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August 25th, 2013 
Peter Nolan 
Diana, Princess of Wales, (played by Naomi Watts) with Dr Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews) in a scene from film Diana.
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PRINCESS Diana’s former boyfriend Hasnat Khan has slammed the movie based on their romance, saying it is “completely wrong” and he’ll never watch it.
The film, Diana, starring Naomi Watts as the princess and Naveen Andrews as Dr Khan, is based on Kate Snell’s 2001 book Diana: Her Last Love.
While Snell did meet with Dr Khan and members of his family, the heart surgeon says “it is a complete lie” when movie producers say he gave the film “tacit approval”.
“I don’t see this movie doing well at all,” he told the MailOnline. “It is based on gossip and Diana’s friends talking about a relationship that they didn’t know much about, and some of my relatives who didn’t know much about it either. It is all based on hypotheses and gossip.”
The movie looks at the relationship between Dr Khan and Diana, which ended shortly before her death alongside Dodi Fayed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Dr Khan couldn’t deal with the media intrusion of dating Diana and he says he understands why Diana had to end the relationship.
“Even after two years, the relationship wasn’t leading to a meaningful progression or conclusion and that was the main stress on both of us,” he said.
Dr Khan, who is a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon University Hospital, Essex, stopped buying newspapers shortly after the Princess’s death, saying he was upset by the constant untruths.
While he entered into an arranged marriage in 2006 to the 29-year-old daughter of an Afghani family, it ended in divorce 18 months later.
Every year on the anniversary of Diana’s, Dr Khan goes away, often to his home town in Pakistan, to stop being reminded of the tragedy.
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