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The Harrods tycoon's legal team sought to get a judicial review of the decision earlier this month that the Royal couple need not attend the central London hearing.

The application, lodged on Monday night, was heard and rejected on Tuesday afternoon before the President of the Queen's Bench Division, Sir Igor Judge, with Mr Justice Walker and Mr Justice Cross.

Sir Igor said: "This application should be refused."

Meanwhile, in a dramatic twist in another part of London's Royal Courts of Justice Mr al Fayed was called back to the witness box at the Diana inquest to make clear that he was wrong when he had told the jury earlier that he had won a decision in another court case.

It is believed that Mr al Fayed's lawyers, headed by Michael Beloff QC, had wanted the Duke of Edinburgh to enter the witness box and for the Queen to be approached with a series of questions.

Tuesday was the last day that any live witnesses had been scheduled to appear at the inquest. The six-month hearing is set to end in April.

On March 7, after a 90-minute debate between lawyers, Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker stated: "In my judgment it is not expedient to call the Duke of Edinburgh to give evidence, nor do I think the Queen should be asked to answer the questions by Michael Mansfield (QC representing Mr al Fayed at the inquest).

"Neither step will, in my judgment, further the inquest process."

Mr al Fayed claims that Diana, 36, and his son Dodi, 42, were killed in a conspiracy hatched by Prince Philip, who did not want future king Prince William to have a Muslim stepfather. The couple were killed, along with driver Henri Paul, in a Paris car crash in August 1997.