Mohamed al Fayed gives up his 10-and-a-half-year legal quest to prove that
Diana, Princess of Wales and his son Dodi Fayed were murdered by the security
services. 

PARIS, FRANCE -

Mohamed al Fayed on Tuesday (April 8) abandoned his
10-and-a-half-year legal quest to prove that Diana, Princess of Wales and his
son Dodi Fayed were murdered by the security services.
    The Harrods owner said he was doing so for the sake of her sons,
Princes William and Harry.
    "After long thoughts and seeing what happened after the verdict, I
have decided, I think it is time for me now. I accept the verdict, " Al
Fayed said in a TV interview.
    "For the sake of the two princes who, I know, they love their
mother, how close they be, I saw them, including in the holiday, and I'm sure
they are blessing, in their deep heart, what I am doing to discover the
truth," he added.
    A British inquest on Monday (April 7) found Princess Diana and her
lover Dodi al-Fayed were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of
their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing them into a Paris road
tunnel 10 years ago.
    The jury reached their decision after deliberating for four days in a
case that sparked worldwide media interest.
    A decade after the death of the world's most photographed woman at 36,
Britain's former police chief said he hoped this would finally bring closure
to the tragedy and lay to rest conspiracy theories swirling around the case.

    On the evening they died, Diana and Dodi fled from the back entrance of
the Ritz Hotel in Paris in a futile effort to avoid swarms of photographers.

    The paparazzi pursued the couple on high-powered motorbikes into the
Alma tunnel and took pictures of the dying princess in the wrecked Mercedes
after it smashed into pillar 13.
    Dodi's father, luxury store owner Mohamed al-Fayed, had for years
accused Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law,
of ordering British security services to kill her and stop her marrying a
Muslim and having his baby.
    Few details of Diana's private life were spared as friends, family,
faith healers, spies, bodyguards, police chiefs and butlers were called to
give their opinion.
    It was delayed for 10 years because Britain had to wait for the French
legal process and then a British police investigation to run their course
before it could begin. Both police inquiries concluded the crash was a tragic
accident caused by Paul being drunk and driving too fast.

    The inquest, estimated to have cost up to 20 million U.S. dollars,
stretched around the globe with witnesses heard by video link from France, the
United States, Nigeria, Kenya and Australia.