RELATED: The Diana photos the royal family wanted buried, RELATED: The woman who really drove Princess Diana mad, RELATED: The hidden message in Dianas gym gear. ), 'The last few weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster!' And thanks to a remarkable dossier he has preserved ever since, Lord Spencer revealed the lies and preposterous claims peddled by the reporter at an astonishing meeting between Bashir and the Princess which he set up and attended. Becca Wood is a news and trending reporter for TODAY Digital based in New York City. Khan has opened up for the first time to talk about how the couple first met and to reveal he advised the Princess against her bombshell interview with Panorama. In the years since, Khan has revealed that he helped facilitate Diana's relationship with Pakistani heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan, a man which he says she "wanted to marry," in the months before . Half an hour later, at about 11.30pm, Diana and Dodi decided to return to his apartment. Harry and Meghans close friend Omid Scobie has shed light on the Sussexes reaction to being given the boot from Frogmore Cottage. READ MORE: Prince Harry under scrutiny over high security costs for romantic Canada getaways. The corporation has insisted that it is vital that everyone with information shares that with Lord Dyson, so that he can investigate thoroughly and draw his conclusions having heard all the evidence. It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. I never saw him again and she no longer mentioned his name but I discovered that he was helping her with speeches and letters.. We have photographs of them on Fayed's boat The Jonikal. On September 19, her brother Charles Spencer introduced her to Martin Bashir, a BBC journalist who claimed to have explosive information about press intrusion into her private life. But in her last spiral in Paris, there were many . The Queen wrote to the warring couple just before Christmas telling them the marriage had to end. Incredibly, there was an Irish connection to the couple meeting in 1995. And in the 23 years since the Princesss death in Paris nothing much has changed. In an unprecedented interview, Mr Khan the shy surgeon with whom Diana was infatuated lifted the lid on the breathtaking tactics Bashir deployed to land his infamous Panorama scoop. After this, our friendship turned into a relationship," Khan said. She told me that whatever she did, she always knew how the courtiers at Buckingham Palace would retaliate, Khan said of the period leading up to the interview. Perhaps she protected me because she thought we had a future together.. On the way back, they stopped to survey the hundreds of bouquets already left outside the castles gates. 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. What have I done? At 12.32am, less than 15-minutes after the tragic group left the Ritz, eight photographers were arrested and an ambulance arrived. Prince Harry remembered Diana earlier this week on what would have been her 59th birthday at the Diana Award ceremony, where he said he was proud to honour the legacy of my mother through the humanitarian prizes. Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan has broken his silence to expose how the 'cunning' Martin Bashir preyed on the princess. She was very ordinary in many ways, a normal person with great warmth. Not only is the line of succession different, but royal titles are also being switched up. . Then, in early November, the Princess let Khan in on another secret, an altogether more explosive one. After settling into the hotels LEspadon restaurant around 10pm, Dodi is reported to have been suspicious that some other diners might be photographers. Their romance came off the back of the princess' long-term relationship with Hasnat Khan, a . She said that if she was divorced she could date who she liked. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. 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There, X-rays revealed internal haemorrhaging and Diana went into cardiac arrest again. Prince Charles had recently hosted a highly publicised 50th birthday party for his longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles at the Wales former marital home, Highgrove. At Balmoral in the early hours, Prince Charles was left to break the news to his sons. Only weeks earlier, she had confirmed her first public romance since her divorce from Prince Charles, letting swarms of bobbing paparazzi in the Mediterranean catch her in a clinch with playboy Dodi Al-Fayed. I do not know what Diana was like in other relationships but she protected me very well, not just from the media but also from a lot of information. According to Vanity Fair, Khan attempted to call Diana the night of her death, but she had changed her phone number. In November the BBC announced that it found Dianas note, and The Telegraph later reported that an employee had taken it. He was very persuasive with Diana. He phoned me, and said he knew Martin Bashir, and that he was under a lot of stress. Continue the conversation | @DanielaElser, To join the conversation, please Still, she was hopeful that she had the upper hand and could win him back. Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty. IE 11 is not supported. "Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life," he said. The BBC began to investigate Bashir soon after the Diana interview aired, over the allegations of forged bank documents. Rather she said it was about the boys, that it was important what William and Harry thought about her.. Princess Dianas interview with Mr Bashir marked the first-ever solo TV interview for her. Diana, however, told him that she knew what she was doing and what the outcome would be. One day, he recalls, she was terribly excited because Dr Jarman had told her that Camilla Parker Bowles whom she later declared on Panorama was the third person in her crowded marriage had secretly flown to America for plastic surgery. I felt it was a big mistake and I told her it was terrible but then added, If you are on a mission, you have done the job., He then asked her about Bashir, whom he realised was the shadowy Dr Jarman. Dr Hasnat Khan is a British-Pakistani heart surgeon who met Princess Diana when she visited the Royal Brompton hospital in 1995. . Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. Khan said their final discussions took place in Battersea Park in London. Maxine Mawhinne was preparing to go on air for the BBC, aided only by a single producer and director, when a news wire flash arrived saying that the Princess had been injured in a car crash. Over the next few weeks she visited the hospital on multiple occasions, and in mid-September the two went on a date. There on the tarmac, they were met by (among other people) Henri Paul, the deputy security director of the fabled Ritz Hotel, a five-star establishment owned by Mohammed Al-Fayed. 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. The surgeon added that Princess Dianas son, Prince William, was strongly against the interview. Reporters found out about their relationship in November 1995, according to Khan. She was very ordinary in many ways, a normal person with great warmth. I asked why and she said because of William. Despite being far away from fishbowl London, Dianas every move was still being documented by the press. At 4.41am, the Press Association reported that the Princess of Wales was dead. ", Khan said Diana asked her butler Paul Burrell to "talk to a priest about the possibility of a secret marriage. He said he was a decent man but that he was very depressed and that he had a favour to ask, would I talk to Bashir? Hasnat Khan ended the long-term relationship, with his father, Abdul Rasheed Khan, reporting a comment he made: 'If I married her [Diana], our marriage would not last for more than a year. The Pakistan Prime Minister said: She had been involved with him for two years and she had wanted to marry him. The Mails revelations prompted the BBC to commission an inquiry, led by former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson. That fall, two chance meetings would put her on a different path. Mr Khan said the BBC reporter 'filled her head with rubbish' until. by Richard Kay, Editor at Large, for the Daily Mail. He added: I had it in my mind that I was going to talk to him. 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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. Diana reportedly told Lady Elsa Bowker, I found my peace! of Khan. (As opposed to the US, which follows the scoop and run philosophy. For two years she had been in a clandestine romance with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, a deeply . In fact it was so instinctive I started calling her the witch! Spencer has said he was caught off guard by the Panorama interview because he decided that Bashir seemed untrustworthy after their initial meeting, adding that he did not know that Dianas contact with Bashir persisted afterward until the interview was announced in mid-November. While she was there, she met heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and was quickly smitten. According to biographer Sarah Ellison, writing for Vanity Fair in 2013, Mr Khan had tried to reach Diana the night of her death but she had changed her phone number. She immediately underwent emergency surgery to try and drain blood from her chest when it was discovered that a vein near her heart had partially ruptured. sternezahl: 4.9/5 (75 sternebewertungen) . He said he was a decent man but that he was very depressed and that he had a favour to ask: would I talk to Bashir? 17:00 EST 08 Jan 2021 Hasnat Khan is now 64-years-old and lives in Essex, where he continues to work as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon University Hospital. According to Khan, Diana broke up with him. Maybe I could speak to him because having married someone from outside my culture, if there was something that could be cleared or some advice that could be given, then maybe I would be able to help.. 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. And he revealed how when the scandal over Bashirs behaviour reached boiling point late last year a close ally of the beleaguered BBC religion editor got in touch, begging for help. Khan said Diana and her friends visited the hospital regularly. After her second cruise, August saw Diana make her last humanitarian mission to Bosnia, during which paparazzi photos confirmed her romance with Dodi. Often she bumped into the handsome doctor, whose dark good looks she had already compared to those of the actor Omar Sharif. Princess Diana's former love, Hasnat Khan, is speaking out against the BBC, claiming that the royal was . HasnatKhan remembers the first time he met Martin Bashir as if it was yesterday. The Met confirmed yesterday that officers were still assessing whether to launch an investigation. Mr Khan is thought to. 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. His implication was that she was one of these people being bugged. Harry was just 12 at the time of her death while William was 15. Meanwhile after that meeting at the Breakspear pub, Diana stopped talking about Dr Jarman and Bashir. She called me as soon as it was finished and asked me what I thought. By 'Rather she said it was about the boys, that it was important what William and Harry thought about her., Princess Diana's heart surgeon lover breaks his 25-year silence about relationship, Dave Fanning fell off a cliff at Lottie Ryan's wedding, Anna Geary recounts decision that saved her from wedding turmoil, PICS: Every time Kate Middleton was red carpet royalty at the BAFTAs. "Because I think you write in [you are] book that she wanted to secretly marry him and that William was supportive in that decision. But even though he firmly believes that she was inveigled into giving the interview, he also maintains that there was a strategy on her part. Diana died in a tragic car accident, in Paris, almost two months after her 36th birthday in 1997. After that visit, Diana went to see Mr Toffolo almost every day until his discharge three weeks later. Princess Diana 's ex-partner, consultant surgeon Hasnat Khan, has claimed that the Duke of Cambridge "hated" her famous Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in 1995. I think the idea was that I would say something about how Diana wanted to do the interview. Details of engagements are only being released on the day - a system used regularly in Northern Ireland - and a huge security operation involving 1,000 police and the Pakistan military swung into action to protect the royal couple and their entourage yesterday. PRINCE WILLIAM and Kate Middleton have met with Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan today - but Mr Khan, who was good friends with Princess Diana, has previously revealed a heartbreaking . Hasnat Khan and Princess Diana did actually meet in Royal Brompton Hospital. "My main concern about us getting married was that my life would be hell because of who she was. She was not a paranoid person but all this talk of bugs and phone tapping was about getting her to a place where she distrusted things and people around her. Bashir, he added, was a clever man. While later, Mohammed Al-Fayed would claim that his son planned to propose to Diana, her friend Rosa Monckton says that the Princess, still in love with Khan, had no intention of marrying Dodi. Lord Dyson is about a third of the way through his inquiry, expected to take six months in total. The inquest was held to dispel Mohamed Al Fayeds claim that the crash that killed Diana and his son, Dodi Fayed, was a deliberate plot. Shall we mention that? and he said, Yeah, if you think youve got enough to say. They seemed to speak all the time, he said. The jury concluded the crash was the result of chauffeur Henri Paul's impaired driving and paparazzi photographers' pursuit. 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