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The magazine says that Paul is listed by French domestic intelligence, the Renseignements Generaux, as an occasional informer.
Other reports say he kept an eye on suspicious foreigners for the authorities. His relations with the local police commissariat were so cosy that he got friends' traffic tickets annulled in exchange for a little foie gras from the Ritz. Although the British royal family, the Spencers and the surviving bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, another al-Fayed employee, are not likely to sue the Egyptian billionaire for damages, the moral stigma attached to such a finding would be devastating.
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Subscriber Only. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox: ticking the boxes. What should any one of us be expected to do to avert climate catastrophe? Music Quiz. The Books Podcast. Culture Videos. Sign up. Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture. Mr Rees later set up shop working as a security consultant. In he worked with the United Nations in East Timor and later, in , was working in war-torn Iraq where he helped protect foreign workers.
In , Diana's former bodyguard Ken Wharfe claimed his security team would never have let the royal get in the Mercedes that night and laid fault for her death with the bodyguards. Our department had the care of her personal safety for some 15 years: Fayed's crew were in charge of her security for just eight weeks before she died," Mr Wharfe wrote in the Daily Mail When he was first appointed by the Fayed family to guard Diana in France, Scotland Yard could have informally provided Rees-Jones with a briefing.
He appeared to think in terms of his army days, describing the press as 'the enemy' and referring to photographers as if they were 'snipers' with their long lenses like rifle barrels. In , a British inquest was finally held into the death of Diana, and Mr Rees shared what he could recall of the terrible night, saying: "I have a memory of stopping at traffic lights and seeing a motorcycle on the right hand side of the car.
I'm not sure about the other vehicles, but I can remember this motorcycle very clearly. I don't remember the pain but in my head there was a lot of confusion. On the other hand, if there was no-one else there apart from us, I conclude that it was Princess Diana as it was a female voice.
However, he then cast slight doubt over his own recollections, saying: "These memories are vague and I myself doubt them, but I'm mentioning them as these memories are coming back to me repeatedly. He also denied Mr Al-Fayed's claims that Dodi was about to propose to Diana and also refuted the allegations that the crash was the work of MI6 agents, saying: "I am not part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth at all.
All I have ever done is give the truth as I see it. Another key witness at the inquest was Mr Wingfield, the other bodyguard there that night. He testified he and Rees had both been travelling with Dodi and Diana for more than a week and knew they were being hounded by the paparazzi. Two decades after a car crash in Paris claimed her life and stunned the world, we reflect on Diana's life and legacy. Remembering Princess Diana: 20 years later. The 'People's Princess'. How Diana transformed Britain's royal family.
Diana's life and legacy, in photos. Her hands-on mothering broke royal tradition. Diana's media storm. Shy Di hounded by the press after date.
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