U.S. newspapers are hot into the Democratic election process – and now they are even further into the governor of New York and his prostitution scandal, so maybe that’s why Americans are letting the late Princess Diana rest in peace.

I’m all for that, but it nags me that the so-called love of her life, Dr. Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon she broke up with before taking up with the ill-fated Dodi Fayed, has spoken at last. And nobody stateside seems to have printed what this man said.

Dr. Khan spoke at Diana’s recent inquest and contradicted earlier claims that he was the one who had ended his two-year romance with the princess. “She is the one who said it was all over between us, but she denied that there was anyone else.” Before that, the two were dating and Dr. Khan told of their going to a pub for a drink. Diana wanted to order the drinks there because she had never done so before. Another time they visited the Ronnie Scott Jazz Club in Soho, London, and Diana wore a black wig to avoid being recognized.

Dr. Khan said he very much doubted that Diana would have become pregnant with Dodi “because she had always been very particular about taking the pill during our relationship.” Then he pronounced the accident that took Diana’s life as just that. “I think it was just a terrible accident, but I am very surprised she was not wearing a seatbelt. She was always very particular about putting a seatbelt on.”

The doctor dismissed any conspiracy theory about her death. “Although she did not like the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Charles’ father), she never expressed any fear of him.”

So, that’s the latest. But the Diana inquest goes on. And on. And on.