Dodi Fayed

A British coroner is preparing an inquest into the death of Dodi Fayed, six years after he was killed with Princess Diana when their car crashed in a Paris tunnel, authorities said. Tim Edwards, a spokesman for Surrey County Council, said the coroner had not indicated that he would look into Diana's death. Buckingham Palace said an inquest into Diana's death would be held eventually. No date for either has been set.

A British coroner is preparing an inquest into the death of Dodi Fayed, six years after he was killed with Princess Diana when their car crashed in a Paris tunnel, authorities said. Tim Edwards, a spokesman for Surrey County Council, said the coroner had not indicated that he would look into Diana's death. Buckingham Palace said an inquest into Diana's death would be held eventually. No date for either has been set.

If there was a suitor who could offer Princess Diana some privacy and peace of mind in the style to which she was accustomed, it was Dodi Fayed. The son of the Egyptian self-made billionaire who owns the Harrods department store, Dodi had bodyguards and private planes. He had the use of 11 luxury homes from Manhattan to the French Riviera. And he got $100,000 a month from his father.

Under an upside-down American flag, actor Woody Harrelson arrived in Santa Barbara on Wednesday to a hero's welcome, completing the final leg of his 1,500-mile bike trip down the Pacific Coast. As he rolled into the college town, students surrounded Harrelson's rainbow-painted "mother ship," an old Chicago transit bus fueled by hemp, reeking of patchouli and outfitted with bunk beds.

Britain's star-crossed Princess Diana, newly in love after a bitter divorce from Prince Charles, and her companion, Harrods heir Dodi Fayed, died early today after their car crashed in a Paris tunnel, apparently while being chased by photographers. The death of the 36-year-old Diana was confirmed by both French and British sources just before dawn, 5 1/2 hours after the accident near the River Seine. Fayed, 41, died at the scene along with the car's driver.

Harrods owner Mohammed Fayed lashed out at Princess Diana's brother, calling it "disgraceful" that a museum opened this week to honor the late princess made no reference to Fayed's son, Dodi. Dodi Fayed, Diana's boyfriend, was killed with the princess Aug. 31 in a Paris car crash. The museum was opened Wednesday by Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, at Althorp, the family's ancestral home where the princess is buried.

Liz Smith's embittered exposition against Dodi Fayed confused me (" 'Stardom' Found in the End," Sept. 9). Why should an established gossip columnist such as herself be shocked that Fayed exchanged money for "connections"? Surely, stranger things have happened in Hollywood. Howard Stern, for instance, is universally heralded as the King of Media for his shameless ability to generate publicity. I find it rash and unfair that Smith chooses to speculate that Dodi Fayed is culpable in the death of Princess Diana.

Princess Diana was conscious and talking immediately after the Paris car crash that killed her and Dodi Fayed, the bodyguard who survived the Aug. 31 accident was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview. "I have had flashes of a female voice calling out in the back of the car. First it's a groan. Then Dodi's name is called. It could only have been Princess Diana. I was conscious, and so was she," Trevor Rees-Jones told the Mirror in his most extensive public comments since the crash.

After no additional blood tests were requested, a Paris magistrate gave permission for the body of the driver in the crash that killed Princess Diana to be buried, a family spokesman said. Henri Paul's burial, planned for last Saturday, had been abruptly canceled when his family asked that a third blood test be taken. Since then, the body had been in a Paris morgue.

A grieving family and loyal friends said goodbye Saturday to a chauffeur whom they cared to remember for more than his role in Princess Diana's death. Police kept hundreds of onlookers outside Saint Theresa's Church in the working-class western French town of Lorient, where 300 friends and family members of Henri Paul mourned in private. The Rev.

Harrods owner Mohammed Fayed lashed out at Princess Diana's brother, calling it "disgraceful" that a museum opened this week to honor the late princess made no reference to Fayed's son, Dodi. Dodi Fayed, Diana's boyfriend, was killed with the princess Aug. 31 in a Paris car crash. The museum was opened Wednesday by Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, at Althorp, the family's ancestral home where the princess is buried.

Princess Diana was conscious and talking immediately after the Paris car crash that killed her and Dodi Fayed, the bodyguard who survived the Aug. 31 accident was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview. "I have had flashes of a female voice calling out in the back of the car. First it's a groan. Then Dodi's name is called. It could only have been Princess Diana. I was conscious, and so was she," Trevor Rees-Jones told the Mirror in his most extensive public comments since the crash.

A grieving family and loyal friends said goodbye Saturday to a chauffeur whom they cared to remember for more than his role in Princess Diana's death. Police kept hundreds of onlookers outside Saint Theresa's Church in the working-class western French town of Lorient, where 300 friends and family members of Henri Paul mourned in private. The Rev.

Liz Smith's embittered exposition against Dodi Fayed confused me (" 'Stardom' Found in the End," Sept. 9). Why should an established gossip columnist such as herself be shocked that Fayed exchanged money for "connections"? Surely, stranger things have happened in Hollywood. Howard Stern, for instance, is universally heralded as the King of Media for his shameless ability to generate publicity. I find it rash and unfair that Smith chooses to speculate that Dodi Fayed is culpable in the death of Princess Diana.

After no additional blood tests were requested, a Paris magistrate gave permission for the body of the driver in the crash that killed Princess Diana to be buried, a family spokesman said. Henri Paul's burial, planned for last Saturday, had been abruptly canceled when his family asked that a third blood test be taken. Since then, the body had been in a Paris morgue.

Mohammed Fayed's lawyer conceded Thursday that Princess Diana's driver should not have taken the wheel if he was drunk, but he insisted that the photographers who followed her car were primarily to blame for the Aug. 31 crash that killed her, the driver and Fayed's son Dodi. Attorney Bernard Dartevelle said Fayed's Hotel Ritz, which employed driver Henri Paul, bears no responsibility for the crash.

One of the photographers under investigation for manslaughter after Princess Diana's fatal car accident Sunday said her companion, Dodi Fayed, had promised a photo session for the "press pack." "When we first gathered outside the Ritz Hotel [where the couple were dining], Dodi came out on the pavement himself and told us we could take pictures of them after the dinner," said Hungarian-born freelancer Laslo Veres, 54.

Under an upside-down American flag, actor Woody Harrelson arrived in Santa Barbara on Wednesday to a hero's welcome, completing the final leg of his 1,500-mile bike trip down the Pacific Coast. As he rolled into the college town, students surrounded Harrelson's rainbow-painted "mother ship," an old Chicago transit bus fueled by hemp, reeking of patchouli and outfitted with bunk beds.

Could Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana have married? Would she have changed her religion? Might a boy named Mohammed or a girl named Fatima have been the fruit of their union? These are questions being discussed in the press and on the streets of Egypt, Fayed's native land.

One of the photographers under investigation for manslaughter after Princess Diana's fatal car accident Sunday said her companion, Dodi Fayed, had promised a photo session for the "press pack." "When we first gathered outside the Ritz Hotel [where the couple were dining], Dodi came out on the pavement himself and told us we could take pictures of them after the dinner," said Hungarian-born freelancer Laslo Veres, 54.