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Diana: Her Last Love

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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.

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.

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.

After reading this book, I am convinced that the author speaks the truth. Hasnat Khan's name comes up in several books, and they all state Diana felt strongly for him. I do believe she was with Dodi Fayed to make Mr. Khan jealous. I certainly can picture her with a heart surgeon more easily than I can with a playboy who didn't know what to do with all his money. I also read Paul Burrell's book, "A Royal Duty" and he alludes to Diana's true love, though he doesn't give him a name. He does say it was not Dodi. I believe that had Diana lived, she would have possibly married Hasnat Khan, or at least maintained a loving relationship with him. She didn't know Dodi well enough to even think of marrying him; the relationship was simply a summer fling. It's sad that she did not live to see that happiness with Dr. Khan come to fruition.

This book claims to demonstrate that heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan of London was the last love of Princess Diana. Although the book contains a small amount information about Diana's friendly relationship and visits with the Khan family in both Pakistan and England, the book and author does not give any quotations from the Khan family to prove her assertions about Diana's supposed love for Dr. Hasnat Khan, and the doctor himself is not quoted, and the doctor has refused to say anything publicly about his relationship with Diana. Therefore, this book is nothing but second hand or third hand hearsay, not testimony. The author repeats some quotes from friends of Diana in earlier sources which suggest that Diana was not intending to marry Dodi Fayed, but that does little to prove Diana was in love with Dr. Hasnat Khan. The author suggests that Diana was being publicly and privately deceptive about her supposedly pretended relationship with Dodi Fayed, in order to make Dr. Hasnat Khan jealous, because Dr. Hasnat Khan had just recently rejected Diana's desires, and thus Diana tried to make Dr. Hasnat Khan return to Diana. The author suggests that Dr. Hasnat Khan was the true love of Diana, because it was a secret relationship, but that is not quite correct; it was not an entirely secret relationship, since it was reported in the tabloid newspapers, but just less public than her relationship with Dodi Fayed. The author quotes a few of Diana's friends who quote Diana as saying how much she admired Dr. Hasnat Khan, but it seems to this reviewer that Diana was just as likely to have been publicly and privately deceptive about her relationship with Dr. Hasnat Khan, and that Diana was not in love with Dr. Hasnat Khan either. This book is not worth much as a source of truth, because it lacks the direct testimony of the still silent Dr. Hasnat Khan. See my other reviews at Amazon.

This book isn't one to really enjoy. Ms. Snell uses other books(listed in back) as references, no real problem with that but then she goes further and uses anonymous sources. I never really like that because you have no way of knowing how good that source is or whether or not they might have a grudge against the subject. I suspect that some enemies of the Princess more than her friends contributed, that stuff about Diana trying to pay Simone Simmons with gifts instead of cash is an example of this. Anything I've ever read indicates to me that she most likely would not have done this (although she could be very generous with gifts), that would be a trait more of the born Royals. The love life details, are they true? I don't know, the Princess is dead and Hasnat Khan isn't talking. A person should also remember that in 1997 his relatives embarassed him by talking so much, sounds to me like they're still at it.

Uninspiring, petty and boring. I adored Diana, and truly enjoyed the exhaustively detailed biographies that have come out in the last 5 years. This isn't one of them. It is neither memorable nor does it have any excellent new pictures of the Princess - except the one on the cover. We read nothing new about James Hewitt nor Camilla, nor Will Carling, and a lot of drivel about Hasnat Kahn. Yawn. Wait for something else to come out.

Hasnat Khan may have been Diana's last love, but from the state of their relationship at the time of Diana and Dodi's cruises, the good doctor may equally have been her last heartbreak. The relationship with Khan was longer, but her relationship with Dodi was cut short by the crash so we really do not know what might have happened over the next two or three years.
I am not certain if at the time of her death if she was still contemplating a marriage to Dr. Khan. After all, he had pretty much made it clear he was not willing to take the necessary steps to marry Diana -- and I think this hurt her very much. Maybe by the time she cruised with Dodi, she was already thinking Doctor Khan was a lost cause.

If Diana's love for the doctor was as strong as the Ms. Snell implies, Khan refusal to make the one big commitment may have ended what affection she held for him. The lack of commitment likely was interpreted by the princess as another rejection. At that point, she may have decided to wash her hands of him and start looking elsewhere.

From reading the book I do not think Kate Snell is a particular fan of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. We all know Diana was not perfect since no one is, but I found the attacks on Diana's character to be rather harsh. Books on Charles typically are written with the approval of the palace, and penned by fawning supporters -- something most Diana books lack. The author made the point that Diana still maintained a friendship with Khan's family (to prove the seriousness of the Khan relationship) but maybe Diana truly liked and respected his family despite Khan's failure toward a marriage commitment with the princess.

The last disagreement with Khan may have been the final straw for Diana. Although, the author feels "The Kiss" photos were designed to make Dr. Khan jealous, it is possible Diana simply was celebrating having a relationship with a man who did not care if the world knew he was seeing her. After being forced by royal requirements to sneak around, and be non-committal with the press when dating Charles, and then sneak around to date the private and secretive Khan, it is possible she was truly fed up with hiding. Dodi obviously was different, and this may have been appealing to the princess. Given time she may have continued seeing Dodi or found someone new. If Diana had lived, Dr. Khan may not have been an option any more.

I think that the author tells the truth but I don't agree with her,I think Diana was manipulative, she planned several strategies to win Hasnat back including using the media and Dodi to make the doctor jealous.The pess describes him like a playboy, a bad man, but he was the only man who loved her so much, he was very kind with her.His life looked like her life: his mother leaved his father when he was 3 years old,he was a mediocre student,he loved to have beautiful women because he didn't like to stay alone , he believed women loved him only for his money.Sometimes he prefers to stay with a woman who did not really love him, because he didn't like to be alone.He has insecure behavior.in the past diana manipulated media in order to send a power message but this timesI think she really cruel woman because when someone was in love with you , you should't joke with his feelings, and used media to create illusion of love,it's really unbearable to an human being. I read a lot of books about Diana: her true story by andrew Morten death of a princess by Thomas sancton and Scott Macleod, the day Diana died by christopher andersen , shadows of a princess by p d Jephson
In fact I was a great Diana 's fan but when I read this book I didn't like her anymore. The media show us a superficiel dodi's picture. people have been influenced by the press

There is no shred of evidence to back up this fantasy book.

This pile of rubbish is aimed at wiping out the truth about Princess Diana's loving relationship with Dodi Fayed. And if you wipe out the truth about their relationship, then you wipe out the truth about how they were killed.

British intelligence is behind the assassination of Diana and Dodi because their love affair was a shock for the British royal family. Prince Charles can kiss his two children good bye unless they are morons they will surely recognise the truth of what happened to their mother.

Fortunately Mohammed Al-Fayed with deep pockets and a commitment to the memory of his son is out there speaking for truth.