{"id":68799,"date":"2023-11-17T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=68799"},"modified":"2023-11-17T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:25:00","slug":"we-look-at-whether-mohamed-al-fayed-really-want-to-join-the-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/we-look-at-whether-mohamed-al-fayed-really-want-to-join-the-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"We look at whether Mohamed Al-Fayed really want to join\u00a0the\u00a0Royal Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from all seasons of The Crown<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Season six, part one of The Crown has landed and sees Mohamed Al-Fayed (played by Salim Daw) continuing his plans to get closer to the British establishment and high society.<\/p>\n

Season five showed how he was sponsoring the Windsor Horse Show and purchasing Harrods as he tried to ingratiate himself with the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

He even struck up a rapport with Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) after Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) asked her to speak to him.<\/p>\n

Season six saw Mohamed inviting Princess Diana onto a luxury yacht he owned in St Tropez to allow her to have a summer getaway with her sons Princes William (Rufus Kampa) and Harry (Fflyn Edwards).<\/p>\n

He was also telling his son to start a romance with Princess Diana despite Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) already engaged to American model Kelly Fisher (Erin Richards). But how much of this social climbing ambition was real and how much was simply created by the writers?<\/p>\n

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Did Mohamed Al-Fayed really want to join\u00a0the\u00a0Royal Family?<\/h2>\n

Speaking to Daily Express exclusively, historical and royal expert Marlene Koenig said: \u201cWell, he would never have been a part of the Royal Family. He was keen to join the establishment, that was his whole gig.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, it turned out with the Conservatives’ [Cash for questions] investigation, he made up his own wealthy ancestors.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was known as the \u2018Phoney pharaoh\u2019. He added the \u2018Al\u2019 to his name, which he had no entitlement to and he was very, very rich, made his [own] money.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he was denied British citizenship over and over again. So he was never fully accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u2018Al\u2019 was thought to have been added by the Egyptian entrepreneur to invoke connotations of the aristocracy, similar to \u2018de\u2019 in French or \u2018von\u2019 in German, but most of the family reverted back to using their original surname \u2018Fayed\u2019 in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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Koenig went on to say: \u201cAlthough for a time period he sponsored the Royal Windsor Horse Show for a number of years up until Diana\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then it was severed because he was making claims in the inquest – many different things. He accused the Queen and Philip of killing Diana, he called Philip a Nazi and a racist, which he wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koenig continued: \u201cHe lost his beloved son and he wasn\u2019t willing to accept the driver that was provided was drunk and nobody had seatbelts on and that of course played a big role.\u201d<\/p>\n