Ex-Butler Reveals Diana's 'True' Love

Oct. 23 -- In a new twist to the life and tragic death of the "peoples' princess," Diana's former butler has revealed that her true love was not Dodi Fayed, who died with her in a Paris car crash.

In an exclusive interview with 20/20's Barbara Walters, Paul Burrell, Princess Diana's former butler, also disclosed the name of the man he said she loved at the time of her death for the first time.

"It was Hasnat," Burrell told Walters, referring to Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom Diana met when she visited a heart transplant patient at London's Brompton Hospital.

According to Burrell, Diana would have liked to marry Khan, but the Pakistan-born transplant surgeon broke off their relationship. "I think there were too many complications on both sides," Burrell said in the 20/20 interview, which will be aired on Friday, Oct. 24. "The princess always said she came with a lot of baggage."

It was shortly after the relationship ended that Diana met Fayed, the son of Mohammed Al Fayed, the owner of London's exclusive store Harrods.

In his new book, A Royal Duty, Burrell has made a number of startling revelations about Diana's life as well as her emotional state months before her 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

Burrell said Diana sent him a handwritten note claiming she "never wanted a divorce" from Prince Charles.

"She still wanted to work with the marriage," Burrell told Walters. "There's a bit of her that always loved the prince until the day she died."

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The interview also reveals that Diana sent Burrell a letter 10 months before the deadly Paris crash, in which she predicted her own death, claiming that someone was planning a car accident in which she'd be killed.

The British government has so far rejected calls for a public inquiry into her death. However, a coroner'sinquest is expected to be held once legal processes in France have been completed.

In 1999, a French investigation ruled the crash was an accident caused by the chauffeur being drunk and drivingtoo fast.