Mohamed Al Fayedmagnate and former owner of the Harrods department store and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, has died at the age of 94, as confirmed by Fulham, the English soccer team he also owned.

The tycoon passed away this Friday, one day after the 26th anniversary of the death of his son with Diana of Wales in his fateful accident in a Paris tunnel.

Al-Fayed was born in Alexandria and moved to the UK in the 1970s, acquiring the House of Fraser, which owns harrods, which would eventually become the best-known department store in London. In 2010, he sold them to the Royal Family of Qatar.

In a statement collected by the BBC, his family has transferred the following: “Mohamed Al Fayed’s wife, his children and grandchildren wish to confirm that his beloved husband, his father and his grandfather, Mohamed, passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday, the 30th of August 2023. He enjoyed a long and fulfilling retirement surrounded by his loved ones.”

Al-Fayed never stopped looking for clues about the death of his son and Diana of Wales, becoming obsessed with the theories that have circulated around that accident. In 2008, he claimed that his deaths were the result of an order from Prince Philip with the help of MI6, something the investigation saw as a “conspiracy theory“.