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...last night of his life, at 8:45 p.m., Dodi Fayed called his stepuncle Hassaan Yasseen at the Ritz Hotel to ask him out to coffee later in the evening. Yes, he would be with Diana, Fayed said, and "yes, we are going to get married...
...have been as short a love story as it appeared. Fayed had probably started falling for Diana the same time the rest of the world did. On July 29, 1981, Fayed left a yacht on the Mediterranean and booked a suite at a luxury hotel in Monte Carlo to watch television--the wedding of Charles and Diana. "I got bored," says a friend with him at the time, but "Dodi watched the whole thing, from beginning to end." And now, suddenly, Diana was in his life, at a time when he needed her. "I don't think he would have...
...from under his father's thumb. "Dodi," says his friend, "started finding his legs." And on that Saturday night, it seemed as if an engagement was almost certain, even though, as the French police now say, the fabled Repossi diamond ring was never found in the car or on Diana's finger. For the princess apparently had one more thing to do before she could make a public commitment. She had to talk to her sons...
That conversation would never happen, and there would be no tomorrows for Dodi and Diana. That night their lives would be in the hands of a third person. While paparazzi may have hovered around the fatal event, the car was under the command of Henri Paul, al Fayed's trusted deputy security chief at the Ritz. It was a misplaced trust: a series of autopsy results showed not only that Paul was drunk, his blood alcohol nearly four times the legal driving limit, but also that he had ingested a troubling combination of prescription drugs. In reconstructing the last hours...
...Paul drank only Coca-Cola. That didn't surprise Garrec, who knew his best friend to enjoy the occasional wine or pastis (a French liqueur flavored with aniseed that is about as potent as whiskey). At 12:30 Paul said his farewells, telling Garrec that he had to meet Diana and Dodi at Le Bourget airport, where their private jet would touch down from Sardinia at 3:15 p.m. When Paul wheeled up to the private airstrip, he found something else that had become usual, the waiting paparazzi. At this time, Paul was behind the wheel of the black Range...