‘Almost from the word go he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship,’ Khan told me this week. 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. Photo of Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan for fans of Princess Diana 35202168. Princess Diana’s ex-boyfriend Hasnat Khan claims that Prince William had a very negative reaction to his mother’s Panorama interview with controversial journalist Martin Bashir.. I could not do that. Pictured, Richard Kay (left) with Mr Khan. There had been controversy over some of her men friends, including the art dealer Oliver Hoare and England’s then rugby captain Will Carling. Reflecting on all those tumultuous events 25 years on has done nothing to diminish Mr Khan’s belief that Bashir ‘manipulated’ the Princess. 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. ‘I asked why and she said because of William. Rather she said it was about the boys, that it was important what William and Harry thought about her”. His spokesman this week denied the retired judge was delaying his investigation as a result of Scotland Yard’s announcement that it was assessing allegations of criminal conduct by Bashir. ... partly due to the input of Prince William. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's meeting with Imran Khan today will bring back special memories for Prince William, who used to play in the Prime Minister's garden when he was a … Hasnat Khan, 62, was nicknamed 'Natty' and branded 'Mr Wonderful' by Diana. Over the following weeks Hasnat was to become familiar with ‘Dr Jarman’s’ name. ‘His implication was that she was one of these people being bugged. I could not do that.’ Mr Khan’s romance with Diana began in 1995 – just a few weeks before the Panorama interview – and ran until the summer of 1997, ending shortly before the princess’s fatal car crash in August. He was very persuasive with Diana. ‘He phoned me and said he knew Martin Bashir and that he was under a lot of stress. A new film focuses on Diana's doomed relationship with her surgeon lover, Hasnat Khan. But he was very direct and said: “Mummy, he’s not a good person.”’. As for the Princess’s relationship with the reporter, that too came to a sudden end. He was hardly the stuff of a Mills & Boon romantic hero. I didn’t say anything. 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. But he filled her head with rubbish, such as that stuff about the nanny Tiggy [Legge-Bourke] being pregnant with Charles’s child.’, The couple met, he reveals, when the princess shouted at the Pakistani-born medic as he left work one day: ‘Oi, where are you going?’. Dr Hasnat Khan met Diana at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where she was visiting a friend recovering from heart surgery. BBC Religious Affairs Editor Martin Bashir heads out to the shops to buy a bottle of Famous Grouse whisky in the afternoon near his Hampshire home. Princess Diana Photo: Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. ‘Anyway I said I didn’t know him and I never heard any more.’. That patient was Joe Toffolo, who was having triple heart bypass surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital under the supervision of Mr Khan. It was the only way, she told him, that she could possibly get any measure of freedom. ‘I asked her if she thought it was wise and she said it would affect a lot of people. ‘She said she knew how the Royal Family would react. Hasnat Khan. Last updated at 08:43 14 January 2008. Following our reports, the Corporation asked retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson to begin a detailed investigation into claims from the Princess’s brother Earl Spencer that Bashir used forgery and deception to obtain his scoop. Princess Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan has claimed BBC reporter Martin Bashir "exploited" the Princess of Wales and "filled her head with rubbish". It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. But then I got angry. WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Diana's Mr Wonderful Hasnat Khan gives his first ever interview. Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon who Princess Diana fell 'madly in love with', has broken his 25-year silence. Mr Khan (left with Princess Diana's former butler), 62, now a consultant surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex, said he was contacted by a mutual acquaintance of his and Bashir’s several weeks ago, after the reporter’s behaviour hit the headlines in the Mail. The Pakistan-born heart surgeon had been on operating duty at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex when a message came through on his radio-pager. And he revealed how – when the scandal over Bashir’s behaviour reached boiling point late last year – a close ally of the beleaguered BBC religion editor got in touch, begging for help. It was what endeared her to the public. Khan was born on 1 April 1958 in Jhelum, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, in a Kakazai Pashtun family. ‘We had our relationship but we never talked much about her royal life, and there was something about Bashir I didn’t like. Diana was a friend of Toffolo’s Irish-born wife Oonagh, a former nun who nursed the Duke of Windsor on his deathbed in Paris, and who gave the Princess acupuncture. ‘He seemed to be saying that their success as a Muslim and a western woman could be a role model for us. This turned out to be true when the Queen wrote to the warring couple just before Christmas telling them the marriage had to end. I knew that there was a part of Diana that wanted to give an interview but my question is if Martin Bashir had not been there persuading her, would she ever have done it?’. When Mr Khan and the princess met Bashir at a country pub, the surgeon said he was left astonished – and offended. ‘It was intimate stuff.’ The fact that the princess had recorded a TV interview was kept a closely guarded secret. The princess said Charles had also conducted an interview, with Jonathan Dimbleby, about his infidelity – but Mr Khan told her: ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. 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NOT colour, DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A ruthless stab at the heart of the Family. According to Hasnat, Diana’s thinking was clear. That kind of thing. One day — Hasnat can’t remember exactly when — she told him that she was no longer in contact with Bashir. Princess Diana’s lover Hasnat Khan today revealed for the first time the intimate details of their two-year romance. Hasnat Khan remembers the first time he met Martin Bashir as if it was yesterday. I knew that there was a part of Diana that wanted to give an interview but my question is if Martin Bashir had not been there persuading her, would she ever have done it?". Khan recalls that his reaction was deadpan. The Crown: Why didn’t Charles marry Camilla in the first place. Diana and Hasnat met in London’s Royal Brompton Hospital, where Hasnat was assisting in the triple bypass surgery of Joseph Toffolo, the husband of Diana’s friend Oonagh Toffolo, an acupuncturist and “healer”. PRINCESS DIANA was thought to be deeply in love with Hasnat Khan after splitting from Prince Charles - but not many understand why she broke … ‘They seemed to speak all the time,’ he said. ‘I remember saying, “two wrongs don’t make a right”.’, As I revealed last year, the Princess kept a copy of her Panorama interview in a hat box in her Kensington Palace dressing room. 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? The comments below have not been moderated. Lord Dyson is about a third of the way through his inquiry, expected to take six months in total. ‘She called me as soon as it was finished and asked me what I thought. Now, Khan, 57, hopes to have found the love of his life. ‘Why didn’t we get married, when were we going to get married? 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’. She loved the subterfuge, often using different accents to reach the doctor during his busy working day. Of all the men caught in the vortex of Diana’s life, none has acted with more dignity and discretion than Hasnat Khan. If that is the case I could certainly believe it, because the boys were central to everything she did.’. by Richard Kay, Editor at Large, for the Daily Mail. Charles Prince of Wales is pictured with Diana Princess of Wales and their sons Prince William and Prince Harry in 1995. He told the Mail that Bashir ‘manipulated’ the princess, adding: ‘He was a cunning man.’ He also revealed that: Mr Khan, 62, now a consultant surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex, said he was contacted by a mutual acquaintance of his and Bashir’s several weeks ago, after the reporter’s behaviour hit the headlines in the Mail. They pursued a discreet two-year affair that finished a few months before her... Mary Currie Princess Diana HRH. ‘He was a cunning man, I am sure he did his homework,’ he says. He met William and Harry several times during the course of his two-year relationship with Diana — and was one of the close friends told about their plans for a statue of their mother due to be unveiled on what would have been her 60th birthday this July. She loved that.’. ‘She told me she had given an interview. For all that we know, Hasnat was probably Diana’s only chance at having a normal life, away from all the Royal Drama and the paparazzi. 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The memory of that encounter a quarter of a century ago came flooding back to Khan, now a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex, when Bashir tried to contact him in recent weeks through an intermediary. This, remember, was the man Diana called ‘Mr Wonderful’, drawn to his decency and integrity. That kind of thing,’ he said. Until 1991 he worked in Sydney, Australia and then began to work in London. By Richard Kay and Sam Greenhill for the Daily Mail, Published: 22:00 GMT, 8 January 2021 | Updated: 01:55 GMT, 9 January 2021. Diana, however, told him that she knew what she was doing — and what the outcome would be. 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. ‘But he filled her head with rubbish, such as that stuff about the nanny Tiggy (Legge-Bourke) being pregnant with Charles’s child. The Princess was at a public engagement and he watched it alone during a hospital nightshift. ‘She said she knew how the Royal Family would react. But as the frenzy over Panorama erupted, Khan remembers asking Diana what the royals would do. The couple met, he reveals, when the princess shouted at the Pakistani-born medic as he left work one day: ‘Oi, where are you going?’, Mr Khan said: ‘One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability. He spoke to me, too, of the fountain established in Diana’s name in Hyde Park which he felt could not and did not do her justice. I started off being embarrassed — Diana and I had not known each other long and we had never discussed marriage. He says Diana appeared on Panorama because her philandering husband had got away with ‘whatever he wanted’ – but she needed to force a divorce in order to ‘date who she liked’. I wanted to tell him to shut up, that it was none of his business but felt I couldn’t. Princess Kate and Prince William sat down with former cricketer Imran Khan, who was a friend of William's late mom Princess Diana. At that time I didn’t feel I knew her well enough to give a more informed judgment of what she had done, but she did mention how the Prince of Wales had given a television interview to Jonathan Dimbleby a year earlier. 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. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. She called him “Dr Jarman”.’, It was three years since her separation from Prince Charles and although not yet divorced, Diana (pictured in 1996) was struggling with new relationships. So what had William thought about Bashir? Princess Diana was a devoted mom who made sure her sons Prince William and Prince Harry experienced life outside royal gates. She said that if she was divorced she could date who she liked. Fewer people are now dying than expected in the South West and North East and in care homes, ONS data... Is Paris headed for another lockdown? Broadcast on 20 November 1995, the interview was watched by 23 million people on the night of its release. ‘She told me how he said there was a secret listening station in Kent where they eavesdropped on prominent people and how certain words triggered recording equipment. Almost immediately Khan noticed a change in the Princess. The request came out of the blue after the Daily Mail unearthed the scandal of how Bashir tricked Princess Diana into doing her 1995 BBC interview. Despite his reservations, Khan kept his counsel. Tap to unmute. Mr Khan is thought to have dated Princess Diana for two years prior to her death in August 1997. Their romance was in its early stages and Khan thought no more of the interview until the night of its broadcast, November 20. Such was the demand for the interview, the BBC made a reported $1m from a sale of the programme to ABC, one of America’s major networks. Now, in a rare interview, Mr Khan has opened up about his relationship with the princess and claimed that Mr Bashir “preyed on" her “vulnerability" in order to secure the BBC interview in which she famously said “there were three of us in this marriage” in reference to Prince Charles’ then-lover, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Princess Diana's ex warned her about Martin Bashir; Prince William said 'Bashir isn't a good person'. It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. 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. When she met my patients and their families, she was always clued up and had a natural quality of empathy. Ws Prince William and Kate Middleton embark on a royal tour of Pakistan, they are acknowledging Princess Diana by meeting with her friend, Prime Minister Imran Khan. ‘She was absolutely clear; she said they will ask us (her and Charles) to get a divorce.’. Diana also visited Pakistan during the time and became friends with Imran Khan and Jemima Khan. He has shunned the limelight, ignored the at-times grotesque speculation about her death and, crucially, rejected the financial rewards that he could so easily have made from writing about their love affair. Princess Diana described Hasnat Khan (pictured left) as 'Mr Wonderful' and friends said the heart surgeon was the love of her life. ‘One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability; it was what endeared her to the public. 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. Mr Khan said the BBC reporter ‘filled her head with rubbish’ until Prince William, then a teenager, warned her: ‘Mummy, he’s not a good person.’. He remains the same gentle, unassuming figure that Diana fell in love with, dedicated to his work here in Britain, which he now regards as home, and the heart unit he has painstakingly built near his family roots in Jhelum, Pakistan, where he spends part of each year treating poor local people without charge. ‘I said I was going to my uncle’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon to collect some books and I blurted out, “Do you want to come?” She said yes and that was it really. ‘The boys were central to everything she did,' says Khan in rare interview, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. ‘From the little I knew it was clear he was very persuasive with Diana. Hasnat Khan said the BBC reporter ‘filled her head with rubbish’ until Prince William, then a teenager, warned her: ‘Mummy, he’s not a good person’, Mr Khan came forward after the Mail exposed the underhand methods used by Bashir to trick Diana into giving her bombshell 1995 TV interview, which saw her declare: ‘There were three of us in this marriage.’. The surgeon added that Princess Diana’s son, Prince William, was strongly against the interview. I have to say she was right. The memory of an encounter a quarter of a century ago came flooding back to Khan (right), now a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex, when Bashir tried to contact him in recent weeks through an intermediary, ‘I looked in vain at Diana thinking she’d say something but she didn’t. I have to say she was right'. Bashir brought up the names of cricketer turned politician Imran Khan and the heiress Jemima Goldsmith, whose wedding Diana had attended the previous summer. Hasnat Khan is scathing about Bashir’s ensnaring of the Princess. Hasnat paused and said: ‘He hated the Panorama interview and told her she had made a mistake, which had upset her. Dr Hasnat Khan, a Muslim, ended his relationship with the Princess only months before her death after concluding that a marriage between them would be doomed to failure. To the instinctively cautious Dr Khan there was something unsettling about the confident television reporter who seemed so at home in the company of the Princess of Wales. She wanted him to meet someone special and she was driving the mystery person out from London that day. {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}, William ‘told Diana Martin Bashir wasnt ‘a good person’. His father, Rashid Khan, a graduate of the London School of Economics, ran a glass factory. Meanwhile after that meeting at the Breakspear pub, Diana stopped talking about ‘Dr Jarman’ and Bashir. “The boys were central to everything she did,” Khan said. And in the 23 years since the Princess’s death in Paris nothing much has changed. 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. ‘She complained bitterly that Charles was able to get away with whatever he wanted, could see Camilla and there was hardly a raised eyebrow. Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Harry are pictured in 1995. In October, it was reported that Mr Bashir was “seriously unwell” with complications from Covid-19. She had shared custody of her and Charles's sons, William, then 13, and Harry, 11. There's two more HOURS of this! Hasnat Khan is scathing about Bashir’s ensnaring of the Princess. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Shopping. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan (Image: GETTY) Kate and William are on tour in Pakistan this week (Image: SPLASH) He added that Hasnat… However, it was a distant cousin of the prime minister – Hasnat Khan – who caused Diana’s heartbreak. ‘Of course I am not naïve. I told her to be careful of him. ‘One day she told me that the brakes on her Audi car had been tampered with and the next time I saw her she was in a BMW. Rather she said it was about the boys, that it was important what William and Harry thought about her.’. ‘Almost from the word go, he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship. Hasnat Khan Tells Diana Inquest They Enjoyed “Normal” Sex Life, Says She Ended Affair. A few weeks ago, as details of Bashir’s methods emerged, Mr Khan was contacted by an old medical friend. 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? So what about the man who had a ringside seat at the centre of this whole saga and has now chosen to speak of it for the first time? Last night there was no response to requests for comment to the BBC, Lord Dyson’s inquiry, Martin Bashir or his agent. ‘We drove up there, drove back and found this wonderful connection. Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Harry are pictured in 1995. Instead I got up and said I had to go back to work and walked out.’, When Diana rang him later that night he told her that he found Bashir uncomfortable — and dangerous. Mr Khan also said that he watched the interview alone and told Princess Diana it was a “mistake” afterwards. During her courtship with Mr Khan, Diana initially referred to Bashir as Dr Jarman – a secret name she gave for her so-called ‘mole’ due to fears her telephone line was being tapped. This week, it emerged that Earl Spencer’s former head of security made an official police complaint over the faking of his bank statements by Bashir, who is on sick leave and reportedly too ill to respond to the allegations against him. She said she knew how the Duke of Edinburgh would react and the same applied to the Prince of Wales. Some three weeks after that first meeting with Hasnat, Diana had been introduced to Bashir by her brother at a flat in Knightsbridge. ‘One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability; it was what endeared her to the public. Through Spencer, Bashir reached Diana. Pair's relationship ended in the summer of 1997, shortly before Diana's death. It was intimate stuff.’. It was from Princess Diana, with whom he had begun a deep and loving relationship a few months earlier. In a rare interview, Dr Khan is scathing about a trailer for the film, Diana, and rubbishes claims by the producer that it had his 'tacit acceptance'. "Of course I am not naive. Princess Diana used to sneak in lover Hasnat Khan into Kensington Palace beneath a blanket in the back of a car, according to a royal writer. A barrister acting for Alan Waller, Earl Spencer’s former head of security, has urged the Metropolitan Police to investigate claims that Bashir and a BBC graphics artist created forged bank statements to clinch their bombshell interview. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The BBC has previously said that it is ‘determined to get to the truth of what happened’. It was impertinent of this man I didn’t know to speak like this to us. Princess Diana’s interview with Mr Bashir marked the first-ever solo TV interview for her. Just like ‘Dr Jarman’ for Bashir, Diana had her own nom de plume for contacting Hasnat — she left messages for him to call ‘Dr Armani’. Diana, 36, and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, 42, were killed in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31, 1997. In the event Camilla did not go but Hasnat, one of only a handful of the Princess’s friends invited, stayed away. Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan has broken his silence to expose how the ‘cunning’ Martin Bashir preyed on the princess. Just who ARE Harry and Meghan accusing of race slur? This was the secret name Diana used for Bashir whenever they spoke on the phone because of her fears that her telephone lines were being tapped — a fear, of course, that Bashir encouraged. Pictured, Diana in Chicago. Prince William … 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’. It was three years since her separation from Prince Charles and although not yet divorced, Diana was struggling with new relationships. Prince Philip, 99, wakes on 22nd day in hospital to the 'worst Royal crisis since 1936 abdication' after... BEL MOONEY: My pity for these sad, naive, damaged souls. It was around this time, September or October 1995 that Diana told him she’d had her apartment at Kensington Palace swept for bugs. As I revealed last year, the Princess kept a copy of her Panorama interview in a hat box in her Kensington Palace dressing room. ‘But she couldn’t see anyone without there being a big fuss in the papers. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Info. Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan dated Princess Diana from 1995 to 1997. Then, in early November, the Princess let Khan in on another secret, an altogether more explosive one. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. I asked her where the Audi was and she said it had to go.’. A friendship quickly grew. Hasnat’s arrival in Diana’s life almost exactly coincided with that of Bashir. He is the eldest of four children. The Met confirmed yesterday that officers were still assessing whether to launch an investigation. “[William] hated the Panorama interview and told her she had made a mistake, which had upset her,” Mr Khan said. According to Khan, Prince William “hated the Panorama interview and told her she had made a mistake, which had upset her.”. Hasnat told the Daily Mail he clearly remembers the first time he crossed paths with one of the most famous women in the world. Ingrid … Diana’s former partner and heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan, has slammed the BBC interviewer in charge of the royal’s revealing chat, Martin Bashir, for exploiting Diana’s vulnerabilities. The 50th Anniversary Ve Day Celebrations Parade in Hyde Park. I later realised that Martin picked on those vulnerabilities and exploited them. He has shunned the limelight, ignored the at-times grotesque speculation about Princess Diana's death and, crucially, rejected the financial rewards that he could so easily have made from writing about their love affair. Their romance, which remarkably had not yet leaked out, was soon to become public knowledge and the quietly-spoken hospital registrar’s life would be turned upside down. Why didn’t we get married? The reporter ‘had a favour to ask’, Khan was told. The only person she didn’t mention was the Queen and I never once heard her utter a word of criticism of her.’. Pictured, Princess Diana's interview with Martin Bashir. In 2007 I recall him telling me how he could not, in all countenance, accept William and Harry’s kind invitation to attend the memorial service on the tenth anniversary of their mother’s death which they had arranged, because the Duchess of Cornwall was due to be there.

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