Egyptian businessman Mohammed Al-Fayed has died
Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Diana’s lover, has died, her former football club announced on Friday evening.
Mohammed Al-Fayed in London in 2008.
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Egyptian businessman Mohamed al-Fayed, the father of Princess Diana’s last lover, has died at the age of 94, his family said in a statement on Friday.
“Ms. Mohammed Al Fayed, her children and her grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohammed, passed away peacefully without old age on Wednesday, August 30, 2023,” her family said in a statement. 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 asks that their privacy be respected during this time,” the family added.
Mohammed al-Fayed died on August 31, 1997, a year before his son Dodi died in a car accident in Paris with Princess Diana.
After the couple’s death, which shocked the world because of Diana’s immense popularity, Mohamed al-Fayed repeatedly claimed they were killed as part of a British establishment conspiracy. He accused Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip of ordering the fatal car crash.
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The billionaire’s relationship with the British royal family was recently chronicled in season five of the Netflix series The Crown. We see him trying to get close to the Queen and then meet Lady D.
An Egyptian businessman who came to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, he 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.
Mohamed al-Fayed, born on January 27, 1929 in a modest suburb of Alexandria, spent most of his life in Britain but was denied British citizenship several times to his great disappointment. In 2000, Justice said it was “a public problem”.
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