Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Princess Diana’s last lover, has died aged 94, his family said in a statement on Friday.
“Ms. Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and her grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohamed, passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday August 30, 2023,” his family said in a statement. press release published by the football club of Fulham FC, former property of the businessman. “He enjoyed a long and fulfilling retirement surrounded by his loved ones. The family has asked that their privacy be respected at this time,” the family added.
Mohamed Al-Fayed died the day before the anniversary of the death of his son Dodi with Princess Diana in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997.
No evidence of conspiracy
After the couple’s death, which shocked the world due to Diana’s immense popularity, Mohamed Al-Fayed repeatedly claimed they were murdered as part of an establishment plot British. He accused Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip of having ordered the fatal car accident.
The billionaire’s relationship with the British royal family was recently portrayed in season five of the series The Crown, on Netflix. We see him try to get closer to the queen, then meet Lady Di.
The Egyptian businessman, who arrived in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, became the owner of the famous London store Harrods in 1985. He also bought the Ritz hotel in Paris. He was the owner of Fulham FC football club between 1997 and 2013.