The BBC reporter who launched the bombing interview with Princess Diana that led to her divorce blamed the royal for the ‘smears’ he is accused of spreading against the royal family to secure the chat.
Martin Bashir, currently a BBC correspondent for religious affairs, is under internal investigation for allegedly lying to Princess Diana to secure the 1995 interview in which she revealed that there were ‘three people’ in her marriage to Prince Charles was.
The investigation was launched in November following the emergence of a series of notes taken by Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, days before the September 1995 interview. Spencer said he made a series of allegations against the royal family during 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 the babysitter of his children, and that Prince William was wearing a Swatch watch with a faulty device.
But in leaked documents seen by the Telegraph, Bashir says that the ‘smears’ made during the meeting were incorrectly attributed to him, and that this is more in line with the remarks of the princess herself who during a later meeting with the reporter admitted that she consulted regularly. mystics.
Spencer alleged last year that Bashir used counterfeit bank statements that erroneously sought to show that two members of the royal household were being paid by security services to spy on Princess Diana.
The investigation, led by a former judge, is expected to be completed next month.