Prince William is accused of silencing Princess Diana by stopping the BBC re-broadcasting her Panorama interview with Martin Bashir to protect the Firm by Omid Scobie in his new book
The Prince of Wales has been accused by Omid Scobie of wanting to silence his late mother in stopping the BBC re-broadcasting her Panorama interview with Martin Bashir.
In his latest book, the royal biographer claimed William was more interested in protecting the institution than allowing Princess Diana‘s ‘candid and truthful words’ to remain public.
Mr Scobie wrote the Duke of Sussex was more concerned about protecting ‘his mother’s legacy and her words’.
In his fly-on-the-wall Netflix series last year, Prince Harry said: ‘She was deceived into giving the interview, but at the same time, she spoke the truth of her experience.’
Bashir secured a bombshell interview with Diana in 1995 by using duplicitous methods such as forged documents to manipulate her family, The Mail on Sunday revealed in 1996.
The Prince of Wales has been accused by Omid Scobie of wanting to silence his late mother in stopping the BBC re-broadcasting her Panorama interview with Martin Bashir
The royal biographer claimed William was more interested in protecting the institution than allowing Princess Diana ‘s ‘candid and truthful words’ to remain public
Mr Scobie wrote the Duke of Sussex was more concerned about protecting ‘his mother’s legacy and her words’
The late Princess of Wales opened up about her divorce from the future King and said ‘there were three of us in the marriage’ – a reference to his relationship with Camilla.
It was not until the Daily Mail published fresh revelations about Bashir’s conduct in 2020 that he faced repercussions from the BBC.
An internal inquiry concluded the BBC fell short of ‘high standards of integrity and transparency’, leading William to make an excoriating statement about the broadcaster outside Kensington Palace in May 2021.
William saw the inquiry as a ‘golden opportunity’ to stop his late mother’s words inflicting ongoing reputational damage to the Palace, Mr Scobie claims in his book, Endgame.
He contacted BBC executives to secure assurances that the Panorama programme would never be broadcast again, to which they agreed, the new book has claimed.
‘With the help of Diana’s older son, they finally had the chance to remove her voice from the record,’ Mr Scobie wrote in the book, Endgame.
