LONDON — Mohamed Al-Fayed branded Prince Philip a “Nazi” and a “racist” in the high court yesterday as he detailed his belief that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, were “murdered” at the request of the royal family. The Harrods owner repeated to the court his claims that Diana was killed because she was pregnant at the time of her death, and that she and Dodi had been planning to announce their engagement.
“Diana told me on the telephone that she was pregnant,” he told the inquest. “I was the only person that they told.” The couple called him to announce their intention to marry just an hour before the crash, Al-Fayed said, but he later seemed unclear about whether he had been told his son was about to propose, or that Dodi had done so and Diana had accepted.
He said Diana told him “she knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her” a month before the crash.
Al-Fayed named a photographer, James Andanson, as the most likely suspect to have carried out the murder on the orders of the security services. Andanson’s body was found in a burned out car in 2000 and he is believed to have committed suicide. “There was one paparazzi member in the pay of the security services. This is likely to have been James Andanson, who exacted the murder in his own Fiat, pushed the car and a strobe light having been used to blind Henri Paul,” Al-Fayed said.
Up Against a ‘Steel Wall’
A “steel wall from the security services” prevented him from providing proof of all his claims, Al-Fayed said. “I have been fighting for 10 years to be where we are,” he told the jury. Members of the British and French security services may have been part of the ambulance crew that took Diana to the hospital to ensure she bled to death, Al-Fayed claimed. He said that a hospital that could have treated the Princess was 10 minutes away from the site of the crash in the Alma tunnel in Paris but she took more than an hour to reach another medical institution.
Al-Fayed believes the royal family would never have accepted a marriage between the mother of the second heir to the throne and an Egyptian Muslim, and alleges the Queen’s husband worked with the security services to stage the car crash in Paris in August 1997 that killed the couple and their driver.
“It’s time to send [Philip] back to Germany from where he comes,” Al-Fayed said. “You want to know his original name — it ends with Frankenstein.” Ian Burnett QC, for the coroner, asked Al-Fayed if his allegations “stem from your belief that Prince Philip is not only a racist but a Nazi as well.” “Absolutely,” Al-Fayed replied.
Charles participated in the hope that he would then be able to marry his long-term mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, Al-Fayed said. Al-Fayed said the conspiracy was coordinated for Philip from the British Embassy in Paris by the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Robert Fellowes. Sir Michael Jay, the then British ambassador to France, was also involved, Al-Fayed said.
Fellowes, who was also Diana’s brother-in-law, told the inquest last week that he was in Norfolk at the time. Al-Fayed described Parker Bowles as a “crocodile wife” and the Windsors as “that Dracula family.”
Paul Was Part of Plot
He disputed evidence that Henri Paul, the driver, was drunk. Paul was part of the plot, and in the pay of security services in Britain and France, Al-Fayed said. “When he was killed, they find 20,000 francs in his pocket, because he disappeared three hours before the murder being briefed on what to do.”
Al-Fayed said it had been proved “black and white” that the blood samples being taken (to test whether the driver was intoxicated or not) was not Paul’s blood. He claimed the withholding of a lawyer’s note recording Diana’s fears for her safety proved she had been deliberately killed. He said she had kept letters from Prince Philip to be revealed in the event of her death, but those letters had now gone missing.
Mohamed Al-Fayed arrives for the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi and Princess Diana at the High Court in London on Monday. (Reuters)
