In a suprising revelation from his memoir, Charles Spencer claimed his late sister Princess Diana was courted by an American politician and even considered the extraordinary prospect of becoming First Lady.
Prince Harry’s uncle wrote that after falling in love with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan following her divorce, Diana had the “naïve yet impossible” dream of moving to South Africa — where Spencer lived at the time — with her boyfriend because England had become “intolerable” to her.
He said she dreamed that Khan could work at a hospital in Cape Town, and they could live “happily nearby” her brother.
However, the other side of the world seemed to offer the possibility of asylum.
Spencer said that Diana once asked him if he thought she’d make a good American first lady, explaining that one of her “many powerful aging American suitors, keen to secure her as the ultimate trophy wife, had told her he was sure to win the presidency if she married him.”
He said that Diana was more “titillated” by the idea of living in the White House than by the prospect of marrying the “would-be elderly husband.”
Diana, he said, had a “mischievous attraction to reinventing herself in a role that would make her enemies in the British Royal Family sick with jealousy, while ushering in an era of glamour in the White House that would surely have surpassed even that of the Jackie Kennedy years.”
