Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown and Humayun Saeed
Humayun Saeed is claimed to be becoming a member of the drama (Image: Netflix/Ary Movies/Courtesy Everett Assortment)

Pakistani actor Humayun Saeed has been forged in The Crown season 5 as Dr Hasnat Khan, the previous lover of Princess Diana.

Within the upcoming episodes of the hit historic drama on Netflix, Elizabeth Debicki can be taking up the position of the Princess of Wales, having succeeded Emma Corrin within the position.

The royal was in a relationship with coronary heart and lung surgeon Dr Khan for round two years, with their relationship coming to an finish in 1997, shortly earlier than she grew to become romantically concerned with Dodi Fayed.

Earlier immediately, Pakistani actress Mahira Khan celebrated the information of Saeed, 50, becoming a member of The Crown on Twitter, writing: ‘Finaaaallly it’s out!!!! So proud! So excited!!! MashAllah mashAllah What a present! What a star.’

Saeed – who's the co-founder of the media manufacturing home Six Sigma Plus and has starred in a number of movies together with Inteha, Jawani Phir Nahi Ani and Punjab Nahi Jaungi – is but to remark publicly on the casting information.

In 2000, Imran Khan – the present Prime Minister of Pakistan – spoke in a TV programme about non-public conversations he shared with Diana about Dr Khan in Might 1997, just a few months earlier than her dying.

Dr Hasnat Khan
Dr Hasnat Khan pictured visiting a London hospital in 1997 (Image: Antony Jones/UK Press/Getty Pictures)

‘She had been concerned with him for 2 years and he or she had wished to marry him. It was clear that she was very deeply in love with Dr Hasnat and I simply don’t suppose she might have gotten over it that shortly,’ he mentioned, as reported by The Telegraph on the time.

Chatting with The Sunday Telegraph in 2008, Dr Khan declined to reveal too many particulars about his relationship with the late royal, saying: ‘I’m loyal to her [the Princess] not as a result of she was a celeb however as a result of I’m loyal to all my buddies. I’m like that.’

Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed
Diana photographed with Dodi Fayed in St Tropez (Image: ABACA/PA Pictures)

In September final yr, it was introduced that Khalid Abdalla had been forged as Diana’s boyfriend Fayed, who was killed alongside her within the 1997 automobile crash in Paris.

Netflix additionally confirmed that Oslo star Salim Daw has been forged as Fayed’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, the previous proprietor of Harrods.