But only one man has been called the "love of her life"—British Pakistani surgeon
That evening they have an intimate conversation, and when Diana asks for a kiss, Khan seems confused as to why she is attracted to him. She says: "You forget I already had a prince. He broke my heart. I'm just looking for a frog to make me happy." They then share a kiss.
Hasnat Khan is now 64-years-old and lives in Essex, where he continues to work as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon University Hospital. The pair really did date between 1995 - 1997, breaking up just prior to the start of Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed.
How the “people's princess” and a British Pakistani doctor met, fell in love, and fell apart just weeks before her final days. For Princess Diana and her lover, accomplished heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, the morning of January 28, 1996 was particularly explosive.
Diana ended the relationship in July 1997. Diana's friends are reported to have described Hasnat as the "love of her life" and to have spoken of her distress when she ended their relationship. He, however, is said to be reticent about speaking of how much he may have meant to her or even how much she meant to him.
The Crown's fifth season has officially dropped on Netflix after months of anticipation. And viewers are all asking the same thing, did Diana date heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan? The answer is yes, the pair were in a committed relationship for three years, from 1995 to 1997 and she referred to him as "Mr. Wonderful".
In real life, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed dated for a few months before their sad deaths in a vehicle collision in Paris in late August 1997. Dodi Fayed and their driver were killed on the spot, in the incident, while Diana died from her injuries hours later.
In reality, Princess Diana did indeed meet heart surgeon Hasnat Khan at Royal Brompton Hospital in 1995. However, the couple lasted much longer than portrayed on the screen. Journalist Kate Snell wrote in her book Diana: Her Last Love, “After Charles, Khan was undoubtedly the most important love of Diana's life.”
They eventually broke up because he could not cope with the media attention. "My main concern was about us getting married was that my life would be hell because of who she was," Khan explained.
The couple had been seeing each other for just a few months before the tragic car accident took both of their lives. Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
So has the latest season of Netflix's "The Crown," which arrived Nov. 9, 2022. The show depicts real-life events and people, but there are a few times in which showrunners took liberties... more than a few times.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
All About Kelly Fisher. Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana were one of the most high-profile couples in the world at the time of their tragic deaths in 1997 — but the People's Princess wasn't the only love Dodi knew in his life. Before dating Diana, Dodi was in a relationship with American-born model Kelly Fisher.
3, 2006 — -- At the time of her death, Princess Diana was wearing a diamond ring given to her by Dodi Al-Fayed, according to a new book by Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell. The $5,000 ring was a friendship ring, not an engagement ring, according to Burrell, who claims the princess was not ready to remarry.
How did Dodi and Diana meet? The couple first met at a polo match in 1986 while Diana was still married to Prince Charles, The Independent reports. Eleven years later, Diana reconnected with Dodi while vacationing at his father Mohamed's home in St. Tropez with Prince William and Prince Harry.
In 1997, Mohamed Al-Fayed invited Diana and the young princes Harry and William to holiday with them, where Diana and Dodi began to get to know each other and, inevitably, fall in love.
The ring reportedly was found in the wreckage of the Mercedes and given to Diana's sisters when they came to Paris to accompany her body back to England.
"The Crown" portrays Kelly Fisher, the woman Dodi Fayed dated before Princess Diana. Fisher claimed they were already engaged when he became romantically involved with Diana. Fisher sued Fayed for breach of contract in 1997.
“It was horrid,” Camilla admitted in a rare interview, of the media scrutiny that imprisoned her in her home after the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales. “I wouldn't want to put my worst enemy through it.”
In The Crown this season, the two women even meet up for lunch after the big engagement. But did this really happen in real life? According to Andrew Morton's biography, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, written with his subject's cooperation in 1992, it did.
On 22 February, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen would not attend the wedding ceremony, but would attend the church blessing and host the reception afterwards. The reason stated by the palace was the couple wanted to keep the occasion low key.
While some members of the royal family, like Prince William and his late grandfather Prince Philip, have chosen to abstain from watching the fictionalized retelling of the late Queen Elizabeth II's reign, others have openly admitted to turning on the critically acclaimed series.
“The royal household has never agreed to vet or approve content, has not asked to know what topics will be included, and would never express a view as to the programme's accuracy.”
The series is inspired by real-life events of Queen Elizabeth II starting in 1947 when she marries Prince Philip. 'The Crown' has always been controversial due to the creative liberties taken with historical events and the personal lives of the royal family, but that hasn't stopped people from watching.
Before she was taken out of the car, he held her hand and comforted her. "My God, what's happened," Diana then asked him, in what proved to be her final words. "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again.