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Princess Diana Question?

88 replies

PassingStranger · 26/09/2024 12:35

Has anyone wondered if Diana and Dodi or just Dodi knew about Mohammed Al Fayed the creep?
I guess we will never know?
If they had both been alive now and still together it would have surely been a news item though?

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PassingStranger · 26/09/2024 14:03

Anyone?

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NeverEnoughPants · 26/09/2024 14:05

No, can't say I've wondered that.

BigDahliaFan · 26/09/2024 14:08

I read something in one of the papers that someone had been trying to tell her. It was 2 journalists who had loads of stories but not enough proof that the lawyers would let them print it and they'd told a friend of Diana's to tell her that it was likely there were secret cameras at Dodi's . But they didn't know if the message got passed on.

It's awful that this didn't all come out sooner.

x2boys · 26/09/2024 14:09

I dont.think it was a long term relationship
I thought it was a bit of a fling that ended tragically?

PassingStranger · 26/09/2024 14:12

x2boys · 26/09/2024 14:09

I dont.think it was a long term relationship
I thought it was a bit of a fling that ended tragically?

We will never know, they may have gone on to get married.
The creep would have then been Diana's FIL.

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YeahNoIDontThinkSo · 26/09/2024 14:13

No I have never wondered that. And Diana almost certainly would not have got together with Dodi.

x2boys · 26/09/2024 14:14

PassingStranger · 26/09/2024 14:12

We will never know, they may have gone on to get married.
The creep would have then been Diana's FIL.

Well yes they might of
But her former inlaws were not pure and innocent either

PassingStranger · 26/09/2024 14:29

YeahNoIDontThinkSo · 26/09/2024 14:13

No I have never wondered that. And Diana almost certainly would not have got together with Dodi.

You don't know that impossible.

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YeahNoIDontThinkSo · 26/09/2024 14:32

You know what 'almost certainly' means, don't you?

It means I think it's highly unlikely but there's still a possibility. I don't need to know...it's just my well-reasoned (as far as it's possible to be on something of this nature) opinion.

MissMoneyFairy · 26/09/2024 14:33

They are all dead so we'll never know

Startinganew32 · 26/09/2024 14:36

They were together a couple of months. It wasn’t remotely long term.

TERFtown · 26/09/2024 14:36

Yep, blame the women. That's right. Well done.

Seasmoke · 26/09/2024 14:36

I did wonder that. Apparently the Queen was aware of the allegations, so I don't think Diana woukd have Been unaware, especially as he was taking William and Harry for holidays on his yacht

AnywhereAnyoneAnyTime · 26/09/2024 14:38

Have no idea why people are so obsessed with Diana and Dodie. The way people carry on you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’d been in a long term relationship as opposed to just a couple of weeks.

Staunchlystarling · 26/09/2024 14:39

The royal family will habe known, as government bodies would know. A lot of shit gets covered up, that authorities know about. It’s likely the real reason they didn’t want Dodi and Diana was fucked uo enough she’d have enjoyed pissing them off.

SnoopBogg · 26/09/2024 14:40

How is this even a thread.

Circumferences · 26/09/2024 14:40

Given the sort of person MAF was, it wouldn't surprise me if he "brought" or bribed Diana to be in that relationship with his son. They always looked like a forced arranged marriage to me.

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/09/2024 14:41

It’s highly unlikely they’d have married. He was a rebound relationship from Hasnat Khan. She was possibly with Dodi to make Hasnat jealous.

x2boys · 26/09/2024 14:42

AnywhereAnyoneAnyTime · 26/09/2024 14:38

Have no idea why people are so obsessed with Diana and Dodie. The way people carry on you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’d been in a long term relationship as opposed to just a couple of weeks.

They died together so they will.always be linked ,I thought it was just a fling
People probably would barely remember them being together if they hadent died is such a tragic way.

x2boys · 26/09/2024 14:43

Circumferences · 26/09/2024 14:40

Given the sort of person MAF was, it wouldn't surprise me if he "brought" or bribed Diana to be in that relationship with his son. They always looked like a forced arranged marriage to me.

Well she had already Bern in one arranged marriage....

Staunchlystarling · 26/09/2024 14:43

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/09/2024 14:41

It’s highly unlikely they’d have married. He was a rebound relationship from Hasnat Khan. She was possibly with Dodi to make Hasnat jealous.

Yes I think she was with dodi for some fun,rebound, and a bit of drama.

ketchuporbrownsauce · 26/09/2024 14:44

Diana was using Dodi to wind the Royal family and press up in my opinion. I suspect Dodi was a lowlife too. Would not have been a long term relationship. Just hope they are both resting in peace.

godmum56 · 26/09/2024 14:45

Is it true that Kier Starmer was in the CPS at a high level when the decision was taken not to prosecute AlFayed?

Staunchlystarling · 26/09/2024 14:48

ketchuporbrownsauce · 26/09/2024 14:44

Diana was using Dodi to wind the Royal family and press up in my opinion. I suspect Dodi was a lowlife too. Would not have been a long term relationship. Just hope they are both resting in peace.

Agree, and he was handsome and rich.

people have to remember Diana had lots of partners, Christ will carlings marriage ended as Diana was the OW.. Fair play, she was single. And sure she wasn’t big into the sisterhood, doing someone else’s husband. But dodi was just the last one list before she passed, they are only linked as they died together, in the early stages of their relationship.

TheFrendo · 26/09/2024 14:49

Fayed being a creep or worse was reported in Private Eye at the time.