Prince William seeks the truth about Princess Diana’s 1995 BBC BBC Interview: Author

Prince William has endured the private pain of knowing how deeply his mother was betrayed – and now he’s determined to find out the truth.

“I’ve always understood because I’ve been where I’ve been,” Andy Webb, Writer of “Dianarama,” told FOX News Digital. “I describe William as a wound that will heal. It has been made clear to me that it is worth what happened. You think the time has come.”

In November 1995, Princess Diana secretly gave an explosive interview with journalist Martin Bashir on the BBC investigative program “Panorama.” Then, the 34-year-old, who had been separated from her husband, Charles, explaining how her marriage failed because the future King, then 47, was in love with his wife, Camilla Parker awakens.

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Diana’s many revelations, including her battle with Bulimia and how she deliberately harmed herself in a desperate bid for help, shocked millions. The princess never realized that she had been forgotten in speaking – the decision of those loved ones believed to have led to her death.

Webb, an investigative reporter, has spent 20 years exposing what he describes as the network’s cover-up. It was later revealed that Bashir used false documents and other dishonest tactics to persuade Diana to agree to the interview.

Speaking to Diana’s brother Charles Spencer – deceived by Bashir’s tricks – Webb revealed that William’s staff had been looking for Diana, and Charles found Charles wanted to marry the boys’ nanny and take his children.

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Bashir even produced a fabricated document suggesting the nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, had performed an abortion paid for by Charles.

FOX News Digital reached out to Bashir for comment on Webb’s book. The 62-year-old, who left the BBC in 2021 citing health reasons, said he deeply regretted combining the bank statements, calling it “a stupid thing to do.” He also added that he felt it had nothing to do with Princess Diana’s personal choice to participate in the debate. “

Webb said the consequences of Bashir’s deception were catastrophic. Consumed by separation and mistrust, Diana began to bind the inner circle, abandoning the importance of the disabled – including her long-term chauffeur – after Bashir reportedly assured her that even if he had assured her that he had assured her that he had even assured her that he had assured her.

“Diana used to believe that the people around her, the people around her, were actually not to be trusted, that they were actually taking too much money, checking on DIANA,” it was explained.

“He can no longer trust these people. All the people he trusted in his life until that time, he took it away.

“The saddest thing is the very strong suggestion that if the administration at the time was implicating Princess Diana in a job of deception – of war and the lies she had been guarded about -,” Webb noted.

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The fallout from the conversation was swift and devastating. Queen Elizabeth II ordered Charles and Diana to proceed with a formal divorce. When she woke up, Diana was rushed to many royal privileges and grew up very close to them, including her private secretary, Patrick Jephson. Just two years later, tragedy struck when the princess was killed in a Paris car accident while being relentlessly pursued by paparazzi.

“They said Diana was paranoid,” Webb said. “And I’m always thinking to myself, ‘That’s really absurd, because you have to remember, this was the BBC telling him that they got hard information and documents available.

“At that time in his life, he knew that his phone, private calls were recorded and spread there that he was his friend who was still in a relationship with him. He looked closely. ‘”

“That was the obvious thing that Martin Bashir knew he was working on – that Diana was already deeply suspicious of being watched,” Webb said. “He knew he was worried about this particular man’s death. Then he brought his documents, and he was very convincing.”

The conversation and its aftermath remain a tragedy that has survived William for decades.

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“I think it’s hard for William to see that things could have been different,” Webb said. “If only Diana had been told what really happened – what Martin Bashir had done. It’s hard to live with that information.”

In 2020, the Sunday Times published new evidence showing that Bashir used deceptive tactics to reach Diana through her brother. It prompted the BBC to launch an independent inquiry led by Chief Justice Lord Dyson Dyson.

A 2021 report concluded that Bashir had breached BBC rules by fabricating fake bank statements and showing them to the Earl to reach the princess. Believing that there were forces inside the palace who wanted to silence her, Diana agreed to tell her side of the story – not knowing that Bashir was exploiting her fears.

The report also criticized the BBC for covering up whether it was aware of Bashir’s actions, noting that the organization’s internal investigation held up to its usual standards of integrity and the usual appearance of honesty and transparency.

“This conversation was a major contributor to my parents’ relationship and has since hurt many others,” William said in a statement. “It brings indescribable sadness to know that the failure of the BBC contributed so much to his fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember in those last years with him.”

William’s younger brother Harry, said in his statement that the controversy was bigger than the BBC – and that the “repercussion” of the fake bullying ultimately took his life. “

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“To those who have taken some form of accountability, thank you for owning it. That is the first step to justice and truth,” he wrote. “However, what concerns me deeply are practices like this – and they are very bad – that still exist today.”

William was 13 when his mother spoke. Harry was 11.

“What’s new is you want to watch TV and see his mother being asked questions about, ‘Did you have sex with that boyfriend?'” Webb said.

“In the interview, Diana is encouraged to successfully trash William when asked, ‘Do you think he should be King?’ And you say, ‘No, I don’t think you got it.’ So William, age 13, is sitting there watching this. What do his school friends think the next day? “

BBC chairman Richard Sharp said the Corporation accepted the investigation’s findings, adding that “there was an unacceptable failure.” The broadcaster wrote to the royal family to apologise.

“William does not want this conversation to be shown again,” Webb said. “You call it illegitimate. What’s really sad is that, yes, some parts were important – but in reality, Diana gave that conversation in a state of shock and awe.”

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