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Diana, Princess of Wales has died.

This is according to British
sources.

The most photographed woman in
the world has died

trying not to have her photo taken.

That doesn't make sense.

Around half the population is now
surfing cyberspace.

So, just what is everyone
doing online?

It's very difficult to defeat
a conspiracy theory.

Rubbish, cover up,
definitely a cover-up.

I think it's a little bit suspicious
for an accident.

In a fine example
of British legal understatement,

the coroner said he was mindful that
there was some speculation in

some quarters that this might not
have been a simple car accident.

There's so many coincidences,

so many odd things
that just don't add up.

Why would someone want to kill
the Princess of Wales?

85% of the ordinary people
of this country

believe Diana was murdered
with my son.

PHONE RINGS

I remember vividly that
we were having a seminar

and I got a text from my office at
Scotland Yard which said that,

"You've been asked to do
the inquiry...

"..into the death of Princess
Diana,"

and I thought, surely that means the
Metropolitan Police are doing it.

I rang up and they said,

"No, you've been asked to do,
by the Royal Coroner,

"to do this personally",

which was unprecedented
for the Commission

to an inquiry of that nature.

I knew from the very beginning
of this enquiry

it was going to be
exceptionally difficult.

The allegation is that
the most popular woman

in the world has been murdered by
the Queen's husband

together with MI6.

That's very serious stuff.

I remember the newspaper headlines,

I also remember what was coming over
the television and the radio

and it was obvious that 85% of
the population believed that

there was a conspiracy.

Even relatives of mine said
there's something behind this

and someone's murdered her.

That was part of the decision
for me to do it, actually,

because, at the end of the day,

we had to get to
the bottom of what went on here.

What we're investigating was
a conspiracy to murder.

It's not gonna be a
quick and easy inquiry.

You know, people immediately said

Lord Stevens is part of the
establishment,

he's gonna find that there's
nothing in there.

But in actual fact,
there were some things

in the conspiracy allegations that
needed to be sorted out.

Well, we got together, and we
decided that we were going

to look at every single allegation
that had been made.

Every single one -
it was 104 allegations.

I can probably best liken it,
when I first looked at it,

to like...as a mountain in front
of you,

it was just a mountain and I
remember the whiteboard

at Scotland Yard where we tried
to break down the allegations

into areas or themes.

"Royal Family,"

"engagement,"

"pregnancy,"

you know, "MI6,"

"blood," "a collision"...

Each of those was allocated
to one of the team.

That's the only way we could do it,
cos if you left one allegation out,

the whole house would come
tumbling down.

One allegation would affect
our credibility,

if it wasn't proved
one way or the other.

Lord Stevens had told us right at
the beginning...

"Go where the evidence takes you."

"Step-by-step, eventually,

"you'll get to the top of the
mountain."

I've been screaming for the last
five years that what happened

to Dodi and Diana is absolute
100% murder by these dark forces

which...the intelligence services.

At the beginning of Paget,
it could have looked like quite

a lot of lazy people sitting around
an office watching TV

because the team were looking at
everything we could find.

There was...
HE CHUCKLES

..an awful lot
of that material out there.

You believe there was
a conspiracy...to kill Dodi?

Definitely, they been murdered.

Dodi and Diana been murdered,
definitely.

Go and find the evidence,

if there's evidence of a conspiracy,
go and follow it.

Who would want them dead?

70, 80, 90% of the population

thought there was something in it,

partly because they were hearing
the media's view of it

and I'm not here to comment on
the media one way or another,

but they were hearing
the media's view.

Should I sit in any particular way?

Stomach in, tits out? Sit how
you're comfortable. All right.

Well, it was so much fun while
Diana was alive, she kept us all in,

you know, fancy cars
and nice clothes.

We could get away with anything,
we could hack anybody's phone,

you know, break into their house
and nick pictures,

whatever we wanted -

and then Diana died,
and as the fun stopped,

and circulation... "doof",
fell off a cliff as well.

Diana sold so many papers,

we kind of wanted to keep her
going...

..keep her alive in a way.

The Mirror chose today
to publish the full text of

a letter Diana gave Paul Burrell.

In his book, the name of the man she
suspected of conspiring to kill her

was blacked out -

today, it was revealed
she'd written, "my husband".

Mr Burrell is there anything you'd
like to say? Anything at all?

Paul Burrell's aware this will go
down in history.

It's the...very precise nature of
what she says.

A "accident" in my car.

What that headline is saying,
and that note,

is that Princess of Wales,
in 1995, feared there might be

a plan to get rid of her
in an accident.

You can't dismiss that

because two years later,
she died in a car accident.

What it meant for the Metropolitan
Police was that

here was a piece of evidence,

there's actually
a letter in existence.

At that time, there was a lot in
the media about, you know,

there's three in the marriage and,

this thought that Camilla
was usurping

the Princess of Wales.

We wanted to know exactly
what was behind that note.

How did Mr Burrell come by it?

Whether you like Mr Burrell
or not is immaterial.

He was at the centre of her life.

All I can tell you is behind
closed doors...

..I was looking after my friend.

She was called Diana.

I understood her fight
and her struggles,

and I knew where all
the enemies were.

And they were all coming
for us at the same time,

whether it's the
Queen's household or...

..Prince Philip's household or

the Prince of Wales' household,
they were all...

..against us.

And what I wanted to do
with the book was to

defend the Princess' memory.

Crumbs!

It's a difficult one for me cos I
know why he published it,

and I know what he got
for publishing it.

But I can't tell you how I know.

It's a substantial...
Substantial amount of money.

The police wanted to see the note,

which is a private note,

but I thought it was of
national importance

and they should see it,
to know how vulnerable she was,

how frightened she was and how
marginalised she was.

"I am sitting here at my desk
today in October,

"longing for someone to hug me
and encourage me to keep strong."

The Princess wrote all her letters
at her writing desk -

a kneehole desk,
I can see it now...

..with her letter rack in front,

the alabaster statue of Christ

with rosary beads around it,

pictures of the boys...

"This particular phase in my life is
the most..."

underlined, "..dangerous."

She always wrote
with blue black ink,

cream stationery
with a red edge

and a "D" and coronet...

..central at the top.

"My husband is planning...an
accident...in my car.

"Brake failure
and serious head injury

"in order to make the path clear
for him to marry Tiggy.

"Camilla is nothing but a decoy."

Which... This did surprise me.

Tiggy was Tiggy Legge-Bourke who was
the nanny for the two Princes.

That's what Diana believed at
the time -

she'd been told by somebody
that Tiggy Legge-Bourke

was having an affair with
the Prince of Wales.

Hi, thank you... Sorry!

That year, at Christmas,
at the lunch party,

the princess approached her
and said to her,

"I'm so sorry, Tiggy, to hear
about your loss of the baby."

Someone had told the Princess that

Tiggy Legge-Bourke had had
an abortion.

Who was feeding the princess lies?

"My husband's planning
to get rid of me".

That's what Diana wrote.

So, clearly, in her mind,
at the end of October 1995,

for whatever reason,

this is what she wrote down as
her thoughts.

We knew, at some point, we were
gonna have to deal with this.

We were gonna have to go and see
the Prince of Wales.

The allegation had
to be investigated,

whether it's the future
King of England, Prince Charles,

or anyone else,
you have to go there.

No-one is above the law.

He couldn't possibly be responsible
for the murder of his former wife.

That would be the end
of the monarchy.

The thing for me that was really
worrying was the fact that

this incident had happened years
before,

it happened in a foreign
jurisdiction.

We had to get our hands on
the evidence,

we had to speak
to witnesses over there.

It was gonna be
very, very, very complex.

That was a very, very important day,
for me, personally,

to see the actual scene,
to get a feel for it all.

Unless you do that, you know,
you're not doing your job properly.

But I just have a simple job
to do with my officers.

We will do that job, and I think
that my record speaks for itself.

We will get to the bottom
of this one way or the other.

The collision investigation,

you look at the scene,
everything that happened there,

all the technical stuff,

was vital to understand while
we went forward cos that's fact,

we, you know...
Let's look at the tyre marks,

let's look at the debris,
let's look at the distances.

So, I wanted the best collision
investigator we could find.

Well, I think my first trip
to Paris was with...

..Sir John Stevens.

A traffic PC doesn't usually
get to speak to people like that.

It was just really quite surreal.

And it carried on being surreal
in that way

all the way through to the end.

You cannot really look
at a crash scene afterwards

and get the same sense of feeling as
you do when you're standing there,

and it's all laid out
in front of you.

I drove the route quite a few times.

The biggest thing that struck me
is that there was a very...distinct

and quite sharp transition from
being almost level road

down into the underpass and
the slope into it was quite steep.

This was a challenging bit of road,

especially if you were
driving at some speed.

We needed to identify what
had been done by the French,

if what had been done could
have been done better.

The photographs were unhelpful.

As you can see in these,

all the police vehicles are parked

on the right-hand side of the road,

more or less at the start of
the debris.

And I think it was established,
subsequently,

that not all the debris
was collected.

Cos where the debris was,
it gives us an idea as

to where the point of impact
between the two vehicles occurred.

We looked at the new techniques
that were available,

such as the laser scanning and
computer modelling and animation,

to help us understand the movement
of the vehicle

as it entered the underpass
and leading up to the crash.

There were a number of allegations
concerning the car itself

which hadn't necessarily been
fully addressed

by the French investigation
and so it was important,

very important, for us to
get our hands on the car -

otherwise, the overall collision
investigation report

would've been incomplete which
couldn't be allowed to happen.

Who would want them dead?

And why would anyone wanna
kill Dodi and Diana?

Because they still
don't accept that Dodi,

my son, an Egyptian or Muslim,

can be the stepfather
of the future King.

My main area was to speak to
the friends and acquaintances

of Diana, Princess of Wales

to find out whether she
was pregnant,

..whether she was getting engaged...

..whether she had any
security concerns.

For the most part of it, I was the
only female detective, yeah.

It was such a high-profile case

that there was that
added weight that nothing

in this investigation
could get leaked to anyone.

There was massive pressure on
from the press

to actually talk about
what we were doing.

Looking for a scoop,
looking for who we were seeing,

what our conclusions were.

If something had come out
which was confidential,

I think, you know, our credibility
with the French would have gone,

our credibility with
the Royal Family...

..and with Mohamed would have gone.

You also believe, Mohamed, strongly,

that Diana was pregnant at
the time that she died, don't you?

This was 100%.

How can you be sure of that?
Because she told me herself

and Dodi told me,
I know this personally.

We had really no evidence
to support what he was alleging,

but he claimed that this was
a picture of her pregnant.

So, we had to see whether
there was any truth in that.

It was about motive because it could
have been,

as was being suggested
by Mr Al-Fayed,

that the Royal Family
didn't necessarily want

a Muslim baby within their family.

It was a simple question -
when was the photograph taken?

Because it's all on
the timeline then.

Mohamed Al-Fayed's villa where
the princess and her sons

are holiday guests -

time to enjoy the Riviera sun.

I recall trawling through
thousands of photographs

to find that photograph.

This photograph was taken on
the 14th of July,

and The Express itself says
this was published on the 15th,

the photograph was taken
the day before, the 14th.

Dodi didn't arrive
in Saint Tropez

at the family villa until
the 14th of July, late.

So, this photograph,

clearly taken during the daytime,

was taken even before
that relationship started.

If this had been on
the 14th of August,

and you said, "Well, she'd been with
Dodi for a month now" then fine,

but I'm no gynaecologist, but I know
that before you've met someone,

you can't be showing signs
of pregnancy.

There were no secrets
with Mr Al-Fayed,

there was absolutely no point in
trying

to keep anything away from him.

It was my job to tell him what we
were doing and take him through

what progress we were making and
where the evidence was taking us.

We used to come in on
the side entrance there.

We were met by his bodyguards
and his security detail.

We had a control room
which was based, really,

on a police control room, so it was
quite a sophisticated business.

And Mr Al-Fayed would just walk into
the room,

reinforce his view that his
son was murdered

and so was the Princess of Wales.

Lord Stevens listened.

I think what Lord Stevens did,
was I think he dialled down

his own personality,
his own character when he went in

and realised this is not a contest
about who is most important.

He was a character.

On one occasion, he gave me a
Viagra.

He said, "This will help your
love life."

I didn't need any help
with my sex life, as it happened.

And then, about three
or four weeks...

Four weeks later, he gave me
a bull's testicles.

Here... You know, it was quite
a strange thing to do really.

Inside the Ritz, Diana and Dodi
had dinner in the Imperial Suite.

And then they called me
and say, "What's happening?"

And then, "We're having dinner, and
after that, going to the apartment.

"And, we'll be coming back on
Sunday", and on Monday,

they will declare their engagement.

Did Dodi tell you that?
Did Diana tell you that?

Dodi told me that,
and Diana told me that,

on Saturday evening at ten o'clock.

The only evidence,
and I'll call it that,

was Mohamed Al-Fayed
saying that he had a conversation

with Diana in which she said she was
engaged to Dodi Al Fayed,

and she was pregnant.

How can we prove that? How do we
check that that's actually correct?

If we go to Saturday 30th of August,

when Dodi and the Princess
were in Paris...

..Dodi Al Fayed purchased a ring
from Repossi's shop

in Place Vendome next to
the Ritz Hotel.

A "tell me yes"
ring, "dis-moi oui".

We do know that that ring was
found later,

in a case in Dodi's apartment
in Rue Arsene Houssaye.

The key issue for us, looking
at that,

was, "What did the Princess of Wales
know about that ring?"

Had she seen it? Had she known the
significance of it?

And was there any evidence
of talk of an engagement?

Alberto Repossi said that when
Dodi and Diana were in Monte Carlo,

that they had seen a ring at
the Repossi jeweller's there.

They were definitely
going to buy that ring,

and so, Mr Repossi was saying that
it was the wrong size.

And so, it went off to,
I believe, an Italian factory

to get sized during the summer,
they had to open up the factory

because normally things shut down
for the month of August.

I would never say a witness is lying

just because the facts
don't all match up.

What I'm saying is that what Mr
Repossi said in his statements to us

didn't line up with
the facts as we knew them.

He said that the ring had gone off
to Turin for resizing

with his brother, that didn't
happen, just didn't happen.

And Mr Repossi said,
"Yes, I will go back now,

"and I'll find all the documentation
that showed what happened

to this "Tell Me Yes" ring and
didn't produce a single thing.

No evidence, nothing at all.

Sometimes you have to look
at why are they saying it?

What is the driving force
for them saying this?

People say things sometimes

because they think it's
the right thing to say,

people say things because actually
somebody else

would like me to say that.

That is beautiful.

This is the ring, picked up
in Paris the afternoon they died.

For Mohamed, $700,000 worth
of proof positive

that his son and Princess Diana
were serious about marriage.

Scotland Yard.

They asked me a lot of questions.

I never heard of
the ring until that night.

They came into the apartment to have
a little hors d'oeuvres

because they were going into
the Ritz for dinner.

Dodi Fayed came to my quarters,

he said, "Rene, have champagne on
ice ready

"because when we come back
around midnight,

"I'm going to propose to
the princess",

and he reached into his pocket,

he took the box and he showed me.

He felt...comfortable...

..to propose to her.

And...

..I think she would have said yes.

In 2004, I took a phone call from
someone at Scotland Yard.

He said, "Well, we know that
you spoke to the Princess

"in the hours before her death,

"we want to talk
to you about that conversation."

I felt an obligation to help.

She and I were friends.

She'd called me from Paris,

we'd had a conversation,
she was coming home,

and she was looking forward
to coming home,

she was desperately
missing William and Harry.

The police wanted to know if
the Princess had said to me

whether she had become engaged,

and I said, "Absolutely not."

She had said, as she pretty much
said to all the friends,

and she always had a particular way
of saying this, I mean,

"I need a new...
Another marriage like...

"Like a rash on my face."

I wrote the last story,
whilst she was still alive,

at the News of the World.

So, I get sent down

to try and buy up some of
the crew on the boat,

so I've got a bag
with 10,000 quid in it,

and we actually get the first mate

and so he was quite
a good coup you know,

cos he watched them,
he spoke to them,

so it's like, "Great!
Well, you know...

"So, how did they rock
the love boat?

"Did they make love so passionately?
Did it move in the water?"

So that's the kind of line
I'm going for.

"Did they run across the State Room
with no clothes on?

"Did they go skinny dipping at 3am?"
All that stuff.

And he said, "No nothing happened
at all."

He called her "ma'am,"
they sat at other ends of the table,

she had her bedroom, when the kids
were there,

not even a peck on the cheek,
then when the kids left...

..it was the same,
but I wasn't allowed to print that

cos that wasn't what anyone wanted
to read back in the day.

There was an expression in
newspapers about making it work,

"Yeah, just make it work".

It's almost like, "Make it happen,"
it's not, "Make it up,"

it's not quite the same as,
"Make it up."

But, "Here's a story,
let's just make it work,

"make it sound believable,
make it sound possible."

My belief is that the Princess
of Wales never saw that ring.

I think that Dodi Al Fayed was
going to present that ring

later that night.

Dodi didn't get the chance
to ask the Princess of Wales

to get engaged.

Within the last hour, it's been
announced that Prince Charles

is to marry his long-term partner,

Camilla Parker-Bowles.

How you feeling, ma'am?

Did he get down on one knee
to propose?

THEY LAUGH

Charles and Camilla have lived
more-or-less as man and wife

for the past three or four years,
and this was an inevitable step.

They'll hope things will be
clearer now,

even if they do not underestimate

the challenge of selling this
marriage to a sceptical public.

So, we were given permission
to bring the Mercedes

back to the UK.

The Mercedes was in
two containers,

in a vehicle scrapyard
on the outskirts of Paris.

While we were loading
the shipping containers,

you could see paparazzi in

the surrounding flats
taking photographs.

We were followed all the way from
Paris to the Channel.

When we got out at Dover on
the other side of the Channel,

they were in the lay-by
on the A2 waiting for us.

RADIO: Delighted for the Prince of
Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

It's very happy news,
we all wish them every happiness.

The general consensus is

not a lot of people have a
lot against Camilla,

but she's just not Diana.

Diana was still dominating
the news agenda

around the Royal Family,

I mean, they were desperate
to move on and start again.

In life, Diana had,
if not tormented them,

she had caused them
an awful lot of trouble

and certainly, she had
continued to haunt them.

You know, she famously said
she wasn't going quietly

and, boy, that was so true.

During our examination of the car,
there were parts of the carpet

that had been removed.

And one part from...

..Princess Diana's side
was heavily blood stained.

Now, the importance of that blood is
it was pre-transfusion blood,

it was pure blood
from the Princess.

This was picked up by somebody else

as to whether that might be
useful in looking to see

if the question about her being
pregnant could be answered.

We actually DNA'd it, first of all,

to make sure this was
the Princess' blood

and then Professor David Cowan did
some very sophisticated tests

on the blood.

David Cowan came back and said,

"Up to a certain level, all I can
tell you is she wasn't pregnant.

"If she was pregnant
by a short degree,

"it wouldn't pick them up."

But it just shows
the lengths we went to.

I interviewed Rosa Monkton who was
a very good friend of Diana's

and she was to say that
she could have not possibly

have been pregnant because
of conversations...they'd had

just a few days before.

I don't really want to talk about
her period and stuff,

I just don't feel that's...
You know.

The thing about pregnancy

and the details about Diana's body
were the most unpleasant part

of what we did, to be frank.

We had to go into intimate details
of her sexual life,

intimate details of, you know,
the body clock, so to speak.

I can understand anyone saying,

"Well, why do you have to do that
and go into the personal details?"

but to actually ensure
that these allegations

were investigated properly,
to go where the evidence took us,

you had to do it.

It was very important we didn't
leave any stone unturned.

We were going to go through
a legal process

in the Coroner's Court

in front of a jury,

which would be
extremely stressful and difficult.

The British system of criminal
justice is a tragic failure.

There are those who say that with
a little tinkering here or there

these failures can be prevented.
They can't.

My name's Michael Mansfield,

I was contacted to represent
Mohamed Al Fayed.

Michael Mansfield, we all know,
is a very clever individual.

He specialised in criminal law
for 25 years,

founded law centres
and human rights groups,

he's successfully defended

a large number of major cases where
civil liberties have been at stake.

We were up against it.

You had Michael Mansfield,
one of the best defence councils,

I admire the man, in
terms of his ability,

with his legal team, looking at
every single aspect

of what we had done and did.

The basic question was,
what's gone on here?

Princess Diana was right about the
fact she was actually going to meet

an untimely occurrence.

So, I started asking myself,
"Who benefits from this?"

and I started to think, "Well, I can
think of all sorts of people

"who might benefit."

Diana had not exactly
ingratiated herself

with the Royal Family.

Maybe it was a pure accident,

but I found that difficult
to believe from the beginning

and I thought,
"This doesn't add up."

I wasn't frightened of
the establishment,

the decision was made
to see Prince Charles

because of the Burrell letter and
the allegations made in that letter.

Princess Diana had stated that she
was going to be murdered

by her husband.

We had to see whether
there was any substance to that

and we had to have his reply to it.

I'm sure nothing like that had ever
happened before,

so that was unprecedented.

I'd never been to St James' Palace
before.

I don't know the right term -
a footman, a butler,

guided us through.

I do remember there were...

..some of the rooms were ready for
a Christmas party as we walked past

cos it was early December.

I remember thinking I'd rather be
going to that party

than actually going in
to interview the future king.

I explained why we were going there,

it was the result of the publication
of the letter.

He understood the reasons for it

and was only too willing
to cooperate.

He came in, was extremely charming.

I put questions to him which were
noted down by Dave Douglas.

I'm not a monarchist and I'm not
obsessed with the Royal Family

in any way shape or form,

I have to say that Charles was
actually very...

Very polite.

Obviously, Lord Stevens is asking
him questions and he, deliberately,

on a couple of occasions,
leant past Lord Stevens

to ask me general questions
about Paget,

"How's it going? Is the inquiry
going OK?"

He was putting me at my ease

by actually including me in
the conversation,

I thought, "That's, that's quite
classy,

"doesn't matter whether I like
the monarchy or not,

"That's quite classy."
I was impressed with that.

He denied being involved in any way,
shape or form

and, that was noted.

I don't want to go into what
Prince Charles said.

All I'll say is that when it came to
all of the details in that note,

the Prince of Wales couldn't
understand any of it,

he couldn't understand
why it was written,

he couldn't understand why
those names were put in there,

he just couldn't help us with it.

He was as flabbergasted as
anybody else.

When she wrote me that note,
the Princess was going through

a very tricky part of her life

and so, she wasn't stable,

and her feelings were erratic.

Oh, I think a lot of people felt
that Diana was a problem.

This wasn't an overwhelming case
of somebody who's

off their rockers or
whatever phrase you want to use,

and of course, it's very convenient,

if you want to write
somebody off,

you say they're a bit "unbalanced",

so they can explain Diana
and the whole problem there

because she was
a little bit, you know...

Well, I think the headline's
strong enough at the top

and it's just a question
of which picture we use.

I don't see how anybody can accuse
Diana of being overly concerned

with her security.

She was aware, as
the public became aware,

that phone calls were
being listened to.

And there's more of the tape on
pages four and five as well. OK?

"Squidgy" was the tape recording
of Diana talking to a man,

possibly an extra-marital friendship

which began to be circulated
in...late 1991.

PRESENTER: The Sun newspaper say
this tape is genuine.

It records and intimate...

A 45-minute tape...

Rambling... Incoherent, at times,

angry about her lot,

angry about the Royal Family.

Obviously, I think our readers will
be absolutely fascinated by

the dialogue. As I said it's
not...revelatory in a major way,

this is, really, a kind of
a soul-bearing of a woman

who's got many
tormented aspects in her life.

Yeah, that's the one, isn't it?
Yeah. "My Life's Torture".

And there she is,
poor Diana, looking very sad.

She did talk to me about her fears

that...everything she did

was reported back to the other side

and to the other side,
she meant Charles' lot,

that, because her...phone calls
were tapped, he knew who...

..she was seeing, who she was
meeting, where she was going.

The evidence,
as it seemed, was quite compelling.

People just camped outside

wherever Diana was,

wherever Charles was

and while they were camping there,

they'd just have a scanner on,
listening,

and you'd obviously tape it cos
that tape is worth fortunes.

For the first time, you actually got
the Royal Family

not as they wanted to present
themselves, but as they really were.

Of course the public
are interested in that

and why is that
not in the public interest?

Years later,
there was the Panorama interview.

Well, there were three of us in this
marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

SHE CHUCKLES

We watched the
Martin Bashir interview.

How does it affect the crash?
Does it affect what happened

in the conspiracy?
Is it relevant to that?

And we said, "Well, no."

And...I have to say it, just like
everybody else, we thought this was

a respected BBC journalist,

doing an interview for
a respected BBC production,

and the BBC broadcast
to the world.

So, you'd think,
"Well, that's just as it is."

It never crossed our minds that,
actually,

there was some deception
behind getting this.

We now know,
courtesy of Diana's brother,

that Martin Bashir presented

a whole series of
claims and allegations...

..that encouraged Diana to meet
with Bashir...

And the rest is history.

But in the course of
a sort of entrapping,

and I'm afraid that is
the phrase, really,

for what Martin Bashir did,
entrapping Diana,

he concocted these stories...

..that fuelled her imagination,

some would say her paranoia,

that she was being followed,

that her phone calls were
being tapped.

It doesn't take a huge leap...

..to go from that to,
"My life is in danger."

One day, a man came to see us.

He said he was an ex-MI5 officer,

and he went around all
the apartments

and listened for devices.

Couldn't find anything.

But then, he dramatically said
to the Princess,

"Well, we have to take down
every mirror in the palace...

"..because you can shine a beam
from outer space onto a mirror,

"into a room and listen to
the conversation."

She believed it was true.

She knew...

..that her world wasn't safe.

BEEPING

The team were told,
you know, "Be very careful,

"there may be phone tapping",

and lots of thought and effort went
into protecting the investigation.

There was never a time
that we weren't on our guard

cos if you were not on your guard,

there were people in
the background who'd, you know,

pull the rug from under you
and that's the experience I've had

over the years!

You have to anticipate
that not everybody's on your side,

people are gonna wanna find out
what you're doing,

people are trying to get
sources of information from you.

We knew at one stage that,
you know, we were being followed.

There's a real feeling of isolation

and, "Who are your allies?

"Who are your allies?"

I don't even begin
to say I understand

the Princess of Wales
and what she was going through,

but, I think, when you're in
that position,

when you're at the centre
of media attention

all the time, I think
you start to see shadows.

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