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Last week, aExplosive report an independent investigation revealed howprincess diana was deceived by a former BBC journalistMartin Bashir in order to get theinfamous 1995Panorama maintenance, which has been observed by more than 20 million people and has changed the course of life of Diana forever. The investigation - which was conducted byLord Dyson, a former British judge and Barrister - also also discovered the Pierre Pierre techniques of the BBC who sparked their own internal investigation. Dyson discovered that Bahir's legitimacy of "opposite ethics" tactics started in 1996, only a few months after the aeration of the program, but the BBC publishers were informed not to do Tracking stories. While the new report leads to the level of deception of a ruthless journalist and the BBC once venetrated, he also paints a very personal and tragic image of Diana's fragility in recent years of his life.

ThePanorama Maintenance-during which Diana said Diana said: "There were three of us in this marriage" and confessed his own infidelity - helped create a false story that has endured for more than 25 years. It has been believed for a long time that it was the only idea of ​​Diana to speak on the BBC program, when he was in truth, it was a series of lies and false statements orchestrated by Bashir who played in the growing paranoia of The princess that the insiders of the palace spied on her who was convinced her to do so.

Once the results of the Dyson's investigation were published on May 20, Bashir, who had resigned from his BBC religion publisher position below a previous week, apologized and admitted to use. forged bank returns. He called it "an action I'm deeply regretting" but defeatedly affirmed that they had "no bearing on the personal choice ofPrincess Diana participate in the interview. "

There were only two people who knew that Diana was considering doing such a thing with Bashir, that many people closest to the princess believe in a chain of events that culminates in his death - but only one tried to stop it. Read it to know who tried to intervene and prevent what would be one of the most disastrous decisions, Diana ever made.

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Diana had many friends and confident during her life, but there were two men who knew much more from her than her other friends. The first was Diana's brother,Charles, Earl Spencer(right), who was the one who initiated her first in Bashir during the summer of 1995 after being initially approached by the journalist. The declarations of the Branding Bank, he had another BBC staff member, Bashir told Diana's Brother that were "proven" that one of his employees,Alan Wallerhad been paid by unnamed media for spying the princess. During a second meeting, Bashir showed Spencer more falsified bank returns, whom he claimed showed that Diana's private secretaries andPrince Charles had also accepted bribes. Curious and concerned, Spencer presented his sister in Bashir.

In his 2001 bookA royal duty, The former butler of Diana,Paul Burrell(left), wrote that he knew he also knew that a kind of "plane covered" was in the work with Bashir when the journalist started to appear at the Kensington Palace under a (literally) secret. . Diana has often asked the BBC Studios in London to pick up Bashir, hiding under a carpet in the rear breeze of the Kensington Palace. The BBC journalist was smuggled in front of the guards and inaugurated in the Diana show in the palace several times. Burrell wrote that he had helped friends and lovers of the princess first sneaked, but Bashir (which was neither) "seemed to take advantage of the Cape and-Dagger operation more than most of the time."

While Diana had not disclosed what was happening in reality Burrell, Bashir called occasionally looking information within the love life of the princess. Once she found out what was happening, Burrell said Diana "saw [Bashir] in a different light," but I went anyway with the interview anyway. A week before the broadcast, Diana Burrell told what was to come, but as a staff member, he said he did not think it was his place to stop "the boss" to move the forward with it.

When Dyson investigation, Spencer said it was the first false statement that "took care" to accept the claims increasingly sensational Bashir and present it to his sister.

According to the report, Spencer also said that the second set of statements was much upset him and he "contacted her sister to talk to him almost immediately." Days later, Diana and her brother met privately in London with Bashir for 90 minutes. Other testimonies during the investigation revealed, Bashir were other sensational claims at the time of the royal family, as suggesting his own son of Diana,Prince William, Knew it he wore a watch that had been planted on him to spy on his mother.

After growing increasingly suspicious, Spencer no longer felt Bashir was on top of the board. He apologized to his sister for wasting his time and advised him to have nothing else to do. He assumed that the possibility of an interview they discussed were rejected, but Diana had already planned to see the BBC journalist again. In November 1995, two months after Spencer and Diana had originally met Bashir interview aired breaker and changed Diana's life forever.

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Shortly after the release, rumors among BBC staffers began to emerge how Bashir landed the interview of the decade. After aInternal Investigation 1996 BBC throughTony Hall, Who became CEO of the BBC, found Bashir as "honest" and "honorable" in its approach, Spencer continued in his quest for the truth.

Years later, in November 20, 2020, the close friend of DianaRichard Kayreported inThe daily mailThis Spencer, a former journalist himself, had kept detailed written manuscripttranscripts of his conversations with BashirHe shared with the output. After the publication of the story, the BBC has proposed to reopen their 1996 internal investigation had cleared Bashir of any wrongdoing.

For Spencer, it was not enough. He had already received an apology for the false bank statements and stressed the false were only a small part of the deception of Bashir and the BBC. He pushed for further investigation, requested a portion of the money that the BBC made the sale of the worldwide rights to the data distribution to Diana's charities and asked Bashir and the BBC exceeding the rewards they are given as part of the interview.

Less than a year later, Spencer was proved. The same night, the report's findings have been published,The brother of Diana sat down for a new interview with BBCPanorama(The same show that maintenance of Bashir aired 26 years ago) when he revealed that he had met Bashir August 31, 1995 (exactly two years to the day before Diana's death in Paris) and said he "draws a line between" the interview and the death of his sister. During the broadcast, Spencer said he had become "quite clear" after he and Diana met for the first time Bashir he would play on its vulnerabilities, saying his sister will be located on its staff (including his private secretary longPatrick JephsonWho resigned in protest after the interview aired) and the courtiers of the palace to make them appear "untrustworthy". Diana was already feeling paranoid and isolated, Bashir struck a nerve and sadly, the princess took his word as truth.

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The heartbreaking revelations of the Dyson report led Diana's sons to comment profoundly personal on this tragic episode in his short life.Prince Harry released a statement that says in part "Our mother lost her life Because of this, and nothing has changed. By protecting his inheritance, we protect everyone and defend the dignity with which she lived her life. Let's remember who she was and what she was in it. "Prince William made aUnprecedented television declaration Where he said, in part, "what asked me most, is that if the BBC correctly examined the complaints and the concerns raised first in 1995, my mother would have known that she had been deceived. She failed not only by a journalist of thugs, but by the leaders of the BBC who watched the opposite rather than asking difficult questions. "

In addition toPanoramaInterview, Spencer took Twitter on May 20 to thankAndy Webb, the journalist who shared what he had discovered to write and lead the documentary 2020Diana: the truth behind the interview, "For his tireless professionalism in the event Bashir Panorama -BBC scandal Enlighten. If he had not pursued this story over the past decade and shared his findings with me last October, today's conclusions would not have surface. "Webb wrote a room for On Sunday where he concluded: "It just does not make sense that the BBC Pincternity , the Gray Stolide and the Television Log, withdrew the Greece Tabloid Sensation what is going. "

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Diane Clehane is a reporter based in New York and author of Imagine Diana and Diana: the secrets of his style .