But only one man has been called the "love of her life"—British Pakistani surgeon
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. These are the secrets behind their two-year-long whirlwind romance, according to The Diana Chronicles written by journalist Tina Brown.
Amid her unhappy marriage with Prince Charles, Princess Diana began an affair with army captain James Hewitt, which began in 1986 and ended around 1990. In 1994, Hewitt shared his story in a tell-all memoir which allegedly sold for millions of dollars.
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.
James Lifford Hewitt (born 30 April 1958) is a former cavalry officer in the British Army. He came to public attention in the mid-1990s after he disclosed an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, while she was still married to then-Prince Charles.
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.
Queen Elizabeth became mother-in-law to Princess Diana when the latter married Charles. The two appeared to share a polite and formal relationship through the years, according to Diana's biographer Andrew Morton.
Maggie admits in a scene near the end of the movie that she's actually in love with Princess Diana. It's a little out of left field thematically, but she makes this confession to prove to Diana that there is love for her in the world even though the family she's married into doesn't treat her that way.
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.
She was said to be on good terms with Charles before her death. According to Tina Brown's book "The Diana Chronicles," released in 2008, the couple had become friends after the divorce, though Diana was said to have still had feelings for the prince. The claim has never been officially confirmed.
Hasnat Khan - 1995 to 1997
Khan, described by Diana as 'Mr Wonderful', was a British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon thought by friends to have been the 'love of Diana's life'.
Before King Charles III (then Prince Charles) married Princess Diana (then Diana Spencer) in 1981, he was apparently already smitten with his former girlfriend, Camilla Parker Bowles (then Camilla Shand, now Camilla, Queen Consort). After an extensive courtship, Charles and Camilla married each other in April 2005.
According to Burrell, Harry chose to keep Diana's highly treasured engagement ring as a keepsake and William opted for her Cartier watch. This he repeated in interviews after the ring appeared on the finger of Kate Middleton in 2010, alleging that Harry must have given it to his brother.
Although the former royal butler isn't certain about what happened next, he says the two of them must have made a deal. “Harry obviously gave up his treasure to his brother, so that it could be on the ring finger of his wife who would one day be queen,” Burrell reveals.
Following Diana's death in August 1997, the sapphire ring was inherited by her son Prince Harry, who eventually offered it to his older brother Prince William before he proposed to Kate Middleton with it in 2010.
Speaking in the audio tapes, Diana said of her wedding day: "I don't think I was happy. I never tried to call it off, in the sense of really doing that, but I think [it was] the worst day of my life." She also described herself as being "a lamb to the slaughter."
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.
Spencer is a 2021 historical psychological drama film directed by Pablo Larraín from a screenplay by Steven Knight. The film is about Princess Diana's existential crisis during the Christmas of 1991, as she considers divorcing Prince Charles and leaving the British royal family.
I will too! Answer: The big reason Prince Charles and Camilla Shand, as she was then known, didn't get married in the early 1970s: He never asked her. And there are probably a number of reasons for that. In his early 20s, like many other young men, Charles simply wasn't ready for marriage.
"She was very supportive of Diana," Morton tells PEOPLE. "Diana always felt that the Queen was a kind of marital referee and that the Queen should really intervene over her husband's relationship with Mrs. Parker Bowles. But the Queen's policy was to hope for the best."
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana.
No, Camilla did not attend Diana's funeral. There was a strong public antipathy towards Camilla due to her having had a relationship with Prince Charles while he was still married to Diana, and it was deemed inappropriate for her to be attending.
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.
Like Diana, Dodi Was Divorced
Dodi and Diana's relationship went public in August 1997 when they were photographed kissing on the Fayed family yacht (the photo was published on August 10, 1997, according to Sara Bradford's biography, Diana).
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.