Scroll down for more {4} "It might be the person, but I cannot be sure," he replied. Princess Diana's cause of death was officially a severed pulmonary vein. Her death prompted an unprecedented. One time we talked about the film Men in Black which she'd taken the boys to see. ``We'll be leaving from the back of the hotel with just one car. THE pathologist who examined Princess Diana's body has revealed some of the burning questions he is often asked about her death. Its never going to be distant because its obviously affected my family in such a profound way.. Dodi relented on the bodyguard question Trevor would go with them but still insisted on one car only. I'll see you back at the apartment.'' Emergency specialist Jean-Marc Martino said that in the shattered wreck of the smoldering Mercedes limousine, Diana was shouting and saying things in English which were comprehensible but incoherent. The inquest jury was told that Mr Al Fayed had written in February 2006 to Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, who produced the Paget report into the fatal Paris crash. They had no idea of the ultimate plan, if there was one, about how to evacuate Dodi and Diana away from the hotel, now besieged by photographers. In his subsequent interviews with the French judiciary, whose indecently long investigation concluded drink, drugs and speed caused the crash, he recanted the ``last words'' testimony. 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. After the tension of the trip Dodi was trusting an ever smaller band of people. ``They did what we asked.''. From . Daniel Eyraud, the surgeon who treated her, said the hemorrhage was discovered only after X-rays. I'll be coming with you if we go with this.'' In a book excerpted by the Daily Mail Sunday, Shepherd shared his . It was such an embarrassingly sterile environment. Dodi attended schools in Paris, the exclusive Le Rosey in Switzerland and had a brief stint at Sandhurst military academy, which Princes William and Harry also attended. I didn't know until the end. At 1:30 a.m. it was decided to take her to the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital. Her companionDodi Fayedand driver and security guard Henri Paul were also killed in the crash while her bodyguardTrevor Rees-Jonessurvived with horrific injuries. 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. By 3 a.m. her heart was kept pumping only by the injection of adrenaline and several electric shocks. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. Now, as he arrived alongside the yacht, he spotted her on the rear deck. The pair had first met at a 1986 polo match in Windsor while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, although nothing came from the exchange. The mob was waiting and Trevor raced to the car's rear door and opened it, ready to block for the couple as they pushed through the revolving doors and inside. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Dodi had been dating Princess Diana, who was 36 at the time, for a few months when the crash took place in a road tunnel in France. Citat: For my dad, like any parent losing a child, it was horrific and, as it is for any family that experiences loss, it was heartbreaking. 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. 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. I don't remember the pain, but in my head there was a lot of confusion. Scroll down for more {3} "This guy was panicking on the right [of the car]. 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. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Clickheretouploadyours. ``He didn't click with me as a person. He suggested the couple were killed as part of a British establishment plot to prevent her. The crash happened at around 23 minutes past midnight in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris while the driver was fleeing the paparazzi who were pursuing the princess. Stephane Darmon, a motorcyclist who drove photographer Romuald Rat around Paris searching for an exclusive shot of the worlds most photographed woman, appeared before the London court voluntarily earlier this month by videolink from Paris. The paparazzi, who had been waiting outside Dodi's apartment, surrounded the entrance door as the Mercedes nosed into the street. [5] He was the first cousin of the late Washington Post Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018. Diana and Dodi had first met at a 1986 polo match in Windsor while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, although nothing came from the exchange. "Her eyes were open and she moved, talking to me in a foreign language. However, his evidence is expected to concentrate on the events leading up to the crash. Fayed took these dreamy meanderings as gospel testimony because they suited his own theories of a deep love and betrothal between his son and the princess and a deadly plot to stop it in its tracks. Trevor Rees-Jones is aware that the rather gaudy chunk of gold and precious stones exists, but insists that Dodi and Diana didn't buy it. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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. Mr Burnett said: "What is being suggested by Mohamed Al Fayed is that you are part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth that his son, the Princess of Wales and Henri Paul were murdered by the British security services, MI6, call them what you will." He married model Suzanne Gregard in 1986 but they divorced after just eight months together. The court heard that the film-maker then went outside and borrowed a mobile telephone from a passer-by in order to call the emergency services. It came as Diana and Dodi had been sailing the Mediterranean Sea on board a 200ft yacht, owned by Dodi's dad Mohamed Al Fayed. Is that true? At the same time she rubbed her stomach. 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. This field is required Mohamed Al-Fayed came from a poor Egyptian background, but he always dreamed big. The former paratrooper, formerly known as Rees-Jones, worked with American author Moira Johnston on a book called The Bodyguard's Story, which was published in 2000. 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. Dodi Fayed was a 42-year-old man/child with a lavish monthly allowanceby most accounts $100,000. Trevor argued it was safe to leave by the front but Dodi insisted the party should leave from the back with one car only. 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Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed , better known as Dodi Fayed , was an Egyptian film producer and the son of billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed. To this day, Rees remains a largely private figure, who appears reluctant to talk about his experiences. "When you say you have lost your memory, you are telling a bare-faced lie, Mr Rees, are you?" They needed a two car convoy. For Trevor ``this was the final straw''. When she saw her friend was dead, I think she said, "My God.' At the inquest into Diana's death, accident investigator Anthony Read said he could "almost guarantee" the couple would have survived had they been strapped in and the car travelling with in the speed limit. The quiet tribute to Fayed, 41, was overshadowed by national mourning for 36-year-old Princess Diana, who died shortly after the same car crash in Paris early Sunday. Dr Shepherd was the pathologist who carried out post mortem examinations when 35 were killed in the Clapham rail disaster in 1988. 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. The car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel. He told her in English that a doctor was on the way and then went to help Rees-Jones in the front seat. About 71 results for Dodi Fayed . So why had Dodi chosen Henri Paul to drive? "A few seconds afterward she looked at me and then closed her eyes.". , updated Michael Peyser, who worked on the film with Fayed, recalls one of Fayed's bodyguards getting into an altercation with a bus driver after the bus got too close to Fayed's car. 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. 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Meanwhile the wooing of Diana had got off to an inauspicious start. He recalls mentioning this to Dodi and the princess. As he prepares to give evidence at the High Court today, it is likely to bring back the painful memories of more than 10 years ago. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368 . Diana died on August 31, 1997, after sufferingfatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. Speaking in 2000, Mr Chikhani said: "I have never seen so many fractures on a man who was still alive." Another of Mr Al Fayed's suspicions is that the book was penned by journalist Martin Gregory. 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. Due to the agitation, the first line, the first drip was removed, Lienhart said. 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. This was on the order of the Deputy Public Prosecutor Maud Coujard. Luc Chikhani, the surgeon called to treat Mr Rees immediately after the crash, said it was a miracle he had survived. 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. He remembers nothing after that." 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. Trevor had met Henri Paul before. Dodi Fayed, Diana's boyfriend and the son of an Egyptian billionaire, was also a victim of the car crash. Neither was wearing a seat belt. Mr al-Fayed recently paid tribute to "kind, gentle, courteous" Dodi weeks ahead of the anniversary of his death. Camilla, now 35, said: Such a cataclysmic event how could it not change our family? [4][5] He also briefly attended Sandhurst. Diana and Dodi Fayed died in Paris in the early hours of August 31, . The unlikely romance was now being played out behind the grey facades of two buildings, 55 and 60 Park Lane, London, well disguised above an anonymous Lexus dealership. ``We never got into any major conversations, but the conversations we did have were like talking to any sort of person. 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 . 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