The Crown: Mohamed Al Fayed’s Pursuit of Princess Diana, and Dodi Fayed’s Role

Mohamed Al Fayed makes his grand entrance to The Crown’s lavish universe in the fifth-season episode “Mou Mou,” which rewinds seven decades to the businessman’s humble beginnings selling Coca-Cola in the slums of Egypt. The flashback is ironic given that the controversial figure—who restored Paris’s Ritz hotel and revamped London’s Harrods department store in the ’80s, allegedly manipulated the brief romance between his son Emad “Dodi” Al Fayed and Princess Diana in the ’90s, and sensationally accused the British royal family of plotting to kill the couple in the ’00s—spent much of his life trying to stamp out his actual… Read Full Article