[1]He was the silent of the storm that erupted after the violent death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The only survivor of the horrific crash in Paris, Trevor Rees-Jones would surely answer all the puzzling questions about that night in 1997. But apart from one tabloid interview that he instantly regretted, the 31-year-old bodyguard remained as enigmatic as the last fateful seconds locked irretrievably inside his head. 

    [2] The former paratrooper had suffered serious chest and head injuries, his face so badly disfigured that it was sewn back together after more than 20 metal splinters were removed. What hurt more, it seems, were the accusations about his role and the wild conspiracy theories made by his former employer, Mohamed al-Fayed, father of the deceased Dodi.

    [3] Rees-Jones has now decided to break his silence by writing a book, The bodyguard's Story, which gives his unalloyed account of the events leading up to the final "shambles". It describes the bizarre Fayed menage. Crates of bottled water were taken to the family villa in St Tropez--the equivalent of coals to Newcastle. Fayed's private Gulfstream jet transported five sacks of sand to Finland to make a beach for the Fayed children, only to be swept away.

    [4] Although adamant that he is not cashing in on Diana's death, Rees-Jones is submitting to a media hoopla because he is hard up. Denied compensation in France, facing legal bills and without long-term provision after his acrimonious parting from Fayed, the money has provided him with a two-bedroom house in Oswestry in Shropshire and some security.

    [5] It has bought him no peace of mind. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he confesses he is plagued by the thought that Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul died _on my shift_ and that he would gladly have sacrificed his own life to save theirs. "If I could have died and those three survived, I could have done it,"_he says.

    [6] Rees-Jones was one of 40 security men_ 16-stone nannies hired to guard the Fayed family and pander to their whims. A former squaddie with the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland, he was a useful rugby player whose tough looks and 6ft 2in frame belied a mild and stoical nature.

    在威爾士王妃戴安娜遇難去世后的風(fēng)暴里，特雷弗·里斯-瓊斯是平靜的風(fēng)眼。他是那次恐怖的巴黎撞車事件的唯一幸存者，想必可以回答有關(guān)1997年那個(gè)夜晚的所有疑問(wèn)。但是他只接受了一次小報(bào)的采訪，事后很快就后悔了，除此之外，這位31歲的保鏢一直是個(gè)謎，就像那災(zāi)難的最后幾秒鐘被鎖在他大腦里無(wú)法取出一樣。

    這位前傘兵的胸部和頭部受到了嚴(yán)重的傷害，臉部嚴(yán)重變形，以至于在取出20多塊金屬碎片以后才重新縫合在一起。但是對(duì)他傷害更大的，看來(lái)還是他的前雇主，死者多迪之父穆罕默德·阿-法耶德對(duì)他所起作用的譴責(zé)和離奇的陰謀說(shuō)法。

    現(xiàn)在里斯-瓊斯已決定寫一本書來(lái)打破自己的沉默，書名叫《保縹的故事》，書中對(duì)最終導(dǎo)致汽車撞成“一堆廢鐵”的各個(gè)事件進(jìn)行了原原本本的敘述。它描述了古怪的法耶德家族。成箱的瓶裝水被運(yùn)到他們?cè)谑ヌ亓_佩茲的家庭別墅，這就像將煤運(yùn)到紐卡斯?fàn)栆粯佣嘤�。法耶德的灣流型私人噴氣飛機(jī)將五袋沙子運(yùn)到芬蘭以為他家的孩子們?cè)煲黄�沙灘，結(jié)果只是沙子被海水沖走。 雖然里斯-瓊斯堅(jiān)稱他并非利用戴安娜之死來(lái)掙錢，實(shí)際他確是由于生活日益拮據(jù)而屈服于媒體的糾纏。他在法國(guó)得不到賠償，還要面對(duì)訴訟費(fèi)的賬單，而在鬧翻了離開(kāi)法耶德家后又失去了長(zhǎng)期的生活來(lái)源，寫書所得的這筆錢已使他得以在英國(guó)什羅普郡的奧斯韋斯特里買了一套兩間臥室的房子，得到了一定的穩(wěn)定生活的保證。 他并沒(méi)有得到心靈的安寧。在接受《每日電訊報(bào)》的采訪時(shí)，他承認(rèn)由于戴安娜、多迪和司機(jī)亨利·保爾是死在他當(dāng)班的時(shí)候，他的內(nèi)心一直目經(jīng)受著煎熬，他美愿意犧牲自己來(lái)?yè)Q取這三人的生命。“如果我的死能夠救活他們，我一定會(huì)這樣做，”他說(shuō)。

    里斯-瓊斯是法耶德家雇來(lái)保護(hù)家人和迎合他們的突發(fā)奇想的40名保安人員－－“體重128磅的保姆”之一。他原是駐北愛(ài)爾蘭傘兵團(tuán)的一名士兵，曾是一名不錯(cuò)的橄欖球手，剛毅的外表和六英尺二英寸的身高掩蓋了他溫和而能吃苦耐勞的性格。 這種性格在他與法耶德打交道不久后就遇到了考驗(yàn)，他發(fā)現(xiàn)法耶德是個(gè)脾氣壞和吹毛求疵的老板。甚至為了一些小事，例如讓一個(gè)小法耶德坐一部沒(méi)有空調(diào)的車，這個(gè)埃及佬就會(huì)罵他：“蠢驢，你這個(gè)蠢驢。我付錢不是讓你這么干的。”