Princess Diana’s lover Dr Hasnat Khan has labelled the new “Diana” film as “completely wrong.” The big budget biopic, starring Naomi Watts as the titular royal, is apparently based on just “hypotheses and gossip.”

The late princess, the mother of Princes William and Harry, allegedly found the love of her life after her marriage with Prince Charles ended in 1996. She met the gentle Khan and had promptly fallen in love with the respected heart surgeon.

In “Diana,” Khan is played by “Lost” star Naveen Andrews. And based on the trailer, the movie is focused on how Diana and Khan fell in love with each other, and why they didn’t end up together.

But Khan said that the movie would misinterpret their relationship.

“I don’t see this movie doing well at all,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday.

“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.”

He added that even their mannerisms weren’t captured correctly by the actors, saying, “You could tell from that picture that it is all just presumed about how we would behave with each other and they have got it completely wrong.

“There wasn’t any hierarchy in our relationship. She wasn’t a Princess and I wasn’t a doctor.”

Khan and Diana dated for two years, but the relationship didn’t progress, leading Diana’s decision to end it in 1997.

“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.”

Soon after, Diana was introduced to Dodi Fayed, who was with her when their vehicle crashed in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris, France on Aug 31, 1997. The princess and Al Fayed, as well as their driver Henri Paul, died in the car crash.

Khan, 54, said he had received a lot of offers from the filmmakers and Kate Snell, the author of the book the film is based upon, “Diana: Her Last Love.” However, he did not give his cooperation or even his endorsement.

The film’s producer, Robert Bernstein, claimed to The Mail on Sunday that Snell met Khan twice or thrice before, and that the Pakistani cardiologist had trusted the author enough to allow her to meet his family and friends.

But Khan said that “It is a complete lie. I haven’t spoken to anyone involved in the movie. I have never given approval for it. I have never met or talked or written to Bernstein and I have never given any approval in a direct or indirect manner.”

He had met Snell once before, though, but he did not want to talk to her about his relationship with Diana. And when she asked him if she could ask his relatives and friends, Khan said that he couldn’t do anything about it if they agreed, but he did not give their contact information.

“I have never read the book to this day. I really don’t know how she got her information because even my very close friends didn’t know what was going o between me and the Princess.”

Khan said he does not plan to see the film as well. He had stopped buying newspapers shortly after Diana’s death because he was upset about the speculations and the lies that were printed.

He is single again after his arranged marriage to a daughter of an Afghan noble family in 2006 ended in divorce 18 months after.

On Diana, he said there could be “a hundred could-have-beens.”

“She could be living very happily and married and having more kids, with me or with someone else. It could have led in that direction. I try not to think about these things. I can’t chane anything now.”

“Diana” will premiere in London on September 5, and will be released worldwide on September 20.

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