Prince William has attacked the BBC for handling Bashir’s conversation with Diana

Prince William has carried out an unprecedented attack on the BBC for handling claims related to 1995 Panorama an interview with his ex-mother after the BBC apologized for the affair.

The prince on the second line of the throne said on Thursday that Martin Bashir’s dialogue with Diana, the Welsh princess, had worsened the relationship between the parents who separated in 1992 and decided to divorce in 1996, after the interview aired. .

The prince was talking after Bashir lied in 1995 after lying about getting a conversation with the princess. Later, Lord Tony Hall, who later became the director general of the broadcaster, used internal methods to cover up an “extremely ineffective” investigation.

The prince said Bashir had a “significant impact” on his false approach to the interview when his mother said in the interview. She said the marriage was “crowded” because of her relationship with her husband Charles, her husband, Camilla, now his wife.

“The interview was a major contribution to the deterioration of my parents’ relationship and has hurt many others since then, ”Prince William said in a statement, and also gave it to ITV News, the BBC’s main rival.

The report The interview was published on Thursday by former UK Supreme Court Judge Lord John Dyson and provides a rigorous account of Bashir’s use of forged documents to enter the princess, before repeatedly lying to cover up his clues.

The prince said he was “incredibly saddened” to learn that the BBC’s failures had “significantly” helped him to remember “fear, paranoia and isolation” in recent years with him.

What saddened him the most, he went on, was that if he had properly investigated the complaints and concerns first published by the BBC in 1995, he would have found out that his mother, who died in August 1997, was deceived.

“Not only was he a misguided journalist, but the BBC leaders who looked the other way instead of asking tough questions failed him,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then Panorama the program has no legitimacy and should not be rebroadcast. It effectively established a false narrative that had been commercialized by the BBC and others for more than a quarter of a century. “

[Diana] Not only a cunning journalist, but BBC leaders who looked the other way instead of asking tough questions failed

Even after a quarter of a century, official research is a blow to the popularity of the UK’s national public service announcer and some of today’s and top executives.

An interview with Diana Bashir, broadcast by the corporation’s flagship research program, became one of the greatest opportunities of the time. She summed up her note, “We were three at this wedding, so it was quite crowded,” with her husband, Prince Charles, who would later marry the woman, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Bashir, according to the investigation, falsified bank notes and showed them to Diana’s brother Charles, Earl Spencer, convincing Bashir to have access. Members of the royal household were paid to pay the princess in custody on documents.

Bashir, who resigned from the corporation last week, said the falsification of documents was “an act I feel”, but stressed that Diana had “no effect” on her decision to participate.

Dyson’s findings are highly critical of Hall and his 1996 internal investigation into Bashir’s behavior, and he concluded that Bashir was an “honest and honorable man”. Dyson said he did not question Bashir’s “serious and unexplained lies” when he stopped crossing the account with Spencer.

The room He was the director general of news and current affairs at the time of the internal probe, and headed the BBC for seven years until he resigned last year. He remains president of the National Gallery.

Dyson found that Hall “could not conclude” that he was an honest Bashir. He also rejects the BBC’s claim that there was no cover-up in his reports and in response to questions from outside journalists.

“Without justification, the BBC achieved high levels of integrity and transparency,” Dyson wrote.

Hall apologized Thursday and said “looking back” we could and should take other steps.

“I was wrong to give Martin Bashi the benefit of the doubt,” he added.

During the interview, Lord John Birt, the BBC’s director general, said it was clear that there was “a malicious journalist” Panorama who “worked out Earl Spencer and Diana’s account of the relationship with the Princess of Wales, which was accurate but utterly false.”

“It’s a shocking blot of the BBC’s ongoing commitment to honest journalism; and the subject of the greatest sorrow is the fact that it’s been 25 years since the whole truth came out,” he added.

Tim DavieAs Hall’s general manager, the successor admitted that the BBC was “far beyond the right expected by viewers”.

“The BBC would have to make a greater effort to get to the final point of what happened at the time and be more transparent about what it knew,” he said. “While the BBC can’t turn back the clock in a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology. The BBC offers that today.”