Présentation du dernier petit ami de la Princesse Diana, Dodi Al-Fayed

Jan 10, 2022

La Princesse Diana était aimée non seulement du public britannique, mais aussi des personnes du monde entier. Elle a utilisé son statut et son influence pour faire le bien, passant une grande partie de son temps à faire campagne pour des causes humanitaires qui amélioraient la vie des autres. Elle a passé du temps avec des personnes malades et a aidé à briser la stigmatisation des maladies alors nouvelles comme le VIH et le SIDA. Ce ne sont que quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles on se souvient de Diana comme de la « Princesse du Peuple ».

La mort précoce de Diana le 31 août 1997 a été un moment déchirant qui a dévasté de nombreuses personnes dans le monde entier. Depuis, on se souvient d'elle à travers ses fils, le Prince William et le Prince Harry. De nombreux hommages et monuments commémoratifs lui ont également été dédiés au fil des années dans l'espoir de perpétuer son héritage et de diffuser son message partout. Aujourd'hui encore, on parle souvent de Diana, et elle est même présentée dans divers médias, que ce soit pour ses actions caritatives, son sens impeccable de la mode ou ce qu'elle était en tant que mère.

Au cours de sa vie, Diana a été liée de façon célèbre au Prince Charles, l'homme avec qui elle a été mariée pendant 15 ans avant que leur mariage ne prenne fin suite à sa liaison. Le regard critique des gens et les réactions négatives ont finalement poussé Diana à vouloir quitter la famille royale dans l'espoir de mener une vie plus privée. Cependant, sa relation avec Charles n'était pas sa seule relation médiatisée. Son dernier petit ami était Dodi Al-Fayed, qui est malheureusement mort avec elle dans le tragique accident de voiture. Lis la suite pour en savoir plus sur leur relation !

Née le 1ᵉʳ juillet 1961, Diana Spencer a grandi près de la famille royale. Alors qu'elle travaillait comme assistante maternelle en 1981, elle s'est fiancée à Charles, le fils aîné de la Reine Elizabeth II et il n'a pas fallu longtemps pour que le couple soit officiellement marié. Leur mariage a eu lieu à la cathédrale Saint-Paul plus tard cette année-là, faisant d'elle la Princesse de Galles officielle. Le couple a ensuite accueilli deux fils, William et Harry.

Bien qu'elle soit une princesse, la vie de Diana était tout sauf un conte de fées. Si le grand public et le Commonwealth ont d'abord accueilli la princesse avec enthousiasme, ils se sont retournés contre elle par la suite. Pendant son temps en tant que membre actif de la famille royale, Diana a lutté. Il y avait de nombreux problèmes dans son mariage avec Charles, et les deux ont fini par se séparer pendant de nombreuses années avant que leur divorce ne soit officiellement prononcé.

Diana est passée d'une vie dans laquelle elle était le centre d'attention et un personnage clé de la vie publique à une vie plus discrète et cachée après sa séparation conjugale. Elle a continué à assumer ses responsabilités et a fait une apparition occasionnelle pour des engagements royaux, mais sa présence n'était plus aussi importante qu'avant.

Pendant cette période difficile, les médias semblaient être du côté de Charles, tandis que Diana recevait des critiques sévères pour sa façon d'agir. Pendant qu'elle prenait le temps de grandir par elle-même, Diana a trouvé sa voix. Selon iNews, Diana a travaillé pour trouver le courage de parler des problèmes qu'elle rencontrait en utilisant les médias à son avantage.

L'interview de Diana sur la BBC en 1995 avec le journaliste Martin Bashir lui a laissé un sentiment d'inadéquation après qu'elle a révélé ses problèmes de santé mentale et ses luttes au sein de son mariage, mais elle n'a reçu que peu de soutien. iNews a rapporté que de nombreuses personnes pensaient que la Princesse de Galles aurait dû « susciter la pitié en tant que victime aux yeux de biche de la presse vorace », mais qu'elle s'est plutôt rebellée, commettant des « crimes contre la royauté ».

Pendant de multiples périodes de leur relation, Diana avait exprimé qu'il y avait trois personnes dans sa relation, pointant du doigt la liaison de son mari avec Camilla, la Duchesse de Cornouailles. Diana et Charles ont tous deux eu des interviews publiques détaillant cette lutte, mais alors que Charles a été protégé par les médias, Diana a eu honte de parler si mal d'un membre de la famille royale.

Nicholas Soames a affirmé que Diana « était à un stade avancé de paranoïa », selon iNews. Il était ministre du gouvernement à l'époque. La féministe Bea Campbell a déclaré un jour « qu'ils ont représenté la mutinerie (de Diana) comme de la folie ». Pendant son interview de la BBC avec Bashir, Diana a parlé de ses expériences personnelles et de ses difficultés, mais elle a surtout été critiquée pour avoir mis ces questions en lumière. Il semble que les médias aient été du côté de Charles et l'aient soutenu pour avoir révélé sa liaison. Les médias se sont retournés contre Diana pour avoir exprimé ses propres pensées et sentiments sur le même sujet.

Entre 1992 et 1993, la Princesse de Galles a engagé un coach vocal, Peter Settlelen, pour l'aider à mieux développer sa voix en public. Elle s'est efforcée de devenir un meilleur personnage public, tout en parlant amèrement de Charles et de la façon dont il l'a traitée dans leur relation.

In December 1993, Diana made the decision to withdraw from the public but partially returned in the following year for the occasional commitment and appearance. The princess continued to work on herself and enlisted the help of voice coach Stewart Pearce. 

“She knew that her voice was not powerful,” Pearce told People in May 2021. “She knew that her voice was a voice of submission, not a voice of triumph. She wanted to find that.” After working on her confidence and sticking with Pearce, Diana found her voice of courage and triumph, especially while giving public speeches.

Although Diana is no longer with us, her attitude, dedication, and hard work have contributed to helping many people across the world overcome their own obstacles. People reported that the speech Harry gave when he left the royal family was extremely similar to his late mother’s, showcasing just how impactful her actions really were.

During her life, Diana always made her children her first priority and frequently included them in her royal outings. The Independent reported that Diana took William with her on her first overseas tour in 1983 when he was only nine months old. In April 1985, Charles and Diana took both of their sons on a 17-day tour of Italy; Harry was only seven months old at the time.

The Princess of Wales also did many normal activities with her sons, such as going to the movies, visiting amusement parks, and enjoying standard day-to-day activities with each other. Harry explained that her motto was: “You can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught.”

No matter how many years pass, it’s evident that the Princess of Wales will never be forgotten. Following Diana’s tragic death, many of her family members paid tribute to honor the late princess. On July 1, 2021, William and Harry came together at Kensington Palace to commemorate and unveil a statue of their mother on what would have been her 60th birthday. 

The Spencer family has also done their part to pay tribute to Diana. Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, took to Instagram to post a photo of the Spencer family home that flew a flag at half-mast in honor of his sister’s passing. Spencer has continued to be quite thoughtful when it comes to remembering his sister on her birthday and death anniversary. 

According to Hello! Magazine, Diana’s brother said:

“I remember my father always used to talk about the day Diana was born actually, the July, 1, 1961, and it was a sweltering hot day and this wonderful daughter appeared and it’s so funny to be of an age now where your slightly older sister is 60 but yes, it will be an emotional day but, you know, I think it will be a tribute to a much missed and much loved sister, mother, whatever.”

Diana’s final resting place is at Althorp House, a place that Spencer visits often. He said:

“I do, and every landmark day, such as birthday, or Mother’s Day I always take flowers, of course, and I do go to a lot and take the children over. It’s an oasis of calm, actually. It’s a lovely place to go.”

In June 2021, a team of medical professionals spoke out to explain what happened in the early hours of the morning on the day that the Princess of Wales died. The Independent reported that the doctors said they tried “everything possible” to revive her. Dr. MonSef Dahman was a general surgeon at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and was told upon arrival that he would be treating Diana.

“It only took that moment for all this unusual activity to become clear to me,” he said. Dahman continued, “For any doctor, any surgeon, it is of very great importance to be faced with such a young woman who is in this condition. But of course even more so if she is a princess.” After taking an X-ray, the doctor found that Diana was suffering from “very serious internal bleeding,” so he tried to remove the excess fluid from her chest cavity and gave her an external heart massage and emergency surgery to “enable her to breathe.”

The Independent reported that Diana had suffered a significant tear in her pericardium, which protects the heart. Professor Alain Pavie, a heart surgeon, arrived to help save Diana and discovered that she had a tear in her upper left pulmonary vein. Although Pavie was able to stitch up the lesion, Diana’s heart had already stopped and would not restart.

Professors Riou and Pavie, and Dahman did all they could for a good hour to help save the princess, including electric shock, but nothing worked. Dahman revealed that not being able to save the Princess of Wales affected him “very much.”

Another person had been in the tragic car accident that took Diana’s life: her then-boyfriend, Fayed. Fayed was known for being an Egyptian film producer, as well as the son of a billionaire named Mohamed Al-Fayed. 

Fayed and Diana had just started dating a few weeks earlier and spent a total of nine days together on a romantic vacation. The couple actually started their last day together with a relaxed breakfast on Italy’s Emerald Coast, located on the island of Sardinia. The pair had been spotted holding hands and laughing at the time.

Later that day, Diana told a friend named Richard Kay that she was going to completely withdraw from public life within the next 12 months, something that she had already slowly been doing. According to the Washington Post, it was believed that the Princess of Wales wanted to focus on her private life with Fayed, and he had planned to propose to her that coming evening. Sadly, Fayed’s hopes to marry the princess never materialized.

As soon as the couple arrived in Paris that afternoon, they were quickly spotted by paparazzi, who seemingly followed Diana and Fayed’s every move. Growing frustrated with the increase in paparazzi as the day went on, Fayed tried to figure out how to get himself and Diana back to his apartment, where he planned to propose. The couple managed to slip out the back door of the Ritz and entered a car that was driven by Henri Paul, a hotel security officer who was drunk, unbeknownst to Diana and Fayed. 

The paparazzi quickly caught on to the plan and chased the car through the Parisian streets. At 12:23 a.m., the car struck a wall before colliding with a pillar. Fayed died instantly. According to USA Today, Diana was initially alert but later went into cardiac arrest and died a few hours later.

In 2005, a bronze statue was unveiled at Harrods, a department store in London, to honor Diana and Fayed eight years after they died. According to CNN, Mohamed was the owner of Harrods and wanted to create something to remember his son and Diana. Mohamed said:

“Many thousands of people have written to me over the last several years thanking me for remembering the lives of Dodi and Diana with the memorial at Harrods. In the absence of any further official memorial for these two innocent victims… I wanted to keep their spirits alive with a further gesture.”

Unfortunately, not everyone was a fan of the lovers. According to a 2010 article from the Guardian, Tony Blair – the former Prime Minister of the UK who gave Diana the moniker as the “People’s Princess” – had told Diana that her relationship with Fayed was a problem. “It had not been all that easy,” he said, explaining that the Princess of Wales did not like him interfering with her relationship. 

Diana’s good deeds and legacy have continued to live on, as well as her previous dating history and complications within her personal life. Although she and Fayed did not get much time together, it’s clear that they loved each other and will continue to be remembered.

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