Panorama was a televised version of Diana: Her True Story. “And they were all in my book, which had appeared three years previously. However Morton believes that attempts by Prince William to discredit the interview-he said it has “no legitimacy” and “established a false narrative” in a video address (below) after the Dyson report was published-were completely wrong. Diana shrugged it off, as she had not had any such conversations, but the anecdote amply illustrates the climate of fear and suspicion that pervaded the palace in the 1990s, and goes some way to explain why Bashir was so easily able to convince Diana she was being spied on. Morton writes in Diana: In Pursuit of Love that Prince Philip explicitly threatened Diana that there was a tape of her discussing newspaper serializations for Her True Story. “It’s understandable to conclude, when you have three intimate conversations by members of the royal family appearing on tape, that it is more than a coincidence, that it is a conspiracy.” As well as the Charles and Camilla ‘tampon’ tape, there was ‘Squidgygate’ and a tape of Andrew and Sarah talking about their private lives. The queen was baffled and concerned by the tapes that kept appearing. But Diana wasn’t the only one who was suspicious. We regularly swept Diana’s rooms at Kensington Palace for bugs. Morton said: “Martin did contribute to her sense of paranoia, and her sense of being watched and so on. Morton has done much to shine a light on Bashir’s malfeasance his 2003 book, Diana: In Pursuit of Love, devoted two full chapters to Bashir’s machinations. Last weekend, Earl Spencer said he had felt “groomed” by Bashir, and called for a new police investigation.
Bashir falsely told Diana that Pettifer had got pregnant by Prince Charles and had had an abortion.īashir’s methods, an inquiry last year headed by retired British judge Lord Dyson found, were calculated to feed Diana’s paranoia, and included showing her and her brother forged bank statements to convince them they were being spied on by the British security services and betrayed by their staff. The BBC also agreed to pay damages to several individuals, including William and Harry’s childhood nanny Alexandra Pettifer, then known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke. Asked how he responded to William’s call for the interview to never be screened again, a request to which the BBC has now acceded, Morton said: “It is a supreme irony that it is her son who has led the calls to posthumously muzzle Diana, to silence her, to prevent her from being heard, from saying what she spent her life trying to articulate.”
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