Secret agents to face Diana inquest

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The court will be cleared of everyone except the jury, lawyers, interested parties and courtroom officials in order to protect the identities of the witnesses.

Each agent will only be identified by a letter or number and their faces will be concealed. Members of the public will have to sit in the annex to Court 73 along with members of the press.

The hearing took a dramatic twist on Friday when coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker asked former royal butler Paul Burrell to return to the witness box following newspaper claims his evidence to the hearing was not the whole truth.

Among those due to appear on Tuesday is the MI6 agent, known only as "A", who is said to have drawn up detailed plans to kill a top Balkan leader suspected of genocide to stop him coming to power. The plans were quickly rejected by the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service).

Last week, former MI6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove told the inquests the service had "absolutely not" murdered the Princess.

He told the jury he was not aware of the agency carrying out any killing during his career and dismissed claims that the service had murdered the couple as "utterly ridiculous".

Later this week Sir John Adye, the former head director of GCHQ - the British intelligence listening station, will give evidence.

Mohamed al Fayed maintains that the crash which killed his son and Diana in Paris on August 31, 1997 was not an accident but a plot orchestrated by MI6 on the orders of the Duke of Edinburgh.