Princess Diana’s Boyfriends – Men Diana Was Romantically Involved With Including Hasnat Khan & Dodi

James Gilbey, a childhood friend of Diana, was famously the other person on an illegally recorded phone call of Diana’s, where he calls her “Squidge” or “Squidgy” (hence the name of it as the “Squidgygate” tape) and “darling.” Gilbey denied they ever had an affair, but based on the phone call, they were definitely close.

Diana was linked to art dealer Oliver Hoare in the early ’90s; he was spotted at Kensington Palace on numerous occasions. “She confided to me that he was the first man who had ever aroused her physically. That admission did much to explain the humiliating events that followed,” Diana’s former royal protection officer Ken Wharfe said, saying she fell “completely in love” with him.

British rugby star Will Carling was rumored to have a tryst with Diana in the mid-90s, though Carling has denied it.

Yet, at the time, his then-wife Julia said of Diana, “This has happened to her before, and you hope she won’t do these things again, but she obviously does. She picked the wrong couple to do it with this time, because we can only get stronger from it. I am sad that Will put himself in that position and that the princess did as well.”

Last year, he said around the time he met Diana he was “stupidly doing things you shouldn’t do.”

Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon, and Princess Diana dated for two years, from 1995 to 1997. Diana reportedly described him as the “love of her life” to friends, and introduced him to her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

“Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace as they could not get to us there,” Khan said in 2004 during the inquest into Diana’s death. “Diana was very protective towards me and wanted to shield me from the attention.”

Of Dodi Al Fayed, he said, “She wanted to be with someone who was happy to be seen with her in public and she could do that with Dodi… I think that Diana finally realised that Al Fayed could give her all the things I could not. He had money and could provide the necessary security for her.”