Princess Diana was “madly in love” with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and considered moving to Pakistan to be with him, close friend Jemima Khan has revealed.
In an interview with Vanity Fair , Jemima says Diana secretly met Hasnat’s family in Pakistan to discuss the possibility of marriage and sought her advice during fundraising visits to Lahore.
“She wanted to know how hard it had been for me to adapt to life in Pakistan,” Jemima says in the article titled The Grandmother Prince George Never Knew.
“Both times she also went to meet (Hasnat’s) family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage.”
Jemima also revealed Diana was desperate to impress the doctor’s mother, but Naheed Khan was unlikely to approve of her son’s possible marriage to an English woman.
”(For a) son to marry an English girl is every conservative Pashtun mother’s worst nightmare,” Jemima told Vanity Fair.
Friends of Diana’s apparently told the magazine she wanted a daughter with Hasnat, whom she was in a relationship with for two years.
Diana’s friend Rosa Monckton says Hasnat ended the relationship, but other friends have said she called it quits because he would not marry her.
The relationship ended around the time Diana met Dodi Al Fayed but Rosa insists that relationship was only to make Hasnat jealous.
The interview appears in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
This story originally appeared on news.com.au.