Jemima Khan tells Ellison that Diana came to visit me twice in Pakistan to help fund raise for Imran s hospital but both times she also went to meet his family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage to Hasnat. She wanted to know how hard it had been for me to adapt to life in Pakistan.
Friends tell Ellison that Diana made a point to get to know Khan s family specifically seeking the approval of his mother Naheed. For a son to marry an English girl is every conservative Pashtun mother s worst nightmare Jemima tells Ellison. You send your son to be educated in England and he comes back with an English bride. It s something they dread.
On one visit to Pakistan Diana spent time with Imran s sisters Aleema and Rhanee and in order to avoid press attention they decided to drive themselves to the family s home in the Model Town neighborhood of Lahore Diana knew the address by heart. Stuck in a traffic jam Aleema realized they were with the mother of the future King of England without bodyguards or drivers like sitting ducks. As people began to recognize Diana pointing toward the car and waving she was entirely unflappable . . . she rolled her window down smiled and waved.
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