Prince William to win spurs as army officer

CAMBERLEY, England, Dec 15 (Reuters) Britain's Prince William, eager to draw a line under a decade of conspiracy theories about his mother's death, is to graduate as an army officer on Friday and launch his new career.

The second in line to the throne is to pass out at the elite Sandhurst military academy before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, in a ceremony famed for its military pomp and circumstance.

William takes to the parade ground just a day after a British police inquiry ruled that his mother, Princess Diana, was not the victim of a murder plot when she and her lover were killed in a high-speed car crash in Paris in 1997.

Diana's death triggered a string of conspiracy theories that British spies or even her ex-husband, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, had plotted the accident because her relationship with Dodi al Fayed was embarrassing the royal household.

William and his younger brother Harry said in a statement they ''trust these conclusive findings will end speculation surrounding the death of their mother''.

William is following in his younger brother's footsteps -- Harry won his spurs as an army officer in April after his stint at Sandhurst.

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