Dodi Fayed plans to marry Diana

Dodi Fayed was making plans to marry his girlfriend Diana, princess of Wales, less than two weeks before their fatal 1997 car crash, a witness on Thursday told the inquest into the couple's death.



Franz Klein, president of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, told how Fayed spoke to him by telephone to discuss his plans for an engagement ring and where they would live after the wedding.
Fayed called him on August 18 or 19 and said he and Diana would be in Paris at the end of the month.

"I remember very well, he called me and he said 'Frank, I just passed by a jewellers' shop,' he pointed out it was Van Cleef, he said 'I want to buy some jewellery, I'm going to get engaged'," he told the London inquest.

In a second conversation on August 29 they discussed the Villa Windsor in Paris, a former royal residence. "He informed me he was going to Paris the following day," he said.
"He did not mention the princess by name but he did tell me that he was going to stay in Paris, to live, he told me he was going to move to the Villa Windsor with his girlfriend and he told me, all the time in English, that they were going to get married."
Diana, Fayed and chauffeur Henri Paul were all killed in the crash in a Paris underpass after they left the Ritz Hotel in the early hours of August 31, 1997.

Diana saw lover dying, says officer

Diana, Princess of Wales saw her lover Dodi Fayed dying in front of her when she opened her eyes after her car crash, an inquest has heard.

Policeman Sebastien Dorzee, the first member of the emergency services to reach the scene, said the Princess muttered "My God" because she realised what was happening.

Oh no, such a sad story!

So painful to hear that!

Diana said 'Oh my God!`

I am going to introduce you updated information on Princess Diana below.

Princess Diana said "Oh my God, Oh my God" as she lay dying in the wreckage of a Paris car crash, a witness told the jury probing her death on last Thursday.
The court heard statements from other witnesses who reported seeing paparazzi swarming around the crash scene......

One of them was shouting," Audrey Lemaigre said. "At one stage he actually said 'she's alive, she's alive'."
Sebastien Masseron, who had been with Lemaigre, said: "I heard one photographer call over to a colleague who was on a scooter at the exit to the tunnel, and say: 'Come back, come back, she's alive'"

I felt very sorry for Princess Diana after I read the article.