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Al Fayed, the Egyptian obsessed with the tragic death of his son Dodi and Diana of Wales

Al Fayed, the Egyptian obsessed with the tragic death of his son Dodi and Diana of Wales

Mohamed Al Fayedthe former owner of the Harrods department store who died on August 30 at the age of 94 in the United Kingdomwas a controversial Egyptian millionaire obsessed with linking the British secret services in the death of his son Dodi and the Princess Diana of Wales in 1997.

alfayed -father of five children- died a day before the 26th anniversary of the Dodi’s death and Diana in a car accident in Paris, a tragedy that he could never overcome.

In a statement released to the media on Friday, his family said: “Mrs. Mohamed alfayedher children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, father and grandfather Mohamed passed away peacefully on Wednesday August 30, 2023. He enjoyed a long and fulfilling retirement, surrounded by his loved ones”.

Of combative character, but close, alfayed He was an ambitious and popular figure, always determined to rub shoulders with high society and the political class, which never came to accept him by not granting him the british nationality that I aspired so much

His big move was to create a business empire in the United Kingdom, his adopted country from the 1970s, including the legendary Harrods, which earned him the nickname of “Pharaoh”, and also took over the Ritz hotel in Paris.

After the death of his son, alfayed spent a decade reiterating that dody and diana were assassinated in a plot by the secret services and the then Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Isabel II.

However, he was forced to concede defeat after an official investigation in 2008 concluded that what happened in Paris on August 31, 1997 had been an accident.

In the tragedy on the bridge the Soul of Paris The driver, Herni Paul, was also killed while driving under the influence of alcohol when the three left the Ritz hotel in Paris in a speeding car while being chased by “paparazzi” on motorcycles.

Born January 27, 1929 in Alexandria, alfayed The son of a school inspector, he came to London in the late 1960s to build his business empire.

In the 1980s, he rose to fame while seeking control of the group House of Fraserincluding its flagship store harrodswith rival tycoon “Tiny” Rowland.

alfayed bought a stake in the House of Fraser group from Rowland in 1984, taking control of harrods in 1985 for 615 million pounds (713 million euros).

Subsequently, alfayed he expanded his business interests to include the Paris Ritz and the English football club Fulham.

In addition to the business world, alfayed he made donations to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and became involved in politics in 1994, when he was at the center of the “money for questions” scandal in the British Parliament.

alfayed He claimed via The Guardian newspaper that he had paid then-Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith thousands of pounds to illegally submit questions in the House of Commons on his behalf.

Besides, alfayed He applied for British nationality in 1993, but was rejected by the Conservative Executive at the time, but the Labor government that followed did not deny it either.

After 26 years in office, in 2010, alfayed sold Harrods to the royal family of Qatar.

With information from EFE

Source: Gestion

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