Word: tropez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mention of a vacation on the French Riviera usually evokes visions of the Casino in Monte Carlo, topless celebrities in St.-Tropez or glamorous hotels like the Negresco in Nice. But I like to get away from all that and head for a tranquil monastery on an island in the Mediterranean Sea a mile off the coast of Cannes. The monks at the Abbaye de Lerins on Ile St.-Honorat have, I admit, always been my kind of guys. Early to bed and early to rise, they lead simple, structured and disciplined lives. Silent and humble, they meditate and chant...
...Paul's immediate supervisor was away that night. But why bring in Paul to drive? "Because Dodi trusted him," explains a Ritz staff member. In fact Dodi had trusted him all summer, with Paul personally overseeing security for Dodi, Diana and her sons during their July vacation in St.-Tropez. Ritz staff members suggest it was Paul who persuaded Dodi to let him drive and do what he thought he did best: shield the couple from the paparazzi...
...weeks this summer, much in the world seemed right for Mohammed al Fayed. In July, at his villa in St.-Tropez, the Egyptian tycoon personally set in motion a romance between the Princess of Wales and his eldest son Dodi by plucking him off one family yacht to join his father on another one nearby, where Diana was tanning. As the romance blossomed into the possibility of an engagement, al Fayed feigned nonchalance. "Normal people fall in love," he told an interviewer. "That's it." But al Fayed surely exulted inside. His battles with the British establishment--over...
...years between Alexandria and the French Riviera, was reared in a rarefied world of international wealth. He attended Switzerland's tony Le Rosey school and Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Dodi moved easily among his family's 11 homes, in locations as far-flung as Manhattan, St.-Tropez and Gstaad. He had use of family helicopters and his father's yacht. In recent years he was one of the jet set's most renowned hosts, throwing parties in Beverly Hills populated by such celebrities as Tony Curtis, Farrah Fawcett and Robert Downey Jr. Guests say his hospitality...
...made him happier, some royal watchers contend, than for his son to become stepfather to the future King of England. Dodi and Diana's liaison reportedly began when the elder Al Fayed invited the princess and her two sons to vacation with his family at his villa in St.-Tropez. Adnan Khashoggi told a Saudi newspaper last month, "We welcome Diana into our family." The relationship between Dodi and Di led to an "inflated sense of pride" for England's Middle Eastern and Asian communities, contributor Fuad Nahdi wrote in the Independent. "You might hate and abuse...