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...dead or alive, as it tragically turns out. The amount being paid for any picture of the princess getting to know her first serious beau since her divorce had increased dramatically. Princess Di was used to being the most photographed woman in the world, but her linking up with Dodi al Fayed had thrown the scavengers of celebrity into a heightened state of alert. When she took her two sons to vacation with Al Fayed's family at his St. Tropez villa in July, paparazzi followed by land, sea and air; "the kiss" in the sparkling Mediterranean waters...
...readers hadn't wanted to stand in the supermarket check-out lines and devour Di in her pink-flowered swimsuit in the Mediterranean with Dodi in shades and shorts on his father's yacht, would there have been a phalanx of photographers in a high-speed chase to capture yet another glimpse of the couple? There's an audience for celebrity pap, and when the mainstream press doesn't pander to it directly, it does so indirectly by tabloid laundering: writing about how crazy it is that the tabloids spend so much time covering a royal romance, and then running...
...Finally, it emerged that Dodi Fayed gave Princess Diana a $205,400 diamond "friendship ring" on the night the couple died. The ring was found in the wreckage of the car crash that killed them. Paris jeweler Alberto Repossi , whose store is near the Paris Ritz hotel where the couple shared their last meal, suggested the ring may have meant much more than friendship...
PARIS: The driver of the Mercedes Benz that crashed and killed Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed Saturday night was apparently drunk at the time of the high-speed accident, Paris prosecutors said today...
...curious thing had been happening to Diana lately, or rather the newsprint Diana that the world felt it owned. You started to believe her. Instead of adoring Diana, or pitying Diana, or disdaining Diana, you could be happy for her. She was in love with Dodi, happy, unnatural no longer. She was running from the cameras at full speed. You believed her when she said that "any sane person would have left (England) long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons...