She put on gold earrings and a pearl bracelet Dodi had given her. They registered her death at 4 a.m. Motorcyclist killed in Pasco County crash, Pasco motorcyclist: I couldnt live with myself knowing what I had done, Palm Harbor delicatessen collects hundreds of bikes for underprivileged kids, Florida adds 6,659 coronavirus cases, 98 deaths Monday, Florida adds 7,363 coronavirus cases, 59 deaths Sunday, Two lanes reopen on southbound I-275 after fatal wrong-way crash, Bicyclist killed while pedaling in wrong direction, St. Petersburg police say, Armed robbery suspects arrested after three-county chase, two cruiser crashes, In Ivory Coast's fields, laborers are slaves. 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. Its never going to be distant because its obviously affected my family in such a profound way.. Mr Burnett asked: "It has also been alleged by Mr Al Fayed that the book was written either by or at the behest of the security services, in particular MI6. 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. According to her memoir Babylon Confidential, Claudia Christian had an on-again, off-again romance with Fayed. The ambulance drove at about 20 mph and had to stop for five minutes because Diana's heart started failing. '', But that wasn't Trevor's only concern. The couple didn't move. I saw the two airbags were open. Princess Diana's cause of death was officially a severed pulmonary vein. The two met in Paris in July 1996. Actors Khalid Abdalla and Salim Daw as Dodi Fayed and Mohamed Al Fayed in Netflix's royal drama, 'The Crown,' 2022. He joined Trevor and Kez who presumed he was on duty. She was pronounced dead in the hospital at 4 AM. Mr Rees replied: "No sir, it didn't. The pair had first met at a 1986 polo match in Windsor while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, although nothing came from the exchange. "Her eyes were open and she moved, talking to me in a foreign language. [12] The only survivor of the crash was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was seriously injured but remained conscious. Another of Mr Al Fayed's suspicions is that the book was penned by journalist Martin Gregory. The oldest son of former Harrods owner and billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955. "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. ``I'd just had it. Not to a nightclub?'' After learning of Dodi's romance with Diana, Kelly phoned her ex to vent her fury. Just a few seconds before 10.08pm Henri Paul came through the revolving doors of the Ritz in suit and tie, a jovial smile on his face and a cigar between the fingers of his left hand. No action. But the bodyguard who nearly died with them in the Paris crash on that August night in 1997 the sole survivor plucked from the wrecked, tangled Mercedes says the Diana/Dodi engagement is a myth. 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. 13:35 GMT 16 Oct 2007 The lawsuit was later dropped out of respect for Dodi's family after he and Diana died in the car crash. On August 6, Trevor returned to work after 10 days leave to find the man he had once anonymously drove around London was now a worldwide celebrity because of his burgeoning romance with Diana. The next job would be to get the couple back to the apartment after dinner if that is what Dodi decided to do. The driver and Fayed died at the scene, but the People's Princess was not yet dead. "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." 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. Rees was haunted by the guilt of his survival and would wake suddenly in the night as memories of that fateful night ran through his mind. THE sister of Dodi Fayed has spoken about the fateful night her brother died in the car crash with Princess Diana and said it has changed their family forever. Ren the butler had laid out Dodi's clothes: a casual brown suede jacket, blue jeans, a fine checked grey shirt and cowboy boots. 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. 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. Dodi Fayed, as he is more commonly . The car was travelling at up to 70mph - twice the speed limit - and Paul was three times over the drink-drive limit. ', News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. The princess was shaken, Dodi angry. Again Trevor and Kez followed in the Range Rover while the Mercedes with Dodi and Diana was surrounded by scooters and motorbikes. The princess flew to Greece for a long planned break with her good friend Rosa Monckton. Diana Princes of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed arriving back at the Ritz Hotel in Paris for the final time. In that newspaper interview he spoke of the ``last words of Diana'' in which she called out for Dodi with her dying breaths. The tough cross-examination he underwent from some of the lawyers is thought to have deterred other paparazzi from giving evidence and to have worried French authorities. Cause of death: Traffic collision: Resting place: Fayed Estate, Oxted . Mr Huth said he tried to calm the princess's. Princess Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul were all killed in the horror smash but bodyguardTrevor Rees-Jones survived. Among areas he is likely to give evidence on will be the crucial question of the doomed plan for Mr Paul - who was not a chauffeur - to drive the couple that night as part of a ruse to evade the paparazzi. By this time, he said, paramedics had begun to arrive so he walked back out of the tunnel and returned the mobile phone he had borrowed. ``But two cars are best '' Dodi then invoked the magic words, ``It's been okayed by my father.''. But he told the couple's inquest today: "[It was] basically a walk around Monte Carlo, it wasn't a stroll. The two other cars will leave from the front to divert the paparazzi. However, her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived. REUTERS/Files. Dr. Richard Shepherd is the top forensic pathologist in the UK, and he investigated the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Camilla said that Netflixs The Crown has made Dodis death a subject again, as the latest season featured Princess Diana joining the royal family for the first time. Top 5,000 958 Dodi Fayed was born on 15 April 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt. By 3 a.m. her heart was kept pumping only by the injection of adrenaline and several electric. From . It also proves that events were totally out of control from the moment the most famous woman in the world entered the Fayed circle and that the drunken, drugged up driver Henri Paul was merely the final deadly piece of a chaotic jigsaw. Kez chatted with the couple. His head was in the front of the car and I could not see his legs." They danced a bit in this ``empty tacky little place''. ``How the f*** did this fiasco happen? If you had we would have been able to phone ahead and get it sorted out,'' snapped Kes. 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. "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. Mr Rees took the stand at the central London inquests into the deaths of Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed, still bearing scars on his face from the August 1997 crash in Paris. [6], Through his family's production company, Allied Stars, Fayed was an executive producer of the films Chariots of Fire, Breaking Glass, F/X, F/X2, Hook, and The Scarlet Letter, and an executive creative consultant for F/X: The Series. [4][5] He also briefly attended Sandhurst. He also carried out the post-mortems on young mother Rachel Nickell, murdered on Wimbledon Common in 1992, and Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death in a racial attack a year later. 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. Jerome Reilly listens to The Bodyguard's Story. On 31 August 1997, Princess Diana, Dodi and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a crash in the city's Pont de l'Alma tunnel after leaving the Ritz Hotel. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. At the inquest into Diana's death, accident investigator Anthony Read said he could "almost guarantee" the couple would have survived had they been strapped in and the car travelling with in the speed limit. "A few seconds afterward she looked at me and then closed her eyes.". Was she one of those?. "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." In the Mercedes a decision was made not to go out to dinner and Trevor got a call to say they were heading for the Ritz. Diana and Dodi Fayed died in Paris in the early hours of August 31, . Diana died on August 31, 1997, after sufferingfatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. Clickheretouploadyours. Is that true? After that Trevor Rees-Jones remembers nothing of the car crash, which he is still trying to come to terms with. Had she been strapped in she would have walked away with a black eye or maybe a broken arm, but nothing more. I do not remember if the motorbikes followed us, but I do know that journalists were following us.'' Fayed took these dreamy meanderings as gospel testimony because they suited his own theories of a deep love and betrothal between his son and the princess and a deadly plot to stop it in its tracks. It was then that Mr Huth moved in closer to assess the state of the other victims and saw the body of Dodi Fayed, who had been captured on CCTV cameras just minutes earlier tenderly cuddling with Diana at the Ritz Hotel. "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. The first thing he saw, he said, was the smoking wreckage of the car in the middle of the road. ", 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. She later returned to the ship in August without her sons and a photo of the pair kissing made headlines around the world. "It's a subjective analysis, but most of the accidents that I've seen were on the other side of the tunnel with cars coming out of the tunnel. 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. "Even though the tunnel was tricky, it was the first time I really heard screeching from a car coming fast inside the tunnel." Dodi gave orders for the driver to put the foot down and they lost the photographers before they arrived at the Ritz. 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