She died from internal bleeding at 4:53 a.m. on August 31, 1997. [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. The bodyguards said they would have to report this to London but Henri Paul told Kez, ``It's been okayed by Mr Mohamed,'' Kez remains sure of this phrase ``Mr Mohamed'' standing out from the ubiquitous ``the Boss'' of the lads. [13][14] Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has said that the couple "were executed by MI6 agents". Mr Rees accompanied the couple ashore during a stop-off while cruising on Mohamed Al Fayed's yacht, the Jonikal, at Monte Carlo on August 23. 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. If anyone said that was a complete shambles I would totally agree with them. Dodi died almost instantly at the scene of the crash and his body was flown to Britain, for a funeral service in line with Muslim customs. [18] The second, unveiled in 2005 and titled Innocent Victims, is a 3-metre (10') high bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach, beneath the wings of an albatross. It is the first time that Mr Huth's dramatic testimony has ever been heard in public and is most traumatic account of the aftermath of the tragedy heard so far by the inquest jury. 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. He told her in English that a doctor was on the way and then went to help Rees-Jones in the front seat. I'll see you back at the apartment.'' A symbol of kindness and humanity, and a mother of two, Princess Diana was only 36 years old when she died. He has also written another book on this topic which is "not supportive" of Mr Al Fayed's claims, Mr Burnett said. Egyptian-born Dodi was from Mohamed Al Fayeds first marriage, to Samira Khashoggi, with Camilla being one of his four children with Finnish model and actress Heini Wathen. The inquest is expected to last up to six months and cost up to 10 million pounds ($20.9 million). Later Trevor got a call saying the couple would be going back to the apartment in the narrow Rue Arsene Houssaye, just off the Champs-Elysees, to dress for dinner. Mr Ronssin told him there had been an accident in the tunnel so Mr Huth ran down to offer his assistance, arriving just two to three minutes after the Mercedes crashed. Again Trevor and Kez followed in the Range Rover while the Mercedes with Dodi and Diana was surrounded by scooters and motorbikes. Why didn't you have the reception arranged?'' I concluded it was Princess Diana. (Photo / Getty) Top UK forensic pathologist Richard Shepherd, who gave evidence in a major inquiry into Princess Diana's death, has revealed the incredibly rare injury that claimed her life after. Dodi walked directly up to him, shook hands and chatted. 4:47 PM. [8][9] Fisher subsequently said Fayed jilted her for Diana and announced that she was filing a breach of contract suit against him, saying he had "led her emotionally all the way up to the altar and abandoned her when they were almost there," and that he "threw her love away in a callous way with no regard for her whatsoever". 3-min read Dodi Fayed's ex-girlfriend is still haunted by the death of Princess Diana. Dr Shepherd was a Home Office pathologist when he was called on to carry out the autopsy on Diana, one of the 23,000 or so he has performed in his career. The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of them behind a pyramid-shaped display containing a wine glass still smudged with lipstick from Diana's final dinner, and a ring Fayed purchased the day before they died. I didn't know until the end. He had his jaw hanging off. 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. 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. And Trevor Rees-Jones is adamant they died because their driver was drunk and drugged. "Before I became a film maker I was a dentist/doctor specialising in surgery, so I went into the tunnel to see if I could help," he said. He (Dodi) wants me to drive. Now for a club sandwich. After that Trevor Rees-Jones remembers nothing of the car crash, which he is still trying to come to terms with. "She became irritated," he added. His head was in the front of the car and I could not see his legs." He added: "I got close enough to speak to the bodyguard - I know now it was the bodyguard - that was still alive, but not close enough to see that there was another person in the car, under the seat." It was such an embarrassingly sterile environment. But on top of all that, we were never allowed to grieve in private. Dr Shepherd also maintains she would have walked away on the fateful night and been alive to see the her sons Harry and William get married had she worn her seat belt. ``We'll be leaving from the back of the hotel with just one car. Driver Henri Paul was also killed in the crash. The princess's chest had been compressed in the crash, damaging both her right lung and her heart. Rumorsmostly from Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayedwere circulating that Diana was. 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. It turned into more of a steady walk rather than window shopping." She may not have been a rocket scientist, but then neither am I. 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. 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. Scroll down for more {2} {R} "When I approached the car [there was] smoke and the sound of the horn and I saw the two airbags were open. British and French police investigations have concluded that Diana and Dodi died because their. Mr Huth said he tried to calm the princess's. "Her eyes were open and she moved, talking to me in a foreign language. Former bodyguard Trevor Rees said yesterday that he remembered little else of the doomed journey and denied that he was part of a murder conspiracy. 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. I didn't know who these persons were. 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. He split his time between theKhashoggi homes in Paris, the Riviera, Cairo and his father's home in Alexandria, Egypt. 22:21 GMT 23 Jan 2008. Although he was off duty he had returned to the hotel of his own initiative. Flashbulbs started popping as photographers who had learned of the rendezvous spotted the car. I always made sure I never said anything in all the cases of public interest I was involved with that hadn't already appeared in the press. Accounts of her last four hours published Thursday include details of the desperate attempts by doctors to save her life when it was discovered that she was dying from an internal hemorrhage, although she had only one visible injury _ a cut on her forehead. She later returned to the ship in August without her sons and a photo of the pair kissing made headlines around the world. These were nice conversations.''. It may even have been the Ford Ka driven by another eyewitness, Francois Levistre, who stopped briefly after the accident but did not get out of his car and eventually fled the scene. Trevor argued it was safe to leave by the front but Dodi insisted the party should leave from the back with one car only. Footage from the 2007 inquest into her death. "This man was in the middle of the car, probably his head was in the front. Scroll down for more {9} It is the evidence of another former Fayed security man Ben Murrell that Mr Rees telephoned him that night to say that Mr Paul was drinking and he thought it was unprofessional. The princess was shaken, Dodi angry. "It led to a . Mr Al Fayed believes that Mr Murrell was also turned against him by the security services, the jury has heard. "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." Mother and sons would never meet again. 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. Suddenly, for Trevor at least, the action stopped on August 15. The second, unveiled in 2005 and titled Innocent Victims, is a 3-metre (10') high bronze statue of . By the time Henri Paul left the bar, the barman had served the hotel's assistant head of security his second Ricard Pastis. Mohamed Al-Fayed believed that the deaths of Dodi and Diana were murdered by the British establishment as part of an anti-Muslim conspiracy, because of objections to the couple's relationship. Sat 10 Jan 2009 19.01 EST. The psychiatrist explained: "In view of the time that has elapsed, the chances of him recovering his memory are very slight." Trevor cringes at the recollection. Trevor Rees-Jones told Weekend Review this week that he still cannot fathom how Henri Paul could be three times over the legal limit and yet Rees-Jones didn't notice he had drink taken. Trevor believes that Dodi trusted Henri Paul, just as he trusted Dourneau who would drive the decoy car at the front. , updated I couldn't go knocking on their apartment door saying, `hey, where are we going tonight?' 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. 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. Mr Rees replied: "I am aware that has been said, sir, yes." Diana died on August 31, 1997, after suffering fatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. Earlier that summer, he was engaged to an American model, Kelly Fisher, and bought a house in Malibu, California, for himself and Fisher with money from his father. I told them that I thought one was alive and described the accident," he said. Actors Khalid Abdalla and Salim Daw as Dodi Fayed and Mohamed Al Fayed in Netflix's royal drama, 'The Crown,' 2022. An inquest held in London concluded in 2008 that the Princess had been unlawfully killed, blaming the crash on grossly negligent driving by Paul and the pursuing paparazzi. The following night Diana arrived by Mercedes with no security except her driver. The lovers spent time in the South of France and Sardinia before flying to Paris where they later died. which listed the cause of death as internal hemorrhaging due to a major chest trauma and a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left pulmonary vein. Mr Rees replied: "He had no part at all.". Dr. Richard Shepherd is the top forensic pathologist in the UK, and he investigated the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He also claimed that, after the crash, he felt himself coming under pressure to "contain" Mr Rees's family to prevent them speaking out against the Fayed interests. ``It was dingy and there was no-one there.'' The sole survivor of the crash which claimed the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed, has finally decided to speak. 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. 13:35 GMT 16 Oct 2007 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. "A few seconds afterward she looked at me and then closed her eyes.". I've got this hanging over me for the rest of my life. In fairness to Fayed, even if he had approved Henri Paul to drive his son and the princess, he could not have known or guessed that Henri Paul had consumed any alcohol, let alone a deadly cocktail of drink and prescription drugs. As well as confirming that photographers pursuing the car on motorcycles were the first on the scene and were involved in scuffles with the police and public while they took pictures, the book gives verbatim accounts from witnesses. Det finns heller inga vittnesml som sger att det motorn var igng efter kraschen. 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. ``It's just a 10 minute drive. Mr Murrell, who gave evidence by video link last week, is being recalled today and is listed to appear before Mr Rees. The bodyguards did not know that Dodi had called the hotel's night manager to tell him of the earlier mess with the paparazzi. There were cameras everywhere, with a crowd of several hundred jostling at the entrance. Dodi Fayed, Diana's boyfriend and the son of an Egyptian billionaire, was also a victim of the car crash. She explained: Does it feel distant, like somebodys elses story? At 10.01pm the two bodyguards hustled the pair up to the grand staircase to the door of the Imperial suite. The events of that evening changed the bodyguard's life forever, and saw him become one of the most recognised names associated with the Princess, as he struggled to come to terms with what had happened. Investigations by French and British police concluded that their chauffeur, Henri Paul, was driving under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs; paparazzi chasing the couple are also believed to have contributed to the accident. He is (a) a father grieving for his son; (b) a world-class social climber robbed of ultimate legitimacy by a cruel fate; (c) a passionate whistleblower exposing an . '', They were followed by journalists but Trevor had asked them not to take any photos during the journey, especially at traffic lights and junctions. [1] After completing his education, he was an attach at the United Arab Emirates Embassy in London. 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. This ring was the ``proof'' that the ill-starred couple were victims of a conspiracy at the highest echelons of the British establishment and assassinated with the connivance of the secret service. He suggested the couple were killed as part of a British establishment plot to prevent her. Sign Up. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. "Even though the tunnel was tricky, it was the first time I really heard screeching from a car coming fast inside the tunnel." Diana and Dodi Fayed died in Paris in the early hours of August 31, . 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. I realised he had professional materials." 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. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368 . Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker outlined to the jury in his opening in October that Mr Rees contends that Dodi had insisted on the plan while he "strongly advised" against it. For Trevor ``this was the final straw''. ven Dodi Al Fayed dog omedelbart vid kraschen och han hade inga frhjda kolmonoxidniver i blodet. Enter email address Getty Princess Diana died following a car crash in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997. It was not made clear whether this was the mystery white Fiat Uno believed to have collided with the Mercedes shortly before it crashed that police have been unable to trace. In 2004, it was reported that he was working as a security expert in war-torn Iraq. So why had Dodi chosen Henri Paul to drive? In Paris on Saturday August 30, two vehicles a Mercedes and a Range Rover waited at the airport with their drivers. "The princess had turned round in relation to her initial sitting position and her head was between the two seats and she could see her friend in front of her," Dorzee said. 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. James Huth said he was unable to see the princess because she was trapped so low in the car's footwell and was obscured by Dodi Al Fayed's body. Dodi paused. I saw the two airbags were open. Instead, she was hurtling forward with the weight of one and a half elephants, and the human body is not designed to suffer those forces.. Fayed would later admit to talking to Dodi 15 minutes before he left the Ritz but ``concerning the decision to ask Henri Paul to drive. ``The fact is that I was paid to look after Dodi and his guest, and they died on my shift. 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. [10] She dropped the lawsuit shortly after Fayed's death.[11]. "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. According to her memoir Babylon Confidential, Claudia Christian had an on-again, off-again romance with Fayed. Then he slipped in lightly, ``So, it's straight back then. "When I approached the car [there was] smoke and the sound of the klaxon - sorry, horn. The BBC reports he was the son of an impoverished schoolteacher and . He broke every bone in his face and suffered serious chest injuries. Now, their relationship has taken. Born April 15, 1955 Died August 31, 1997 (42) Add to list Known for Chariots of Fire 7.1 Producer 1981 Wednesday, 18 January 2023 | -0.3C Dublin, Menu Sections. "This guy was panicking on the right. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. Among them was a pedestrian who was the first to open the car door and see the princess on the floor and sobbing, "My God, my God.". He was at an angle as he had been thrown in the front of the car. Dodi's hand went up to shield his face the princess looked anguished as she took a running stride towards the door. 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