He was trying to move and I talked to him. Things were heating up when she decided to . After that Trevor Rees-Jones remembers nothing of the car crash, which he is still trying to come to terms with. He told her in English that a doctor was on the way and then went to help Rees-Jones in the front seat. Flashbulbs popped when they walked around the back of the car to get to the rear right door, the princess taking huge strides in her delicate high heels, eyes down as Trevor briskly ushered her into the back seat. "I cannot think of why a car driving that fast would have to brake at that point unless there was something in its way," he said. "They asked me how many people were there and I told them three because I didn't know there was a fourth person in the car. Her companion Dodi Fayed and driver and security guard Henri Paul were. It is the first time that Mr Huth's dramatic testimony has ever been heard in public and is most traumatic account of the aftermath of the tragedy heard so far by the inquest jury. ``No straight back,'' said Diana laughing. Kelly Fisher sued Dodi Fayed for ending their engagement and getting together with Princess Diana. While the medical team removed her from the vehicle, she had the first of a number of heart attacks and had to be revived by massage. Dodi died almost instantly at the scene of the crash and his body was flown to Britain, for a funeral service in line with Muslim customs. [17], Fayed's father erected two memorials to his son and Diana at Harrods. ven Dodi Al Fayed dog omedelbart vid kraschen och han hade inga frhjda kolmonoxidniver i blodet. The little group sat alone on the small dancefloor sipping their drinks. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Dodi paused. That was the main thing. Dodi's Father on Diana's Death. Henri Paul was a security man not a chauffeur. They had become aggressive and Gerard the security man at the apartments confronted a photographer and pushed him. Dr Lipsedge held a session with Mr Rees just over a month after the crash and then two more in February 1998. "I saw a broken leg that I remember clearly of a man in blue jeans - I guess with a double fracture under the knee - and a boot, a cowboy boot," he said. There were cameras everywhere, with a crowd of several hundred jostling at the entrance. By the time Dodi moved cameras were all over the car. The allegations were largely brought by former Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi. On August 31, 1997, at 12:25 a.m., a Mercedes bearing Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, their driver and bodyguard crashed into a concrete pillar in the Alma tunnel. [15] Fayed's former spokesman, Michael Cole, has said that the couple became engaged before their deaths. The driver unfortunately had his head inside and it was not moving. "When you say you have lost your memory, you are telling a bare-faced lie, Mr Rees, are you?" As soon as they got the couple upstairs, Trevor and Kez came down to try and calm the photographers. Mr Huth said he tried to calm the princess's. THE sister of Dodi Fayed has spoken about the fateful night her brother died in the car crash with Princess Diana and said it has changed their family forever. ``Where are they going?'' This field is required In the summer of 1997, Dodi invited Diana, William and Harry to spend time on his yacht in the south of France. He was told that they were already on their way but was asked to go back inside and describe the scene in order to help them asess the casualties. LONDON (Reuters) - French medics had to restrain and sedate Princess Diana, who became so agitated after her Paris car crash that she tore out a drip, the inquest into her death was told on Monday. By the time Henri Paul left the bar, the barman had served the hotel's assistant head of security his second Ricard Pastis. On August 6, Trevor returned to work after 10 days leave to find the man he had once anonymously drove around London was now a worldwide celebrity because of his burgeoning romance with Diana. Scroll down for more {4} Mr Rees said he agreed with the diagnosis. The rest of the time he patrolled the floor. 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"The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Wreckage from the Mercedes, he said, was thrown half-way up the tunnel due to the force of the crash. Why didn't you have the reception arranged?'' It may even have been the Ford Ka driven by another eyewitness, Francois Levistre, who stopped briefly after the accident but did not get out of his car and eventually fled the scene. Pathologically there was no evidence that Princess Diana was pregnant, but some women say they know they're pregnant from the moment of conception. Before this tragic end, he was launched into the spotlight in the summer of 1997 when he started dating Diana. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. To counteract the growing tension, Trevor put the couple in the Mercedes with Phillippe at the wheel, while he and his colleague Kez Wingfield followed in the Range Rover. However, her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived. A file picture from August 31, 1997 shows the back of the crumpled wreck of the Mercedez-Benz in which Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed died following a crash in a Paris tunnel. ``How the f*** did this fiasco happen? He also carried out the post-mortems on young mother Rachel Nickell, murdered on Wimbledon Common in 1992, and Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death in a racial attack a year later. It came as Diana and Dodi had been sailing the Mediterranean Sea on board a 200ft yacht, owned by Dodi's dad Mohamed Al Fayed. Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the reckless driving of their chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who chased them. Forty minutes later the couple were on edge when they saw the number of paparazzi. In a book excerpted by the Daily Mail Sunday, Shepherd shared his . Dr. Richard Shepherd is the top forensic pathologist in the UK, and he investigated the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Al . This happened because Rees-Jones, constantly badgered by the huge personality that is Mohamed Al Fayed, had recollected a dream to the man who paid his wages in which there were snatches of conservation in the seconds after the crash. Diana and Dodi had first met at a 1986 polo match in Windsor while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, although nothing came from the exchange. The events of that evening changed the bodyguard's life forever, and saw him become one of the most recognised names associated with the Princess, as he struggled to come to terms with what had happened. Scroll down for more {9} It is the evidence of another former Fayed security man Ben Murrell that Mr Rees telephoned him that night to say that Mr Paul was drinking and he thought it was unprofessional. Actors Khalid Abdalla and Salim Daw as Dodi Fayed and Mohamed Al Fayed in Netflix's royal drama, 'The Crown,' 2022. He was charming and generous, but his good intentions couldn't dislodge his reputation for . Scroll down for more {3} "This guy was panicking on the right [of the car]. He recalls mentioning this to Dodi and the princess. Again Trevor and Kez followed in the Range Rover while the Mercedes with Dodi and Diana was surrounded by scooters and motorbikes. Sign Up. ``We never got into any major conversations, but the conversations we did have were like talking to any sort of person. I always made sure I never said anything in all the cases of public interest I was involved with that hadn't already appeared in the press. [18] The second, unveiled in 2005 and titled Innocent Victims, is a 3-metre (10') high bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach, beneath the wings of an albatross. Yesterday, psychiatrist Dr Maurice Lipsedge told the hearing in a written statement that a "few" recollections might come back to Trevor Rees but they could be things learned since the crash and therefore unreliable. Rees-Jones was the sole survivor of the crash that killed Diana, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul. Days after The Sunday Mirror published photos of Dodi and Diana, Kelly enlisted attorney Gloria . Earlier that summer, he was engaged to an American model, Kelly Fisher, and bought a house in Malibu, California, for himself and Fisher with money from his father. Reviewing Martinos account of how the crash scene was handled, he said by videolink from Paris that an assistant had had to hold Dianas arm firmly to insert a drip, but that she had quickly pulled it out. Princess Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul were all killed in the horror smash but bodyguardTrevor Rees-Jones survived. He had his jaw hanging off. I didn't know until the end. Citat: For this 10 day holiday she and the two princes, William and Harry, would be based at Castle St-Therese, the family's cliffside estate at St Tropez, a heavily secured compound with more than a dozen security personnel and snarling guard dogs. '', They were followed by journalists but Trevor had asked them not to take any photos during the journey, especially at traffic lights and junctions. He also claimed that, after the crash, he felt himself coming under pressure to "contain" Mr Rees's family to prevent them speaking out against the Fayed interests. Mr Rees replied: "I am aware that has been said, sir, yes." Mr Huth was then shown a picture of paparazzo Romauld Rat who, the jury has heard, was one of the first photographers to arrive at the scene. Her companionDodi Fayedand driver and security guard Henri Paul were also killed in the crash while her bodyguardTrevor Rees-Jonessurvived with horrific injuries. He was the half-brother of Omar Fayed, Camilla, Karim, and Jasmine Fayed. Through the smoke pouring out from under the car bonnet, Mr Huth said he also could make out the body of Dodi Fayed, wearing blue jeans and cowboy boots, slumped between the front seats of the mangled Mercedes. This ring was the ``proof'' that the ill-starred couple were victims of a conspiracy at the highest echelons of the British establishment and assassinated with the connivance of the secret service. The couple were engulfed. Footage from the 2007 inquest into her death. It was an absurd throw of the dice of fate which brought together the royal outsider, neurotic and self-professed Queen of Hearts, and the feckless but good natured son of a billionaire merchant prince who would always be merely a boy in a man's world dominated by his overbearing father. He worked as a junior officer in theUnited Arab Emirates air force, stationed in London, but he soon moved into the film industry - producing films such as Chariots of Fire and The Scarlet Letter. . As they drove through thePont de l'Alma tunnel, they crashed into a pillar. View our online Press Pack. [16], Fayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was re-interred on the grounds of the Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey in October 1997. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Zero information coming from Dodi. Now for a club sandwich. ', News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. The ex-soldier, originally from Oswestry, Shropshire, acrimoniously split from his former employer in April 1998, issuing only a brief statement that he wished to "move forward" with his life. When he was 15, Dodi moved to London and became a familiar face on the nightclub scene. Mr Rees answered: "That is not true." Speaking in 2000, Mr Chikhani said: "I have never seen so many fractures on a man who was still alive." Mr Rees was present throughout the day before the tragedy and is seen in CCTV accompanying Dodi to the Repossi jewellers where Mr Al Fayed believes an "engagement" ring was bought for Diana. 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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 - 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from Elizabeth's accession as queen on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in history. The couple did indeed visit the Repossi store some three weeks earlier on August 5, but that visit does not serve Fayed's theory as it was too early in the fledgling romance to be even notionally convincing as the date they might have ordered an engagement ring. Not to a nightclub?'' This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Mr Rees took the stand at the central London. One time we talked about the film Men in Black which she'd taken the boys to see. The key element of the jigsaw was in place but another few pieces of a fatal puzzle still had to be slotted home. [21], Egyptian film producer and partner of Diana, Princess of Wales (19551997), "Dodi Al Fayed" redirects here. He then went to find his friend, Mr Ronssin, who revealed for the first time that Princess Diana had been in the car. According to a new book, when the emergency workers arrived they gave priority to her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, who appeared to be more seriously injured. Former bodyguard Trevor Rees said yesterday that he remembered little else of the doomed journey and denied that he was part of a murder conspiracy. The mob was waiting and Trevor raced to the car's rear door and opened it, ready to block for the couple as they pushed through the revolving doors and inside. Now, as he arrived alongside the yacht, he spotted her on the rear deck. These memories are vague and sometimes I doubt them, but they're coming back. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Enter Mohamed Al Fayed, the controversial Egyptian business tycoon and then-owner of department store Harrods, who extended Diana an invitation to visit his villa in St. Tropez along with her sons . As he prepares to give evidence at the High Court today, it is likely to bring back the painful memories of more than 10 years ago. [1] Dodi's mother was Saudi Arabian author Samira Khashoggi,[2] the daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi and sister of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. ``It's just a 10 minute drive. I'll see you back at the apartment.'' The ambulance drove at about 20 mph and had to stop for five minutes because Diana's heart started failing. Another of Mr Al Fayed's suspicions is that the book was penned by journalist Martin Gregory. 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