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The BBC covered up the “deceitful behaviour” journalist Martin Bashir used to secure his Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, and “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency,” an official inquiry has concluded. The journalist was in “serious breach” of the BBC’s producer guidelines when he faked bank statements and showed them to Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, to gain access to the princess, the report said. Bashir commissioned documents purporting to show payments into the bank account of Alan Waller, a former employee of Earl Spencer, Commander P...

Diana, Princess of Wales, was “cast adrift” from the safety of her “royal support structure” and made “vulnerable” after the Panorama interview, it has been claimed. An inquiry by former master of the rolls Lord Dyson has found that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used false documents to induce Earl Spencer to introduce him to his sister Diana and set up the Panorama exclusive – An Interview With HRH The Princess of Wales – on November 20 1995. Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed died after their Mercedes, which had a drunk driver at the wheel, crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel a...

Earl Spencer: I was groomed and duped by Martin Bashir for Panorama interview Earl Spencer (Yui Mok/PA) Earl Spencer has said he was “duped” and “groomed” by Martin Bashir in a bid to land an interview with his sister Diana, Princess Of Wales. In a written statement to Lord Dyson’s inquiry into the circumstances surrounding her explosive Panorama interview in 1995, the earl said he did not have proof he had been deceived until last year. He said: “I had come to accept that Bashir had shown me fake bank accounts to groom me, so that he could then get to Diana for the interview he w...

Diana’s sons say corporation bosses failed the Princess of Wales by covering up Martin Bashir’s ‘deceit’ after interview

Diana, Princess of Wales, was “cast adrift” from the safety of her “royal support structure” and made “vulnerable” after the Panorama interview, it has been claimed. An inquiry by former master of the rolls Lord Dyson has found that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used false documents to induce Earl Spencer to introduce him to his sister Diana and set up the Panorama exclusive – An Interview With HRH The Princess of Wales – on November 20 1995. Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed died after their Mercedes, which had a drunk driver at the wheel, crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel a...