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The 32 jaw-dropping smears peddled by Martin Bashir to clinch his sensational Princess Diana scoop can be revealed today. His preposterous lies included lurid claims about the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Edward and senior royal courtiers. The Panorama journalist allegedly spun an outlandish web of deceit to win Diana’s trust – and secure the bombshell interview. … Read more
BBC can’t face the ‘ugly truth’: Beeb boss shut me out of probe into dirty tricks used to land Diana interview, says Earl Spencer Earl Spencer accused BBC of dodging ‘ugly truth’ about interview with his sister Claimed Lord Hall excluded him from inquiry into alleged underhand methods The BBC performed a U-turn on Tuesday … Read more
The BBC has revealed it will investigate Earl Spencer’s claim journalist Martin Bashir used ‘false bank statements’ to convince his sister Princess Diana to do a Panorama interview – but it may take a while because Bashir is currently unwell with Covid. Princess Diana sent shockwaves through the monarchy when she told the BBC ‘well … Read more
Even now, the words Earl Spencer uttered at the funeral of his sister Princess Diana have lost none of their power. The address is remembered both for its oratory and his solemn pledge of her ‘blood family’ to protect ‘her beloved boys William and Harry’. Unspoken but implicit in his eulogy was that in protecting … Read more
Princess Diana’s brother has accused the BBC of a ‘whitewash’ over faked bank statements said to have helped land a historic interview with her. In a devastating letter, Charles Spencer expressed his outrage at the institution’s ‘sheer dishonesty’ and accused Martin Bashir, who secured the sensational interview for Panorama in 1995, of ‘yellow journalism’. Earl … Read more
The daughter of the Earl of Balfour has called for the practice of male primogeniture to be outlawed, calling it ‘unfair’ and ‘unjust’. Lady Kinvara Balfour, 45, argued the rules, which mean land and hereditary titles are only passed down to men, violate a woman’s ‘right to fair treatment’ and mean daughters are ‘disregarded entirely’. … Read more
‘How is he?’ ‘Dead!’ Lady Pamela Hicks, 91, reveals the VERY awkward phone call her father, Lord Mountbatten, made to the Queen after a maharaja he’d just had lunch with ‘died at his feet’ Lady Pamela Hicks, Queen Victoria’s great-great-granddaughter, is sharing stories of her life and regal encounters on her daughter India’s Instagram The … Read more
In the first part of our serialisation of his new book on Saturday, Robert Lacey – a distinguished royal historian and adviser to TV’s The Crown – told how Harry and Meghan’s behaviour left the Royal Family ‘hopping’ mad. Today, he reveals how William feared Harry was rushing into marriage and that the Queen suggested … Read more
BBC journalist Martin Bashir misled Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer to secure her 1995 bombshell Panorama interview, sources claim. Nearly 23 million tuned in to witness the Princess of Wales tell Bashir, ‘There were three people in the marriage,’ a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles. But Bashir engineered the scoop of the century by showing … Read more
She married rock aristocracy in Bob Geldof, but Paula Yates could have become a genuine countess — and the sister-in-law of Princess Diana, to boot. A close friend of Yates tells me that Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, long before inheriting the title, became infatuated with the television presenter and even asked her to marry him . … Read more