Di lover feared life ‘would be hell’

PRINCESS Diana’s heart surgeon lover Hasnat Khan feared marriage to one of the world’s most famous women “would be hell because of who she was”, an inquest into her death was told yesterday.

“I knew I would not be able to lead a normal life,” Khan said in a statement to the inquest looking into the deaths of Diana and Dodi al-Fayed in a Paris car crash in August 1997.

Khan revealed Diana decided to end their relationship after they had a two-year romance during which they were hounded by the media and he was sent hate mail.

He feared if they had children together “I would never be able to take them anywhere or do normal things with them”.

Khan told Diana that he could not face leading that sort of lifestyle, constantly in a media spotlight.

Khan felt the only way they could lead a normal life together was to move to Pakistan, an option she considered but rejected.

Dodi’s father Mohammed al-Fayed alleges the couple were killed by security forces on the orders of Prince Philip.

Khan said he thought the couple were victims not of a sinister conspiracy but of a tragic accident.

Khan said Diana was “concerned about her safety but was not paranoid about it”.

He said media attention was not his only problem in such a relationship.

“I have received envelopes containing cut-out pictures of me together with a noose around my neck.

“This went on and on and it was very stressful.”

After Diana came back from a holiday aboard Mohamed al-Fayed’s yacht, “Diana told me it was all over between us”, said Khan.