Diana & Dodi's Tragic LOVE STORY

At last! The truth about Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed and their heartbreaking final 24 hours

The powerful scenes have raised more questions than answers. Season 6 of Netflix's hit The Crown chronicles Princess Diana's whirlwind romance with Egyptian movie producer Dodi Fayed with his billionaire father Mohamed al-Fayed pulling the strings up until their final evening together at Paris' Ritz Hotel, in which she gently rejects his proposal hours before dying in a horrific car crash. "We have to make some sort of leaps of the imagination," creator Peter Morgan has admitted of his show, which was slapped with a "fictional dramatization" disclaimer last year after critics complained of historic inaccuracies. "Maybe sometimes I get it wrong."

In this case, there's plenty of evidence to suggest he did. "Dodi proposed - and Diana tearfully accepted," a source tells In Touch of the night Aug. 30, 1997. And now, after 26 years using testimony from multiple friends and witnesses, a British inquest and the official French police report - In Touch reveals what really happened in their final 24 hours. "The truth," says a source, "is that they were in love and planning a future together."

OLD FRIENDS

Diana and Dodi were much closer than anyone realized at the time. "People say it was just a summer fling, but they had been friends for 10 years," her confidante Rosa Monckton has said. They met through Mohamed in 1986, and Diana saw the family often. By 1997, "we used to hang out with William and Harry all the time at Kensington Palace," Mohamed's daughter Camilla, who was then 11, has said. "We were all very close - it's just that no one really knew."