He Vacationed With Diana. He Used a Hidden Bookcase To Trap Victims
episodePreviously titled “I Found My Wife’s Name in the Files on Mohammed Al-Fayed - Keaton Stone” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 20, 2026
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How did a simple CV review launch the investigation into Mohamed Al‑Fayed?
I got this big box file, and genuinely the first name I saw was my wife's name. What did he do to your wife? My job as making documentaries and TV programmes when she did tell me, shaking, crying, sobbing, howling, just hysterical. I could not let it go. It was just about her. Then it was two women. Then it was three. Then it was ten. Then it was twenty. Then it's not investigating a man. It's investigating an ecosystem. It's systematic institutional abuse. On the Diana side, people tried to warn her it had to be reported to Her Majesty the Queen. Because the US Ambassador's daughter, she has gone missing. Well, that should have spat out her whiskey. They knew that it was Mohammed Al-Fayed. Totally, totally, absolutely.
How is it possible we didn't know about this until he died? Well over. Five hundred survivors who have come forward. There's just a bookcase next to them. Then suddenly the bookcase turns around and he walks out. People definitely don't realise how deep this goes. Police.
Doctors. Doctors. Lawyers. How young are we talking?
Can I j uh can I say? Tell me about Sophia and the CV. Okay, well, that was the genesis moment for how this whole thing came about. Um, Sophia was um she'd worked at a particular company for for quite a while. She was thinking about seeing what else is out there. Um, and of course, she hadn't updated her CV for so long she hadn't hadn't needed to. Um, but because of my, you know, in my my world, my job as uh making documents. Documentaries and TV programmes and everything, um, then I'm constantly updating my CV. You know, after you come off one show, you update it and blah, blah. So, um, so uh yeah, I do that a lot. So I offered, obviously, it's well, I can give you a hand on that, I'll do that for you, you know, no problem.
Um, so and uh yeah, that's the it's the Genesis moment, really. That's where then that she found an old copy of her CV that she forwarded to me. Um uh And I saw right at the bottom um was Harrods. And no more nothing else, like the other positions, the temporary positions afterwards and then uh more you know later work, all had their, you know, duties and responsibilities, et cetera, you know, as you would. Harrod's nothing. And of course, this jumped out to me immediately as whoa Harods, that's amazing. This is brilliant. And also knowing about my wife, um, she was she wasn't my wife then obviously, but knowing about her passion for fashion, um, knowing that that's all she's ever wanted to do and it was her big thing and and still was, how
Oh my h how do I not know about this? And what did you do? So I basically um, you know, uh asked her about it, and she was very, very reticent to tell me anything at all about it. But uh slowly, slowly I got out of her that she had worked there for a for a while. I mean, she played it down massively to me. It turns out it was almost four years. Um, but she um and she'd gone on to be to start on a on a trainee scheme to be a buyer. Yeah, all she'd ever wanted to do in fashion. But that she'd um she'd been moved from that to work for the chairman as a PA. Now this was wasn't as fast as that. It came out slowly, slowly, because I kind of kept asking, because she did not want to talk about it. Yeah. But um but she was very emotional.
She wasn't at that point so much. She just did not, she was shutting down, she didn't want to kind of I could see, but I'm doing her CV. I need I need to know, you know. Um so Uh it comes out, yeah, that's uh she um yeah, she worked for the chairman, blah blah. So anyway, I then that later that evening, just on my own, was tickling her CV, you know, getting it up to speed, isn't it? And um and of course uh it it it'd been in the back of my mind when she'd first said it, but I I couldn't be sure 'cause I I didn't really know much about Fired or ha his ownership of Harrods or how long, but I did think that oh chairman of Harrods. Wasn't that? And to me, and I checked online and it was Mohammed Al-Fayed uh was was this chairman during that time she was there.
So I thought, whoa, that's that's amazing.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did a simple CV review launch the investigation into Mohamed Al‑Fayed?
0:00–11:00
2
What connections existed between Al‑Fayed, Harrods, and Princess Diana?
11:00–21:39
3
Why were warnings about the US ambassador’s daughter ignored by the establishment?
21:39–31:29
4
How did hidden corridors and a revolving bookcase facilitate the abuse?
31:29–43:10
5
What role did former CIA operatives and Vanity Fair play in uncovering the scandal?
43:10–52:46
6
Why did the police and legal system initially fail to act on survivor reports?
52:46–57:51
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