That Princess Diana interview!...The BBC apologizes.

 

Maureen Mennor Nwaezeigwe

The BBC has made a "full and unconditional apology" for the conduct of Martin Bashir, a staff of the media outfit who has been accused of using fraudulent means to get that interview 26 years ago. The said reporter is said to have been disgraced out of office.

The apology came after revelations by Lord Dyson which was commissioned six months ago to conduct an enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the bombshell tell-all. It was alleged that Bashir breached the BBC's editorial guidelines by creating two false bank statements that he showed to Princess Diana's brother, who later secured the interview with Diana for Panorama( name of the talks how).

Diana's sons, William and Harry who were 15 and 12 respectively in 1997 when their mother died in a car crash while trying to escape the press, have issued separate statements.  Her oldest son William revealed his indescribable sadness at the corporation's failings  in airing the 1995 programme which plagued her fear, paranioa and isolation, he adds that he has no doubt that the disgraced reporter's web of deceit substantially influenced what Princess Diana said during the interview and it was a major contribution to making his parents relationship worse. The Duke of Cambridge and future king has asked that the BBC's flagship investigative programme is never aired again.

Harry on his part, says that the enquiry report was the first step towards justice and truth but that the deceptive practices exposed were still widespread today-and had played a part in his mother's death. Harry's comments echoed those of Diana's brother Charles Spencer, who earlier blamed the fallout from the interview for contributing to her death nearly two years after the interview at age 36.

In that interview watched by 22.8 Million people and won a string of television awards, she famously said "there were three people" in her marriage-her, Charles and now wife Camila Parker-Bowels, detailing her troubled marriage to Prince Charles who formally divorced her one year after the infamous interview.. She also admitted adultery

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