British police said on Saturday that they were assessing new information about the deaths of Princess Diana and her friend Dodi al-Fayed in a Paris road crash in 1997.
London's Metropolitan Police did not elaborate on the new information, or its source, but Britain's Sky News television said it had come from the parents-in-law of a former soldier and had been passed on by the Royal Military Police.
Sky said it understood that the new information included an allegation that the deaths of Diana, Dodi and their driver, Henri Paul, were caused by a member of the British military.
A royal spokesman said there would be no comment.
The Metropolitan Police said it was assessing the "relevance and credibility" of information into the deaths that it recently received.
"This is not a re-investigation and does not come under Operation Paget," it said, referring to an investigation by a former head of the Metropolitan Police, John Stevens.
Diana, Dodi and Paul were killed when their car crashed in a tunnel while they were pursued by photographers after leaving the Ritz Hotel in Paris on August 31 1997.Dodi's father, Mohammed al-Fayed, former owner of Harrods department store, alleged that the couple had been killed on the orders of "the British establishment".
Stevens concluded that there was no evidence of murder and that Paul had been drunk and speeding. A 2008 inquest ruled that Paul and the pursuing photographers were to blame.
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