The real love of Princess Diana’s life was Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, a new interview has revealed.
Jemima Khan, a friend of Diana’s and the ex-wife of Hasnat’s cousin Imran, spoke to Vanity Fair about the late princess’s plans to move to Pakistan in order to marry the man she dated from 1995 to 1997.
“Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him, even if that meant living in Pakistan,” Jemima told the magazine.
Although Diana was in a relationship with Dodi Fayed at the time of her death in 1997, friends claim this was only because Hasnat had refused to commit to marriage.
“[Diana] came to visit me twice in Pakistan to help fundraise for Imran’s hospital, but both times she also went to meet his family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage to Hasnat,” Jemima added.
“She wanted to know how hard it had been for me to adapt to life in Pakistan, and she wanted advice on how to deal with Pakistani men and their cultural baggage.”
But she noted that for Hasnat to marry an English girl would be “every conservative Pashtun mother’s worst nightmare”.
Diana’s friend Rosa Monckton also spoke to Vanity Fair about Hasnat and Diana’s relationship, claiming that he had been the one to initiate the break-up. Rosa insists that Diana’s subsequent relationship with Dodi was purely to make Hasnat jealous.
The upcoming movie Diana, starring Naomi Watts as the princess, is based on her relationship with the Pakistani surgeon. Hasnat, however, refused to have any part in the making of it, confirming what Diana told friends about him being “the one person who will never sell me out”.
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