Shop-keeper. Born Egypt. Arrived in London in the 70s and added the aristocratic "al" prefix to his name. He owned Harrods, the Paris Ritz and Fulham Football Club. The drunk chauffeur of the car in which Dodi and Diana died was employed by Fayed.
Londonist lists 11 Secrets of Harrods - we particularly like the one about Harrodsville in New Zealand.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Both the Egyptian escalator and associated decorations and the bronze statue ...
This memorial is no longer here. Michael Jackson was a friend of Mohamed Al-F...
International banker and philanthropist. Inherited a fortune from his father Junius S. Morgan and then made so much more that his wealth was only exceeded by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie...
The Tipperary pub, Fleet Street, was the first pub outside Ireland to have bottled Guinness and later draft.
Public house popular with London's Bohemian set in the 1930s, as were all the pubs in Fitzrovia, and beyond. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings were k...
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
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