Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani surgeon who had been in love with Diana in Wales from 1995 until a few months before her death in 1997, recently decided to break her silence by telling the newspaper Daily mail that this controversial interview was the product of the manipulation that the journalist Martin Bashir exercised on Lady Di.
“There are three of us in my marriage, and that’s a lot.” The phrase was launched by Princess Diana in a famous interview with the BBC in 1995, when she revealed that her husband, The Prince Carlos, I was unfaithful to Camila Parker-Bowles. How did Lady Di come to tell intimate aspects of her life? How did this famous meeting between her and the British media take place?
“One of Diana’s most attractive qualities was her vulnerability. It was what made the audience love her. I later realized that Bashir took advantage of these vulnerabilities. He was very convincing with Diana and he filled his head with garbage“The 62-year-old doctor, who has not appeared in public since 2008 to talk about the issue, said.
The reason Khan decided to refer to this conversation between Lady Di and Bashir Because a few days ago he had a discussion with a person who knows both him and the journalist. “He told me that he knows Martin Bashir and that he is very stressed. He said he was a decent man, but he was very depressed and he had to ask me to talk to him, please, ”he said.
But the surgeon could only say negative things about him. Among them, that Lady Di considered Bashir like a “mole” inside the Palace and that she has sown paranoia in the princess since she met him. “She was not a paranoid person, but with all those ideas and discussions about interceptions, Bashir tried to lead her to a place where she did not trust things and the people around her.. He was an intelligent man, “he said.
MEETINGS WITH BASHIR, BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTERVIEW
Bashir met Princess Diana about the same time he began a secret relationship with Khan. The journalist and the surgeon met in a rural pub, at a meeting organized by Lady Di himself. “Almost from the first moment he started asking me very personal and very direct questions about Diana and our relationship. I was angry. It was impertinent for this man we didn’t know how to talk to us like that “, he commented.
That is why, at that time, it manifested Diana Spencer that that journalist gave him a bad feeling. “I told Diana that I didn’t like Bashir, that I didn’t trust him, and that I should end their relationship.”. But she ignored his warnings and conducted the controversial interview. After recording, Diana asked Khan what he thought. “I felt it was a big mistake and I told him it was terrible“, He said.
After the broadcast, Diana from Wales told Khan that the family members would ask her and Prince Charles to divorce. “That’s how it was, thankfully Lady Di, since she wanted to“The doctor said. And just as the divorce was made immediately, so did the relationship between the princess and Bashir.
“I asked him why [zanjó su amistad con el periodista] and said of william. I could believe, because the children were fundamental in everything she did “, she said.
THE POSITION OF PRINCE WILLIAM
In that conversation between Lady Di and Martin Bashir, for the BBC’s “Panorama” program, the princess had the opportunity to show her weaknesses and fears, after three years of separation from Carol of England. Then she talked about the infidelities they had committed and questioned her husband’s abilities yet.
However, this series of discoveries was disapproved of by the eldest of his sons. “William hated the “Panorama” interview and told his mother that he had made a mistake that upset him greatly.. He was very direct and said, “Mom, Bashir is not a good person,” said Khan, who during his relationship with Lady Di agreed with William and Prince Harry.
In November 2020, 25 years after that interview, a documentary produced by the British network ITV revealed the plot of the fakes and manipulations that were used to convince Diana of Wales. Indeed, Prince William spoke about it and said, “It is a step in the right direction”.
On the other hand, Hasnat Khan, which the inner circle of the princess described as “the true love of his life“He touched on his memories of Lady Di only once during an interview with Sunday Telegraph, twelve years ago, where he said he had nightmares about the death of his former partner, which occurred on August 31, 1997.
HOW WAS THE INTERVIEW OF THE CENTURY CARRIED OUT?
Twenty-five years later, the princess’s brother, the count Charles Spencer accused his author, journalist Martin Bashir, of falsifying documents to obtain itSpecifically, the bank statements – which turned out to be fake – to prove that the security services paid two people to spy on his sister.
“If I hadn’t seen those statements, I would never have introduced them to my sister Bashir“Spencer said in a letter to the BBC, denouncing” dishonest “methods.
The investigation will examine Bashir’s behavior, which he propelled exclusively internationally, and will examine “alleged bank records”.
It will also carefully analyze what the BBC knew and whether the institution knowingly protected its journalist.
Days ago Prince William, the eldest son of Lady Di and Carlos, welcomed the initiation of an investigation and said it was “a step in the right direction.”
Diana and Prince Charles separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. The prince, heir to the crown, married Camila Parker Bowles in a discreet civil ceremony in 2005.