Then, in early November, the Princess let Khan in on another secret, an altogether more explosive one. But it was the unfolding conversation that the cardiologist, who had trained under the world famous transplant surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, found so offensive. Diana, 36, and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, 42, were killed in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31, 1997. It was from Princess Diana, with whom he had begun a deep and loving relationship a few months earlier. Diana, however, told him that she knew what she was doing — and what the outcome would be. There's two more HOURS of this! So what had William thought about Bashir? As I revealed last year, the Princess kept a copy of her Panorama interview in a hat box in her Kensington Palace dressing room. However, it was a distant cousin of the prime minister – Hasnat Khan – who caused Diana’s heartbreak. In fact it was so instinctive I started calling her “the witch”! 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. Professor Chris Whitty warns a THIRD wave of Covid is inevitable later this year and tells MPs 'a lot more... Boris Johnson has FINALLY watched the Harry and Meghan interview but STILL won't take sides as No10 refuses... EU embroiled in fresh vaccine row - this time with Russia - after medical regulator warned using its Sputnik... Britain braces for 75mph gales and torrential rain this week as Met Office issues weather warning for ALL of... British Airways flight declares emergency in mid-air on way from Heathrow to Aberdeen and is forced to... How many people have died of Covid in YOUR area? This turned out to be true when the Queen wrote to the warring couple just before Christmas telling them the marriage had to end. PRINCE William told Diana Martin Bashir "isn't a good person" after her infamous BBC interview, the Princess's ex-boyfriend has claimed. 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. But then I got angry. It was what endeared her to the public. Dr Hasnat Khan met Diana at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where she was visiting a friend recovering from heart surgery. Prince William … She said she knew how the Duke of Edinburgh would react and the same applied to the Prince of Wales. But as the frenzy over Panorama erupted, Khan remembers asking Diana what the royals would do. Mr Khan said she told him there was ‘a secret listening station in Kent where they eavesdropped on prominent people’ and that ‘the brakes on her Audi had been tampered with’. ‘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. The Pakistan-born heart surgeon had been on operating duty at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex when a message came through on his radio-pager. The 50th Anniversary Ve Day Celebrations Parade in Hyde Park. Bashir brought up the names of cricketer turned politician Imran Khan and the heiress Jemima Goldsmith, whose wedding Diana had attended the previous summer. A friendship quickly grew. 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. Princess Diana Photo: Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. By Richard Kay and Sam Greenhill for the Daily Mail, Published: 22:00 GMT, 8 January 2021 | Updated: 01:55 GMT, 9 January 2021. 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. 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. Hasnat Khan remembers the first time he met Martin Bashir as if it was yesterday. ‘His implication was that she was one of these people being bugged. ‘She was very good at judging people. ‘I asked her if she thought it was wise and she said it would affect a lot of people. 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 later realised that Martin picked on those vulnerabilities and exploited them. 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?". 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. Early life and education. "Of course I am not naive. 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. I asked her where the Audi was and she said it had to go.’. Their romance was in its early stages and Khan thought no more of the interview until the night of its broadcast, November 20. I didn’t say anything. I have to say she was right. I could not do that. A new film focuses on Diana's doomed relationship with her surgeon lover, Hasnat Khan. 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. The Mail’s revelations prompted the BBC to commission an inquiry, led by former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson. 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. When she met my patients and their families, she was always clued up and had a natural quality of empathy. I later realised that Martin picked on those vulnerabilities and exploited them,’ he says. Daily Mail. ‘From the little I knew it was clear he was very persuasive with Diana. This was not about me and our relationship at all. 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'. The BBC has previously said that it is ‘determined to get to the truth of what happened’. ‘She told me she had given an interview. It was the only way, she told him, that she could possibly get any measure of freedom. 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.’. This, remember, was the man Diana called ‘Mr Wonderful’, drawn to his decency and integrity. ... She had secretly been dating Dr. Hasnat Khan… 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. Mr Khan is thought to have dated Princess Diana for two years prior to her death in August 1997. 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?’. After that visit, Diana went to see Mr Toffolo almost every day until his discharge three weeks later. ‘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. ‘Almost from the word go he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship,’ Khan told me this week. ‘We had our relationship but we never talked much about her royal life, and there was something about Bashir I didn’t like. And in the 23 years since the Princess’s death in Paris nothing much has changed. 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. Mr Khan, the Pakistani-born heart surgeon dubbed ‘Mr Wonderful’ by Diana during their intense two-year relationship, was her boyfriend throughout the period in question. Over the following weeks Hasnat was to become familiar with ‘Dr Jarman’s’ name. 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.’. 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. ‘Anyway I said I didn’t know him and I never heard any more.’. 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’. 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. Labour's Diane Abbott slams Royal Family 'racism' and says Palace aides did not 'adjust well' to Harry... Nearly half of Britons think Harry and Meghan's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey was 'inappropriate',... A bonfire of piping hot pique served up by Queen of the sofa: JAN MOIR gives her verdict on the interview... ROBERT HARDMAN: Allegations about Archie's title, his 'dark skin' and royal protection... but there are so... MICHAEL RIEDEL: Britons think Harry and Meghan are brats. He is the eldest of four children. Photo of Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan for fans of Princess Diana 35202168. She loved the subterfuge, often using different accents to reach the doctor during his busy working day. 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. They pursued a discreet two-year affair that finished a few months before her... Mary Currie Princess Diana HRH. ‘Almost from the word go, he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. That kind of thing,’ he said. Khan was born on 1 April 1958 in Jhelum, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, in a Kakazai Pashtun family. Rather she said it was about the boys, that it was important what William and Harry thought about her.’. The Crown: Why didn’t Charles marry Camilla in the first place. 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. Princess Diana’s lover Hasnat Khan today revealed for the first time the intimate details of their two-year romance. 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? ‘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’. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. According to Khan, Prince William “hated the Panorama interview and told her she had made a mistake, which had upset her.”. Info. Hasnat told the Daily Mail he clearly remembers the first time he crossed paths with one of the most famous women in the world. Often she bumped into the handsome doctor, whose dark good looks she had already compared to those of the actor Omar Sharif. 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? That kind of thing. Princess Diana was a devoted mom who made sure her sons Prince William and Prince Harry experienced life outside royal gates. ‘She said she would never ask for a divorce, but that it was what she wanted.’. By SIMON PARRY. Her brother, Earl Spencer, claims Bashir spun a web of deceit, claiming senior royals and courtiers betrayed Diana to newspapers and MI5, in order to draw the vulnerable princess into his confidence. When Mr Khan and the princess met Bashir at a country pub, the surgeon said he was left astonished – and offended. 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. 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. Intrigued but still busy and on-call with his medical duties, Dr Khan arranged to meet them later that evening at the Breakspear Arms, a bar not far from the renowned heart and lung centre and where he and Diana had enjoyed a number of unlikely dates. Now, Khan, 57, hopes to have found the love of his life. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. She was very ordinary in many ways, a normal person with great warmth. ‘One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability; it was what endeared her to the public. Why didn’t we get married? 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. In the event Camilla did not go but Hasnat, one of only a handful of the Princess’s friends invited, stayed away. The man who walked into the pub that January evening almost exactly 25 years ago was Bashir, who thanks to his sensational Panorama interview with the Princess the previous November, was almost as famous as Diana. Princess Diana’s interview with Mr Bashir marked the first-ever solo TV interview for her. In November I reported how he had presented Lord Spencer with fake bank statements purporting to show that a former employee had been selling secrets about his family to tabloid newspapers. 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?’. Reflecting on all those tumultuous events 25 years on has done nothing to diminish Mr Khan’s belief that Bashir ‘manipulated’ the Princess. That patient was Joe Toffolo, who was having triple heart bypass surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital under the supervision of Mr Khan. Tap to unmute. Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Harry are pictured in 1995. ‘But she couldn’t see anyone without there being a big fuss in the papers. ‘We met on August 27, it was bank holiday Monday and she was visiting one of my patients,’ the surgeon recalled. 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 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. 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. 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. Meanwhile after that meeting at the Breakspear pub, Diana stopped talking about ‘Dr Jarman’ and Bashir. Princess Kate and Prince William sat down with former cricketer Imran Khan, who was a friend of William's late mom Princess Diana. ‘He started with Charles Spencer who wanted protection from the tabloids and so easily fell for all his lies that he was investigating the Press. Hasnat paused and said: ‘He hated the Panorama interview and told her she had made a mistake, which had upset her. I told her to be careful of him. Mr Khan also said that he watched the interview alone and told Princess Diana it was a “mistake” afterwards. I have to say she was right'. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. As for the Princess’s relationship with the reporter, that too came to a sudden end. She had shared custody of her and Charles's sons, William, then 13, and Harry, 11. Princess Diana described Hasnat Khan (pictured left) as 'Mr Wonderful' and friends said the heart surgeon was the love of her life. 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. 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.. The Princess was at a public engagement and he watched it alone during a hospital nightshift. Health chief forced to deny restrictions are looming as hospitals... Nicola Sturgeon is set to unveil faster lockdown easing in Scotland TODAY with more mixing allowed outdoors... Diana admitted she had a ‘mole’ codenamed Dr Jarman - who turned out to be Bashir; The reporter’s bogus claims included that Camilla Parker Bowles had flown to America for plastic surgery; Bashir peppered Mr Khan with intimate questions about marrying the princess; The surgeon warned Diana that Bashir was dangerous and she ‘should have nothing more to do with him’; Diana gave the explosive Panorama interview to force Prince Charles to divorce her; It was Prince William, then aged just 13, who finally convinced his mother to sever ties with Bashir.

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