Princess Diana considered alleged sexual abuser Mohamed Al Fayed ‘slimy’ and a ‘creep’, nicknaming him ‘Yoda’ after the Star Wars character, it has been reported
Princess Diana with Mohamed Al Fayed (
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Mohamed Al Fayed left Princess Diana shaking after making her a sickening proposal, according to former butler Paul Burrell.
Diana, who was with the multi-millionaire’s son when she tragically died in a car crash in Paris, reportedly called the tycoon a “creep” following the incident which happened before her relationship with Dodi.
Paul Burrell reportedly said Al Fayed told the Princess: “I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first.” Burrell added that he then boasted: “I’m going to sleep with you”.
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Burrell claimed Diana said the Harrods owner was like Star Wars character “Yoda” and “God” due to the high opinion he had of himself. She also said he would often touch her without her consent, he claimed.
Mohamed Al Fayed’s chilling nickname for Princess Diana as she was left ‘shaking’
Mohamed Al Fayed later tried to become a father figure to the late Princess (
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The pair had first met at a polo match sponsored by the Knightsbridge megastore back in 1986. Burrell said he was disgusted by the remarks at the time considering he was almost twice her age.
He told The Sun: “I was in the car when she came running out from his office shaking and told me, and these are her exact words, that he said, ‘I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first’. He said, ‘I’m going to sleep with you’. She then said in shock, ‘Can you imagine making love to Yoda?’.
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Burrell claimed that Diana was also disgusted by the thought, and felt he had been seriously “setting the stage for that encounter”. The idea that he believed he would actually sleep with the royal troubled her throughout her relationship with Dodi.
Diana was bombarded with gifts, with the tycoon muscling in as a father figure later in their relationship. He would arrange for Harrods vans to be sent to Kensington Palace crammed full of gadgets. Diana would return them but runners would return with more parcels on foot.
Mohamed Al Fayed was accused of rape and sexual assault by 19 different women when he was alive, Scotland Yard revealed last week.
The victims came forward to the force between 2005 and 2023 but Al Fayed was never charged before he died aged 94 last year. The offences were alleged to have taken place between 1979 and 2013.
Three were allegations of rape, 15 were sexual assault and one related to trafficking. The Met Police said in a statement on Thursday: “At this time we have identified 19 allegations which resulted in crimes being recorded involving Al Fayed relating to 19 separate women that were reported to the Met between 2005 and 2023.
“Between 2005 and 2023 we approached the Crown Prosecution Service on five occasions – two of these, in 2009 and 2015, were to pass full files of evidence. The remaining three approaches were for early investigative advice. In all 19 allegations that were reported to police there was no further action taken against Mohamed Al Fayed.”
