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TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. They were both nephews of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

“This is top priority. The IRA can do whatever it likes this weekend let me tell you.”

Dying lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That was good

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone actually think the British royal family would have let Diana keep dating an Arab and a Muslim?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a conspiracy in the making.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think that was the joke

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

...why didn't it make sense before?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it”, in this case refers to the safari club.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lol watched the standup so many times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Whatcha thinkin about

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Kashogi family is an interesting one. I also found out he had another wife who was in the United Arab Emirate. My personal conspiracy is that his Turkish fiance is actually a spy as for me her reaction never seemd genuine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe it's espionage, maybe it's botox and Valium