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On Bonfire Night a quarter
of a century ago, the most famous
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woman in the world is preparing
for a TV interview that will
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cause a sensation.
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With her are a team from the BBC's
current affairs programme, Panorama.
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And what they're doing in secret
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will make headlines the world
over...
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...it will change the course
of her life
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and also British
history.
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Do you think you will ever be queen?
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No, I don't. No.
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Princess Diana spoke bluntly
about her husband and his mistress.
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There were three of us in this
marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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And, most damning of all, Charles
just isn't cut out to be king.
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I would think that the top job,
as I call it, would bring enormous
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limitations to him.
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It was like a missile aimed
at Buckingham Palace.
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But there are two big questions.
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Why did Diana decide to go public?
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Who persuaded her?
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She was
vulnerable to people who could get
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her to believe things.
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A mysterious and complex web of
secret meetings
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and forgeries is
emerging. Of fear and ambition.
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A BBC reporter produced fake
documents suggesting Diana's family
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was being spied on.
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So was the princess tricked
into talking by the BBC?
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And what was her state of mind
at that time?
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The full story of Diana's historic
interview has never been told
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on television...
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...until now.
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Princess Diana gave two TV
interviews, which are part
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of British history.
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One on BBC Panorama, 25 years ago.
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The first on a grey winter's
day, almost 40 years ago.
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She began this day as a flat-sharing
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19-year-old nursery school
teacher...
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...but was on her way to a different
life altogether.
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That afternoon, a change
of venue, a change of outfit...
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...and Diana's life would never
be the same again.
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As a member of the British public,
I thought, "This is a rather
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"marvellous, wonderful thing."
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I suppose I was part of the dream
of that relationship working.
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Yesterday, a Nanny looking
after children.
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Now you're about to marry
the Prince of Wales and one day
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would, in all likelihood, be queen.
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It's a tremendous change
for someone of 19 to make
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all of a sudden.
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It is, but I've had a small run
up it all, the last six months.
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And next to Prince Charles, I know
I can't go wrong.
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He's there with me.
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And, I suppose, in love? Of course.
Yes!
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Her next historic interview
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came 15 years later. By then,
she'd given that question
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a great deal of thought.
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After a brief period of family
togetherness - the arrival of first
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Prince William, then Harry -
by 1987, the marriage was dead...
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...Charles and Diana living
separate lives...
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"fighting what was known
as the War of the Waleses.
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I can tell you from my place,
I suppose, in the front lines
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of this war, it felt real
enough to us.
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It was a very accurate shorthand
for what was going on.
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It was a war, on the one
hand for public opinion,
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but for Princess Diana,
increasingly,
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it was a war of survival.
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By the turn of the decade, Diana
is a well-practised warrior.
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On holiday here with William, Harry
and a bunch of playmates, Diana
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is secretly devising her own
survival strategy.
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It's one which she'll later repeat
in her dealings with the BBC.
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Diana singled out one of the huge
number of journalists chasing
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an exclusive interview.
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A young member of the press
pack, Andrew Morton.
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Andrew Morton's book was a huge
landmark in the history of the
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Royal family in the late
20th century,
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you could almost divide
time
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up between before Morton
and after Morton.
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Diana felt trapped.
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Effectively she was a prisoner of
the palace
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and that, by speaking to
me,
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she could speak over the heads
of the people she called
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"The men in
grey" and get her story out.
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Diana's HQ in the War of
the Waleses was Kensington Palace.
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For secrecy's sake, Andrew Morton
couldn't be seen there.
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So what we did, we used
an intermediary. Long-time friend,
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mutualfriend, and I prepared
questions, which I sent to him.
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He would cycle up to Kensington
Palace, with a battered old tape
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recorder, plug a microphone
onto Diana.
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When I heard the first tape,
it was just like entering a parallel
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universe, stepping
through the wardrobe in Narnia.
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Wearing cheap headphones
in a workman's cafe in north London,
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he listened as Diana described
a loveless marriage, depression,
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self-harming and suicide attempts.
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All these chaps were in
their overalls or eating their bacon
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and eggs and so on...
I was listening to Diana unfold
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this very different version
of her life.
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It was a total revelation.
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If Diana was not in the mood,
the answers were a little bit, "Yes
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or no." Sometimes she was full
of energy, wanted to talk
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about all kinds of things.
Her eating disorders.
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About cries for help and this woman
that nobody had ever really heard
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of at the time...
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"Camilla Parker Bowles.
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Prince Charles's lover,
now his wife, was the woman
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who attracted such scorn
in Diana's Panorama interview.
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The third party who made
the marriage, "A bit crowded."
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With Princess Diana, his secret
informant, Andrew Morton's book
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was bound to be a sensation.
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Published in the summer of 1992,
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it was.
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The author, Andrew Morton, at the
centre of the storm has warned
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today that the Princess of Wales now
needs help and understanding.
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For weeks, royal sources
and conservative media said,
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"Oh, it's all lies.
It can't be true."
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It was true.
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The next battle in the
War of the Waleses
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would be fought not in a book or the
tabloids, but on television.
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Prince Charles was about to make
his own explosive revelation.
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Two years after Andrew Morton's
book lifted the lid on the royal marriage,
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at a glittering reception
in Hyde Park,
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Princess Diana had never looked
happier, and more glamorous.
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But behind the smiles, she and all
the other partygoers were keen
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to wrap this up, to rush back
home and switch on the TV.
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Prince Charles would be talking
that night in a major documentary.
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What would he say
about the marital rift?
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She looks stunning.
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Everybody thinks
that she's in control.
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The truth was that she was
very nervous before the documentary
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came out,
how she was in a real tizzy.
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The announcement Prince Charles
had to make was short,
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but devastating.
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Yes. Absolutely.
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Yes...
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...until it became
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irretrievably broken down.
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What's never been reported until now
is that the Prince was not
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at all sure that he should confess.
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The truth is that there were
actually two interviews.
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In the first of them,
never broadcast,
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Charles wouldn't admit to adultery.
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But then he changed his mind.
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The first interview,
the non-confession,
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was recorded here at Windsor.
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When the documentary team looked
at their footage,
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they thought,
"We have to try again."
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There were further talks
with the Prince and his people,
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including his media advisers.
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There were voices that were calling
for frankness and there were others
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saying, "keep off the family stuff."
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The one that went out was
to say something briefly
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about his personal difficulties,
which was his decision.
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A few clays later, a film crew
was summoned to Highgrove,
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Charles's country state.
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This time, Charles made
his reluctant confession.
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Diana said to me,
"Patrick, now people can see
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"what we've been dealing with."
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The Dimbleby confession gave Diana
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a sense of being
on the moral high ground.
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It also planted
an idea in Diana's mind.
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If Charles could have HIS say on TV,
then why shouldn't SHE?
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I think, to some extent, it did
encourage a rebuttal of some kind.
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After Dimbleby,
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she certainly intended
to do something on television.
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And why not?
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In the summer of 1995,
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Diana was approached by the BBC.
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The way that approach was made,
the things she was told,
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are mysterious and controversial.
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What's clear is that,
at this point in her life,
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Diana believed she had enemies
in high places.
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It's ironic that somebody
who is so well known and loved
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around the world actually in so many
ways was isolated and vulnerable.
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She did not have a network
of supportive family and friends.
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She had me and a small staff.
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She was vulnerable to approaches
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from people who had
their own agendas to promote...
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...who recognised that they could
get her to believe things.
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Diana was looking for advice
and support
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from some unexpected sources.
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Inside of her, there was, like,
this 13, 14-year-old girl.
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Simone Simmons is a psychic
and healer.
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She was a friend and confidant
of the Princess
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at this time in her life.
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Diana was an amazing lady.
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Inside, she was very, very naive,
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efm,
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extremely so.
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So she wasn't worldly wise.
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Two meetings which Diana had,
in secret,
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shortly before the BBC interview
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showed just how impressionable
she'd become.
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They're reported here
for the first time on television.
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The first of those meetings
took place three months
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before the interview.
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Diana drove 70 miles
to a country estate in Berkshire.
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Friends had arranged a secure
setting so that the Princess
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could meet with one of the country's
most powerful journalists.
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I said, "Well, I'm terribly
flattered you've come all the way
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"down to the country to talk to me",
and she said,
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"Oh, I was terribly anxious
for my side of this to come out".
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I spent the best part
of a couple of hours with Diana,
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and she put on a wonderful show,
absolutely gripping stuff.
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It became clear, first of all,
how much she hated Charles.
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Yes, she did hate Charles.
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When I said, "Were there ever
happy times?",
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and she said, "No, the marriage
was hell, from day one".
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I was amazed by the frankness,
the directness,
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with which she said that.
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And she said that all she cared
about was William's succession
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to the throne, and she said to me,
quite explicitly,
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"l don't think Charles can do it."
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The outcome she wanted to see
was for Charles to stand aside
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as heir to the throne and for
William to occupy the throne.
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This was pretty dynamic stuff.
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As the editor of a major newspaper,
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he then made a remarkable decision.
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I felt that my job was to try and
help them keep a lid on the worst
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of this, rather than to lift it off.
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Diana said a lot of stuff,
on several occasions,
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which I thought were
for the fairies.
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She asked me what I knew about
a conspiracy to, erm, sort of
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have her put down.
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And I said, well, it sounded
absolutely crazy to me.
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But she, I think, did believe
this sort of stuff,
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and it was one of the many, many
things that made one feel
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so desperately sorry for her.
This sense of vulnerability.
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You may be a very streetwise,
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brilliant enchantress,
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but you can also be not very bright.
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If you've got nobody sensible
to advise you,
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or if you have,
you won't TAKE their advice,
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you're in a pretty bad place.
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APPLAUSE
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CHEERING
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The rest of the media would
have killed for an exclusive
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interview with Princess Diana.
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It's hard to exaggerate Princess
Diana's global media profile
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during these years.
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And naturally, some of the world's
most prominent TV figures
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wanted to interview her.
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She was always very courteous,
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but always said no,
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or, more to the point,
I used to say no on her behalf.
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In the summer of 1995,
another potential interviewer
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had entered the race,
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and one that few people
had heard of.
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A then 32-year-old TV reporter,
Martin Bashir.
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He'd spent nine years at the BBC,
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the last three on the weekly current
affairs programme, Panorama,
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and he'd set his sights on winning
journalism's greatest prize.
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In relation to the pool of
personalities,
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trying to get an interview
with Diana,
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he was a non-starter.
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He was a 100-1 outsider.
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But one of his BBC colleagues
back then knew better.
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Well, I'd met him a few times,
and he's the sort of person
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who would be able to
convince you to do something.
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I think Diana was feeling
slightly caged
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and that she wasn't
getting her side across.
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Here's this personable young chap,
turns up,
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he's representing Panorama.
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Martin Bashir has never talked
publicly about how he got
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his exclusive.
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The BBC itself has said amazingly
little about how it pulled off
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the greatest journalistic coup
in its 100-year history.
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But you can piece the story together
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from eyewitnesses
and published accounts by insiders.
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The BBC's Director General
at the time, John Burt,
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gave this account in his memoirs.
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"Bashir told us he had been
introduced to a former member
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"of the intelligence services
who claimed that Diana's private
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"apartments in Kensington Palace
were bugged.
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"He talked to people in Diana's
circle, including her brother,
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"Earl Spencer, and eventually
to Diana herself."
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Charles Spencer, Diana's brother,
was probably the closest
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of the Spencers to the Princess.
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Having built up confidence
with Charles,
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Bashir, gets to meet Diana.
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The Princess and the reporter
talked in private. Then...
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I was aware that Princess Diana
was planning
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some kind of documentary
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to highlight the achievements of her
main charities and so on.
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APPLAUSE
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I had no idea that she was planning
an exclusive for Martin Bashir
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for Panorama. None at all.
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The idea of the charitable
documentary was a kind of a bluff
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to distract attention from the
real project, the Panorama idea.
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He noticed that, just at this time,
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Diana was getting
more and more anxious.
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She was being encouraged to believe
things that were not helping her
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maintain a clear grasp of reality.
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For example, somebody told her
that Kensington Palace was bugged,
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but the work that she thought was
the bugging of Kensington Palace
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was actually a new fire alarm.
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Diana was particularly susceptible
to being told unlikely things
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and then believe them.
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Martin Bashir's record
at Panorama was chequered
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by an earlier incident
where he and a colleague
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claimed they'd obtained
a confidential document
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and used it in their programme.
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It turned out that they hadn't.
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The document in question
had simply been mocked up
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by a BBC graphic artist.
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Something similar
was about to happen again.
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In his memoir, the BBC's former boss
describes Diana's biggest fear.
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"She suspected some of her staff
were agents working for others,
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"whether for Prince Charles'
household
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"or for a major newspaper group."
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Martin Bashir seemed to have
inside knowledge that could help.
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He'd somehow acquired
two remarkable documents.
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Bank statements,
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confirming that Diana's brother
had been betrayed
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by a former employee,
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his one-time head of security.
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The statements showed that
the informer had been paid £4,000
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by the giant News International,
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and £6,500 by a mysterious
Jersey-based outfit,
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Penfolds Consultants,
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perhaps a front company
for an intelligence agency.
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Bashir showed the statements
to Charles Spencer.
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Now, there seemed to be proof
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that Diana's brother
had been betrayed.
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Perhaps the same thing
was happening to her.
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Diana was used to being pressured,
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but a once-secret document shows
just how frightened she'd become
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when she agreed to talk on the BBC.
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Just clays before her BBC interview,
a visitor arrived
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at Kensington Palace and was ushered
into Princess Diana's sitting room.
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It was her personal lawyer,
Lord Mishcon.
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Diana's private secretary,
Patrick jephson, was also present.
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What Diana had to say left
her audience speechless.
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Such was Lord Mishcon's concern,
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that he took a contemporaneous memo
aboutit
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which is very revealing of Diana's
state of mind at that time.
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Diana said she had secret
information
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regarding four different women.
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She'd had a tip off that
the Queen would abdicate
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in six months' time, April 1996.
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She said that Camilla Parker Bowles,
Prince Charles' lover,
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was on her way out.
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She'd be, quotes, "put aside".
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Diana didn't specify why
Charles had flipped,
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but there was a clue.
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She said that the royal nanny,
Tiggy Legge-Bourke,
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had just had an abortion.
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Woman number four was Diana
herself.
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Her informant had told her that once
Charles became king,
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she would be murdered.
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The lawyer took it all down...
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...and not a word of it was true.
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With Lord Mishcon, I recognised
that the princess
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wanted this on the record, wanted
her lawyer to hear her say this,
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but I was puzzled.
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Why was she saying these things?
Where had she got these ideas from?
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The more outlandish the things she
was being told,
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the more avidly she seemed to
swallow them.
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The reason why she gave that
statement to Lord Mishcon
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was in order to protect herself.
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Diana was afraid of being bumped
off, simple as that.
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She wanted people to know that if
she died in the next few days,
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next few weeks, they would know
where to look.
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The time gap between Diana's
astonishing allegations
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and her interview with Martin Bashir
is slender.
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He and his crew would arrive
at Kensington Palace
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in just six clays' time.
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You've got to look at the Panorama
interview
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not as an act of self-indulgence,
but an act of self-preservation.
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As fireworks exploded all over
London,
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the secret recording took place on
November 5th.
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The tapes were edited under the
strictest security.
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Seven clays before the broadcast, the
BBC announced what was coming.
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And then on November 20th, 23
million people watched
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enthralled as Diana demolished her
husband's reputation,
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as an adulterer, not suited to
become king.
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Because I know the character,
I would think that the top job,
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as I call it, would bring enormous
limitations to him.
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And I don't know whether he could
adapt to that.
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And Diana made it plain that she
wouldn't be silenced.
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Do you really believe
that a campaign
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was being waged against you?
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Yes, I did, absolutely.
Yeah.
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Why? I was separated by the Prince
of Wales.
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I was a problem, full stop.
Never happened before.
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What do we do with her?
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She won't go quietly,
that's the problem.
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I'll fight till the end.
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Do you think you will ever be queen?
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CHUCKLES WRYLY
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No, I don't. No.
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Diana talked about her husband's
affair and admitted one of her own
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with a young Army officer,
James Hewitt.
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No.
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So many revelations in one
interview.
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Diana didn't watch it go out.
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She spent the evening here,
at a charity dinner.
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By the time coffee was served, her
life had changed irrevocably.
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Panorama, I think, will be seen as
significant in that it marked
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the point at which Diana
and the royal family
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finally parted company.
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I watched it in my office, and,
of course, was shocked.
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It was so frank on a number
of quite private matters.
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And, obviously, a huge news story.
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The interview made headlines
here and across the world.
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Inside the BBC, there was elation
and congratulations
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on the scoop of the century.
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But just a few clays later,
inside the Panorama office,
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the celebrations came to
an abrupt halt.
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A story was beginning
to emerge that cast a shadow
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on the BBC's incredible triumph.
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A whistle-blower had come forward,
saying something odd had happened
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just before the interview.
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He wanted the bosses to look
into it urgently.
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He worried he may have been dragged
into some sort of con trick
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involving the princess.
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And isn't forgery a crime?
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The problem lay with the documents
Martin Bashir had acquired,
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suggesting Diana's brother
was being spied on.
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The whistle-blower said they were
forgeries,
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without a shadow of a doubt.
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He could be certain because he'd
been ordered to create them himself
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on his computer.
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In reality, the convincing looking
details of the £4,000 payoff
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by a newspaper group were
fictitious.
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So was the mysterious company who'd
paid off the supposed traitor
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in Earl Spencer's camp.
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Penfolds Consultants was pure
invention.
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These are the documents
shown to Charles Spencer.
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How could they help the reporter
achieve his goal?
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Charles Spencer had had his own
run-ins not just with the media,
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but what he considered to be
outside forces.
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He thought that his phones are
bugged,
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and so when Martin Bashir
contacted him,
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he was a receptive vessel to stories
of Ml5 surveillance and so on.
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As Diana's gatekeeper, he was the
one who said,
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"Well, you can go and speak to
Diana."
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For this film, we've been briefed by
the whistle-blower
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who created the forgeries
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and talked to someone who met him
soon after
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the Panorama programme went on air.
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This was somebody who was genuinely
concerned about the situation
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he found himself in.
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He explained that he had already
been internally to various people
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in the BBC to explain his
unhappiness and uncertainty
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about what he'd been asked to do
post hoc, after the event,
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as it were, and that he didn't feel
that that had gone anywhere.
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The way Martin Bashir's forged bank
statements came into being
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sounds a little like spy fiction.
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At the heart of the story is a
graphics artist, Matt Wiessler.
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He didn't wish to be seen on camera,
but has provided
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a detailed written account from the
time of what took place.
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In October 1995, Matt Wiessler was a
freelance.
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One of his regular jobs was creating
computer graphics for Panorama.
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But the job he was given one night
by Martin Bashir
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was like nothing he'd undertaken
before.
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He was given a list of names, money
paid in, money going out.
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It all had to look just like the
real thing.
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And it was a race against the clock.
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The main thing about this job was
the speed
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with which he had to do it -
he had nine hours.
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Creating these top quality forgeries
was an astonishing feat.
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His computer, 25 years ago,
was state of the art...
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...but with just a fraction of the
power of a modern one.
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Working through the night
at his flat in north London,
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he finished just as the sun
was rising
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and the forgeries was superb.
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Anybody looking at them would not
in any way question them.
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A BBC car arrived and the forgeries
were rushed off
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to a delivery point at Heathrow
Airport, Terminal 2.
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There, someone would be waiting
to collect the package.
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Martin Bashir did not respond to a
request to appear in this film
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or to written questions.
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The BBC say he is seriously unwell.
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The BBC have confirmed that the
forgeries were shown
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by Mr Bashir to Princess Diana's
brother.
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Andrew Morton believes the documents
played a key role
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in securing the interview screened
in November.
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I spoke to people who were very,
very close to the Princess of Wales
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who said that they discussed these
statements,
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these bank statements,
in October 1995.
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They were quite specific and they
discussed with Diana
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00:36:45,123 --> 00:36:48,569
the import of these documents and
they discussed with Diana
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whether or not she should give
an interview.
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It all makes sense when you realise
that she lived in a world of anxiety
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00:36:59,764 --> 00:37:04,968
and possible surveillance, and that
Martin Bashir, very cleverly,
483
00:37:04,993 --> 00:37:07,569
in a very sophisticated way,
played on that.
484
00:37:07,594 --> 00:37:11,129
Speaking to those in Diana's
circle at that time,
485
00:37:11,154 --> 00:37:14,539
you could get a sense of why the
bank statements
486
00:37:14,564 --> 00:37:18,098
were a tipping point that
made her mind up
487
00:37:18,123 --> 00:37:22,459
to sit down at Kensington
Palace and speak about
488
00:37:22,484 --> 00:37:24,459
her life to Martin Bashir.
489
00:37:26,123 --> 00:37:30,459
The BBC admit that their reporter
did commission the forgeries
490
00:37:30,484 --> 00:37:32,899
and showed them to Diana's brother.
491
00:37:34,404 --> 00:37:37,819
So, was this a breach of
professional ethics
492
00:37:37,844 --> 00:37:40,048
or was it a crime?
493
00:37:52,584 --> 00:37:57,048
The interview, filmed by BBC
Panorama 25 years ago, was one
494
00:37:57,073 --> 00:38:00,609
of the most famous and momentous
pieces of television
495
00:38:00,634 --> 00:38:01,889
there's ever been.
496
00:38:05,234 --> 00:38:09,178
For Princess Diana,
the fallout was sudden and dramatic.
497
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:15,968
The Queen wrote to both
Prince Charles and Princess Diana
498
00:38:15,993 --> 00:38:20,819
around Christmas '95, saying -
a very short letter -
499
00:38:20,844 --> 00:38:23,928
"You must finalise the divorce."
500
00:38:23,953 --> 00:38:26,178
And I remember Diana was...
501
00:38:28,203 --> 00:38:29,178
Er...
502
00:38:30,354 --> 00:38:33,769
She said to me, "Patrick, that's the
first letter she's written to me."
503
00:38:37,073 --> 00:38:38,928
For many who watched,
504
00:38:38,953 --> 00:38:42,489
Diana came across as a
strong, articulate survivor.
505
00:38:44,594 --> 00:38:49,689
Others saw an overprivileged woman
with little to complain about.
506
00:38:49,714 --> 00:38:52,769
Diana said to me, "What did
you think of the programme?"
507
00:38:52,794 --> 00:38:55,819
I said, "Oh, God, you made a
real prat out of yourself.
508
00:38:58,434 --> 00:39:01,009
"Don't think about you in all of
this.
509
00:39:02,644 --> 00:39:05,129
"Look what you have done to the
boys.
510
00:39:07,714 --> 00:39:10,619
"What do you think their friends
are going to say?
511
00:39:10,644 --> 00:39:14,569
"You've publicly admitted to having
an affair with a man
512
00:39:14,594 --> 00:39:16,048
"other than their father."
513
00:39:18,154 --> 00:39:20,689
"Oh, my God, I never thought of
that."
514
00:39:23,434 --> 00:39:27,009
It was a missed opportunity for
Diana to be who I knew her to be -
515
00:39:27,034 --> 00:39:30,259
a strong, influential woman.
516
00:39:30,284 --> 00:39:34,339
Instead, she turned it into an
opportunity for self-indulgence.
517
00:39:34,364 --> 00:39:36,699
She had stamped her foot
and made everybody listen,
518
00:39:36,724 --> 00:39:39,409
and she had nothing to say.
Nothing new.
519
00:39:42,514 --> 00:39:45,848
The interview was a crucial
turning point in Diana's life.
520
00:39:47,753 --> 00:39:49,489
The catalyst for divorce.
521
00:39:51,284 --> 00:39:54,619
And the beginning of a search for
someone who could make her happy...
522
00:39:56,444 --> 00:39:59,369
...without the constraints
of a royal family.
523
00:40:01,003 --> 00:40:05,339
Her relationship with a
billionaire's son, Dodi Fayed,
524
00:40:05,364 --> 00:40:07,779
was tracked avidly by the paparazzi.
525
00:40:09,753 --> 00:40:12,339
It ended tragically for both of
them...
526
00:40:15,003 --> 00:40:18,819
...in a Paris road tunnel
in August 1997.
527
00:40:25,833 --> 00:40:30,569
Panorama burned her bridges
with the rest of the royal family,
528
00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:32,928
cut herself off, ultimately fatally,
529
00:40:32,953 --> 00:40:35,978
from the protection of
the royal institution.
530
00:40:38,594 --> 00:40:42,369
All editors, film-makers have
to live with their conscience.
531
00:40:45,003 --> 00:40:47,928
He got her at a very, very weak
moment.
532
00:40:50,003 --> 00:40:53,289
She said, "He really talked me
into it, you know?"
533
00:40:54,394 --> 00:40:56,619
She regretted every minute.
534
00:41:03,833 --> 00:41:07,419
But what of the reporter
who won the amazing scoop...
535
00:41:08,674 --> 00:41:11,089
...and the methods he used to get it?
536
00:41:14,164 --> 00:41:17,699
We asked a barrister - a specialist
in forgery law -
537
00:41:17,724 --> 00:41:20,699
what do prosecutors look for in a
case like this?
538
00:41:22,244 --> 00:41:26,619
What the prosecution authorities
would be asking themselves is,
539
00:41:26,644 --> 00:41:31,728
why has somebody put this false bank
statement together
540
00:41:31,753 --> 00:41:35,579
if they are not considering using it
to deceive somebody?
541
00:41:37,324 --> 00:41:42,499
The interview was a journalistic
coup, but we've learned that the BBC
542
00:41:42,524 --> 00:41:48,219
also sold broadcast rights
for more than £100,000
543
00:41:48,244 --> 00:41:51,169
and the chances of being
prosecuted increase
544
00:41:51,194 --> 00:41:54,379
if the forgery leads to
financial gain.
545
00:41:54,404 --> 00:41:58,909
If a false document is used to
induce somebody
546
00:41:58,934 --> 00:42:00,659
to give an interview...
547
00:42:02,294 --> 00:42:08,139
...and that interview is a valuable
commodity in those circumstances,
548
00:42:08,164 --> 00:42:11,579
that would be an argument that a
criminal offence has been committed.
549
00:42:13,374 --> 00:42:17,269
The law obviously does
take it very seriously.
550
00:42:17,294 --> 00:42:21,659
There is no time bar on the
launching of prosecutions.
551
00:42:21,684 --> 00:42:24,459
Really, the prosecution could be
launched at any point
552
00:42:24,484 --> 00:42:26,188
if the criminality comes to light.
553
00:42:29,654 --> 00:42:34,058
The BBC's own account of how
the Diana interview was won
554
00:42:34,083 --> 00:42:36,349
has changed substantially
over the years.
555
00:42:38,734 --> 00:42:42,068
At an internal inquiry,
Martin Bashir was questioned
556
00:42:42,093 --> 00:42:46,818
by bosses, including the then head
of the news division, Tony Hall.
557
00:42:50,374 --> 00:42:54,179
A statement followed, saying that
the documents had not been used
558
00:42:54,204 --> 00:42:57,988
in any way, which had a bearing
on the Panorama interview.
559
00:43:03,204 --> 00:43:07,738
When asked in 2007 to provide notes
of the inquiry under
560
00:43:07,763 --> 00:43:11,629
Freedom of Information laws,
the BBC said there are none.
561
00:43:13,174 --> 00:43:16,149
Everything was done without putting
it down on paper
562
00:43:16,174 --> 00:43:17,818
on a "need-to-know basis".
563
00:43:21,963 --> 00:43:25,629
In October 2020, a BBC statement
564
00:43:25,654 --> 00:43:28,129
said there ARE records
from the time.
565
00:43:31,514 --> 00:43:35,249
Martin Bashir had, in fact,
admitted showing the forgeries
566
00:43:35,274 --> 00:43:37,899
to Earl Spencer in 1995.
567
00:43:42,234 --> 00:43:46,559
But this recent statement also
suggested that Princess Diana
568
00:43:46,584 --> 00:43:48,818
had herself written to the BBC...
569
00:43:50,893 --> 00:43:54,209
...saying, essentially, that she had
not been misled.
570
00:43:58,013 --> 00:44:00,209
That creates a further mystery.
571
00:44:01,384 --> 00:44:05,209
When asked in 2007 to see
this crucial letter
572
00:44:05,234 --> 00:44:08,999
from the Princess, the BBC replied
that they don't, in fact,
573
00:44:09,024 --> 00:44:10,569
have any such letter.
574
00:44:12,274 --> 00:44:15,928
If they received a letter saying
the Princess of Wales herself
575
00:44:15,953 --> 00:44:19,489
was very happy with the way that
the programme was made,
576
00:44:19,514 --> 00:44:22,968
that would bombproof them against
any future concerns.
577
00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:25,689
I find it astonishing
that this letter,
578
00:44:25,714 --> 00:44:27,569
according to them, doesn't exist.
579
00:44:29,104 --> 00:44:31,968
Tony Hall, a key figure
in the investigation
580
00:44:31,993 --> 00:44:36,848
into the forgeries affair, went on
to become boss of the entire BBC
581
00:44:36,873 --> 00:44:39,329
and now sits in the House of Lords.
582
00:44:43,794 --> 00:44:45,689
Martin Bashir became famous
583
00:44:45,714 --> 00:44:49,718
after the Diana interview and moved
to the USA.
584
00:44:49,743 --> 00:44:52,769
But, after early success, his career
stalled,
585
00:44:52,794 --> 00:44:55,489
suspended by one major network.
586
00:44:55,514 --> 00:44:59,369
He resigned after
controversy at a second.
587
00:44:59,394 --> 00:45:05,769
In 2016, he returned to the BBC
and was offered a senior position -
588
00:45:05,794 --> 00:45:08,009
editor of religion.
589
00:45:13,364 --> 00:45:17,728
Patrick jephson, Diana's private
secretary, resigned shortly after
590
00:45:17,753 --> 00:45:22,129
the Panorama interview,
feeling he'd been sidelined,
591
00:45:22,154 --> 00:45:26,489
but also that he'd let the
Princess down by failing to see
592
00:45:26,514 --> 00:45:28,009
all that was going on.
593
00:45:29,873 --> 00:45:32,449
It's a regret he carries to this
day.
594
00:45:34,284 --> 00:45:40,369
When Panorama came out, part
of my visceral reaction was outrage
595
00:45:40,394 --> 00:45:43,699
that somebody should have
exploited the Princess in this way.
596
00:45:47,264 --> 00:45:51,649
The image of Diana, captured at a
time in her life when she'd come
597
00:45:51,674 --> 00:45:54,848
to believe that dark forces
were out to get her,
598
00:45:54,873 --> 00:45:56,419
is burned into the memory.
599
00:45:58,394 --> 00:46:01,058
Part of her legacy that will always
live on.
600
00:46:03,114 --> 00:46:06,009
And perhaps that's also
something to regret.
601
00:46:07,833 --> 00:46:10,058
Knowing the Princess as I did...
602
00:46:12,474 --> 00:46:16,449
...making her perform like this
was a combination
603
00:46:16,474 --> 00:46:18,728
of both seduction and betrayal.
604
00:47:17,444 --> 00:47:20,419
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