Dodi was to propose on night of crash, inquiry told

PRINCESS DIANA was planning to announce her engagement to her partner Dodi Al-Fayed when they were killed in a car crash eight years ago.

The inquiry into her death was told the couple were on their way to Dodi’s Paris apartment, where he planned to propose to her with a €191,000 ring when tragedy struck on August 31, 1997.

Monte Carlo-based jeweller Alberto Repossi told Scotland Yard police that the Princess had already picked out the emerald- and diamond-encrusted ring.