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Originally Posted by arista
[ A previously missing note from Princess Diana,
thought to indicate she was happy with the way
her interview by BBC Panorama
was obtained, has been found.
The BBC said it had recovered
the "original handwritten note" that the princess
wrote following the Panorama interview
of November 1995.
The broadcaster said it would hand
over the note to a team of investigators.
The probe will look at claims made
by Diana's brother about how
BBC reporter Martin Bashir secured the interview.]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54937006 |
The forged bank statements were used to gain the trust of Diana's brother to gain access to Diana....it was the way he fed Diana's paranoia to secure the interview which is the most disturbing aspect of the case.
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If the princess was unaware of or untroubled by the forgeries, or the alleged deceit, it will help the BBC's defence: it says the original investigation was into whether the princess had been misled into giving the interview.
A note from her saying she hadn't would clearly weigh heavily. But the note does not address Earl Spencer's central allegation.
He alleges that the forged documents were part of a series of lies he was told by Bashir, lies that were meant to win his trust and thus gain access to Diana.
What we know of the rediscovered note from Diana doesn't address the serious allegations of journalistic misconduct Earl Spencer has made.
Nor does it help resolve the question of how much the BBC knew back in 1996 when it said the forgeries played no part in securing the interview.........
........Our correspondent Jonny Dymond said the notes appeared to record Bashir "spinning lie after lie about members of the Royal Family, and its staff, in an attempt, Earl Spencer says, to win his trust and that of his sister".
These claims, described by the Mail as "preposterous lies", include that Diana's private correspondence was being opened, her car tracked and phones tapped.
It was also claimed that her bodyguard was plotting against her and close friends were betraying her by leaking stories to the press.
The Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.
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