Mohamed Al Fayed made indecent proposal that left Princess Diana 'shaking'
Mohamed Fayed made an indecent proposal that left Princess Diana shaking, Paul Burrell has said. Burrell, the former ITV I'm A Celebrity star, says she dubbed the tycoon, who was the owner of Harrods department store, ‘Yoda’.
Burrell said Diana, who died with the tycoon’s son in a Paris car crash in August 1997, was left shaking after the encounter with the man she called a “creep”. Burrell said Fayed, who is believed to have attacked hundreds of women, told Diana: “I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first.”
He then boasted: “I’m going to sleep with you.” Diana branded him “creepy” and “slimy” and complained: “He’s always putting his hands on me”, Burrell added, discussing the claims and allegations against the Harrods owner which have emerged this week.
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He said: “I was in the car when she came running out from his office shaking and told me, and these are her exact words, that he said, ‘I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first’. He said, ‘I’m going to sleep with you’. She then said in shock, ‘Can you imagine making love to Yoda?’.
“That’s what she called him. I was disgusted by his behaviour. Diana was repulsed by the thought of having to surrender to him. By making that comment, he was setting the stage for that encounter and he was serious.
“He thought that was his right and that it would actually happen — that he would actually sleep with the Princess of Wales. And that was always in her mind all through her romance with Dodi.” She said: “I told her to be careful of him and not to trust him.
“She agreed. She said to me, ‘Like Jackie Kennedy, I need to find an Onassis who’ll keep me safe’.”