Diana `wanted to marry surgeon'

London - Princess Diana had set her heart on marrying a leading heart surgeon, a British TV documentary is to reveal tomorrow…

London - Princess Diana had set her heart on marrying a leading heart surgeon, a British TV documentary is to reveal tomorrow.

The former Pakistan cricket captain was asked by his friend the Princess of Wales to act as a marriage broker with Dr Hasnat Khan, he told a Channel 5 documentary. He suggested that her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a fling calculated to make the surgeon jealous.

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