'Dodi, you've brought joy to this chick's life' - how Diana's letters revealed true love

Written on Kensington Palace paper just weeks before she died, one note thanked him for "bringing such joy into this particular chick's life".

The Princess described a holiday on the playboy's yacht as the "most magical six days on the ocean waves".

A second note, starting "Darling Dodi" and signed "Fondest love from Diana", refers to a set of her late father's cufflinks which she gave to Dodi.

The previously unpublished letters, read out yesterday at the inquest into the couple's 1997 deaths, provide an insight into the intensity of Diana's feelings for Dodi will reinforce claims by Mohamed Al Fayed that the princess was deeply in love with his son and planned to marry him.

Mr Fayed is convinced that this gave the Establishment a motive to murder them.

The letters were presented by the Fayed family 24 hours after the inquest saw extracts of correspondence between Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh in which she addressed her then father-in-law as "Dearest Pa".

In another dramatic day of evidence at the High Court in London yesterday, Dodi's former fiancée Kelly Fisher took the stand to describe the moment she realised she had been dropped for Diana.

And Diana's close friend Rosa Monckton broke down in tears as she was cross-examined by Mr Al Fayed's barrister Michael Mansfield QC.

He used the contents of the letters to try to convince the jury that the relationship was more than a fling, as Miss Monckton had described it on Thursday.

The High Court was told that the first of the letters, dated August 6, 1997, thanks Dodi for the first holiday she shared with him on the yacht Jonikal in the French Riviera.

Written on the last day of a sixday break, Diana writes: "Darling Dodi, heaven knows where on earth I begin to thank you for the most magical six days on the ocean waves!

"It is a bit of 'Oh my God' situation!! I adored it all and every possible minute was full of laughter and happiness and that combination is a serious treat!"

She ends the letter by saying:

"This comes with all the love in the world and as always a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this particular chick's life. From x Diana x."

The second, also written on Kensington Palace notepaper, is dated August 13, 2007.

In it she speaks emotionally of a set of cufflinks which belonged to her father Earl Spencer.

It says: "Darling Dodi.

"These cufflinks were the very last gift I received from the man I loved most in the world - my Father --They are given to you as I know how much joy it would give to him to know they were in such safe and special hands . . . Fondest love from Diana x."

In the first letter, Diana also refers to a woman named Rita.

The Princess regularly consulted Rita Rogers, who was known as her favourite psychic.

The extract reads: "I shall always remember in particular the consequences of your conversation with Rita.

"I have never seen or felt such a huge burden being removed as what happened to you - long long overdue, and now you are able to benefit from peace of mind in a very personal way."

Although the meaning of the extract is open to interpretation, it appears to suggest that Diana introduced Dodi to Rita Rogers, and that Dodi had a consultation with Mrs Rogers, possibly about his future with his then fiancée Kelly Fisher whom he later dumped for Diana.

Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul died in a car crash in a Paris road tunnel on August 31, 1997.