The Morrissey album MALADJUSTED was released in August of 1997, the month in which Princess Diana's deadly car crash would occur.  The album's advance single, ALMA MATTERS, wound up being Morrissey's final single before Princess Diana was killed weeks later in the "Alma" underpass.

 
August 1997: Morrissey releases MALADJUSTED featuring the single ALMA MATTERS; Diana is killed in the Alma underpass.

Prior to the release of ALMA MATTERS, there had been more than a hundred different cover photos for all the records released internationally by Morrissey and his former band, The Smiths.  There is not a car pictured anywhere on any of them.  The front of ALMA MATTERS shows Morrissey leaning back on a car, making this the only Morrissey record ever to feature a car on its cover.  Weeks later, Princess Diana will be killed in a car - in the "Alma" underpass.  Diana was with three men (boyfriend Dodi Fayed; chauffeur Henri Paul; and bodyguard Trevor Reese Jones) in the car that crashed into a pillar in the "Alma" underpass.  The photo on the back of ALMA MATTERS shows three men and is centered on an obvious pillar.

   
Front cover: Morrissey leaning on a car                          Back cover: Three men and a pillar in the center.                                                   

The last Morrissey single released before Princess Diana is killed: ALMA MATTERS.
The name of the exact place where Princess Diana is killed: the "Alma" underpass.

ALMA MATTERS is from a Morrissey album released in: August 1997.
Princess Diana was killed in the "Alma" underpass in:  August 1997.

ALMA MATTERS is the only Morrissey record to have on its cover: a car.
In the "Alma" underpass, Princess Diana winds up getting killed in: a car.

The back photo on ALMA MATTERS shows a total of three men and centers on: a pillar.
In the "Alma" underpass, Princess Diana was with three men and crashed into: a pillar.

As if to indicate that "ALMA" has to do with France, (the country where Diana was soon to die), the cover of ALMA MATTERS shows Morrissey  in the trademark pose of France's greatest historical figure: Napoleon.  His right arm is bent sideways across the front of his body with his hand going inside his shirt up to the wrist:

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Diana's unpopular choice

Along with the vital reference to "Alma", Morrissey's lyrics to ALMA MATTERS might well have expressed Diana's reaction to the public bewilderment over her choice to date Egyptian playboy Dodi Fayed - an unpopular choice that wound up delivering Diana into the Alma underpass at the fateful moment:

ALMA MATTERS

So, the choice I have made
may seem strange to you
but, who asked you anyway?
it’s my life
to wreck
my own way

You see, to someone somewhere
Alma matters in mind
body and soul
in part and in hole

So, the life I have made
may seem wrong to you
but I’ve never been surer
it’s my life
to ruin
my own way

Because to someone somewhere
Alma matters in mind
body and soul
in part and in hole

Here, in ALMA MATTERS, does Morrissey’s unexpected spelling of “in hole” (instead of "in whole") refer to the downward entrance to the Alma underpass where Diana would soon crash?

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