Their relationship had been made public shortly before his death. Princess Lady Diana was in fact in a relationship with Dodi Al Fayed, the son of multimillionaire Mohamed Al Fayed. Diana and Dodi first met during a polo match sponsored by Harrods in 1986.
The princess’s former butler, Paul Burrell, made serious revelations about his father in the columns
du stores Sun. The latter would have in fact declared that Mohamed Al Fayed would have told the princess : “I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father comes first”, before telling him: “I’m going to sleep with you.”
The nickname Lady Diana gave to her ex-father-in-law
The former butler indeed declared to the Sun
: “I was in the car when she ran out of her office shaking and told me, and these are her exact words, that he said, ‘I want you to marry my son because in the Egyptian tradition, the father comes first.” He said, “I’ll have sex with you.” She then said, shocked, “Can you imagine having sex with Yoda?” he told the magazine.
The latter also said that Lady Diana was disgusted by this idea and that she had the feeling that he had “prepared the ground for this meeting”. And this idea that he believed he would actually sleep with the royal troubled her throughout her relationship with her son, Dodi. His ex-father-in-law then did everything to make up for it, sending him Harrods vans full of gadgets to Kensington Palace. But Lady Diana returned them.
The sexual accusations of which Mohamed Al Fayed is accused
Scotland Yard delivered last week that
Mohamed Al Fayed was accused of rape and sexual assault by 19 different women while he was alive. The victims came forward to police between 2005 and 2023, but the accused was never charged before his death aged 94 last year.
The attacks of which he was accused would have taken place between 1979 and 2013.
Of the complaints, three of them concerned allegations of rape, 15 of sexual assault and one related to trafficking. This Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement: “To date, we have identified 19 allegations which resulted in the recording of crimes involving Al Fayed relating to 19 separate women who were reported to the Metropolitan Police between 2005 and 2023.”