The BBC reporter who launched the bomb interview with Princess Diana, which led to her divorce, blamed the royal for the “smears” he was accused of spreading against the royal family to secure the chat.
Martin Bashir, who is currently the BBC’s religious affairs reporter, is under internal investigation for Princess Diana’s alleged lie to secure the 1995 interview in which he famously revealed that there were “three people” in her marriage to Prince Charles. .
The probe was launched in November after a series of notes taken by Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, a few days before the September 1995 interview. Spencer said he noted a number of charges against the royal family at a meeting with Bashir and his sister. Among the “smears” were that the Queen was ill and on the verge of abdication, that Prince Charles was in love with his children’s nanny, and that Prince William was wearing a Swatch watch that contained a bug fixer.
But in leaked documents seen by the Telegraph, Bashir says the “smears” made at the meeting were wrongly attributed to him and were more consistent with remarks made by the princess herself, who confessed at a later meeting with the reporter, which she consult it periodically. mystics.
Spencer claimed last year that Bashir used counterfeit bank statements that wrongly sought to show that two members of the royal household were being paid by the security services to spy on Princess Diana.
The poll, led by a former judge, is expected to be completed next month.