ASSOCIATED PRESSLONDON, Aug 13: Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were reported today to have consulted a clairvoyant, while one newspaper has alleged another doctored a picture of the pair to make it appear they were about to kiss.

The Sun and other London tabloids reported that Diana took Fayed yesterday, the reputed new man in her life, to see clairvoyant Rita Rogers at the psychic's home in Chesterfield, Northern England.

The Sun said Diana and the millionaire playboy flew the 160 miles (250 km) from London to Chesterfield in a helicopter owned by Harrods, the London department store owned by 41-year-old Fayed's father, Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed.

It said they spent an hour and 40 minutes seeking guidance on their future from Rogers, with whom Diana has had previous sessions. It said she had gone on the recommendation of the Duchess of York, the former wife of Prince Andrew, brother of Diana's ex-husband Prince Charles.

On Monday, The Guardian accused another London paper, The Mirror, of doctoring one of the pictures of Diana and Fayed before printing it Saturday.

The Guardian's media correspondent, Roy Greenslade, wrote that The Mirror had used a process called computer enhancement to alter the picture of the couple taken by an Italian photographer.

Greenslade said the faked result makes the couple appear to be sitting closer together than they had been. In addition, Greenslade said, Fayed's head had been turned in the computer enhancement process to make him appear to be looking straight into Diana's face instead of looking away as in fact he had been.

The result, printed under the headline exclusive: `The picture they all wanted,' made it look as though they were about to kiss, Greenslade wrote.

The distorted picture was presented in The Mirror as if it was a true photograph, Greenslade said. ``The paper did not explain that an operator on its electronic picture desk had manipulated the genuine image to create a bogus shot,'' he wrote.

The fake was obvious to professionals because the shadows were in the wrong place, Greenslade wrote.

The Mirror has made no comment about Greenslade's allegations.

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