"Diana, Princess of Wales, might still be alive if she hadn't fallen prey to lies BBC reporter Martin Bashir planted to convince her to sit for an interview in 1995, a new book claims. BBC brass also knew enough back then to tell her she was being played but didn't warn her, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Andrew Webb writes in Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-Up the Betrayal of Princess Diana, due out Wednesday from Pegasus Books."
"The beloved People's Princess likely died believing that personal secretary Patrick Jephson was leaking private information to British spy agency MI5 that Prince Edward had AIDS, and that teen Prince William's watch was recording her conversations, sources close to Diana told Webb for the book. The distrust these and other lies built up in the princess's mind may well have contributed to her death, Webb alleges a death enabled by BBC higher-ups who failed to rein in the reporter when they learned"
Martin Bashir used fabricated lies to secure a 1995 interview with Princess Diana, telling her, among other things, that Prince Charles wanted her dead. BBC executives reportedly knew enough at the time to warn Diana but did not intervene, allowing deception to take hold. Sources close to Diana say she believed that her personal secretary leaked information to MI5 and that Prince William's watch was recording conversations. The accumulated distrust and paranoia left her life untethered and may have contributed to her fatal 1997 car crash. An independent 2021 inquiry exposed much misconduct, and thousands of internal BBC documents provide additional details.
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