Personal life after divorce[edit]

Diana meeting with Sri Chinmoy in May 1997

After her 1996 divorce, Diana retained the double apartment on the north side of Kensington Palace that she had
shared with the Prince of Wales since the first year of their marriage, and the apartment remained her home until her
death the following year. She also moved her offices to Kensington Palace but was permitted "to use the state
apartments at St James's Palace".[82][175] Furthermore, she continued to have access to the jewelry that she had
received during her marriage, and Diana was allowed to use the air transport of the British royal family and
government.[82] In a book published in 2003, Paul Burrell claimed that the Princess's private letters revealed that her
brother, Charles Spencer, had refused to allow her to live at Althorp, despite her request.[84]
Diana dated the British-Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, who was called "the love of her life" by many of her
closest friends after her death,[176] and she is said to have described him as "Mr Wonderful".[177][178][179][180] In May 1996,
Diana visited Lahore upon invitation of Imran Khan, a relative of Hasnat Khan, and visited the latter's family in
secret.[181][182] Khan was intensely private and the relationship was conducted in secrecy, with Diana lying to members
of the press who questioned her about it. Their relationship lasted almost two years with differing accounts of who
ended it.[182][183] She is said to have spoken of her distress when "he" ended their relationship.[176] However, according to
Khan's testimonial at the inquest for her death, it was Diana who ended their relationship in the summer of
1997.[184] Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, also said that the relationship was ended by the Princess in July 1997.[185]
Within a month, Diana began seeing Dodi Fayed, the son of her summer host, Mohamed Al-Fayed.[1] Diana had
considered taking her sons that summer on a holiday to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, but security
officials had prevented it. After deciding against a trip to Thailand, she accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family in
the south of France, where his compound and large security detail would not cause concern to the Royal Protection
squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the Jonikal, a 60-metre multimillion-pound yacht on which to entertain Diana and
her sons