Will the Queen Start Shopping at Harrods Again?

LONDON (CBS) A new selection of Harrods catalogues have been sent through to royal residences in hopes that Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and other members of the royal family will begin to shop at the venerable London department store.

Royal customers at Harrods were scarce while Mohammad Al Fayed owned the store. His oldest son, Dodi, you may remember, was killed in the 1997 Paris car crash that took the life of Princess Diana.

Fayed has proclaimed for years that a royal conspiracy led to the fatal accident and he has even accused Prince Philip, the queen's husband, and Prince Charles in the plot, despite inquests in France and England that concluded the crash was an accident.

He even had royal crests, which had adorned the luxury store for years, removed in a fit of pique.

Now that the Knightsbridge store, founded in 1834, has been sold for billions to Qatari Holdings, the royal family might return as customers. But they may want to bypass a shrine Fayed had constructed there in the memory of Dodi and Diana. That is being retained by the new owners because "it's become a focal point for many of their fans who wish to keep on paying their personal respects to the late couple."