‘The Crown’, one of the most popular series of the moment, continues to give people something to talk about after discreetly addressing the alleged relationship that Princess Diana had with Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon who conquered her heart in the 90s.
Khan, of Pakistani origin, had a relationship with the mother of William and Harry from 1995 until a few months before dying on August 31, 1997, in a car accident in Paris.
Throughout all these years it has been assured that the surgeon was Diana’s great love, after the princess’s former butler, Phil Burrell, declared it so.
It has been said that the youngest of the Spencers referred to Hasnat as “Mr. Wonderful” and that their relationship ended in June 1997, just two months before the death of Lady Di.
That is why many say that in reality the trip to Paris with Dodi Al-Fayed, with whom he was traveling during the tragic car accident in which he lost his life, was only with the intention of sending a message to the surgeon.
“(Khan) is the most unlikely character to be a lover of the princess. He is not sporty, he is not handsome, he is not rich. So what did Diana like about him? It was that Diana loved the normality around her, as Khan was not in the public eye, especially after his highly publicized divorce from her ex-husband, Prince Charles,” Burrell said.
Why didn’t the relationship work out?
The relationship apparently ended up being too rocky as Diana was in the spotlight despite the duo often talking about marriage.
“I think Hasnat was very much in love with Diana, but he had really reached the end of his rope because Diana pushed and pushed and pushed him to go public and say we’re a couple, and he wouldn’t,” said writer Tina. Brown in the book ‘The Last 100 Days of Diana’. “So she gave him an ultimatum, either we go public or this is not going to happen.”
Years after Diana’s death, Hasnat admitted that he couldn’t speak to her in public and that “the people’s princess” deserved to have someone who could.
“I think she wanted to be with someone who was happy to be seen with her in public and she could do that with Dodi,” he said. “I think Diana finally realized that Dodi could give her everything that I couldn’t.”
Now, everyone wonders what Lady Di’s life would have been like if she had stayed with Hasnat, and if her death in that car accident in Paris might have been prevented.
Diana was ready to move to Pakistan with him, convert to Islam, and leave everything behind to marry the surgeon, who she also helped with housework when she visited him in his apartment.
Hasnat’s warning about Martin Bashir
A few years ago, Hasnat Khan stated that after meeting Princess Diana and BBC journalist Martin Bashir in a public bar, he warned him that he did not like him, that he did not trust him and that he should cut off all ties with the British man. .
However, she went ahead and recorded the controversial interview that years later it was discovered that Bahir obtained through deceit, manipulation.
“Diana asked me what I thought (of the interview). I felt it was a big mistake and I told him it was terrible,” Khan confessed.
After the broadcast, Khan asked Diana what the position of the royals would be from then on and she replied that they would ask them to divorce.
“She was absolutely clear and said that they would ask (her and Carlos) to get a divorce. That’s how it was, to the happiness of Lady Di, since it was what she wanted, ”she recounted.
The queen’s request for the princes of Wales to divorce was almost immediate and the princess’s relationship with Bashir ended suddenly, as revealed by Hasnat.
Diana told him that she was no longer in contact with him. “I asked her why and she said it was because of Guillermo. She could believe it, because the children were central to everything she did.
What happened to Hasnat Khan?
Khan ended up rebuilding his life many years after Diana’s death. In 2007 he married another person of royal blood, a descendant of the (overthrown in 1973) Afghan monarchy. That marriage lasted 18 months.
Since then, another long-term courtship has been credited to him, but as far as is known, the doctor, committed to his work and living alone in Essex, has not remarried.
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