Would Diana have accepted? It’s impossible to know, although Richard Kay, a royal reporter who Diana called in the hours before her death, has an inkling. Kay later interviewed Diana’s private secretary, who thought Diana would have soon called it off. “It’s very much a personal view,” she is reported to have said, “but I don’t think she would have seen Dodi again once she got back.”Sadly, the world will never know.
After leaving the Ritz Paris in the early morning hours of August 31, 1997, Diana and Dodi were chased by paparazzi into the Pont de l’Alma tunnel—and the rest is tragic indelible history. Yet, the couple’s inability to move freely without cameras marked the beginning of the tragic circumstances leading to their deaths.
