Fayed made indecent proposal that left Diana shaking, reveals Paul Burrell
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She branded him 'creepy' and 'slimy'
(Web Desk) - Prolific sexual predator Fayed once made an indecent proposal to Princess Diana that left her sickened, her former butler revealed.
Paul Burrell said Diana, who died with the tycoon’s son in a Paris car crash in August 1997, was left shaking after the encounter with the man she called a “creep”.
The incident came before she began a relationship with Dodi.
Burrell said Fayed, who is believed to have attacked hundreds of women, told Diana: “I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first.”
He then boasted: “I’m going to sleep with you.”
Burrell, 66, added that the princess referred to the former Harrods tycoon as “Yoda” after the wrinkly green Star Wars character — and “God” because of his rampant ego.
She also branded him “creepy” and “slimy” and complained: “He’s always putting his hands on me”, Burrell added.
He said Fayed, who died last year aged 94, had courted Diana since 1986 when he met her at a polo match sponsored by Harrods.
Burrell said he was disgusted on hearing the unsavoury “sleep with you” remark by sleazy Fayed — who was then in his 60s and almost twice Diana’s age.
He said: “I was in the car when she came running out from his office shaking and told me, and these are her exact words, that he said, ‘I want you to marry my son because in Egyptian tradition, the father goes first’.
“He said, ‘I’m going to sleep with you’. She then said in shock, ‘Can you imagine making love to Yoda?’.
“That’s what she called him. I was disgusted by his behaviour.
“Diana was repulsed by the thought of having to surrender to him. By making that comment, he was setting the stage for that encounter and he was serious.
“He thought that was his right and that it would actually happen — that he would actually sleep with the Princess of Wales. And that was always in her mind all through her romance with Dodi.”
Fayed lavished Diana with gifts, let her use a secret entrance into his Knightsbridge store, and became a confidant and father figure.
Harrods vans would arrive at Kensington Palace with the latest gadgets and computer games which Diana sent back only for a lackey to arrive on foot with more parcels.
Burrell, who worked for Diana from 1987 to 1997, said billionaire Fayed was trying to soften her up and exploit her vulnerability.
In 1995, the year Fayed is said to have made his indecent offer, she gave a TV interview in which she spoke about her struggling marriage to Charles and her mental health.
