Princess Diana was admired for her compassion, often seen comforting patients during her hospital visits. But one of those visits led to something unexpected — “a passionate love affair that remained shrouded in secrecy for years.”

In 1995, just two months before her famous Panorama interview — where she openly discussed “her struggles with mental health and the trials of her marriage” — Diana met a doctor whose charm and kindness deeply affected her.

He was described as a “handsome doctor, a Muslim whose dark good looks were compared to the charming actor Omar Sharif.” Their connection grew quietly, away from the public eye, during one of the most turbulent times in her life.

While the world focused on her troubled marriage and the explosive interview, Diana was also finding comfort and understanding in this secret relationship — one that revealed her longing for genuine love and peace beyond royal duties.

This hidden chapter of her life remains one of the most tender and mysterious stories behind the “People’s Princess.”