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Diana Jury Watches Dodi Buying 'Engagement Ring'

Inquest shown footage of lover at Paris jeweler

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Oct 18, 2007 5:13 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The jury hearing inquiries into the 1997 death of Princess Diana saw footage today of the princess' lover at a Paris jewelers hours before the couple died in a car accident. Dodi Fayed's father claims his son was purchasing an engagement ring to propose to Diana that night. The jury was also shown a $23,500 receipt from that same date.

One such ring was also found in Dodi Fayed's apartment after his death. Fayed left the Repossi store empty-handed, but a hotel employee returned to make a purchase. Mohamed Fayed claims the British government ordered his son and Diana murdered; French and British investigations pinned responsibility on their driver, drunk at the time of the fatal car accident.

Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St. Tropez in this Aug. 22, 1997 file photo. The British inquest into the death of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed opened Tuesday Oct. 2, 2007 with the selection...
Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St. Tropez in this Aug. 22, 1997 file photo. The British inquest into the death of Princess Diana...   (Associated Press)
This image taken from CCTV footage made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows Dodi Fayed, bottom left, inside the Paris branch of the famous Monte Carlo jewellers Alberto Repossi, surrounded...
This image taken from CCTV footage made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows Dodi Fayed,...   (Associated Press)
This image take from CCTV footage made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows Dodi Fayed, second from bottom, hands in pockets, inside the Paris branch of the famous Monte Carlo...
This image take from CCTV footage made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows Dodi Fayed,...   (Associated Press)
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows a receipt from the Paris branch of the famous Monte Carlo jeweller Alberto Repossi, which belonged to Dodi Fayed. Dodi Fayed's father,...
This image made available from evidence presented at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed in London, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, shows a receipt from the Paris branch of...   (Associated Press)
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