Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose son Dodi was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana, died at the age of 94 on Wednesday August 30, a day before the anniversary of the deaths of Dodi and Diana.
The Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed died on Wednesday August 30, of old age, at the age of 94, his family said in a statement. The businessman died a day before the anniversary of the death of his son Dodi and Princess Diana. It was on August 31, 1997 that the couple lost their lives in a road accident in Paris.
In the 1990s, Mohamed Al-Fayed was one of the richest people in the world, with an impressive list of businesses to its credit and lavish mansions. Owner of London’s Harrods luxury department store, he was also very involved in charitieswhich brought him into the same circles as the British royal family, and therefore Princess Diana. Their unlikely friendship appears in large part in season 5 of The Crownwhere we Mohammed Al-Fayed getting closer to the royal family and the mother of princes William and Harry.
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The Al-Fayed family and Diana close for years
Michael Cole, director of public affairs at Harrods, had revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair in 1995 that Mohamed Al-Fayed and Princess Diana got along “Alright”. Camilla Fayed, the businessman’s daughter, confided in Katie Nicholl for her book William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls released in 2010: “We were all really close – it’s just that no one really knew about our friendship.” Mohamed Al-Fayed’s eldest son, Dodi, was friends with the ex-wife of now King Charles III for a decade, before their romance only blossomed during summer vacation in 1997 in the south of France. The photos of the two lovers snuggling up to each other and kissing on the top deck of the billionaire’s yacht went viral at the time. The accident that claimed their lives a few weeks later devastated Mohamed Al-Fayed, who spent the rest of his life mourning their loss. An unspeakable loss for him, so much so that he believed for a long time that the lovers had been murdered. He ended up coming to terms with the facts and finally accepting that it was just a terrible accident.