Diana: Her Last Love [Hardcover]

Kate Snell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2000

This biography contains new information about Princess Diana and the last few months of her life. The contents reveal Diana's true love and the obstacles she faced to be with the man she loved.

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From the Publisher

Diana—Her Last Love is an account of the late Princess of Wales’ relationship with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. It discloses how they met at a London hospital, and how, for the last two years of Diana’s life, they managed to keep their affair largely secret. Placing the story in context with the whole of Diana’s life, author Kate Snell looks at Diana’s fascination with Islam and the East. She also pieces together evidence suggesting that when Dr. Khan broke off their relationship, Diana planned several strategies to win him back, including using the media and Dodi Fayed to make the doctor jealous. The details of how Diana deliberately orchestrated the photos and news stories of her romance with Mr. Fayed will interest many readers, but at the heart of the story is a sensitive and believable portrait of a woman who wished to be loved for herself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Kate Snell is a distinguished television director and producer, with a track record of making powerful and often moving documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. She began her broadcasting career as a freelance reporter with BBC Radio's Woman's Hour before moving to BBC Television News and Current Affairs where she produced programmes for Assignment and Panorama. This is her first book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing; 1St Edition edition (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 023399887X
• ISBN-13: 978-0233998879
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,714,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New take on Diana, who was more amazing than we ever knew!, July 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Diana: Her Last Love (Hardcover)

Very little has been written since Diana's death which is new. Very little was written about her while she was alive that was worth reading. Many people believed she was an empty-headed, spoilt girl with a privileged upbringing, who went mad. But that isn't true. Most people only knew her as the woman on the front of every magazine in the world. Everyone was shocked to the core when she died, but surely that shared shock doesn't make sense if she was so insubstantial!

This book fills in the missing pieces. It tells us things we never knew about Diana. It is not gossip, but fact, heard first-hand from some of Diana's closest friends and confidantes.

We all knew, subconsciously, that Diana was more than just a face. In fact she was an amazing woman. Not many people could have survived the pressures she had to cope with and emerged as a stronger person with the ability to shake the world's governments. Nobody has ever looked for what inspired this great change in Diana. The answer is that she had at last found a man she wanted to marry; a man who inspired her in her quest to help the sick and suffering. He was a heart surgeon; she called him 'Mr Wonderful'. She took her love for him to her grave.

Diana:Her last Love tells for the first time the complete story of Diana's love for Dr Hasnat Khan. It explains where Dodi fitted into the picture (she was certainly not in love with Dodi); how she and Prince Charles became great friends towards the end of her life, and how she came to terms with Camilla.

It is a sad story, but also heart-warming, in that it makes you appreciate for the first time just how special this woman was.

Unusually for a biography, this is a very easy book to read. I read it at one sitting. Although it is debatable whether anything else should be written about Diana, I believe that this book is fully justified; it sets history to rights, and above all I suspect Diana would have approved of it herself - it would certainly appear that some of her closest friends encouraged the author to write the book, which seems to be accompanied by a forthcoming TV documentary.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than I thought it would be, January 15, 2003

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This review is from: Diana: Her Last Love (Hardcover)

Based upon what other Amazon.com reviewers had to say, I didn't expect much from this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. The writing is good, a little hero-worshiping of Diana comes through, but that's tolerable. I notice the author only interviewed some of the more wacko or cheeseball "friends" of Diana (Simone Simmons, the faith healer, taken seriously?? but I guess Diana took her seriously at one time). However, at least you learn more about Hasnat Khan & his background (sounds like a really nice person, and all his family too). I can't agree with the author that Diana was a stronger person at the end of her life -- she seemed to me to be very immature still. Imagine taking up with Dodi Fayed to make another man jealous, sure he was a multi-millioniare but please, the guy had had so many women (what did he tell Diana about his fiance, Kelly Fisher??), and there was his drug habit...I wouldn't touch him with a barge pole. That's mature, strong behavior on Diana's part? I think she was so devastated when Dr. Khan finally broke it off, that she went into a tailspin & into her old, self-destructive, immature behavior. Manipulative, too, if you believe that she planned for the "Kiss" picture and the others being taken (which I believe). The author doesn't agree with my thoughts, but she doesn't force the issue, she just mentions that other friends thought Diana sounded strong at what turned out to be the end of her life. It's an interesting book, not the best one on Diana, but thoughtful and brings out some unknown background on her relationship with Hasnat Khan.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A most beautiful and sensitively written book, August 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Diana: Her Last Love (Hardcover)

This is the most sensitively written book so far about Princess Diana, showing her as a complete and whole person seen through the eyes of her different friends. This tells the story of her last love, Dr. Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon and a great man, whom most people will never have heard of, but who gave Diana true happiness in the last two years of her life. This book is 100% factual. Dr. Khan was Diana's last love with whom she found this pleasurable experience reciprocated for the first time in her life without any affectations.

This is definitely a book to be read by all seeking the truth about Diana's final years and who want to read the detailed facts of one of the greatest love stories kept under wraps until now.