Revealed: Princess Diana’s ‘Mr Wonderful’, the dashing heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, with whom she fell passionately in love, is living in Pakistan with a wife 20 years his junior

The heart surgeon, with whom Princess Diana was passionately in love, moved to Pakistan, where he was photographed for the first time in years.

Fascinated by the kind and intelligent doctor, Diana asks Dr. He called Hasnat Khan ‘Mr Wonderful’.

It was said that he was the only man she truly loved.

The Princess had a two-year love affair with the Pakistani-born surgeon, who became her secret ‘soulmate’ after they met at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

They separated just weeks before his death in Paris in August 1997.

Now Dr. It was announced that Khan returned to his birth country and ran a heart hospital there.

He is the dean of the Jinnah Institute of Cardiology in Lahore.

Dr Khan has always avoided the spotlight and in recent years has worked tirelessly as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex and lives with his second wife and their young daughter.

Dr Khan was photographed meeting Punjab prime minister Maryam Nawaz this week as she began her new role running a cardiac hospital in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

Dr Hasnat Khan was in London in 1997 when he was the secret soulmate of the besotted Princess Diana.

It is thought he will continue to return to the UK to advise as he establishes a new base in Pakistan. The hospital says he is still working there and has not yet moved to Pakistan full-time.

Dr. Khan was reportedly photographed on Thursday meeting Punjab prime minister Maryam Nawaz, who ‘welcomed his decision to leave Britain and serve his own country’.

He was seen wearing a smart suit and striped yellow tie as he was congratulated by the Prime Minister: ‘It is heartening that a son of the soil chooses to serve his underprivileged citizens.’

The new hospital is being established to become one of the country’s heart treatment centres, and ambitious plans are being implemented to turn the region into a ‘global hub for medical tourism’.

Dr Khan had previously built a cardiac unit near his birth city of Jhelum in Pakistan and spent part of each year treating local poor people free of charge.

Born in 1958, he completed his initial medical training before moving to England, where he pursued a distinguished career as a cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, a specialist center for heart and lung diseases.

He trained under world-famous organ transplant surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub.

In 1995, while Princess Diana was visiting a friend who was being treated there, Dr. He made friends with Khan.

Described by his friends as a shy and extremely private man, Dr. Khan was single and only two years older than Diana when they met.

“I came out of the hospital one day and he was coming in and he said, ‘Hey, where are you going?'” Dr Khan said when the Daily Mail gave him a rare interview a few years ago. ” he shouted,” he recalled.

‘I said I was going to my uncle’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon to collect some books and blurted out, “Do you want to come?” He said yes, and indeed it was.

‘We went there, came back and found this amazing connection. ‘He was very ordinary in many ways, a very warm-hearted, normal person.’

He had separated from the Princess (pictured in her infamous interview for Martin Bashir’s Panorama programme) just a few weeks before her death in Paris in August 1997.

The couple enjoyed unexpected dates at the Breakspear Arms, a pub not far from Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, where he also works.

It is also said that Diana smuggled the portly doctor into her home at Kensington Palace by hiding him in the boot of a car.

Although she was married to Prince Charles at the time, but they separated for good, no matter how much he loved Diana, he eventually fell in love with Dr. Charles. Khan couldn’t stand the thought of living his life under the glare of publicity as the partner of the most famous woman in the world.

The Princess’s closest friends have previously spoken of the distress caused by the surgeon ending their relationship.

He had met Dr Khan’s family during a visit to Pakistan in February 1996; On this trip, she wore a traditional shalwar kameez (a flowing dress with loose trousers).

While there, Diana visited a cancer hospital run by former Test cricketer Imran Khan, Hasnat’s distant cousin, and is said to have made a significant effort to win over the rest of his family, including his grandmother, with whom he had a long-standing correspondence.

The couple was said to have discussed the possibility of marriage, having children together and moving to Pakistan, and Diana even introduced him to their son.

It is also said that at one point he was so impressed that he considered converting to Islam so the couple could marry.

Explaining how the relationship ended, Dr Khan once said: ‘I knew I couldn’t live a normal life and that if we had children together, I wouldn’t be able to take them anywhere or do normal things with them.’

He remained in touch with Dr Khan’s family even after their separation.

Dr Khan said: ‘There are hundreds of possible situations.

‘He can live very happily with me or someone else, get married and have more children. He could have gone in that direction. I try not to think about these things. ‘I can’t change anything now.’

Diana set out with Dodi Fayed – some say Dr. Believed to be an act of recklessness designed to make Khan jealous – it proved to be a fateful choice when the Princess and Dodi died together in a car crash in the Alma tunnel in Paris on 31 August 1997.

Dr Hasnat Khan portrayed in Netflix drama series The Crown

Dr. attended Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey in September 1997. Khan once said of his legacy: ‘He did a lot of work. He got to where he was in terms of what it was.

‘He wasn’t content with just shaking hands and waving at people. He actually did something. Now that he is gone, there is a huge void; ‘It left a gap.’

Dr. never talked about their relationship while the princess was alive. Khan was outraged when a big-budget film was released in 2013, claiming to reveal the true story of their love and gain his approval.

Dr., who also stars in the popular Netflix series The Crown. Khan said of the movie Diana, starring Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews: ‘You can tell from this picture that the whole thing is an assumption about how we treat each other, and they got it completely wrong.

‘There was no hierarchy in our relationship. She wasn’t a princess and I wasn’t a doctor.’

After Diana’s death, Dr. Khan continued to devote his life to his work and lived quietly in East London for many years.

Ten years after Diana’s death, Dr. Khan married Hadia Sher Ali, who was 29 years old at the time and was a Pakistani descendant of the Afghan royal family. However, their arranged marriage ended after just 18 months.

In 2017, Daily Mail revealed that he had found love again after getting engaged to Somi Sohail.

The couple were photographed together at a charity ball in London’s Mayfair.

The event was organized to raise funds for Chain of Hope, which works towards its long-term goal of ensuring that all children, no matter where they are born, have access to quality cardiac care in their own country.

Of all the men caught in the vortex of Diana’s life, none of them were Dr. It was said that he did not act with as much dignity and prudence as Khan.

He always ignored the outlandish speculation about her death and rejected the financial rewards he could easily obtain by writing about his love affairs.

In 2017, Daily Mail revealed that he had found love again after getting engaged to Somi Sohail. The couple were photographed together at a charity ball in London’s Mayfair (pictured)

When the Mail interviewed him in 2021, Dr Khan remained the same gentle, humble figure that Diana fell in love with, devoted to his work in Britain, which he calls home.

But now he appears to have broadened his horizons with an ambitious new role in Pakistan.

There is one thing that will never change; commitment to his patients.