Mohamed Al-Fayed Meets Mourners at Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed Memorial (1999)

On 3 September 1999, ITN joined Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed as he made his way around the iconic luxury department store, greeting grieving customers visiting the shop's memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales and his son, Dodi Fayed. Al-Fayed posed beside the memorial to Diana and Dodi, both of whom were killed in a Paris car crash two years previously. The footage was recorded to coincide with the release of a long-awaited report into the crash. While much initial public reaction to the tragedy blamed the paparazzi for chasing Diana and Dodi’s car through Paris, the report cleared all the photographers and the press motorcyclist implicated in the accident. The judge, Herve Stephan, placed the blame for the crash mainly on the driver, Henri Paul, who was found to have been drunk and on anti-depressants when he got behind the wheel of the Mercedes.

For his part, Mohamed Al-Fayed never accepted that version of events. Two weeks after this footage was filmed, he repeated his claim first made in 1998 that Princess Diana and his son, Dodi, were murdered and that the car crash in Paris wasn't an accident. He claimed the driver Henri Paul was being paid by MI6, and that blood samples taken from his body after the crash had been tampered with. Later, to his claims of conspiracy he would add his belief that the murder was ordered by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Mohamed Al-Fayed’s claims were found by more than one investigation to be unfounded.

It was announced on 1 September 2023 that Mohamed Al-Fayed had past away on 30 August, aged 94. A statement released by his family said he “passed away peacefully of old age” and “enjoyed a long and fulfilled retirement surrounded by his loved ones."

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