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Pakistani actor Humayun Saeed is ready to play Dr. Hasnat Khan, certainly one of Princess Diana’s companions after her divorce from Prince Charles of Wales, within the upcoming fifth season of the Netflix sequence The Crown, in keeping with a report from Selection.
Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell’s ebook Diana: The Royal Reality famous the importance of her relationship to Khan. He claimed Diana requested him “if it was potential to rearrange a personal marriage” between her and the British-Pakistani coronary heart surgeon, recalling the princess saying that “this was her soulmate, this was the person she beloved greater than some other.”
Dr. Khan stated in a 2004 assertion to cops in London that he was in a relationship with Princess Diana from 1995-1997, and that the pair moved on after Diana met movie producer Dodi Fayed. In the identical assertion, which was later a part of a 2008 inquest into Princess Diana’s demise, Khan stated that he and the Diana had mentioned spending their lives collectively. The couple noticed a transfer to Pakistan as the one answer to escaping the British press, he stated, including that Diana broached it with Jemima Goldsmith, who was then married to Pakistani cricketer and present Prime Minister Imran Khan.
In the identical yr as Dr. Khan and Diana’s purported break up, she and Dodi Fayed died in a automobile accident in Paris.
Humayun Saeed’s movie and tv profession in Pakistan has been studded with success: he gained the ARY award for greatest actor for the comedy movie Jawani Phir Nahi Ani (2015) and can be identified for romantic comedy Punjab Nahi Jaungi (2017), which he co-produced. Princess Diana might be performed by Elizabeth Debicki in season 5 of The Crown, and The Kite Runner star Khalid Abdalla is slated to hitch the forged as Dodi Fayed.