London: Ten months before she died in a crash in Paris, Princess Diana feared there was a plot to kill her by tampering with the brakes of her car.

"This phase in my life is the most dangerous," the Princess reportedly wrote in a letter to her former butler Paul Burrell.

Diana claimed someone was "planning an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry".

The letter written in October 1996, which Burrell kept secret until now, has been published in the 'Daily Mirror' on October 20.

The name of the alleged person has been blacked out by the newspaper for legal reasons. Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed were killed on August 31, 1997 when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont D'Alma tunnel in Paris.

PTI