Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least a dozen cars and chauffeurs from a different rental company, International Limousine, were available at the Ritz that night. Another car was also available to Dodi: his father Mohammed al Fayed's green bulletproof Mercedes 500 SEL with sophisticated security features, which was sitting at its usual spot in the underground Vendome parking garage. "I don't understand why this car was not used that night," a senior Ritz official told TIME. "Especially since Dodi had taken it on other occasions...
...according to Tomlinson, the judges seemed most interested in his contention that a freelance British photographer who covered the royals had regularly briefed MI6 on Diana?s doings. The judges are trying to learn the identity of a mustachioed English-speaking photographer who was at the Ritz Hotel the night of the crash, and they may have hoped that Tomlinson could shed light on the possibility that an MI6 agent had been following Diana that evening. The judges expect to wrap up their investigation by late October...
LONDON: If the tragic death of Princess Diana has done nothing else in the past year, it has kept a lot of lawyers very busy. The official crash investigation is far from over, and investigators will soon be hearing from the manager of the Paris Ritz. Trevor Rees-Jones is considering a suit against Mercedes-Benz over airbags that may have exploded too early. And fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield is to take Mohammed Al-Fayed to an industrial tribunal next week, claiming he asked Wingfield to back up his views that Di and Dodi died at the hands...
...crash -- he's decided Rees-Jones and Wingfield are responsible. The Harrods boss blasted his former bodyguards in an exclusive interview with TIME: "They are the people who caused the devastation and the accident through their incompetence and unprofessional practices," he says. Should security practice at the Ritz become the center of the investigation, Al-Fayed's about-face may turn out to be a bid to find culprits who, conveniently, no longer work for him. It's not hard to wonder what Diana would think of these legal wranglings...
...when her anti-Semitism, homophobia (even though she herself dabbled in bisexuality) and other base inclinations emerged. She responded to the war by shutting down her fashion business and hooking up with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a Nazi officer whose favors included permission to reside in her beloved Ritz Hotel. Years later, in 1954, when she decided to make a comeback, her name still had "disgraced" attached...