New details are emerging regarding Princess Diana’s infamous 1995 BBC interview with Martin Bashir at Panorama. Dianarama, a book by former BBC reporter Andy Webb, describes the extent of the “mafia-style trickery” and reveals the extent of the deceptions.
The new book, available November 20, includes interviews, internal BBC reports and also testimony from those involved in the investigation.
New details surrounding Princess Diana’s interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC have been revealed
A report by RadarOnline.com talks about how it took three decades to uncover the details of the notorious TV interview. It took place on November 5, 1995 and was filmed under clandestine circumstances at Kensington Palace. The interview was watched by an estimated 200 million people all over the world.
Andy’s book further follows the 2021 investigation by Lord Dyson into how Martin gained Diana’s trust with forged documents. The BBC’s first internal investigation in 1996 looked at how Martin secured the interview. Lord Dyson discovered his tactics on securing the interview were “woefully ineffective.”
The author describes “a story more lurid, more fantastical, than anything that happened at the Tudor court of Henry VIII.” In it, he reveals Martin’s interaction with Diana’s brother Earl Spencer where he provided forged bank statements. Martin also made disturbing claims to him regarding surveillance. Earl said to Andy, “He was trying to make me paranoid.”
Martin allegedly coerced Diana by lying, saying Prince Edward had AIDS and Prince Charles slept with their nanny, who became pregnant and aborted the baby. Consequently, the princess quickly agreed to the interview with Martin. Additionally, it was recorded under unusual secrecy at Kensington Palace on November 5, 1995.
Dianarama also includes the Mishcon Note, written by Diana’s lawyer Lord Mishcon and witnessed by her private secretary Patrick Jephson. In Mischcon’s meeting notes from October 30, 1995, Diana said she heard efforts would be made to “get rid of her” in a car crash by April 1996. She was killed in a Paris car accident on August 31, 1997.
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