Fayed and his father were viewed here as Onassis-like characters, super-rich outsiders in Camelot.
When the 41-year-old playboy fell for Diana this summer and whisked her to the Mediterranean on his father's 190-foot yacht, a friend of his said, "He sees himself as Aristotle Onassis and Diana as his Jackie O."
Diana apparently felt the same way. "I think Di understands why Jackie Kennedy married Onassis," the Daily Mail's royal watcher, Richard Kay, wrote at the time. "There was this extraordinary circus around her, and he offered the opportunity to get away from it." --In Memory Dodi Al-Fayed
Many years ago, my husband and I had a home on Cat Cay, a favorite port o’ call for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Many of the individuals there were truly decent, honorable, first-class. And many were not.