Diana - Her Last Love

by Kate Snell

Her Last Love is an account of the late Princess of Wales' relationship with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. It discloses how they met at a London hospital, and how, for the last two years of Diana's life, they managed to keep their affair largely secret. The details of how Diana deliberately orchestrated the photos and news stories of her romance with Dodi Fayed will interest many readers, but at the heart of the story is a sensitive portrait of a woman who wished to be loved for herself.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Royalty

232 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 2000

Reviews

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book after watching the movie on Netflix. Untill then, I had no idea on this book.

This book says a lot about Princess Diana’s personal life & her nature. This book gives us those intricate details of her love relationship with Dr Khan about which we weren’t really aware.

She was truly in love with one and only Dr Khan , they couldn’t be together coz he was a private person and she was a public person. There’s no person in this world who’s photographed so much as her.

I’m a crazy Princess Diana’s fan. Can’t get enough inspite of reading on her since years.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very insightful read on Princess Diana; very informative and detailed.
The only things I didn't like were the chapter titles (the quotes the author chose seemed arbitrary and sounded odd without context), and when parts would run on as if the author was just trying to fill a word quota, like a highschool essay.

[penguincutie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was kind of interesting to learn about Diana's personality and learn that she is not such a 'perfect' princess that media perhaps portrayed espeically now in the 20th century. She also had insecruities, dependency & confidence issues and severe need to be loved... some things that everyone can find bits to relate to.

[Tenille Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely story , shows how Diana was human fun loving women finding happiness and love and rediscovering herself

[Adibah Nur · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t know that the movie of her that I watched 4 years ago was adapted from this, I didn’t realize it until 30% into the book, noticing how similar the timeline between the book and the movie.

I absolutely adore Princess Diana. My first encounter of her article was when I was 9. It was from one of my mom’s magazines. I was curious about her, naturally. So I read on. Since then, she’s been one of the icons that I look up to.

I’m always more interested in her humanitarian works, but that has not been the highlight of most authors and publishers. But curiosity about her made me grab any books/articles/movies about her that I could get my hands on. This book is one of them.

I didn’t know about her emotional struggle. I didn’t know she had abandonment issue. I didn’t know she’d suffered so much. Yet she was able to give so much love to strangers, to the world. She was also smart to use her place in the limelight to highlight issues from all around the world. And through all her humanitarian works she showed how genuinely she cared for less fortunate people.

Being abandoned by her mother at such a young age, walking into a marriage knowing the man she married never loved her, only have the chance to meet her two sons once a month, having no privacy to her life at all... these were the things that really frustrates her. Hasnat, the second highlight of this book, brought a new joy in her life.

The book truly showed how much Diana really cared for this man. She was willing to move mountains for Hasnat. She wanted to marry him. Hasnat did too. But Hasnat is a very private man. He hates the attention of the media. He was also concerned about what his mother thought of Diana. But above all, he didn’t wanna give up his private life. He wants to be a cardiothoracic surgeon without all the limelights from Diana’s press.

They loved each other. Each other’s true love, perhaps. Diana was witty, elegant, compassionate, and at that time of death, she had been stronger than ever. When Diana died, every corner of the world mourned for her.

A tragic loss. Truly devastating. She could’ve done so much more if she was given more time. She could be the key to bridging the East and the West.

May you rest in peace, Queen of People’s Heart.


Personal Book Statistics
Read using : Physical book
Total reading time : 3 hours, 12 minutes
Average minute(s) per page : 0.8 min/page
Reading speed (pages/hour) : 72.4 pages/hour
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[Roxanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

From what I can gather Diana fell madly in love with Dr Khan a Pakistani ans they kept their romance a secret because the Royal Family would not approve. I think he broke up with her though because he wanted his privacy and then she met Dodi Fahed. I think she wanted to marry the doctor very much.

[Elvis2 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read several books about Diana. Some of them were excellent. This is not one of them.

Maybe I missed it but I don't believe the author made it clear that Diana's mother left four young children and her marriage to be with a younger man, Peter Shand Kydd, the heir to a wallpaper fortune who eventually would leave her for a younger woman. Diana was just a little girl and her brother was several years younger when Frances decided Shand Kydd was more important than anything. The children did visit their mother but there is no getting over being abandoned. That's going to affect your whole life and all of your relationships.

We learn that Diana was "needy," "utterly devious," possessed of a "mercurial temper," and "manipulative" but what shines through for me is how sweet, gentle, kind, innocent, loving and pathetic she was.

Far too much space is devoted to Pakistan, stories about Pakistan, and all things Pakistanian. I began skimming about two-thirds of the way through because the book was boring me. I do believe, as some of her friends have said, that the romp with Dodi Fayed was for the cameras and the newspapers, that it was intended to make Hasnat Khan jealous. This is so sad. My heart goes out to her and it always will.

[Laura Crognalo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned things I never knew about Princess Diana. I really enjoyed this book. It's a shame we lost her. I think as the book says she was becoming strong and comfortable in her own skin. You wonder what she would have been doing right now if she hadn't died.

[Emilee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hadn't read a book about Princcess Diana before, so I learned a lot that I had never heard of or suspected. The book itself was OK, but I look forward to reading another book about her.

[iris · Rating 4 out of 5]

it highlighted diana at her best and at her worst. there was a balance and i will always think of this book

[Katie Jackman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sensationalist and a bit crappy. But kept me interested!

[PirateAriel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ripetitivo, monotono e scritto con i piedi, il romanzo della Snell rende Lady D. un personaggio fastidioso e difficilmente sopportabile.

[Marti]

Birthday gift from Mom.