The Scandals That The Crown Skipped in Season 5

Episode seven depicted Diana’s first assembly with the center surgeon—throughout a go to with a pal at a London hospital—and supplied a short glimpse at their relationship. Nevertheless it was no informal fling. The couple dated privately for 2 years, ending their romance simply weeks earlier than Diana’s dying in August 1997.

In The Diana Chronicles, creator Tina Brown stated Diana referred to Khan as “the one,” although the notoriously personal physician by no means spoke publicly about their relationship till 2008. He revealed the pair had mentioned marriage and that Diana traveled with him to Pakistan to fulfill his household in 1996.

“She actually loved her time when she got here right here,” Khan instructed the Mail on Sunday. “She additionally loved the afternoon tea she had with my household. And I feel she very a lot favored the Asian household’s eccentric tradition.”

However the media consideration on Diana proved an excessive amount of for Khan to deal with, the surgeon revealed in a 2008 inquest into her dying. 

“I knew I might not be capable to lead a standard life,” Khan defined in an announcement on the time. “My fundamental concern about us getting married was that my life could be hell due to who she was.”

In keeping with Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell, Diana thought-about Khan her “soulmate.”

“This was the person she cherished greater than every other and it was a really deep, non secular relationship,” Burrell stated throughout the inquest. “I witnessed it at first hand and so they had been very a lot in love.”