Jemima Khan aims for commercial success as she goes into romcom territory with What's Love Got to Do With It

Jemima Khan has led a few lives thus far, and is looking to explore yet another. The former wife of cricketer and politician Imran Khan, Jemima Goldsmith - known as Khan for work - has branched out into the realm of romantic comedy with 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.

Previously, Jemima has been known for several other avenues her life has taken her. She married Imran, considered one of the finest fast cricket bowlers the world has ever seen and Pakistan's best cricketer of all time. Jemima and Imran were introduced to each other at a club in London in 1995.

They went on to get married in the same year with Jemima converting to Islam and moved to Lahore with husband Imran. Jemima had two sons with Imran – Sulaiman Isa (born 1996) and Kasim (born 1999).

Goldsmith supported her husband as he became more involved in his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. On June 22, 2004, it was announced that the couple had divorced ending the nine-year marriage because it was ‘difficult for Jemima to adapt to the political life of Imran Khan in Pakistan’.

It was the reinvention of Jemima post-marriage that saw her become romantically involved with the actor Hugh Grant and then date the comedian and activist Russell Brand. Maybe the choice of men was understandable, given her years of being in a very conservative culture in Pakistan.

She enjoyed a friendship with the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who visited her in Pakistan during her marriage to Imran. She spoke to Peter Morgan for The Crown and discussed her friendship with Diana but then decided against the storyline being included - worrying it wouldn't do justice to the memories she has with Diana.

Jemima has always had a more serious side, as she has taken on documentaries which cover issues such as the use of drones in warfare, and topics surrounding women and children in Pakistan and other nations.

Her attention has now turned to using her TV company, Instinct Productions, to produce a romantic comedy starring Shazad Latif, Lily James and Emma Thompson. The premise of 'What's Love Got To Do With It' is based on arranged marriage and draws on Jemima's own experience of witnessing arranged marriage, which is common in Pakistan.

Although Jemima and Imran had a love match before their marriage, she has now spoken out saying an arranged marriage may have done her 'some favours'. The love life of Jemima has been full of ups and downs and it's easy to see why she would find an arranged marriage a simpler option.

The screenwriter, 49, said she believed she was searching for a ‘moral certainty’ when she married cricket-hero turned politician Imran Khan at just 21.

In The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, she said: "Part of me thinks that if my parents had been sane and functional and able to agree, maybe it would have done me some favours to have had an arranged marriage."

Her father, the late Sir James Goldsmith, coined the infamous phrase, ‘When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy.’

Jemima was born following an affair he had with her mother, Lady Annabel then Birley (now Goldsmith) who he eventually married, Sir James was married to his second wie Ginette Lery at the time. It's therefore not surprising that Jemima has an approach to the subject of dating that may differ from mainstream western ideals.

She says she's not opposed to a second marriage but describes it as "high investment, low yield. Which I think is self-explanatory," she says to the Daily Mail.