Camilla Al Fayed Remembers Kind & Gentle Dodi & Diana
Written by Joanne Leyland
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
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Camilla Al Fayed, now increasingly famous in her own right as a new generation of socialite 'It-girl', has been speaking publicly for the first time about the traumatic hours and days following the death of her brother, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
The daughter of Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed and his wife, Heini, was just 12 years old when the her brother, the Princess and their chauffeur, Henri Paul, were killed in the Paris car crash.
Speaking to society magazine Tatler, 21-year-old Camilla — who was recently awarded the job of fashion commentator on British breakfast show GMTV — recalls the night of August 31st 1997, saying of the moment she was informed of Dodi's death: "I was at home in Surrey and my sister was the first person to tell me."
"It was like a bomb hit my house. It was very, very difficult to see my parents so broken – you don’t expect that from your father. Something just changed over 24 hours. We fell apart."
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