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LONDON -- It has to be the gaudiest memorial I have ever seen.

Entitled "Innocent Victims", the ugly, life-sized bronze statue stands between the ground and first floors of the famous Harrods department store, with a boyish, scantily-dressed Diana and her summer lover, Dodi Al Fayed, gazing dreamily into each other's eyes as they release an albatross into the sky.

Its tackiness, though, is hardly surprising considering it was commissioned by Dodi's millionaire father Mohamed, owner of Harrods as well the Ritz in Paris. This is his second memorial to the pair; the first can be found in his store's Egyptian corridor -- a ghastly gold-leaf shrine that has their portraits entwined above a pyramidal case that contains a dusty goblet taken from their hotel room on that final night and the diamond engagement ring that Dodi supposedly planned to give Diana back at his Paris apartment.

On a busy August morning, tourists and Londoners alike are crowded on to escalators that whisk them past the shmaltzy bronze statue to floors of ridiculously expensive luxury goods. No one seems to notice that the store's diminutive owner is standing by a black condolence book that still draws entries 10 years after the famous Paris car crash killed his son and the Princess.

A crash he is convinced was murder.

"What those s did to me and my son and the Queen of Hearts, they can't just get away with it," Al Fayed tells me with bristling rage.