Film producer Dodi al Fayed dated Princess Diana in the final months before her death in 1997. Dodi dated Diana in the final months before her death in 1997.
Played by Egyptian-British actor Khalid Abdalla in the series, Dodi was famous mostly for being billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed's son and having a very short-lived affair with Princess Diana. He spent just over a month in a whirlwind relationship with Princess Diana.
All About Kelly Fisher. Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana were one of the most high-profile couples in the world at the time of their tragic deaths in 1997 — but the People's Princess wasn't the only love Dodi knew in his life. Before dating Diana, Dodi was in a relationship with American-born model Kelly Fisher.
In real life, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed dated for a few months before their sad deaths in a vehicle collision in Paris in late August 1997. Dodi Fayed and their driver were killed on the spot, in the incident, while Diana died from her injuries hours later.
In 1997, Mohamed Al-Fayed invited Diana and the young princes Harry and William to holiday with them, where Diana and Dodi began to get to know each other and, inevitably, fall in love.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
Diana and Dodi were together for one summer before they both tragically died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. Diana was 36, and Dodi was 42.
During that time, the Princess of Wales was romantically linked to a few different people, including art dealer Oliver Hoare and rugby star Will Carling. But only one man has been called the "love of her life"—British Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom Diana dated from 1995 to 1997.
Dodi Al Fayed was reportedly planning marriage with Princess Diana ahead of their death. In 2008, Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed revealed that the couple was about to get engaged during the final days of their lives. The duo died in a 1997 car accident in Paris.
Before she was taken out of the car, he held her hand and comforted her. "My God, what's happened," Diana then asked him, in what proved to be her final words. "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again.
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"Dodi did not have time to get to her before she died. He travelled to Egypt but could not get there until the next day.
In Netflix's 'The Crown', season 5 explores how the couple met during a troubling time inside the Monarchy as the concept of divorce was very fround upon back then. As it turns out, Al-Fayed also had a relationship with a model whose name is Annie Cardone.
According to Khan, Diana broke up with him. "It was at (a) second meeting that Diana told me that it was all over between us," he said. Around that time, Diana began to be photographed with Dodi Fayed, son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed. Khan speculated this new relationship played a role in their break-up.
"One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding, Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton said. "I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her, and it was devastating for Diana."
According to Bedell Smith, right from the start Charles adored the then-Camilla Shand, who's close in age to Charles (Diana was 13 years younger) and has always treated him as an equal rather than as someone she idolized. However, the royal family wasn't interested in having Camilla as its princess.
In his early 20s, like many other young men, Charles simply wasn't ready for marriage. Not long after he met Camilla, Charles went off to serve in the navy. Camilla probably thought she could wait around forever without ever getting a proposal from the prince.
“It was horrid,” Camilla admitted in a rare interview, of the media scrutiny that imprisoned her in her home after the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales. “I wouldn't want to put my worst enemy through it.”
In The Crown this season, the two women even meet up for lunch after the big engagement. But did this really happen in real life? According to Andrew Morton's biography, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, written with his subject's cooperation in 1992, it did.
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Within hours of Diana's shock death, Prince Charles was in Paris to ensure that his ex-wife's body was brought back to the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
Khalid Abdalla and Salim Dau as Dodi and Mohammed Al Fayed on The Crown.By Keith Bernstein/Netflix. “Mohamed Al Fayed engineered the romance with Dodi,” Bedell Smith tells VF. “And Dodi basically did whatever his father told him to do. He was engaged, left his fiancée, and went over to his father's boat.
Dodi was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. In 1985, Fayed married Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén with whom he has four children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, and Omar.
How did Dodi and Diana meet? The couple first met at a polo match in 1986 while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, The Independent reports. Eleven years later, Diana reconnected with Dodi while vacationing at his father Mohamed's home in St. Tropez with Prince William and Prince Harry.