This is a very interesting article and it shows where some of the rumours came from (eg one of the royals (Andy or Ed) having HIV) and why Diana said the things she said and did (falling out with people etc), everyone likes to claim she was "mad", but between the leaks coming straight from the palace (Charles (&Cam, who was a source to journos from The Sun and had weekly phone calls lasting ages)) and the blatant lies she was told by Bashir and his ilk, I think everyone in her position would've thought the same and been desperate and scared and acted the same or similar.
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Then, during a September 1995 meeting with Diana and Lord Spencer, Bashir peddled an astonishing catalogue of jaw-dropping smears about the royals ā
designed to play to the princess's paranoias ā including that her husband Charles was 'in love' with her children's nanny, Miss Legge-Bourke. The BBC reporter allegedly told her that her bodyguard was plotting against her, her friends were betraying her and MI6 had recorded Charles and his private secretary planning the 'end game'.
He
said Charles and Miss Legge-Bourke went on a secret holiday together. He lied that Prince Edward was having treatment for Aids at the Royal Marsden Hospital, that the Queen was a 'comfort eater' with 'heart problems', and that both Charles and Diana's private secretaries were taking bungs from the security services."
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Now Lord Dyson has been
told a 'receipt' of the supposed abortion [Tiggy] that never happened had convinced Diana she needed to go ahead with the Panorama interview. The 'frightened' princess allegedly felt she must speak out publicly, despite her fears about doing so.
Having just
been told the Queen would renounce the throne and Charles wanted Miss Legge-Bourke to take Diana's place, the urgency to speak to Panorama was said to be acute. The Mail previously revealed how Earl Spencer regarded Bashir as a 'fantasist' at the extraordinary meeting with him and Diana on September 19, 1995, but did not realise his sister had kept in touch afterwards ā leading to the explosive interview."
Crazy, and this from BBC journos who have exclusive access to the Windsors and collaborate with them.
She wanted to bail out of the interview and week before recording, but Bashir just presented more lies (incl that her life was in danger) and she later regretted doing it.
Princess Diana was allegedly tricked into granting her Panorama interview after Martin Bashir showed her a faked abortion 'receipt' for royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
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