Maureen, Scotland

Forgive me for writing to you at your family address, but when I saw it printed in a newspaper I felt compelled to write directly to your home. I wrote once before to you via Harrods, when  offering condolences on the death of your son Dodi, and you were gracious enough to respond at a most sensitive and emotional time.

I have read recently (like millions of others), extracts from Princess Diana’s letters to your son Dodi. Yes, some people such as Rosa Monckton and Mrs Goldsmith have said that Princess Diana always wrote in a warm and effusive manner - the extracts testify that - but the one thing that stands out above everything is the gift she gave to your son Dodi. The gift of her dear father’s cufflinks. This is like a letter in itself; it speaks volumes! Any woman of man with a modicum of intelligence would understand the significance of the cufflinks. The Princess could have given many items, but she chose, instead, to offer the last gift her father gave to her.

Mr Al Fayed, you don’t need me to tell you that for the Princess, these represented the most precious thing she gave to your son Dodi – her love.

No woman on earth who loved her father and mourned him in the way Princess Diana did would ever have give such a gift lightly. She gave them because they was precious to her, and she would have known your son Dodi would understand, that her giving him something so precious (not in monetary terms), to her said ‘I love you’.

Only a poor, deluded fool, or a liar, would think otherwise. It seemed to me that Rosa Monckton was left reeling at this disclosure, indeed there are quite a few who much be feeling ‘out of the loop’ now, as they obviously were too in 1997.

I wish you love and God’s prayers and peace for both you and your family.

Maureen, Scotland

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