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‘Vanity Fair’ cover rehashes Princess Diana’s love life before her death

‘Vanity Fair’ cover rehashes Princess Diana’s love life before her death

The life Princess Diana, even years after her death, is still a subject of media speculation worthy of magazine cover stories in Vanity Fair.

The magazine's new issue features a photo of Di and the story of her last love affairs before she died in 1997. Capitalizing on the birth of Diana's grandson to William and Kate Middleton, the title reads, "The Grandmother Prince George Never Knew: Revisiting Diana and the True Love of Her Life."

The story draws on reports from a friend of Diana's who says she was "madly in love" with a Pakistani heart surgeon named Hasnat Khan and she wanted to marry him. However, her international celebrity among other complications troubled the relationship and it eventually crumbled.

Diana began to date Dodi Al Fayed, but Vanity Fair reports friends thought the relationship was designed to make Khan jealous.

Al Fayed also died in the 1997 car crash that killed Diana.

The love story will feature in the upcoming film Diana starring Naomi Watts.

While Princess Di, the "People's Princess," was beloved during her life, Gawker argues Vanity Fair might benefit from occasionally choosing a cover photo of someone who is actually alive.