Princess Diana was told Mohammad Al-Fayed was “sleazy” before she holidayed at his villa in the South of France in the summer of 1997, and embarked on a fateful romance with his son Dodi.
Diana and Dodi were both killed in a Parish car crash in August 1997, and his father was extended great sympathy as he mourned their loss – including putting a permanent shrine to the couple at Harrods, his London department store.
The last 10 days have seen a revision in the perception of this always controversial figure, after the BBC’s Panorama documentary program shared accounts of several women who had suffered sexual abuse from him going back decades, including his tenure as Harrods boss.
The numbers of women to come forward have reached over 200, and now Daily Mail journalist Richard Kay, who spoke to Diana frequently during her last years and became one of her closest confidants, has revealed he tried to warn her off the association.
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