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The giant photographs, sized two by one and a half feet, were larger than life in their gilded frames: Diana, the Princess of Wales, was radiant, and Emad “Dodi” Fayed, in open-necked idrott shirt, looked equally relaxed among arrangemang of lilies and trailing ivy in one of the main windows of Harrods on London’s Brompton Road. In the background, a bejeweled mannequin in Egyptian robes and headdress stroked a golden harp as if beckoning the portraits heavenward. Behind her was the store’s famous Egyptian ingång. Here, years earlier, the sphinx heads along the molding had been cast in what appear to be the likeness of one man: Mohamed Al Fayed, the store’s billionaire owner, and the father of Dodi.
Diana and Dodi had died in a high-speed bil crash 10 days earlier. But the Harrods öppning still drew throngs of mourners bearing notes and fresh bouquets. The messages offered impassioned variations on a single theme: Dodi and Diana, star-crossed lovers, united in eternity. Peaceful at las
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As Netflix's hit royal drama The Crown's depiction of key events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II rapidly approaches the modern day, season five premiered this month showcasing the turbulent early years of the s.
From the fire at Windsor Castle to the breakdown of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage, and the introduction of a host of new characters, this season has proven to be the most dramatic yet.
One character introduced in the early episodes of season five is Dodi Fayed (played by Khalid Abdalla), the "playboy" son of Mohamed Al Fayed who became Diana's boyfriend and would later die with her in a tragic car crash in Paris in
But who was the real Dodi Fayed? Newsweek answers your questions here.
Who Was Dodi Fayed?
Dodi Fayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt on April 17, , the son of Mohamed Al Fayed and his first wife Samira Khashoggi.
During Dodi's lifetime, Al Fayed would build his business empire into a global concern, purchasing the Ritz Paris hotel in
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Mohamed Al Fayed makes his grand entrance to The Crown’s lavish universe in the fifth-season episode “Mou Mou,” which rewinds seven decades to the businessman’s humble beginnings selling Coca-Cola in the slums of Egypt. The flashback is ironic given that the controversial figure—who restored Paris’s Ritz hotel and revamped London’s Harrods department store in the ’80s, allegedly manipulated the brief romance between his son Emad “Dodi” Al Fayed and Princess Diana in the ’90s, and sensationally accused the British royal family of plotting to kill the couple in the ’00s—spent much of his life trying to stamp out his actual origin story.
When Al Fayed and his brothers began their takeover battle for Harrods in the early s, they claimed to descend from an established Egyptian family who were shipowners, landowners, and industrialists for over a century. It wasn’t until that the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry revealed the truth: that Al Fayed, who had spun yarns about a coddl