Investigation: Revelations on the ultimate secret of Lady Di<

There is more than one way to celebrate the cult of Diana in London. A fountain is dedicated to him in the heart of Hyde Park; nearby, a playground bears her name and souvenir shops sell the official “Princess Diana” tartan. But the busiest memorial is in the basement of Harrods, the department store that belonged from 1985 to 2010 to Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of the last man in Diana's life, Dodi Al-Fayed. Inaugurated shortly after the accident which cost the lives of Diana and Dodi on August 31, 1997, it now has its place among the historical monuments of the city.

The clerk at Harrods politely points it out to me: “Downstairs right, then you walk through the shoe department. The mausoleum is made up of two color photographs, whose golden frames, in the shape of an intertwined D, are surmounted by an albatross, symbol of eternity. In front of the portraits, a transparent resin pyramid houses the famous (and controversial) engagement ring that Dodi is said to have given to Diana the day before they died and a preserved wine glass, according to the inscription, "as it was found after the couple's evening in the imperial suite of the Ritz hotel in Paris".

Mohamed Al-Fayed tried everything to keep his version of the relationship between Diana and Dodi alive. A self-proclaimed enemy of the British establishment, he has long maintained that his son was murdered by the secret service because he was a Muslim about to marry the mother of the future king of England; a plot which he claims involves members of the royal family. This version – according to which Diana was pregnant at the time of her death – has so permeated public opinion that even in 2008, more than ten years after the events, it almost obscured the conclusions of the judicial inquiry into the tragic accident. which, otherwise, would have been only a pure bureaucratic formality (recently, the thesis of the assassination was relaunched by remarks attributed to a former soldier who would have participated in it; the English police announced that they had undertaken checks).

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Diana's friends and confidants needed no investigation to rail against the absurdity of Al-Fayed's claims. For them, not only was Diana not pregnant with Dodi Al-Fayed, but she had no intention of marrying him, because she was, says one of her closest friends, "madly in love". another man, a discreet Pakistani surgeon named Hasnat Khan.

No monument celebrates their history. It was a secret, almost clandestine love. Hasnat Khan was as discreet as Dodi was demonstrative, as reserved as Dodi was exuberant, as serious as Dodi was carefree. Few people knew about his relationship with Diana, which lasted two years. They spent a lot of time at Kensington Palace, away from the lenses of the paparazzi, and when they ventured outside it was often in Chelsea, Hasnat's neighborhood, Diana dressed as a brunette behind glasses black.

Hasnat Khan is described as a serious man. At the time of their meeting, this young cardiac surgeon received a modest salary from the National Health Service. He worked ninety hours a week and, like most surgeons at this stage of their career, he had no ambitions when he got home but to sleep. Diana plunged headfirst into her almost too normal daily routine. Her friends say that she was busy in Hasnat's small studio doing the dishes and folding her laundry. Hasnat did not hunt or ride horses. A lover of Guinness and jazz, he took Diana to see shows late at night, and if necessary, they lined up outside the clubs. If they had a fight, Diana was quick to send her butler Paul Burrell to the Anglesea Arms, a pub in Chelsea, to mediate with Hasnat. It is difficult to imagine Dodi committing himself with the small staff.