all an exciting book with a glimpse behind a couple of international scenes that give evidence of real inside knowledge. And if it were to be true, there is a possible sequel on the quest for Lady Di.

The book is available (in English, Dutch and Serbian) from the bookstores, on internet (such as BoekenRoute.nl) and from the publisher, the Willehalm Institute Press, Amsterdam.

Commentary

The author of this review has in general done a commendable job and deserves our upright thanks for finally breaking the boycott of the Dutch press and media, which since the publication of the Dutch and English version of this new Lady Di book in March and more recently the original Serbian version, have not spent a single word on it. The purpose of this commentary is therefore to merely post a few nuances and, where necessary, to make some corrections.

To begin with the author: Slobodan Mitric is listed in the introduction as a former spy, which is not entirely correct or only half-true: he was, as his CV printed in the appendix of his previous novel “The Golden Tip” shows, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent and as such also involved in atomic contra-espionage. Neither is it entirely correct that he was only for some time a [political] refugee in The Netherlands; this he has been for more than 30 years! Up until the present day, he is still living in exile from his native Serbia without any legal and medical rights as an undesirable alien and a victim of repeated character assassination through political show trials and negative media coverage; this in spite of his many services to the Dutch Crown, such as having prevented the Crown prince Willem-Alexander in 1987 from undergoing the same fate as the kidnapped and murdered AHOLD top man and millionaire Gerrit Jan Heijn (see “The Golden Tip” which has also, with one exception, been boycotted by the Dutch press).

That as a 10th Dan Karate Master he received his alias Karate Bob from giving lessons to the military police and security services must be understood as extending to those instances in the whole of Europe, especially Sweden, including the bodyguards of various European and British royal houses. It may be assumed that one source of his inside knowledge of the upper world that the writer of the SAMPO review attributes to him comes from his manifold contacts in that realm. That he has been isolated and maltreated because “he knows too much” is somewhat of an understatement, because had he decided not to take up the pen to depict specific instances of the entanglement of the upper and underworld, he would not have been the target himself of various attempts to get rid of him once and for all.

In the middle of the review itself, the author, after summarizing the chapter on Saint Luke and the Grail in London quite well, finds unfortunately too much fiction in it, to the detriment, he finds, of the credibility of the book. Here a few points: this chapter is the only one in which a source is given, namely the secret archives of the Vatican. In order to determine whether the author of the book gave a true rendition of the content of these archives, the Vatican itself will have to be contacted with the request to open these archives for research. Hereby the question remains whether these contents, that contradict much of what is generally known or assumed about the history of the Grail, themselves are true, for it is usually Joseph of Arimathea who is associated with the coming of the Grail to England. A salient point not mentioned in this section of the review is the fateful meeting Adolf Hitler had with two anthroposophists in Saint Paul’s Cathedral and Hitler’s subsequent halting of the bombing of that magnificent cathedral at the beginning of World War II. The two anthroposophists are not named, but may be seen as Rudolf Steiner and his spouse Mary Steiner.

The climax of the book, the dramatic events in the Alma tunnel, are rendered properly, save for one important detail. The tunnel itself was not blocked by the police; this was indeed the plan, but the Paris chief of police misunderstood the directive by the boss of the criminal gang Paris Mouse and blocked instead the side entrance to the tunnel. After the modified limousine carrying the two doubles was made to crash into the pillar and the criminal reckoning had taken place etc., the tunnel itself was then indeed blocked to whitewash all traces of the “accident’.

Towards the end of his review, the author asks whether all this is true; it is difficult to corroborate for him. But is it only dependent on the information supplied by the author of the book, who undoubtedly knows more than he has put on paper? On the back flap text I have, based on this new Lady Di book, called for a reopening of the legally flawed Lady Di Inquest by Lord Justice Scott Baker, or at least of the prior investigation by Lord Stevens, the Piaget Report, but with a new mandate without any preconceived notions, i.e. to answer the question what really happened before, during and after the events in the Alma tunnel? This call has up till now has, not surprisingly, fallen on totally deaf ears. But, a close study of the Piaget Report, like the Scott Baker Inquest fully available on internet) reveals at least two interesting items. The first one is the contrast between Al Fayed and his son Dodi about the latter’s sudden decoy plan to use another limousine than the usual armored one. The injured, but surviving bodyguard Trevor Jones states, as can be read in the Piaget-report, that Dodi claimed to have secured the backing of his father, while the latter testified that he was totally against it. This clearly implies that both had their own agenda, but Lord Stevens fails to make any comment on this glaring discrepancy, which he otherwise does in every other instance. The second point is the negative answer out of apparent self-preservation by Trevor Jones to the question that someone in his entourage has reported him saying about the fateful tunnel ride, “If I remember, they’ll kill me!” Also the fact that the corpse purported to be that of Lady Di was, against French law, embalmed on orders of the British ambassador implies that there was more to it than merely “making her presentable”…

These observations may hardly be enough to motivate a reopening of this case, but this will change dramatically if the conditions can be met for the woman in the book who plays Diana’s double to make her appearance on the world stage. These conditions, as reported by a reliable source, are above all financial in order to provide her with the necessary protection for such a dangerous coming out. But if these conditions are met, hopefully soon, the real quest for Lady Di can finally begin in earnest.

(An earlier version of this review and commentary with other related material and links to films to promote the book in London and New York can be be read here.)

“Sunday Mirror” Snubs Dutch Publisher of Lady Di

2010-03-27T03:25:00.000-07:00

Willehalm Institute Press Release

Amsterdam, March 26, 2010 – “Cheers!” With this parting comment, the News Desk of the British tabloid “The Sunday Mirror” cut off the telephone conversation yesterday with the Dutch publisher Robert J. Kelder of the book “Help! They’ve Kidnapped Me! Lady Di” by Slobodan Radojev Mitric, a top Counter Intelligence agent, criminologist, true crime writer and World Director of Reserve Police International, better known in The Netherlands as Karate Bob.

The telephone exchange between Kelder and the unidentified journalist manning the News Desk that is looking for scoops lasted no more than a few minutes. Kelder began by introducing himself as a publisher in Amsterdam of English books. After describing the title of his latest book as the content of a letter written by Princess Diana in Mohamed al-Fayed’s yacht, which she had put in a bottle and then thrown into the Sardinian Sea a few days after she had been kidnapped by Dodi & Co. on August 31, 1997, the publisher added, “Lady Di is still alive!” “What about her corpse in the tunnel?” the News Desk asked amazed. “She was not in the tunnel,” Kelder replied on the basis of the book, “it was a double!” That was too much of a scoop for even The Sunday Mirror; he disconnected, “Cheers!”

“Help! They’ve Kidnapped Me! Lady Di” will be launched in the near future in an appropriate venue in London and Amsterdam.

“A Modern Fairytale about a Princess Who Beyond Any Doubt is Still alive, Be it in Slavery…”.

2010-03-15T10:29:00.000-07:00

The Willehalm Institute Press Foundation

Herewith Announces Its Latest Book

Amsterdam, March 16, 2010 – With the above “unbelievable” words the author Slobodan Radojev Mitric (Karate Bob) describes his newest novel named after the message found in a champagne bottle thrown by Lady Di from a luxurious yacht into the Sardinian sea and fished out of the water there: Help! They’ve Kidnapped Me! Lady Di.

Help! They’ve Kidnapped Me! Lady Di is a sequel to Mitric’s true crime and love story "The Golden Tip" published in 2009. In it, he reveals that the original target of the criminal gang that in 1987 kid-napped and murdered Dutch millionaire and Ahold CEO Gerrit Jan Heijn was none other than the Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, whose planned abduction was narrowly averted through the undercover work of a certain Dr. Troublemaker.

With his new book, Karate Bob now lifts the veil on what really happened already months before, during and in the days after the car crash inside the Alma tunnel in Paris in 1997. Unresolved questions as to the circumstances surrounding this tragic accident still remain, but based on the outcome of the various judicial inquiries practically no one doubts that it led to the death of Princess Diana, Dodi al-Fayed and their driver Henri Paul. The unsuspecting reader would therefore be inclined to quickly delegate this book with the subtitle “A Modern Fairytale” to the realm of fables, were it not that this subtitle has a double bottom revealing a baffling chain of events hitherto deemed unthinkable. Since these events can “easily” be verified, the publisher Robert J. Kelder saw therefore fit to end the text of the back cover with the statement, Mitric’s book presents a serious argument for starting off where the last inquest into the ‘death’ of Princess Diana en Dodi al-Fayed ended.

Concomitant with this English paperback version of 242 pages appears the Dutch one today under the title "Help! Ze hebben me gekidnapt! Lady Di". A new Serbian edition of this outlandish blockbuster, originally written and published in that language by the author in his L’Atelier de la Liberté already in Amsterdam in 2009 is forthcoming.

Further material, such as the author’s dedication of his book to his deceased wife Iris de Vries, his introductory poem, the Table of Contents, the Prologue “The Drifter”, the Chapters 12 “Adultery” and 41 “Ride into ‘Death’” and the Epilogue consisting of a letter by the publisher to Mohamed al-Fayed can be found on the Willehalm Lady Di website (in construction).

Help! They’ve Kidnapped Me! Lady Di

Author: Slobodan Radojev Mitric
Translation: Christiaan Eremos
Lector: Peter De Jong
Design Front Cover: S.R. Mitric
Layout Front and Back Cover: Christiaan Kelder
Layout Inside: Christiaan Eremos
Printing ScanLaser: (Zaandam, N.H)
First Printing Advance Edition: March 2010,
ISBN 978-90-73932-18-0
How to Order: Via the Bookstores, on Internet or Direct from the Publisher via Email
Price and Volume: £16.50/ €19.95/ $US 24.95; 242 p.
© English Translation: Willehalm Institute Press Foundation
Address: P.O. Box 16621, 1001 RC Amsterdam-Nl
Website: www.willehalm.nl/ladydi.htm
Email: info@willehalm.nl