Diana needed Dodi marriage ‘like a rash on my face’

PRINCESS DIANA confided in a close friend, days before the couple died in a car crash, that she needed marriage to Dodi Fayed “like a rash on my face”, her inquest heard yesterday.

Lady Annabel Goldsmith, 73, said she would never forget those words as it was the last thing the princess ever said to her.

Rumours were rife in the press that the princess and Dodi were about to get married and Lady Annabel raised the subject in a conversation with Diana on August 24, 1997.