After the separation from Charles, Diana and her two boys (who were in boarding school) had spent many Sundays with Ben Goldsmith, Lady Annabel’s youngest son, at her Ormeley Lodge, just outside London, where Diana found a surrogate family atmosphere amid the casual Sunday lunches. [8][20], The heart surgeon told the police in 2004 that he doubted she had been pregnant when she died, because she always took her contraceptive pills. [5], Until 1991 he worked in Sydney, Australia and then began to work in London. Selon son majordome Paul Burrell, Diana n'aurait jamais cessé de l'aimer. Diana technically began a relationship with surgeon Hasnat Khan while she was separated from Charles in 1995, and she even met his parents and introduced him to William and Harry. Snell writes about how Diana brought the cousins to the local Tesco and let them ride in the shopping cart. [25] Khan is played by Naveen Andrews, while Diana is played by Naomi Watts. “She rolled her window down, smiled, and waved back at them.” Diana knew the address of the house by heart and directed Aleema as she drove. But it didn’t deflect her from Hasnat. Monckton was obliged, in her appearance, to reveal that there was no way Diana could have been pregnant with Dodi’s child. “I’d find the ash tipped into the dustbin in my pantry, scattered on top of Kentucky Fried Chicken boxes,” Paul Burrell, Diana’s butler, wrote in one of his books. With some success, Diana worked hard to keep the press away from Khan., By Brendan Beirne/Rex USA. Hasnat’s button-down shirts stretched over a small paunch. And Hasnat has been protecting her ever since. After Italy, she continued on to Sydney to open the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, a medical facility named for a mentor of Hasnat’s who had been shot and killed in a botched kidnapping five years earlier. (AT LEAST I’M NOT HERE WITH MR. CARLING, read one of the News of the World headlines. During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. All rights reserved. But perhaps the best-known monument to the late Princess can be found in the basement of Harrods department store, which was, from 1985 to 2010, owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Al Fayed, with whom Diana had her last fling. The three women agreed that, in order to avoid press attention, they would drive themselves to the family’s home in the Model Town neighborhood of Lahore. Dodi obliged, and left Fisher in Paris. There, she met Dr. Hasnat Khan, who had performed the operation. When Hasnat found out, he said, “Do you honestly think you can just bring a priest here and get married?” He told the police, “I thought it was a ridiculous idea.” When they weren’t hiding out in Kensington Palace, they talked about where they might go that would be shielded from the media glare. 47-year-old Khan, the man Princess Diana famously described as 'Mr Wonderful', has confirmed to British tabloid the News of the World that he and Hadia are living apart. It’s something they dread.” Diana must have felt that such objections would be no match for her charm. Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Two days later, the Sunday Mirror ran the story that Hasnat had been dreading: DI’S NEW LOVE; HOW TOP HEART SURGEON FINALLY MENDED A SAD PRINCESS’S BROKEN HEART; HOW PRINCESS DI FELL IN LOVE WITH HASNAT KHAN. (The inquest had had to await the completion of a French police investigation, which lasted until 2003, and of an independent follow-on British police investigation, which began in 2004.) Eventually, the women made their way back to Imran’s house in their Toyota. Hasnat also began receiving threats in the mail—for instance a cutout picture of himself with a noose around his neck. The friends of Diana with whom I spoke insist that she had broken off the relationship out of frustration that Hasnat wouldn’t agree to marry, or even to go public. “I told her I thought something was wrong because of the way she had been acting, but she just said that because of the geography of where she was, she was having problems getting reception on her phone.”, Diana returned to London on July 27 and met Hasnat soon after in Battersea Park. Le divorce annoncé des époux Parker Bowles la contrarie. “After a few days, I felt something was wrong. Both Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Rosa Monckton spoke publicly at the British inquest in 2008 about Diana’s love for Hasnat and the improbability of a serious relationship with Dodi Al Fayed. (“At last, with the new Di-No Card, you are guaranteed 100% protection from the woman who wants to love you.”). It was becoming a security issue.” But the concern didn’t stop Diana. Diana replied that she would wear a wig to disguise herself. He liked jazz and Guinness, so he and Diana stood in line to see the late-night acts. What Princess Diana’s Ex-Boyfriend Hasnat Khan Has Revealed About the BBC Interview Controversy. Hasnat Khan Tells Diana Inquest They Enjoyed "Normal" Sex Life, Says She Ended Affair Daily Mail Princess Diana's lover Hasnat Khan today revealed for the … Her friends tell stories about how she puttered around his small one-bedroom apartment and tidied up, doing the dishes and folding his laundry. Jemima Khan became a friend of the Princess’s. In London, there is a Princess Diana memorial fountain in Hyde Park, not far from the Princess Diana memorial playground. Shortly after the Sydney trip, Kay says, he met Simone Simmons, Diana’s healer and confidante at the time, and Simmons told him all about the relationship with Hasnat. “She had a very tetchy relationship with the media,” her former press secretary Jane Atkinson told me. With Hasnat, she reveled in the everydayness of his existence. Such a schedule didn’t suit Diana, who would call multiple times when Khan was in surgery, leaving messages under false names, such as Dr. Armani. She would say, ‘I want to be normal,’ but actually, when it came around to the business of being normal, it is damned inconvenient to have to park your car in a car park.”. Diana’s love affair with Hasnat Khan was secret. It’s been more than 20 years since the tragic death of Princess Diana, and the story of her romantic relationship with cardiac surgeon Hasnat Khan… On the way, the women struggled with their pullout beds—“It was like a dormitory farce,” Somerset wrote in a remembrance of the late Princess. Khan leans into Princess Diana’s BMW, near the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, 1996. “It’s written on his shoes.”, Oonagh Toffolo was part of the retinue—healers, hairdressers, astrologists, masseuses—that Diana gathered around her as she distanced herself from her royal life. Diana died before Imran made it back to London. During that trip, Diana told Monckton that the relationship with Hasnat was over and that Dodi was going to give her a ring and that it was “going firmly on my right hand.” The two talked much more about Hasnat than they did Dodi, and Monckton strongly believes to this day that the relationship with Dodi was designed to make Hasnat jealous. Private Eye, the satirical fortnightly magazine, weighed in with the “Di-No Card,” a fictional card that an ill person could clip from the magazine and present in order to stave off a royal visit. On February 20, 1996, when she was deep in divorce negotiations with Charles, Diana flew to Pakistan with Lady Annabel Goldsmith, the wife of the financier James Goldsmith, and her niece, Cosima Somerset, aboard the Goldsmiths’ private Boeing 757. [4] Hasnat Khan is a distant cousin of Imran Khan. “Oh, I love him,” Diana replied. “Going to Kentucky Fried Chicken might be what you would do if you were desperately pursuing normality,” Jephson told me. You must remember that she didn’t join the royal family to be Princess. Diana has given rise to a lucrative memoir niche, but Hasnat has been noteworthy in not sharing his story. 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Diana was circling Hasnat, and it took about two weeks, until mid-September, for them to have their first date, in the form of a visit to his Aunt Jane and Uncle Omar’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon, to pick up some books. She and her boys spent time at the villa and aboard the boat with Dodi and family. Diana waited two beats, to make sure Khan was gone, and then turned to her friend: “Oonagh, isn’t he drop-dead gorgeous?” Diana wasn’t missing a detail: “And his name is Hasnat Khan,” she went on. “When Diana went to St. Tropez with Mr. Al Fayed, everything was fine between us,” Hasnat told police investigating her death. He was as understated as Dodi was flashy, as remote as Dodi was public, as somber as Dodi was carefree. The two met in 1995 and their romance was so strong that Diana considered moving to his home in Pakistan. In May of that year, Diana and Jemima Khan flew in Jemima’s father’s jet to Lahore. By now, Hasnat had decided he couldn’t marry her, and she knew it. Diana’s lineage can be traced back to Charles II. She changed her cell-phone number every six months to foil anyone—such as the British secret service, not to mention the British tabloids—who she believed might be trying to listen to her calls, but the rotation had another consequence. However, media scrutiny regarding Diana reached an all-time high as her relationship with Charles fell apart. She corresponded with one of Hasnat’s grandmothers, known as Nanny Appa, with his family members acting as translators, and spent time at his Aunt Jane and Uncle Omar’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon. Diana asked Aunt Jane to help her translate, and Hasnat’s grandmother, it turned out, was concerned that the sandwiches might contain ham, forbidden in a Muslim diet. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. She had asked Khan and the senior consultant he worked for, the prominent cardiologist Sir Magdi Yacoub, if she could witness a heart operation. “After this, our friendship turned into a relationship,” he said. But over the years she had told a few lies and attempted to twist the story too much in her favor. They played games with Diana, and she with them. Per Biography, Khan met the royal in 1995 when she was visiting a friend at the hospital.Diana quickly fell for the heart surgeon, and they were together for two years until shortly before her untimely death. The trip was overshadowed by the publication on August 7 of Brenna’s photos of the couple embracing and by other tabloid stories about the apparent romance. In a city of monuments, it is one of the newest, put up in the aftermath of the August 31, 1997, car crash that took Diana’s and Dodi’s lives. It’s hard to imagine Dodi socializing with the help. Diana spent time with Imran’s sisters, Aleema and Rhanee. Princess Diana reportedly had her fair share of fleeting affairs, but there was only one man she fell head over heels for: Hasnat Khan, a 36-year-old Pakistani heart surgeon. Even as a child, Princess Diana was no stranger to the House of Windsor royal family.Diana, born on July 1, 1961, was "the youngest daughter of the then Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late Earl Spencer and the Hon Mrs Shand-Kydd," as noted by the BBC.She was born at Sandringham, which is one of the Queen's private estates, and spent much of her early childhood there as well. Set in an acrylic pyramid in front of the photographs is the famous and controversial “engagement ring” that Dodi bought Diana the day before their deaths, along with a smudged wineglass—preserved, as the inscription notes, “in the exact condition it was left on the couple’s last evening together at the Imperial Suite at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.”. Ad Choices. “At the end of our meeting in Battersea Park, we arranged to see each other again, the following day, at Kensington Palace It was at that second meeting that Diana told me that it was all over between us.” He continued: “I remember saying to her at the time, ‘You are dead,’ meaning her reputation was dead. ), Diana, though still big business for editors, had worn out her welcome with the press. Still, on this trip, winning over Hasnat’s mother, Naheed, was a top priority. Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan had a two-year relationship with Diana, starting in 1995. When she and Hasnat eventually spoke again, toward the end of July, Diana had come back from Milan and then secretly flown to Paris with Dodi for the weekend. Hasnat Ahmad Khan, FRCS (Urdu: حسنات احمد خان‎; born 1 April 1958) is a British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon. (Kelly Fisher, seeing the photos, hired Gloria Allred to file a lawsuit against Dodi, which she dropped after his death.) “I told her that the only way I could see us having a vaguely normal life together would be if we went to Pakistan, as the press don’t bother you there.” Diana strongly considered the idea. “Everybody sells me out,” she told a friend the summer of her death. “There was a lot of mistrust about the information they received from her, and a lot of rivalry for stories.” The News of the World article gave fodder to critics who saw Diana as unhinged and desperate to be around desperate people. Hasnat Khan tried to reach Diana the night of her death, but she had changed her number. “Hasnat was a decent, intensely private man from a traditional, conservative Pakistani family, and he was worried about how it would work,” Jemima Khan told me. In April 1996, a charity Yacoub had founded arranged for an operation to be televised. Diana’s love affair with Hasnat Khan was secret. Diana took several of Hasnat’s young cousins driving in her car and on trips to the grocery store.