Diana Film Is 'Completely Wrong', Says Former Lover

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: According to the tagline on posters for the new biopic portraying Princess Diana’s love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon, “the legend is never the whole story.”

Now the man at the centre of the narrative, Hasnat Khan, has spoken out to insist that the film itself does not tell the whole story either, being based entirely “on hypotheses and gossip.”

Dr Khan, who was nicknamed Mr Wonderful by the Princess, launched a scathing criticism of the forthcoming big budget release, Diana, claiming it was “completely wrong” and vowing he would never watch it.

A still image from the film showing the actors playing him and Diana side by side at the hospital where they met was enough to convince him it would entirely misrepresent their relationship, he said.

“I don't see this movie doing well at all,” he said.

“It is based on gossip and Diana's friends talking about a relationship that they didn't know much about, and some of my relatives who didn't know much about it either. It is all based on hypotheses and gossip.” » | Rosa Silverman | Sunday, August 25, 2013

MAIL ON SUNDAY: Diana film’s cruel lies about our love, by Hasnat Khan: Doctor nicknamed ‘Mr Wonderful’ by the Princess attacks new movie… and reveals an intriguing insight into their affair » Hasnat Khan | Saturday, August 24, 2013

Princess Diana Was 'Madly in Love' with Heart Surgeon Hasnat Khan

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: 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.

Diana wanted to marry the doctor, with whom she had a two-year relationship, and secretly met his family in Pakistan to discuss the possibility of a union, according to Jemima.

She is understood to have told two other friends that she wanted a daughter with the eminent surgeon.

"Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him," Jemima told Vanity Fair. "Even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that’s one of the reasons why we became friends.”

Jemima disclosed that Diana visited her twice in Pakistan to help fund-raise for the hospital where her former husband Imran Khan – a distant cousin of Diana's lover – worked.

"Both times she also went to meet his family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage to Hasnat," she said. » | Alice Philipson | Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Hasnat “Mr Wonderful” Khan Breaks Silence on Diana

It is understood that at one point the Princess was so smitten with Dr Khan that she contemplated converting to Islam so they could marry.

THE TELEGRAPH: His hair is greyer and his features are more rounded but Dr Hasnat Khan's affection for Diana, Princess of Wales, remains undiminished by the passing of more than a decade.

The heart surgeon the late Princess described as "Mr Wonderful" is sitting on a sea-green sofa at his home in Pakistan.

Dressed in a white shirt, faded jeans and trainers, he fondly recalls the woman he shared an intimate relationship with until just months before her death.

To Dr Khan, Diana was first and foremost a warm, generous woman who just happened to be a princess.

"I found her a very normal person with great qualities," he says, choosing his words with immense care.

"I think she did great work all over the world not just for the UK but for everyone. That is very important."

After meeting at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where the Princess was visiting a friend who was recovering from heart surgery, they pursued a discreet, two-year affair that finished in the early summer of 1997. Dr Hasnat Khan: Princess Diana and me >>> By Massoud Ansari in Jehlum and Andrew Alderson

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Princess Diana and the Continuing Conspiracy Theories

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REUTERS: LONDON (Reuters) - Two major investigations by French and British police concluded that Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash was a tragic accident, but 10 years on many remain convinced she was murdered in a sinister plot.

The usual suspects cited by conspiracy theorists include the royal family -- because they were unhappy Diana was to marry her lover, Muslim Dodi al-Fayed -- or arms dealers, because they were angry at her support for a ban on landmines.

"They were killed as a result of a wicked conspiracy by people who did not want the princess to marry my son and were fearful of what she could say and do," Dodi's father Mohamed, the leading murder theory protagonist, told Reuters.

And there are some truly bizarre hypotheses.

These suggest leaders of a "new world order" assassinated her because she wouldn't marry former U.S. President Bill Clinton, or that she was killed as part of a Satanic ritual, or even that she is still alive having faked her own death.

Alasdair Spark, at the Centre for Conspiracy Culture at the University of Winchester, said doubts about the official version of Diana's death reflected a common belief that the public were always deliberately misled by the authorities.

"At the heart of it is this very strong belief we are always lied to, that any government never tells you the truth," Spark told Reuters. Diana conspiracy theories flourish a decade on (more)

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