Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s alleged lover Dodi \u2013 is thought to have passed away on 31 August \u2013 exactly 26 years to the day that his son, 42, was killed with Di, 36, in their Paris car smash. <\/p>\nA source told the Daily Mail a funeral service was held for the Egyptian tycoon at London Central Mosque in Regent\u2019s Park on Friday (01.09.23), which apparently followed Islamic conventions to bury the dead within 24 hours. <\/p>\n
Insiders also told the publication he passed away on Thursday (31.08.23) night, and that Janazah \u2013 funeral \u2013 prayers were held at the mosque the following day. <\/p>\n
A source said: \u201cThe service went ahead as planned. The prayers were held in the mosque after Friday prayer \u2013 the prayer for the deceased. <\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s believed he went to his grave believing Diana and Dodi were killed as part of a wide-reaching conspiracy to stop an Egyptian entering the Royal Family and having a child with Diana. <\/p>\n
\nDiana and Dodi left the Ritz hotel in Paris in the early hours of 31 August and were being driven away from paparazzi by Henri Paul, the deputy head of security at the hotel, when the chauffeur lost control of the car and struck a pillar in the Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel while speeding at around 65mph. <\/p>\n
\nMohamed funded a huge private probe into the crash, but a 2008 inquest concluded his son and Diana were unlawfully killed by a combination of Henri Paul\u2019s driving under the influence of alcohol and the fact neither were wearing seatbelts. <\/p>\n
\nBut Mohamed is famously said to have told Press outside the court at the end of the inquest: \u201cThe most important thing is it\u2019s murder.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nSome believe Diana and Dodi were engaged at the time of their deaths \u2013 with other unsubstantiated theories saying she was pregnant. <\/p>\n
\nAlong with owning Harrods, Mohamed is famed for previously buying Premier League club Fulham. <\/p>\n
\nHe invited Princess Diana with her sons Prince William and Prince Harry to join his family on their yacht the Jonikal \u2013 where Dodi and Diana got close before their deaths. <\/p>\n
\nHe\u2019s said to have believed the couple were just hours away from announcing their engagement when they were killed. <\/p>\n
\nBorn in 1929, Mohamed grew up in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, Mohammed married author Samira Kashoggi in 1954 and worked for her arms dealer brother Adnan Khashoggi, before launching a successful shipping company in Egypt. <\/p>\n
\nDodi was born a year later and Mohamed went on to work as a financial adviser to the Sultan of Brunei in 1966, before he arrived in Britain in 1974. <\/p>\n
\nFive years later, the businessman bought the Ritz hotel in Paris, before he and his brother Ali made purchased a 30 per cent stake in House of Fraser. <\/p>\n
\nThis included the famous Knightsbridge store Harrods, which they went on to buy outright \u00a3615 million. <\/p>\n
\nMohamed sold the flagship London store in 2010 for \u00a31.5 billion to Qatari Holdings. <\/p>\n
\nHe had four children with Finnish model and actress Heini Wathem, 68, who he married in 1985 \u2013 and he has five children in total, including one from his first marriage to Samira. <\/p>\n
\nHis net worth is said to have been \u00a31.3 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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