Diana and Fayed, who arrived in Paris after a 10-day getaway on the French Riviera, got into Paul's car a few minutes after. [10] She dropped the lawsuit shortly after Fayed's death.[11]. On August 31, 1997, at 12:25 a.m., a Mercedes bearing Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, their driver and bodyguard crashed into a concrete pillar in the Alma tunnel. 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. The same year, it was announced that he was to take up a job at a district security office for the United Nations in East Timor. Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. The princess was shaken, Dodi angry. By the time Dodi moved cameras were all over the car. Camilla added that their father, Mohamed Al Fayed, who was at the time the owner of Harrods, Fulham Football Club and the Ritz Paris, has had a weight around him since the tragedy. Mr Al Fayed believes that Mr Murrell was also turned against him by the security services, the jury has heard. I remember hearing somebody moaning and the name Dodi being muttered but I don't know if it was once or several times. 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. 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. He again saw the white or light coloured car that ``crossed the road and followed us. "I remember I. The ex-soldier, originally from Oswestry, Shropshire, acrimoniously split from his former employer in April 1998, issuing only a brief statement that he wished to "move forward" with his life. Mohamed reportedly spends 300 days a year sitting beside his sons body for hours at his lavish mausoleum in the grounds of his mansion in Surrey. 22:21 GMT 23 Jan 2008. CCTV evidence shows that he and fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield were in the bar of the Ritz with the security chief on the night of August 30-31. [19], The memorials were designed by 80-year-old Bill Mitchell, a close friend of Dodi's father and architect for Harrods for more than 40 years. Things were heating up when she decided to . The two other cars will leave from the front to divert the paparazzi. He decided to inject some drugs to reduce the agitation, for her to accept treatment.. View our online Press Pack. This was the ring that ``proved'' the engagement of Diana and Dodi. According to a new book, when the emergency workers arrived they gave priority to her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, who appeared to be more seriously injured. 3-min read Dodi Fayed's ex-girlfriend is still haunted by the death of Princess Diana. He split his time between theKhashoggi homes in Paris, the Riviera, Cairo and his father's home in Alexandria, Egypt. 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. 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. 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. Under British law, an inquest is needed to determine the cause of death. He told her in English that a doctor was on the way and then went to help Rees-Jones in the front seat. [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. He was the half-brother of Omar Fayed, Camilla, Karim, and Jasmine Fayed. But he told the couple's inquest today: "[It was] basically a walk around Monte Carlo, it wasn't a stroll. Through the smoke pouring out from under the car bonnet, Mr Huth said he also could make out the body of Dodi Fayed, wearing blue jeans and cowboy boots, slumped between the front seats of the mangled Mercedes. Citat: 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. He recalls mentioning this to Dodi and the princess. To counteract the growing tension, Trevor put the couple in the Mercedes with Phillippe at the wheel, while he and his colleague Kez Wingfield followed in the Range Rover. One time we talked about the film Men in Black which she'd taken the boys to see. 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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. Rees-Jones was the sole survivor of the crash that killed Diana, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Camilla, now 35, said: Such a cataclysmic event how could it not change our family? 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. Eventually, surgeons realized that her heart had given out. Mr Rees answered: "That is not true." He was answering a question in which Ian Burnett QC, for the coroner, outlined Mohamed Al Fayed's controversial claim that Diana was murdered. 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. 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 security lads at the villa joked as the holiday progressed. In evidence given to the London court probing the 1997 deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed, doctors also said the nature of her injuries indicated her heart had been thrown forward violently in the crash, tearing a key blood vessel. [2][3], Fayed was a student at Collge Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. "I tried to calm them down and said we didn't need two persons to be fighting now on the place of an accident," he said. 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. 08:43 GMT 23 Jan 2008 . The car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel. This happened because Rees-Jones, constantly badgered by the huge personality that is Mohamed Al Fayed, had recollected a dream to the man who paid his wages in which there were snatches of conservation in the seconds after the crash. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 - 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from Elizabeth's accession as queen on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in history. For this 10 day holiday she and the two princes, William and Harry, would be based at Castle St-Therese, the family's cliffside estate at St Tropez, a heavily secured compound with more than a dozen security personnel and snarling guard dogs. The princess's chest had been compressed in the crash, damaging both her right lung and her heart. It . All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Mr Burnett asked: "And did that happen?" The driver unfortunately had his head inside and it was not moving. [16], Fayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was re-interred on the grounds of the Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey in October 1997. Then he slipped in lightly, ``So, it's straight back then. 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. I'm with three people now (Dodi, Diana and Fayed's wife Mrs Heini) on my own. It could be about anything. Kez chatted with the couple. This field is required The claims were made by the worker to journalist Paul McMullan in 1997, just weeks before both Diana and Dodi died in a tragic car crash in Paris. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. At 1:30 a.m. it was decided to take her to the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital. 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. Trevor's clearest and last memories of the night are the Mercedes pulling away. His experience also includes working on the terror attacks on 9/11, in Bali in 2002 and the London 7/7 bombings in 2005. At traffic lights in the Place de la Concorde he saw a motorcycle pull up on the right-hand side of the car and flashes from a camera. Sat 10 Jan 2009 19.01 EST. "This man was in the middle of the car, probably his head was in the front. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Henri Paul was a security man not a chauffeur. 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There were cameras everywhere, with a crowd of several hundred jostling at the entrance. [4][5] He also briefly attended Sandhurst. A stepfather and aunt died in a car crash, and his mother, to whom he was. She must have felt pain. He changed his name back to Rees after divorcing his first wife, and, in 2002, he announced his intention to marry teacher Ann Scott. Trevor asked Ren again and again, while the two were dressing, desperately trying to find out what their evening plans were. 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. 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