Hasnat Khan, A Pakistani surgeon who was a lover of Diana of Wales from 1995 until a few months before her death in 1997, decided to break her silence, recently, to report in the newspaper Daily mail that this controversial interview was the product of manipulation by the journalist Martin Bashir exercise on Lady Di.
“In my marriage there are three of us and that’s a crowd.” The phrase was dropped by the Princess Diana in a famous BBC interview in 1995, when she revealed that her husband, the Prince Charles, He was unfaithful to her Camila Parker-Bowles. How did Lady Di come to relate intimate aspects of her life? How did this famous encounter between her and the British environment take place?
“One of Diana’s most appealing qualities was her vulnerability. It was what made the audience want her. I later realized that Bashir took advantage of these vulnerabilities. He was very persuasive with Diana and he filled his head with rubbish“, Noted the 62-year-old doctor, who since 2008 has not appeared in the public sphere to talk about this issue.
The reason Khan decided to refer to this conversation between Lady Di and Bashir is due to the fact that a few days ago he had a chat with a person who knows both him and a journalist. “He told me that he knew Martin Bashir and that he was under a lot of stress. He said he was a decent man, but he was very depressed and he had to ask me the favor of talking to him,” he said.
But the surgeon could only say negative things about him. Among them, that Lady Di considered a Bashir like a “mole” inside Palau and that he sowed paranoia in the princess since she met him. “She was not a paranoid person, but with all these ideas and talks about wiretapping, Bashir was trying to get her to a place where she distrusted things and the people around her.. He was a smart man, “he said.
MEETINGS WITH BASHIR, BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTERVIEW
Bashir met the Princess Diana almost at the same time as she was initiating a secret relationship with Khan. The journalist and the surgeon got to know each other in a rural pub, in an appointment organized by the same Lady Di “Almost from the first moment he started asking me very personal and very direct questions about Diana and our relationship. I got angry. It was impertinent on the part of this man whom I didn’t know to talk to us like that, “he said.
Hence, at the time, he manifested to Diana Spencer that that journalist was producing a bad thorn in his side. “I told Diana that I didn’t like Bashir, that I didn’t trust him and that I had to cut off their relationships.“But she ignored his warnings and conducted the controversial interview. After recording it, Diana asked Khan what he thought.”I felt it had been a big mistake and told him it was terribleHe said.
After the broadcast, Diana of Wales told Khan that members of the royalty would ask her and Prince Charles to divorce. “So it was, to Lady Di’s happiness, as it was what she wanted“The doctor pointed out. And just as the divorce was carried out immediately, so was the relationship between the princess and Bashir.
“I asked him why [zanjó su amistad con el periodista] and she said that for William. I could believe it, because kids were key in everything she did, ”she said.
THE POSITION 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 separating from Charles of England. She then spoke of the infidelities they committed and questioned the abilities of her still-husband.
This series of revelations, however, was disapproved of by the eldest of his children. “William hated the ‘Panorama’ interview and told his mother that he had made a mistake that had bothered him a lot.. 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 the Prince Harry.
In November 2020, 25 years after that interview, a documentary produced by the British channel ITV revealed the plot of falsehoods and manipulations that were used to convince Diana of Wales. Precisely, Prince William spoke in this regard and stated: “It is a step in the right direction”.
In the other hand, Hasnat Khan, Whom the close circle of the princess described as “the true love of his life“He only touched his memories of Lady Di on one occasion during an interview with Sunday Telegraph, Twelve years ago, where he stated that he had nightmares with the death of his ex-partner, which occurred on August 31, 1997.
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Twenty years later, the princess’s brother, the count Charles Spencer, accused its author, journalist Martin Bashir, of falsifying documents to obtain itSpecifically, bank statements – which turned out to be fake – to prove that security services paid two people to spy on his sister.
“If I hadn’t seen these statements, I would never have introduced Bashir to my sisterSpencer said in a letter to the BBC, denouncing “dishonest” methods.
The investigation will examine Bashir’s conduct, which he exclusively propelled internationally, and will examine the “alleged bank records.”
He will also study closely what the BBC knew and whether the institution protected its journalist knowing.
Days ago Prince William, Eldest son of Lady Di and Carles, welcome the start 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.