Now this is an interview that everyone is going to want to see. There’s a new report that says The Crown Season 5 will cover Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana, despite the fact that Prince William is none too pleased about it. Here’s what you need to know.
According to reports, the Netflix series will include how Bashir supposedly “groomed” Princess Diana into doing the interview. An independent inquiry – by retired judge Lord Dyson – found that interviewer Martin Bashir acted in a “deceitful” way and faked documents to obtain his interview.
The Crown Season 5 Will Cover Martin Bashir’s BBC Interview With Princess Diana
Yet, Bashir says that Princess Diana was never unhappy about the content of the interview and said that they continued to be friends even after the interview aired. Yet, the investigation released at the end of the week found Bashir forged bank statements to leverage Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, into arranging a meeting with the Princess.
He said, “I never wanted to harm Diana in any way and I don’t believe we did. Everything we did in terms of the interview was as she wanted, from when she wanted to alert the Palace, to when it was broadcast, to its contents … My family and I loved her.”
Bashir added, “Even in the early 1990s, there were stories and secretly recorded phone calls. I wasn’t the source of any of that.”
Prince William recently bashed the interview and the BBC by saying in a statement, “BBC employees lied and used fake documents to obtain the interview with my mother, made lurid and false claims about the royal family which played on her fears and fueled paranoia. They displayed woeful incompetence when investigating complaints and concerns about the program and were invasive in their reporting to the media, and covered up what they knew from their internal investigation.”
If that weren’t enough, Prince William said that the way that the interview was obtained “substantially influenced.” He also said that it made things far worse for his parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and their relationship.
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