When Camilla Fayed was 12 years old, her brother Dodi Fayed was killed in a car accident in the underpass of the Pont de l’Alma in Paris. Later that night, his girlfriend of just a few months, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from her injuries. It was late August 1997 and the world erupted with the news.
Camilla’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, at the time owner of Harrods, Fulham Football Club and the Ritz Paris, a full-front, full-wattage, flamboyant figure who routinely stuck up two fingers to the British establishment, was changed for ever. From then on, “there was such a weight” around him, says his daughter. “Always a weight.” And their family was changed too.
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