Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diana was probably inclined to trust a great deal in Dodi. The pair had just completed a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean on the Jonikal, the Fayed family yacht. At 3:15 p.m. Saturday, after a flight from Sardinia in a private jet belonging to Harrods, the al Fayed-owned London department store, they arrived at Le Bourget Airport, near Paris. They were met at the airport by Paul, who drove them into town, stopping first at Dodi's apartment near the Arc de Triomphe, then moving on to the Ritz, where they settled down briefly...
From the moment the couple arrived, the paparazzi were on to their scent. When Diana headed out for some shopping on the Champs-Elysees, the photographers surrounded the Range Rover that was ferrying her around. Later, after their car pulled up in front of Dodi's apartment, the paparazzi descended again, and one of the Fayed bodyguards pushed a photographer and hit two others...
Cameras were nothing new in Diana's life. But their intrusion may have seemed even more intolerable last week, when she was settling into a new, deepening relationship with Dodi. Before dinner, Diana called Richard Kay, a favorite reporter for London's Daily Mail, to tell him she was planning to withdraw from her public duties around November. Hussein Yassin, a Saudi relative of Dodi's, who spoke to him at the Ritz earlier in the day, says Dodi confided that they had decided to marry...
...Fayed family says Diana had given Dodi a pair of cuff links that belonged to her late father and a gold cigar clipper with a tag inscribed WITH LOVE FROM DIANA. Dodi had written a poem for Diana, had it engraved on silver and placed beneath her pillow at his apartment. At their last dinner together, on Saturday, he presented her with a $205,400 diamond ring that he had arranged to be made by Albert Repossi, a Paris jeweler. Was it an engagement ring? "He told me how much he was in love with the princess," Repossi said later...
...time was short. Dodi and Diana had an 8:30 reservation that night at Benoit, a trendy one-star restaurant near the Place des Vosges. Sometime after 9 p.m., the couple headed off to dinner. Realizing en route that their plans for a quiet meal at Benoit would be spoiled by the photographers piling up outside the restaurant, Dodi suddenly opted to return to the marbled pillars and plush carpeting of the Ritz, where hotel security could be counted on to fend off the photographers...