Royal photographer reveals Princess Diana had considered converting to Islam, solicited for advice on interfaith marriage

asked him about Islam and ‘how marriage between a Muslim, Protestant works’ while she was dating Hasnat Khan, Princess Diana candidly solicited for advice on as they shared a flight during a tour in the mid-nineties

Anwar Hussein, 83, is a Tanganyika-born British photographer who became the longest-serving photo journalist to the royal family he won the Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the Year at the Picture Editor Awards three times.

According to Daily Mail, Hussain documented Diana’s journey from 1980 up until her tragic death in 1997 and features in documentary ‘Princess Diana: Accredited Access’ which is currently running in Chicago, LA and New York, has revealed how the late royal approached him for a hushed conversation about Islam.

At the time Christian Diana was dating Muslim doctor Hasnat Khan, before she went onto date Dodi Fayed, who was also Muslim.

British royal photographer Anwar Hussein, 83, (seen far left in 1985) told People how the late royal approached him for a hushed conversation about Islam during a flight in the mid-nineties

Speaking to People, he recalled: ‘All the lights were dimmed on the flight, and she came and whispered, ‘Can I have a chat?’.

‘She knew that I was married to an English girl, Caroline. She wanted to know about Islam. She was asking about being married when one person is Muslim and another is Protestant.’

He added: ‘She was interested because of what she was going through with [her then-boyfriend] Dr. Hasnat Khan. She didn’t mention him, but she assumed I knew it. I think she was wondering how the family would react to him and things like that.’

Diana was said to be besotted with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom she reportedly dated from 1995 to 1997, during which Diana met his family and considered converting to Islam.

The couple met at the Royal Brompton Hospital when Diana was visiting a friend who was recovering from a heart operation.

They then pursued a discreet, two-year affair which ended in the early summer of 1997. Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31 of that year.

The Princess’s closest friends previously spoke of her distress when the surgeon ended their relationship.

She had met his family during her 1996 visit to Pakistan, a trip on which she wore a traditional shalwar kameez – baggy trousers paired with a flowing dress.

She is said to have been so smitten at one point that she considered converting to Islam so the pair could marry.

She abandoned the idea when Mr Khan decided their relationship would not work long-term.

His father, Abdul Rasheed Khan, said his son had told the family: ‘If I married her [Diana], our marriage would not last for more than a year. We are culturally so different from each other.

‘She is from Venus and I am from Mars. If it ever happened, it would be like a marriage from two different planets.’

In 2013, Diana’s close friend Jemima Khan, who was with her on her 1996 Pakistan trip, said the Princess was so ‘madly in love’ with Hasnat that she considered moving to Pakistan to be with him.

According to Jemima, the surgeon also ‘hated the thought of being in the glare of publicity for the rest of his life’ if the pair had ended up marrying.

Al Fayed, 92, famously owned Harrods from 1985 to 2010, and was the store’s most famous owner (pictured with Princess Diana in February 1996) and his son Dodi was said to be dating the royal

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