Former bodyguard Trevor Rees said he felt pressured by his boss, luxury storeowner Mohamed al-Fayed, to remember details of the car crash that killed his son Dodi and Princess Diana. Mr Rees was the sole survivor of the crash in Paris in August 1997 that also killed chauffeur Henri Paul, who British and French police investigations have concluded was drunk.

The former bodyguard, who suffered horrific facial injuries in the crash and still bears the scars, told the inquest into Dodi and Diana's deaths that while recuperating: "I felt the pressure to remember what had occurred."

"The fact that I could not frustrated myself and also obviously frustrated Mr al-Fayed," Mr Rees told the court, concluding two days of dramatic testimony about the night that so nearly cost him his life.

Mr Rees said in his meetings with Mr Fayed, the owner of the London store Harrods would suggest possibilities and "I would reply 'That's a possibility'."

He said he specifically remembered Mr Fayed asking him if there was a flash in the tunnel which caused the accident.

"I would say 'That is a possibility'," Mr Rees added.

Mr Rees told the court: "I did not feel comfortable being in his presence at that time. He was obviously a very upset man."

Mohamed al-Fayed says he believes that a blinding flash of light from a stun gun caused the chauffeur to lose control and crash at speed in the road tunnel.

He alleges that his son and Diana were killed by British agents on the orders of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband and Diana's former father-in-law.

Mr Fayed believes her killing was ordered because the royal family did not want the mother of the future king having a child with his son. He says Diana's body was embalmed to cover up evidence she was expecting a baby.

He has also accused Mr Rees of being part of a conspiracy to cover up the murder, an allegation that prompted a sharp rebuke on Wednesday from Lord Justice Scott Baker, the inquest judge.

"They are very grave allegations and one would have thought a man with any decency who is not going to pursue them would withdraw them," he told Mr Fayed's lawyer Michael Mansfield.

Here are some key quotes and statements made or read out at the inquest so far.

• Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker: "It's his (Mohamed al-Fayed's) belief that a decision was taken to kill both Diana and Dodi. He places Prince Philip at the heart of the conspiracy. "You will have to listen carefully to the witnesses you hear to see whether there is any evidence to support this assertion."

• Letter from Prince Philip to Diana: "If invited, I will always do my utmost to help you and Charles to the best of my ability, but I am quite ready to concede that I have no talents as a marriage counsellor!"

• Letter from Diana to Prince Philip: "Dearest Pa, I was particularly touched by your most recent letter which proved to me, if I didn't already know it, that you really do care. "You are very modest about your marriage guidance skills and I disagree with you."

• Simone Simmons, a healer and friend of Diana: "Diana read one out to me, because she was absolutely furious and she was actually imitating the voice of the Duke of Edinburgh at the time," she said about "nasty" and "derogatory" letters from Prince Philip.

• Paul Burrell, Diana's buttler: "Prince Philip is not a nasty man. The princess was the mother of his grandchildren. Why would he want to harm her?"

• Rosa Monckton, a close friend of Diana:"She could not possibly have been pregnant. While we were on the boat, she had her period and that was just 10 days before she died."It was clear to me that she was really missing (former lover) Hasnat Khan and that I think Dodi was a distraction from the hurt that she felt from the break-up of that relationship."

• Paul Burrell: "The princess said he (Khan) was her soul mate. This was the man she loved more than any other. "She asked me if it was possible to arrange a private marriage between her and Hasnat Khan."

• Raine, Countess Spencer, Diana's stepmother: "Diana was madly in love (with Dodi). "She said she had never been so happy for years. That was the moment I really felt it was highly likely that she and Dodi would get engaged and then get married."

• Paul Burrell: Said that in a telephone conversation he listened into, Diana's mother Shand Kydd, who died in 2004, "called the princess a who... and she said she was messing around with f***** Muslim men and she was disgraceful".

• Jeweller Alberto Repossi: "I received a phone call from Dodi who told me that he needed this ring for the end of August because, at the beginning of September, their engagement would be announced."

• Lady Annabel Goldsmith, friend of Diana: Diana told her: "Annabel, I need marriage like a rash on my face."

• Simone Simmons: "She was terrified somebody was going to bump her off." Diana gave her a note which read "if something happens to me (security services) MI5/6 will have done it".

• Ken Wharfe, Diana's police protection officer: "She did say to me on a number of occasions she felt that she and other members of the royal family were being monitored. Asked about the infamous "Squidgygate" recording of her intimate conversation with James Gilbey in 1989, he said: "I formed the impression that possibly in this case, it may well have been a loop from nearby Cheltenham, the GCHQ (government's listening spy station) there. It's my belief that GCHQ at that particular time were perhaps monitoring members of the royal family because of a heightened IRA activity in the country."

• Maggie Rae, Diana's lawyer: "She believed what she said (about her life being in danger) but I thought it was unrealistic."

• French policeman Sebastian Dorzee: "She moved, her eyes were open, speaking to me in a foreign language. I think that she said 'My God' on seeing her boyfriend dying."

• Pathologist Robert Chapman: "No, I did not" − asked if he saw any sign of pregnancy when he carried out a post mortem.

• Daniel Eyraud, French anaesthetist who treated Diana: "I personally believe we did everything possible to save the Princess with the appropriate means."

• Frederic Mailliez, French doctor at scene of crash: "She was alive, she was moaning, but she was really weak. I do not remember any serious injury on her forehead. I just remember a few drops of blood."

• Stephane Darmon, a motorbike rider for paparazzi: "On a very personal note, I've got to say, my father was an alcoholic. When I saw Mr (Henri) Paul, he reminded me of my father, his eyes, the way he acted, that's what I thought. "Paul was very jolly and smiling. He was saying that Lady Di will be arriving in a quarter of an hour, in 10 minutes, trying to create a certain pressure, an atmosphere of anticipation. I had the impression he wanted to be centre stage."

• Paul Carpenter, detective inspector with London Police: "You will see him (Henri Paul) raise his hand as if waving to the paparazzi across the road" - describing CCTV footage shown to jury. "If you look at the paparazzi across the road you will see one of them raise his camera and what he's doing is focusing on the doorway and that is why Henri Paul waves."

• Sebastian Masseron, eyewitness at the scene: "I heard one photographer call over to a colleague who was on a scooter at the exit to the tunnel, and say: 'Come back, come back, she's alive'."

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