2023-09-02 00:06:26
Mohamed Al-Fayed, July 27, 2007, in London. SHAUN CURRY / AFP
He had never recovered from the death of his son Dodi, on August 31, 1997. Twenty-six years later, to within a day, the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of the last lover of the princess Diana, has died at the age of 94.
“Ms. Mohamed Al-Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and grandfather, Mohamed, passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday August 30, 2023”his family said in a statement released by English football club Fulham FC, which was owned by the businessman between 1997 and 2013. “He enjoyed a long and fulfilling retirement surrounded by his loved ones. The family has asked that their privacy be respected at this time.”adds the text.
This flamboyant self-taught businessman bought the prestigious London store Harrods in 1985, before selling the Knightsbridge institution to the royal family of Qatar in 2010 for 1.5 billion pounds (1.74 billion euros ), or double its purchase price. He had also bought the Ritz hotel in Paris.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed had been devastated by the death of his son Dodi, in a car accident in Paris with Princess Diana, 26 years ago. After the couple’s death, which shocked the world due to Diana’s immense popularity, he repeatedly claimed they were murdered as part of a plot by the British establishment. He accused Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, of having ordered the fatal car accident. He claimed that Diana was pregnant and planning to marry her son, and that the royal family could not tolerate the princess marrying a Muslim. The inquest concluded that Diana and Dodi died due to the reckless driving of the driver of the car being chased by paparazzi.
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Arriving in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, Mohamed Al-Fayed, born January 27, 1929 in a modest suburb of Alexandria, spent much of his life in Britain but to his great frustration saw himself refused British nationality several times. In 2000, the courts even claimed “a general character problem”.
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