Lost in Spice: Posh in Paris with the Diana jurors

It was the ultimate in bizarre juxtapositions. The sombre team of jurors, gathered outside the Ritz Hotel in Paris to retrace Diana's last movements, come face to face with Victoria Beckham in all her star-spangled glory, as she leaves her hotel and wanders through the jury.

In town for a fashion shoot for US Elle magazine, Victoria donned a series of strangely futuristic get-ups, including a Dior feather-boa creation and a thigh-skimming Barbarella minidress. In town as part of the inquest into the Princess of Wales's death, jurors had travelled to Paris so that Mohammed Al Fayed could try to convince them that Diana and his son were killed by a white Fiat punto driven by Prince Philip, sponsored by MI6 and operated by remote-control from CIA headquarters. Where Charles was probably at the helm of the satellites.

It's quite hard to know which is the more ridiculous. That Victoria Beckham is swanning around Paris dressed as Big Bird from Sesame Street, or that the British tax payer is spending £10 million on a trial at Al Fayed's whim.

Yes, the public has a voracious appetite for both VB in couture and Diana on the front pages, but is this really enough justification to indulge? The Diana inquest is a waste of money. This trial will surely prove inconclusive.

And as for Victoria - her trial, by Spice, is yet to come.