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.
"She
wanted to know how hard it had been for me to adapt to life in Pakistan."
Diana
made every effort to get to know Khan's family but for a son to marry an
English woman "is every conservative Pashtun mother's worst
nightmare", Jemima said.
The
couple are thought to have discussed the possibility of marriage but Khan told
police in an interview after her death in 1997 that he told her "it was a
ridiculous idea" and that the only way they could have a normal life would
be to move to Pakistan, where the press "don't bother you".
As her
love affair with the doctor began to crumble, Diana began a new relationship
with Dodi Al Fayed.
The
source of her apparent frustration with Khan – his reluctance to marry – was no
longer an issue with Al Fayed, whom she reportedly believed was going to give
her a ring.
She
told close friend Rosa Monckton, the former managing director of Tiffany &
Co, that the ring was "going firmly on my right hand".
However,
according to Monckton, Diana talked much more about Khan than Al Fayed and she
still believes she pursued the relationship only to make the doctor jealous.
Telegraph.co.uk
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