Posted on 09/01/2023 2:08:06 PM PDT by RandFan
Mohamed Al Fayed, the Egyptian-born businessman who owned the department store Harrods, has died aged 94.
His death comes almost 26 years to the day after the car crash in Paris that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997.
Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the son of a schoolteacher. In his homeland, he launched his own shipping business, before becoming an adviser to one of the world’s richest men, the Sultan of Brunei, in 1966.
When he arrived in the UK in the 1970s, he joined the board of the mining conglomerate Lonrho in 1975, but left nine months later. In 1979, with his brother Ali, he bought the Paris Ritz Hotel.
The Fayeds’ next target became Harrods and in 1985, the brothers succeeded in clinching a £615m takeover bid of the store in Knightsbridge.
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Wow. I didn’t know he was that old.
Loved his store!
Had no clue who he was until Princess Di was killed
Yesterday was the 26th anniversary of Diana’s death.
“Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales—affectionately known as “the People’s Princess”—dies in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. Her boyfriend, the Egyptian-born socialite Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the car, Henri Paul, died as well.”
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/princess-diana-dies-in-car-crash-paris
>RIP Mr Al Fayed now reunited with his son who the Deep State killed.<
United in death, yes.
Not united with anyone if he didn’t call on the LORD.
That’s exactly what I meant.
Yes, they are both united in death and if they didn’t know Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are united in hell.
Diana alerted the paps, from the restaurant she and Doddie had eaten in and had a rowdy, LOUD, fight in.
Neither she nor Doddie wore a seatbelt, but the drunk driver of their car did and he survived, when they crashed, in Di's then insistence that he try to "loose" the cars following them.
Dodie’s daddy, rip.
you think i am going to hell because i’m not born again? Good for you.
What a really nice man and I love Harrod’s
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