The Truth About Princess Diana's Relationship With Dodi Fayed

March 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Dodi Fayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, to a life of wealth, privilege, and private schools, as Town & Country says. His father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, was the owner of Harrods luxury department store in London and the Ritz Hotel, the place where Diana and Dodi departed from on the night of their deaths. Dodi was a known playboy who dated model Suzanne Gregard, actress Cathy-Lee Crosby, and was rumored to have dated Brooke Shields, Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, and Nancy Sinatra. According to The Guardian, he once remarked to a friend, "When am I going to meet a woman so famous she will get my face on the cover of People magazine?"

By all accounts, Diana and Dodi met in 1986 at a polo match when she was still married to Prince Charles when Charles and Dodi were on opposite teams. The following year in 1997, Dodi invited Diana, Prince William, and Prince Henry to his yacht in the south of France. At the time, per BBC, Diana had been dating surgeon Hasnat Khan. Khan states that after Diana visited Dodi on his yacht, she broke off her two-year relationship with Khan. Sometime that August, as She Knows shows, a photograph circulated around the world, of Diana and Dodi kissing while wearing swimsuits on Dodi's yacht. Less than a month later, they were both dead.

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