The BBC journalist who got the bomb interview with Princess Diana that led to her divorce blamed the royal same for the “stains” she was accused of spreading against the royal family to ensure the chat.
Martin Bashir, who is currently the BBC’s religious affairs reporter, is undergoing an internal investigation into allegedly lying to Princess Diana to secure the 1995 interview in which he famously revealed that there were “three people” in the her marriage to Prince Charles.
The probe was launched in November after the appearance of a series of notes taken by Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, days before the September 1995 interview. Spencer said he noticed a series of al Allegations against the royal family in a meeting with Bashir and his sister. Among the “smears” were that the queen was ill and about to abdicate, that Prince Charles was in love with her children’s nanny, and that Prince William was wearing a Swatch watch containing a protective device.
But in leaked documents seen by the Telegraph, Bashir says the “smears” made at the meeting were mistakenly attributed to him and were more consistent with the statements of the same princess he confessed in a later meeting with the journalist who regularly consulted mystics. .
Spencer alleged last year that Bashir used counterfeit bank statements that were mistakenly trying to prove that two members of the royal house were being paid by security services to spy on Princess Diana.
The investigation, led by a former judge, is expected to end next month.