Princess Diana died in a car accident on August 31, 1977, in a tunnel in Paris, along with her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul.
Bodie Her guard and former Paratrooper Trevor, who was the sole survivor of the Reese-Jones incident, suffered injuries that changed his life. Here's what we know about him and where he is now.
Who is Trevor Rees-Jones?
Trevor Rees-Jones was born on March 3, 1968 in Rinteln, Germany.
He was the second son of his three boys born to Colin His Reese, a British Army surgeon, and his wife Gil, who was a nurse.
When he was ten years old, his family moved to Oswestry, a town near the border with Wales, where he attended Fitzalan School and his future wife Sue He Jones. I met.
Trevor enrolled in the Joint Cadet Corps at school and after earning his A-levels, joined the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, where he completed his 1st internship in Northern Ireland. I took a tour.
In 1995, he began working as his guard at Harrods his owner Mohammed Al his Fayed, Dodi Fayed's father, and later Princess Diana's private.
When did he become Princess Diana's bodyguard?
While working for Mohammed al-Fayed, he began guarding his playboy son Dodiand later his girlfriend Princess Diana.
He accompanied him on his 1997 summer vacation when a tragic car accident occurred.
A bodyguard later silenced a former boss's claim that Dodi and Diana chose an engagement ring together in Monte Carlo the week before they died in Paris.
August 30 On Sunday, Dodi and Diana spent nine days on Dodi's yacht in the Mediterranean before stopping in Paris on their way to London.
They intended to stay at the Ritz Hotel, which is owned by Dodi's father, but were ambushed by paparazzi.
Henri Paul, the Ritz's head of security, planned to drive out the back door to Dodi's apartment near the Champs-Élysées to fend off the cameramen.
Trevor said at his 2008 London inquest: Dodi and Diana said they would travel without security and that it wouldn't happen to me, I would travel with them in the car.' It crashed into a pillar at 65 mph in the Alma Bridge underpass.
The driver and Dodi died instantly, and Diana died shortly afterwards. Hospital.
Trevor Rees-Jones injured in car accident. 44} His face had all his bones broken.
Surgeons used 150 pieces of titanium to reconstruct his broken face, using photographs of his family as a reference.
Recent photos show he still has scars from his 1997 accident
He has severe amnesia. also suffers and has trouble remembering the details of the crash.
An investigation found that none of his four people in the car were wearing seat belts.
Tests showed that the driver was three times his DUI limit. A
inquest jury found that Diana was wrongfully murdered by Mr. Paul's dangerous driving and the actions of the chasing paparazzi.
Where is he now?
Trevor is now reportedly working as global security chief for vaccine giant AstraZeneca.
Mail tells how he has rebuilt his life since an infamous accident 24 years ago.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he is based in Shrewsbury and has experience in international operations.
After the accident,Trevor returned to England,and left Mr Al Fayed's job.
He was questioned four times by French authorities, but he said he could not recall the incident.
He later claimed to have been under "strong" pressure from his superiors to recall details of the night his son was killed.
Trevor returned to Shropshire and was restored to his health by his mother Gil and his stepfather Ernie. He worked at his friend's sports store for a while.
In 2000 he published a book, The Bodyguard's Tale: Diana, the Crash and the Sole Survivor, from which he is rumored to have earned £1 million.
But most of that was said to have been consumed by lawyers' fees after being embroiled in a series of lawsuits against Mr Al-Fayed in England and France.
He crashed. had separated from his first wife Sue a few months before. In 2003, he married his second wife, teacher Anne Scott.
Trevor recovered sufficiently to join the local rugby team in North Wales and set up a business as his security consultant.
In 2008, while working in war-torn Iraq, he was asked to give evidence at an inquest. His face still bears deep scars more than ten years later.
He told the coroner that he had vague memories of a motorcycle next to the vehicle and of a woman's voice yelling "Doddy," but whether these were real memories.
He also dismissed Mr Al Fayed's claim that he was part of a cover-up after Diana and Dodi were murdered by MI6 on Prince Philip's orders. Denied.
Trevor said: “I have never been involved in any conspiracy to hide the truth. All I have done is tell the truth as I see it.”
Princess Diana's former police protection officer Ken Wharf accused Trevor of letting Princess Diana into a Mercedes
