They spent their last summer together, between Italy and France. Diana Spencer and Dodi Al-Fayed were they really in a relationship? According to an employee of the yacht they stayed on, their romance was staged.
Of their idyll, during the summer of 1997, everything has been said. In particular, it was said that Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed were planning to get married, that she was pregnant, and that she was even considering moving to Los Angeles with him.
As a couple just for the pictures?
However, according to a member of the crew of the Jonikal, the yacht that Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed had bought especially so that his son, Dodi, could seduce Lady Di, nothing was true between them. This is what we can read in the columns of the Daily Star. “A big pretense”, therefore, since the alleged lovers “did not even share the same room”, says the witness.
This summer there, it is already said that on board the ship, "he calls her madam, is incredibly deferential and respectful", and that it is Diana who plays the comedy each time she crosses flashes . A witness will indeed reveal at the time: "as soon as she goes out to wave to the paparazzi, she leans over and kisses him and hugs him".
In 2017, Diana's private secretary, Michael Gibbins will also confide that the mother of princes William and Harry was not madly in love with this new suitor. He will explain in particular: "I frankly think that she was just having a good summer at the expense of someone else to be perfectly honest", arguing that Diana would have left Dodi at the end of the summer.
No time to part
fate will decide otherwise. On August 31, 1997, while the couple was in Paris, a crazy race with photographers ended in tragedy under the Alma tunnel. Dodi Al-Fayed will die instantly and Diana Spencer will be taken to the Pitié Salpétrière, where she will die.
