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Hasnat told the Daily Mail he clearly remembers the first time he crossed paths with one of the most famous women in the world. It was what endeared her to the public, Khan said. And now, even the etiquette rules are being adapted. In the ensuing years it was engulfed by terrorism, as the Pakistani Taliban took control of parts of the north and extremists carried out assassinations and suicide attacks. PRINCE WILLIAM SAYS INVESTIGATION INTO BBC INTERVIEW WITH PRINCESS DIANA 'IS A STEP IN . Whrend die rzte die Knigin der Herzen nach wenigen Stunden in einem Krankenhaus fr tot erklren, sterben Henri Paul, der Fahrer des Wagens, und Dianas Lebensgefhrte Dodi Al-Fayed Shall we mention that? and he said, Yeah, if you think youve got enough to say. It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. . ET. Lady Diana would sometimes pretend housewife to Hasnat Khan by cleaning his one-bedroom apartment, from vacuuming the room to ironing his clothes. Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon who Princess Diana fell 'madly in love with', has broken his 25-year silence. Prince William, and all things royal! It was intimate stuff.. Hasnat Khan broke up with Princess Diana just five weeks before her death in a car crash on August 31, 1997. After the heart surgeon left the hospital room, Diana reportedly turned to Shanley-Toffolo and said, "Isn't he drop-dead gorgeous!" But he was very direct and said: Mummy, hes not a good person.. However, it seems her true love may have really been heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, according to her butler, Phil Burrell. and that she had also introduced him to William and Harry and . Don't have an account? READ MORE:Why Dianas first Trooping the Colour was disaster with Queen'. But only one man has been called the "love of her life"British Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom Diana dated from 1995 to 1997. During those early hours, as news spread around the globe of the situation in Paris, TV stations around the world started taking the BBCs feed, meaning that their coverage was reaching about half a billion people that morning. Following our reports, the Corporation asked retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson to begin a detailed investigation into claims from the Princesss brother Earl Spencer that Bashir used forgery and deception to obtain his scoop. Later accounts have painted a mixed picture of Dianas life in the fall of 1995. Khan said Diana and her friends visited the hospital regularly. I asked her where the Audi was and she said it had to go.. But this was not the last time he was to hear of the reporter who is now the subject of a judge-led investigation into how he secured his ground-breaking interview. Diana, however, told him that she knew what she was doing and what the outcome would be. Diana was a friend of Toffolos Irish-born wife Oonagh, a former nun who nursed the Duke of Windsor on his deathbed in Paris, and who gave the Princess acupuncture. That kind of thing, he said. So what about the man who had a ringside seat at the centre of this whole saga and has now chosen to speak of it for the first time? "Because I think you write in [you are] book that she wanted to secretly marry him and that William was supportive in that decision. Mr Khan, the Pakistani-born heart surgeon dubbed Mr Wonderful by Diana during their intense two-year relationship, was her boyfriend throughout the period in question. However, a doctor managed to start her heart again. About 35 minutes after the crash, Diana was removed from the car but went into cardiac arrest, according to Vanity Fair. I remember saying, two wrongs dont make a right.. Diana reportedly told Lady Elsa Bowker, I found my peace! of Khan. She attended an event which marked the centenary of London's Tate Gallery. Princess Diana meeting children during a visit to St. Austell, Cornwall, January 1992. Hasnat Khan is now 64-years-old and lives in Essex, where he continues to work as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon University Hospital. She visited the hospital multiple times and soon she fell in love with Hasnat Khan. They have been sent on the first high-profile royal visit for 13 years to the country which wants to dispel its image as a terrorist haven. William and Kate received a red carpet welcome to Pakistan last night as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge touched down at Nur Khan air force base in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Within minutes, police had also arrived and were trying to cordon off the scene from the press. Princess Dianas interview with Mr Bashir marked the first-ever solo TV interview for her. She called me as soon as it was finished and asked me what I thought. After this, our friendship turned into a relationship," Khan said. They were due to reunite as a family the day after they spoke on the phone. According to Vanity Fair, Khan attempted to call Diana the night of her death, but she had changed her phone number. This turned out to be true when the Queen wrote to the warring couple just before Christmas telling them the marriage had to end. It was August 31 when radio stations started reporting that Diana, Princess of Wales, had been injured in a car accident in France. He seemed to be saying that their success as a Muslim and a western woman could be a role model for us. La premire diffusion de cette saison a lieu aprs la mort du prince Philip le 9 avril 2021 et la mort de la reine lisabeth II le 8 septembre 2022. She was sure that after the interview, the royal family would ask her and Charles to get a divorce which was exactly what happened. Around the same time the couple was starting to eat, he arrived back at the Ritz, joining Al-Fayeds bodyguards Kez Wingfield and Trevor Rees-Jones in the Vendome bar. That phone call sticks in my mind quite heavily.. Mr Anderson said: Yeah, well, for a long time she relied on William for advice, even as a little boy. In fact it was so instinctive I started calling her the witch! She loved that.. She told me that whatever she did, she always knew how the courtiers at Buckingham Palace would retaliate. They also spent time on the titans recently purchased $44 million yacht, the Jonikal. Hasnat Khan was the heart surgeon who Diana had fallen for two years before. During their royal tour, William and Kate will meet Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan, the former international and Worcestershire and Sussex county cricketer, who was a friend of the Dukes mother Princess Diana. It was what endeared her to the public. Diana met Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon, on her visit to the Royal Brompton Hospital where she went to meet a friends husband admitted for surgical complications. Answer (1 of 6): You know the boys met Dodi. I knew that there was a part of Diana that wanted to give an interview but my question is if Martin Bashir had not been there persuading her, would she ever have done it?. William on the other hand said he felt as though they were in a desperate rush to say goodbye so he and Harry could continue playing with their cousins, Zara and Peter. Instead, it is Hasnat Khan (Humayun Saeed), the British-Pakistani heart surgeon who she dated for two years, between 1995 and 1997, following her separation from Prince Charles in 1992. Lord Dyson is about a third of the way through his inquiry, expected to take six months in total. Intrigued but still busy and on-call with his medical duties, Dr Khan arranged to meet them later that evening at the Breakspear Arms, a bar not far from the renowned heart and lung centre and where he and Diana had enjoyed a number of unlikely dates. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Her brother, Earl Spencer, claims Bashir spun a web of deceit, claiming senior royals and courtiers betrayed Diana to newspapers and MI5, in order to draw the vulnerable princess into his confidence. She complained bitterly that Charles was able to get away with whatever he wanted, could see Camilla and there was hardly a raised eyebrow. Almost immediately Khan noticed a change in the Princess. The only person she didnt mention was [Queen Elizabeth], and I never once heard her utter a word of criticism of her., Khan told the Mail that Diana continued to be friendly with Bashir after the interview aired on November 20, adding that he visited a pub with Diana and the reporter in January 1996. The reporter had a favour to ask, Khan was told. A royal spokesman described the trip as the most complex tour undertaken by the Duke and Duchess to date, given the logistical and security considerations. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Sam Greenhill for the Daily Mail The turning point, Khan said, came during this trip. Royally Us host Christina Garibaldi asked the author: Were living in today, yeah, and is it true that William was encouraging her [Diana] to get married to Hasnat Khan? Hasnat Khan photographed walking in London. His comments also provide some insight into what Bashir, who has remained silent on the matter, might be thinking as the investigation continues. ', Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Diana's Impossible Dream. That fall, two chance meetings would put her on a different path. Khans 2004 statement to the London Metropolitan Police, per the BBC, which was submitted in 2008 to an inquest into the circumstances of Princess Dianas 1997 death, gives further insight into their relationship, which spanned from 1995 to 1997, per the interview. Richard Kay Mathieu Polak / Mathieu Polak Khan said they had a 'very good relationship' The surgeon told police that he and Diana had a "very good relationship. The couple met, he reveals, when the princess shouted at the Pakistani-born medic as he left work one day: Oi, where are you going?, Mr Khan said: One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability. I could not do that. Meanwhile after that meeting at the Breakspear pub, Diana stopped talking about Dr Jarman and Bashir. If Id have known that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother the things I would have said to her.. Incredibly, there was an Irish connection to the couple meeting in 1995. Days into their stay, Mohammed summoned his son Dodi from Paris to help entertain their famous guest, setting into motion the tragic series of events which were to follow. Often she bumped into the handsome doctor, whose dark good looks she had already compared to those of the actor Omar Sharif. Netflix "The Crown" season five depicts Princess Diana's relationship with Dr. Hasnat Khan. The princess said Charles had also conducted an interview, with Jonathan Dimbleby, about his infidelity but Mr Khan told her: Two wrongs dont make a right. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. He said he was a decent man but that he was very depressed and that he had a favor to ask: would I talk to Bashir? he said. 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