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Diana's Letters Shed Light on Ties to Dodi

Doomed royal's correspondence refers to 'heart-felt joy'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 14, 2007 11:18 AM CST
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(Newser) – Letters from Princess Diana to Dodi Al-Fayed produced at the inquest into the couple's 1997 deaths show that they were in a serious relationship, according to his father's lawyer. In one letter, Diana thanks "darling Dodi" for "bringing such heart-felt joy into this particular chick's life," the BBC reports.

A “close friend” of Diana's agreed the letters showed intimacy but insisted they were not evidence that the pair was en route to marriage, and she testified that Diana was not pregnant. The princess “tended to speak and write in an extravagant way,” she said. Mohamed Al-Fayed claims Prince Philip plotted to murder the couple. 

This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales at the High Court in...
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to...   (Associated Press)
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales at the High Court in...
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to...   (Associated Press)
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales at the High Court in...
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 is a picture of correspondence shown to...   (Associated Press)
This image made available Wednesday Oct. 3, 2007, from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed is made from CCTV footage showing Diana, Princess of Wales with Dodi Fayed in the lift at the Ritz Hotel the afternoon before they...
This image made available Wednesday Oct. 3, 2007, from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed is made from CCTV footage showing Diana, Princess of...   (Associated Press)
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, The Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed leave the Ritz Hotel in Paris, on Aug. 30,...
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007,...   (Associated Press)
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, The Princess of Wales leaves the Ritz Hotel in Paris, on Aug. 30, 1997, shortly before...
In this image by photographer Jacques Langevin, and made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007,...   (Associated Press)
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Prince Philip offered to help his daughter-in-law
Times (UK)

Mohamed Al-Fayed's own take on the inquest
AlFayed.com

 
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