Inside the Surreal Final Days of Princess Diana’s Life

How much time did Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana actually spend together?

After that sad sojourn, Dodi picked Diana up in London and they helicoptered to Paris, where they spent the weekend at the Ritz Hotel, another property owned by Dodi’s father.

That managed to be quite private, with Ritz security enlisted to keep photographers off the scent, but on July 31 the pair embarked on a six-day Mediterranean cruise aboard Mohamed’s yacht, where the long-lens shots of the pair canoodling on deck went 1997-era viral.

Dodi’s scorned ex Kelly held a press conference in Beverly Hills on Aug. 13 to announce that she was suing him for breach of contract, alleging he’d offered her a six-figure sum to put her modeling career aside so she could focus on being with him full-time.

Meanwhile, British tabloids were ablaze with reports that Dodi—whom The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown called a “haphazard playboy”—was quite serious about Diana and she, in turn, was in love.