Mohamed Fayed handed foreign spies millions to try and get details about Princess Diana's death, it is claimed.

Dodi Fayed, the son of the disgraced former Harrods owner, died along with his girlfriend Diana in the Paris car crash in 1997 - and his dad spent years afterwards claiming without evidence that there had been foul play involved in their deaths.

Now, new reports show the lengths that Mohamed Fayed allegedly went to try and back up his wild claims, with the tycoon said to have paid large sums to Egyptian secret service agents in exchange for information about the accident.

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Fayed had told one of the Egyptian operatives that he believed British intelligence services arranged the fatal crash to stop there being "a Muslim brother to the future king", a source told the Telegraph.

But he was never able to provide any basis to his claims, and multiple investigations over the years have concluded that Diana and Dodi died in a car accident.

The French driver, Henri Paul, was found to be over the legal alcohol limit and speeding, which contributed significantly to the fatal crash.

The death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1997, sent shockwaves across the globe.

All over the world, millions grieved the loss of the woman they had watched grow from a shy teenaged nursery school teacher to a glamorous celebrity who was at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic.

At just 36, Diana died in a car crash in Paris, an event that would go on to change the Royal Family forever.