Al Fayed Had Cursed Harrods Royal Warrants Burned

[Raistlin]

Former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has revealed he ordered the store's royal warrants to be destroyed in 2000.

He said the endorsements, from the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and the late Queen Mother, were a "curse" on the store.

The billionaire also called for a "fitting" public memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, and his son Dodi, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

Mr Al Fayed made the comments in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph.

The Egyptian-born tycoon sold the Knightsbridge department store for £1.5bn to the Qatari royal family in May.

Harrods first had a royal warrant in 1913 and each one was reviewed every five years.

Renewal generally depends on how much the shop in question is being used by the Royal Family.

Mr Al Fayed wants the new owners to keep two memorials inside the store

The four royal warrants at Harrods were taken down and burned 10 years ago.

At the time the businessman said he decided to not renew the warrants, saying that since neither the Queen, nor Prince Charles had shopped there for several years, continuing to display them would have been "totally misleading and hypocritical".

He added: "I ordered their removal. Later, I had them burned. They were a curse and business tripled following their removal."

In the letter, written in response to a Sunday Telegraph columnist, Mr Al Fayed called for the new owners to keep two memorials inside the store to his son and the princess.

"Unless and until this country gives the princess the thanks and devotion she deserves in the form of a fitting public memorial, this statue, Innocent Victims, should remain to remind the world of what was lost when two young people who were on the brink of happiness together, were killed."

Mr Al Fayed said that a memorial to the late princess, a fountain in Hyde Park, was "misconceived".

He added: "With regard to the Royal Family visiting Harrods again, I doubt they would dare to show their faces."

A spokeswoman for the Prince of Wales did not wish to comment when contacted by the BBC.

Mr Al Fayed waged a lengthy campaign to prove that Princess Diana and his son Dodi were murdered in a conspiracy.

[Bizarra]

I don't know whether he is right or not, but the death of the Princess was convenient , un timely & leaves many questions to be answered , & never will be. :(

[Raistlin]

I don't know whether he is right or not, but the death of the Princess was convenient , un timely & leaves many questions to be answered , & never will be.

So it's time to let it go, every time he opens his mouth he takes away kudos from her,

He was nothing to her just because his son was shagging her...

[Bizarra]

"# Al Fayed Had Cursed Harrods Royal Warrants Burned by

Raistlin"

As stated in "Latest posts" What's he been and gone and done now? :lol2:

[bothwell_buyer]

Curses are interesting things.

However there could be a debate around whether the curse has worked or whether the cursed person/entity was just getting what it deserved.

As far as finding out the possible interventions of others, we just need to consider the reviews of some of the 'trials' of so-called terrorists to realise that the truth does come out... but in a recent case, some 38 years later!! I could be sceptical, but it seems the truth comes out when those telling the lies/supressing truth have been given their pension/died/or been awarded a 'gong' - (why does a gong seem to be so popular with one?)

I could give some examples, but at this time (04.37) I am not dead nor been awarded a gong altho I have had my pension since aged 44 (years).

PD (PD) may have been done away with, a bit like the bold scientist whose unfortunate death is back in the papers just now. The coroner said his death was a classic text book suicide - whilst an obvious comment to make as to change it would be to admit gross negligence and thus getting struck off whatever coroners get sruck by, I have never heard of any suicide using a classic text book.

I have heard of death through exhaustion following an attempt to cut ones throat with a bit of wet sandpaper...but a classic text book? NO!