Details of the two-year romance between Diana , Princess of Wales, and heart surgeon Hasnat Khan were revealed in court today - along with his insistence that it was she and not he who broke off the affair.
In a long-awaited statement read to the jury at the inquest into Diana's death 10 years ago, Dr Khan said he told Diana on her return to London from a holiday with Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed and his family that he thought she had "met someone else from the Mohamed al Fayed contingent".
He said this because "Diana was not her normal self", he said. "I did not know who it was. It could have been a bodyguard or anyone," said Dr Khan.
"I was surprised when she said there was no-one else. "At a second meeting, she said it was all over between us, but she denied there was anyone else."
Dr Khan said he told Diana he thought "her reputation was dead". It was only when he heard news broadcasts that he learned about her relationship with Mr al Fayed's son, Dodi.
In earlier evidence, the jury inquiring into the deaths of Diana and Dodi in a Paris car crash had heard that Dr Khan was believed to have broken off the affair because he could not tolerate the publicity attached to her celebrity status.
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