Dodi stormed. Dodi Fayed was a 42-year-old man/child with a lavish monthly allowanceby most accounts $100,000. It's just one of the explosive revelations in the new book by the former soldier and bodyguard who has maintained a virtual code of Omerta in the years since the bizarre last days of Diana. Once Dodi's death was confirmed, the 11,000 electric bulbs which usually light up the facade of the Harrods store were switched off - which at the time was owned by Mohamed. Born April 15, 1955 Died August 31, 1997 (42) Add to list Known for Chariots of Fire 7.1 Producer 1981 Trevor preceded the princess out the door followed by Dodi about 10 feet behind. I'm with three people now (Dodi, Diana and Fayed's wife Mrs Heini) on my own. This was a terrible plan. "I approached the car and I saw the legs of a man. Police, ambulance attendants and doctors implicitly contradicted claims by Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father, that Diana was able to talk when she reached a hospital more than 1{ hours after her chauffeur-driven Mercedes ran into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont Alma on Aug. 31. Dodi began his courtship of Diana clumsily while at the same time playing a tricky and secretive game with his American model girlfriend Kelly Fisher, who after his death claimed to be his fiance. "I told him to - in French - to stay quiet, that it was going to be okay, that people were going to take care of him and he had just to try to be quiet." Her companion Dodi Fayed and driver and security guard Henri Paul were. Is that true? [10] She dropped the lawsuit shortly after Fayed's death.[11]. Again Trevor and Kez followed in the Range Rover while the Mercedes with Dodi and Diana was surrounded by scooters and motorbikes. Things were heating up when she decided to . I couldn't go knocking on their apartment door saying, `hey, where are we going tonight?' Diana died in a high-speed car accident. More. It was a lavish engagement ring of yellow and white gold, with triangles of fire-bright diamond clusters, surrounding an emerald cut diamond of some heft. Princess Diana's cause of death was officially a severed pulmonary vein. They clarify many of the obscure and misleading points surrounding the crash and provide medical details that have been kept quiet because there has been no public inquest. You can respectfully suggest that this plan is crap, that you need more blokes, which I did, but if they don't listen to you, then your hands are tied.''. We pay for your stories! So why had Dodi chosen Henri Paul to drive? Camilla runs vegan restaurant Farmacy in Notting Hill, although she currently lives on a farm in Kent. Dodi Fayed, Diana's boyfriend and the son of an Egyptian billionaire, was also a victim of the car crash. A symbol of kindness and humanity, and a mother of two, Princess Diana was only 36 years old when she died. Dodi relented on the bodyguard question Trevor would go with them but still insisted on one car only. They danced a bit in this ``empty tacky little place''. He has also written another book on this topic which is "not supportive" of Mr Al Fayed's claims, Mr Burnett said. Dr Lipsedge held a session with Mr Rees just over a month after the crash and then two more in February 1998. He was a producer, known for Chariots of Fire (1981), Hook (1991) and F/X (1986). As a teenager he lost his adored maternal grandmother, who died of blood poisoning after a botched facelift operation. The following night Diana arrived by Mercedes with no security except her driver. He then went to find his friend, Mr Ronssin, who revealed for the first time that Princess Diana had been in the car. "I cannot think of why a car driving that fast would have to brake at that point unless there was something in its way," he said. Flashbulbs started popping as photographers who had learned of the rendezvous spotted the car. "This man was in the middle of the car, probably his head was in the front. Yesterday, psychiatrist Dr Maurice Lipsedge told the hearing in a written statement that a "few" recollections might come back to Trevor Rees but they could be things learned since the crash and therefore unreliable. Pathologically there was no evidence that Princess Diana was pregnant, but some women say they know they're pregnant from the moment of conception. James Huth said he found driver Henri Paul dead, his head trapped in an air bag, and "panicking" survivor Trevor Rees lying beside him with his jaw "hanging" off. I concluded it was Princess Diana. Mr al-Fayed recently paid tribute to "kind, gentle, courteous" Dodi weeks ahead of the anniversary of his death. I told them that I thought one was alive and described the accident," he said. By the time Dodi moved cameras were all over the car. [15] Contents 1Henri Paul 1.1Security service connections 1.2Blood samples 2Tomlinson's allegation of MI6 involvement 3Relationship with Dodi Fayed 3.1Pregnancy {5} Speaking English with a heavy French accent, casually-dressed Mr Huth told the court via video link from the Court of Appeal in Paris how he was staying at his parents' apartment on the Cour de Albert, just a hundred or so yards from the Alma tunnel, on the night of the crash. The couple were engulfed. They had become aggressive and Gerard the security man at the apartments confronted a photographer and pushed him. ``But two cars are best '' Dodi then invoked the magic words, ``It's been okayed by my father.''. No one will ever forget.. Professor Andre Lienhart, who investigated Dianas medical treatment for a French examining magistrate, spelt out for the jury in detail how she was treated in the battle to save her life on the night of August 31, 1997. Henri Paul was a security man not a chauffeur. T he sole survivor of the crash which claimed the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed, has finally decided to speak. This ring was the ``proof'' that the ill-starred couple were victims of a conspiracy at the highest echelons of the British establishment and assassinated with the connivance of the secret service. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. When he was 15, Dodi moved to London and became a familiar face on the nightclub scene. "The princess had turned round in relation to her initial sitting position and her head was between the two seats and she could see her friend in front of her," Dorzee said. DrRichard Shepherd said he was inundated with questions about Princess Di's autopsy but has long refused to reveal intimate details. 3-min read Dodi Fayed's ex-girlfriend is still haunted by the death of Princess Diana. Sat 10 Jan 2009 19.01 EST. The book is written in the third person and based on a series of interviews with Mr Rees, his mother, Jill, and Dr Luc Chikhani, the surgeon who performed miracles in reconstructing Mr Rees's face. Its not an easy thing to forget. He was the romantic partner of Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both were killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. . The death in 1997 of Omar's half-brother Dodi, who was killed in the Paris car crash that also claimed the life of Princess Diana, sparked a forest fire of media glare and attendant conspiracy theories about Diana's death, which still roil the internet. That was the main thing. Camilla, now 35, said: Such a cataclysmic event how could it not change our family? According to the book, emergency services arrived at 12:38 a.m., six minutes after the crash, but it was an hour before Diana was removed from the wreck. The inquest is expected to last up to six months and cost up to 10 million pounds ($20.9 million). He remembers nothing after that." He decided to inject some drugs to reduce the agitation, for her to accept treatment.. A file picture from August 31, 1997 shows the back of the crumpled wreck of the Mercedez-Benz in which Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed died following a crash in a Paris tunnel. He was trying to move and I told him to stay quiet, that it was going to be okay, that people were going to take care of him," he recalled. [18] The second, unveiled in 2005 and titled Innocent Victims, is a 3-metre (10') high bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach, beneath the wings of an albatross. In the summer of 1997, Dodi invited Diana, William and Harry to spend time on his yacht in the south of France. Season five of The Crown introduces viewers to Dodi Al Fayed, who tragically died alongside Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. She must have felt pain. Emergency specialist Jean-Marc Martino said that in the shattered wreck of the smoldering Mercedes limousine, Diana was shouting and saying things in English which were comprehensible but incoherent. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Kelly said they were reportedly engaged when Fayed started dating Princess Diana. "Her eyes were open and she moved, talking to me in a foreign language. REUTERS/Files. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnn Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter. It was supposedly dead for me," he said. As he prepares to give evidence at the High Court today, it is likely to bring back the painful memories of more than 10 years ago. These memories are vague and sometimes I doubt them, but they're coming back. Since St Tropez the couple had been alone in Sardinia, on board the Jonikal, the second of two short breaks they'd taken since returning from France. He also worked for his father on Harrods' marketing. A stepfather and aunt died in a car crash, and his mother, to whom he was. The Playboy was linked to a string of famous women - including rumours he dated actresses Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder and Nancy Sinatra. Dodi paused. He suggested the couple were killed as part of a British establishment plot to prevent her. As soon as they got the couple upstairs, Trevor and Kez came down to try and calm the photographers. Mr Rees answered: "That is not true." As well as confirming that photographers pursuing the car on motorcycles were the first on the scene and were involved in scuffles with the police and public while they took pictures, the book gives verbatim accounts from witnesses. A former dental surgeon turned film-maker, he was watching the rushes of his first feature film when he heard the sound of an accident some time after midnight on August 31 1997. ``Where are they going?'' During those frenetic, absurd and almost ludicrous days before Diana's death, as an unlikely romance did indeed blossom amid the pop pop of paparazzi flash guns in the South of France, he is adamant the couple did not choose the ring in Monte Carlo on August 23, as claimed by Fayed, or in St Tropez the previous night. In 2008, transcripts of phone calls . She later returned to the ship in August without her sons and a photo of the pair kissing made headlines around the world. Tabloid pictures had shown him kissing the Princess of Wales and were causing a global sensation. "I suppose they wanted to move the bodies, that was the reason why these guys wanted to open the car, so I told them that I was a doctor and that before the emergency arrived they did not have to move anybody inside." LONDON (Reuters) - French medics had to restrain and sedate Princess Diana, who became so agitated after her Paris car crash that she tore out a drip, the inquest into her death was told on Monday. In fairness to Fayed, even if he had approved Henri Paul to drive his son and the princess, he could not have known or guessed that Henri Paul had consumed any alcohol, let alone a deadly cocktail of drink and prescription drugs. Scroll down for more {1} He was asked by counsel to the inquest, Ian Burnett QC: "You are aware that there has been a suggestion that Dodi and Diana chose a ring in the Repossi in Monte Carlo on that shore visit on August 23." Princess Di and Dodi, son and heir to Egyptian billionaire and Harrods Department store owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, stunned many with their sudden romance. ", While he was trying to get her out, she turned her head and, according to Dorzee, realized that the driver, Henri Paul, was also dead. In his statement, read to the inquest, he said: "He is an exceptionally strong person who has not suffered from depression or post-traumatic stress since the accident. She later claimed Dodi had dumped her for Princess Diana and tried suing him for $500,000 because she said she had sacrificed her modelling career to marry him. Dodi walked directly up to him, shook hands and chatted. It is the first time that Mr Huth's dramatic testimony has ever been heard in public and is most traumatic account of the aftermath of the tragedy heard so far by the inquest jury. He had been appointed by the Fayed family to protect Diana during their trip to Paris, but . Dodi's father was also the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Htel Ritz Paris. I didn't know who these persons were. After that Trevor Rees-Jones remembers nothing of the car crash, which he is still trying to come to terms with. GETTY IMAGES. I did not know what the fight was really about, even though I thought it was really stupid to take those pictures. He dashed to the rear right door and blocked it for the princess as this breathtaking woman emerged from the back seat still sun tanned from the Cote d'Azur all legs and high heels in a very glamorous, skin tight short blue cocktail dress. As he set out chilled wine and caviar before they left for dinner, Diana changed into skinny white jeans, high heeled black Versace sling back pumps, and a tank-top under a beautifully cut black blazer. [2][3], Fayed was a student at Collge Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. British and French police investigations have concluded that Diana and Dodi died because their. The rest of the time he patrolled the floor. Fayed has persistently propounded what were found to be conspiracy theoriesat the inquest[13][14]and has repeatedly claimed that he believes his son was murdered with Diana. Kelly started dating Dodi Al Fayed in 1996. Her companionDodi Fayedand driver and security guard Henri Paul were also killed in the crash while her bodyguardTrevor Rees-Jonessurvived with horrific injuries. Price tag 130,000. She explained: Does it feel distant, like somebodys elses story? The car was travelling at up to 70mph - twice the speed limit - and Paul was three times over the drink-drive limit. Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. The former paratrooper, formerly known as Rees-Jones, worked with American author Moira Johnston on a book called The Bodyguard's Story, which was published in 2000. The ambulance drove at about 20 mph and had to stop for five minutes because Diana's heart started failing. ``It's Mr Dodi's idea,'' insisted Henri Paul. I saw the two airbags were open. Meanwhile the wooing of Diana had got off to an inauspicious start. 'Was she pregnant?. "I remember I heard precisely the screeching of tyres and then one shock, two seconds after, another shock and a third, stronger shock," he said. DrRichard Shepherd has revealed some of the queries he has received about the people's princess down the years. "As I had emergency lessons in the hospital, I knew that if you move someone that has a broken spine you will kill the person, so I forbidden them to open the door," he recalled. In 1997, he got engaged to American model Kelly Fisher and bought a house in Malibu for themselves using money from his dad. The allegations were largely brought by former Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi. It was such an embarrassingly sterile environment. When she saw her friend was dead, I think she said, "My God.' For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Dodi Al Fayed was killed in car crash with Princess Diana in 1997, Princess Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul were all killed in the horror smash, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Outside the the front entrance the official licensed driver Phillipe Dourneau was waiting in a car as was his superior, the director of Etoile Limousine, in another high performance model. Welcome! The bodyguards said they would have to report this to London but Henri Paul told Kez, ``It's been okayed by Mr Mohamed,'' Kez remains sure of this phrase ``Mr Mohamed'' standing out from the ubiquitous ``the Boss'' of the lads. By the time Henri Paul left the bar, the barman had served the hotel's assistant head of security his second Ricard Pastis. ``I accept the evidence of the post mortem but there was not a single suspicion that he had any drink taken let alone was actually drunk,'' he said. The Royal Family was initially just told Diana had a broken arm, and Charles was even making plans to visit her in hospital after the crash. "They asked me how many people were there and I told them three because I didn't know there was a fourth person in the car. Now Kelly Fisher was threatening to sue for breach of contract. It was 9.50pm as the two car convoy pulled up close to the entrance of the hotel. Footage from the 2007 inquest into her death. Testifying by video link from Paris, Huth said he was in his parents' apartment on the banks of the River Seine early on Aug. 31, 1997, when he heard the sound of a car crash in the Pont d'Alma. "I remember sitting in the car after the crash. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Instead, she was hurtling forward with the weight of one and a half elephants, and the human body is not designed to suffer those forces.. Daniel Eyraud, the surgeon who treated her, said the hemorrhage was discovered only after X-rays. In his subsequent interviews with the French judiciary, whose indecently long investigation concluded drink, drugs and speed caused the crash, he recanted the ``last words'' testimony. But he told the couple's inquest today: "[It was] basically a walk around Monte Carlo, it wasn't a stroll. Enter Mohamed Al Fayed, the controversial Egyptian business tycoon and then-owner of department store Harrods, who extended Diana an invitation to visit his villa in St. Tropez along with her sons . Dodi's hand went up to shield his face the princess looked anguished as she took a running stride towards the door. Princess Diana's death in Paris 24 years ago sparked a wave of conspiracy theories, egged on by the father of her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, who died alongside her. "I saw a broken leg that I remember clearly of a man in blue jeans - I guess with a double fracture under the knee - and a boot, a cowboy boot," he said. It was part of history, something that was attached to my family, still to this day. They divorced eight months later.[7]. An inquest held in London concluded in 2008 that the Princess had been unlawfully killed, blaming the crash on grossly negligent driving by Paul and the pursuing paparazzi. The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of them behind a pyramid-shaped display containing a wine glass still smudged with lipstick from Diana's final dinner, and a ring Fayed purchased the day before they died. ``It was dingy and there was no-one there.'' Its never going to be distant because its obviously affected my family in such a profound way.. Al . She later returned to the ship in August without her sons and a photo of the pair kissing made headlines around the world. Trevor believes that Dodi trusted Henri Paul, just as he trusted Dourneau who would drive the decoy car at the front. Confirmation of Diana's consciousness was given by the first policeman on the scene, Sebastien Dorzee, who complained of being shoved by photographers as he tried to get her out. It came as Diana and Dodi had been sailing the Mediterranean Sea on board a 200ft yacht, owned by Dodi's dad Mohamed Al Fayed. Fayed would later admit to talking to Dodi 15 minutes before he left the Ritz but ``concerning the decision to ask Henri Paul to drive. Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker outlined to the jury in his opening in October that Mr Rees contends that Dodi had insisted on the plan while he "strongly advised" against it. As Trevor went downstairs to find Henri Paul, Kez was alone with Diana and Dodi and gave it one last try. Now, as he arrived alongside the yacht, he spotted her on the rear deck. As the two men waited outside the suite Henri Paul arrived (stinking of cigars, Kez noted) and told Trevor and Kez that the plan had been changed. Inside the car, it was like a freeze frame in the movies. Before this tragic end, he was launched into the spotlight in the summer of 1997 when he started dating Diana. He also examined the drowned bodies after the Marchioness tragedy in which a Thames pleasure boat sank with the loss of 51 lives in 1989. Dodis father, Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed, says Diana and his son were killed by British security services acting on the orders of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeths husband and Dianas former father-in-law. For other inquiries, Contact Us. The inquest jury was reminded by Mr Burnett that Dr Lipsedge has said the former bodyguard's memories about the crash ended when the car left the Ritz and any recollections after this could be false memories. The car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel. They had no idea of the ultimate plan, if there was one, about how to evacuate Dodi and Diana away from the hotel, now besieged by photographers. The couple did indeed visit the Repossi store some three weeks earlier on August 5, but that visit does not serve Fayed's theory as it was too early in the fledgling romance to be even notionally convincing as the date they might have ordered an engagement ring. ``What was Dodi bloody doing?'' I remember hearing somebody moaning and the name Dodi being muttered but I don't know if it was once or several times. He said: People asked: 'Was she beautiful?' ``There are a couple of photographers at the back, but not many.'' ``You never told us where we were going. Dr Shepherd was the pathologist who carried out post mortem examinations when 35 were killed in the Clapham rail disaster in 1988. ``They did what we asked.''. Under British law, an inquest is needed to determine the cause of death. He was taken, along with the Princess, to La Pitie Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and in the following weeks, underwent extensive reconstructive facial surgery. DODI Al Fayed's life was cut tragically short when the car he was travelling in with his lover Princess Diana crashed in Paris, killing both of them. He admitted that he could not identify this man, however. Speaking to The Times magazine, Camilla Fayed, who was 12 when the tragic event took place in Paris on August 31, 1997, said it is impossible to move on. Neither was wearing a seat belt. Getty Princess Diana died following a car crash in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997. '', They were followed by journalists but Trevor had asked them not to take any photos during the journey, especially at traffic lights and junctions. She put on gold earrings and a pearl bracelet Dodi had given her. Mr Rees was present throughout the day before the tragedy and is seen in CCTV accompanying Dodi to the Repossi jewellers where Mr Al Fayed believes an "engagement" ring was bought for Diana. Shortly after midnight, a Mercedes-Benz left the Ritz hotel in Paris carrying the princess and her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, an Egyptian film producer . Speaking in 2000, Mr Chikhani said: "I have never seen so many fractures on a man who was still alive." Trevor shot back to Henri Paul, ``No f****** chance is he leaving without a bodyguard no way in a million years it's going without me. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. I'll be coming with you if we go with this.'' Mohamed Al-Fayed came from a poor Egyptian background, but he always dreamed big.
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