Trevor rees jones where is he now

A photo taken by Jacques Langevin on the night of August 31, shows Princess Diana head turned away in backseat , her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones L , and driver Henri Paul shortly before the fatal crash. Princess Diana and Prince Harry in This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses.

You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. More From Celebrity News. Bodyguard and former paratrooper Trevor Rees-Jones survived the horror smash but suffered life-changing injuries. Here is what we know about him and where he is now. Read our Princess Diana live blog for the latest updates.

When he was ten, the family moved to Oswestry, Shropshire, and he went to Fitzalan School where he met his future wife Sue Jones. In , he went to work as a private security guard for Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, father to Dodi Fayed, and later the People's Princess. It was in his security job for al-Fayed that Trevor came to be guarding al-Fayed's playboy son Dodi , and later his girlfriend Princess Diana.

The bodyguard later rubbished claims by his former boss that Dodi and Diana had chosen an engagement ring together in Monte Carlo a week before they died in Paris. Other formats of it have also since been released.

Trevor, it seems like, has never responded to that. Kriti Mehrotra. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email. Rees would later say the last thing he remembered was climbing into the car at the Ritz, meaning there was a "missing" four minutes from his memory. In an interview in he reflected: "I'm the only person who can tell people for real, and I can't remember. It will be so easy if I do remember.

Less than five minutes after leaving the hotel, the crash happened. Rees' injuries were catastrophic. He suffered severe brain and chest trauma, spent 10 days in a coma and every bone in his face was broken.

Surgeons literally rebuilt his face using old photos as a guide and pieces of titanium. Part of the back of his skull was used to rebuild his cheekbones. Speaking in a TV interview in , surgeon Luc Chikhani said he had never seen someone still alive who had so many broken bones. We had to completely rebuild it. The eyes were apart, the nose was smashed and the jaw was broken.

His mother Gill said at the time: "His face looked like it had been hit by a frying pan in a Tom and Jerry cartoon — smashed back and flattened. The following year, Mr Rees left Mr Al-Fayed's employ after the grieving father, who believed British security services were behind the crash, asked him to hand control of his dealings with French authorities over to his team.

According to the Telegraph, Mr Al-Fayed then said "you betrayed me" and blamed Rees for his "disloyalty". Mr Rees later alleged Mr Al-Fayed had put "intense" pressure on him to recall events from the tragic night.