Royal family ‘kept Diana’s promise to landmine victim’
THE Royal family quietly fulfilled the wishes of Diana, Princess of Wales, after her death by sending a donation to a landmine victim, it has been claimed.
Muhamed Suljkanovic said he had received funds for the exact amount the late princess had promised to send him to buy prosthetics.
His wife Suada yesterday claimed the money must have been sent by the Royal family, speculating it had been authorised by Diana’s sons William and Harry, or by the Prince of Wales.
The Suljkanovic family were among those visited by the princess 20 years ago, in the small village of Dobrnja near Tuzla, Bosnia, during one of her final public charity visits.
Mr Suljkanovic had lost both his feet several weeks earlier, after stepping on a landmine in the forest near his home.
Mrs Suljkanovic told the Associated Press that the princess bought the family a cake to celebrate her husband’s birthday, and had taken a deep interest in paying for prosthetics to allow him to walk.
“After she died, I don’t know who it was, but it was either her husband or her children,” she said. “They sent money. They sent the donation, the donation she promised to Muhamed.”
The money arrived several months after the princess died in a car accident on Aug 31, 1997, and Mr Suljkanovic said he had named his newborn daughter in her honour. “They say we have to somehow remember good people – and we remember her like that,” he said.
Zoran Gajic, manager at the Mine Action Centre, said the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry had sent a letter of support ahead of the Bosnian charity’s memorial conference dedicated to Diana, due to take place in Sarajevo today.