The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC has apologized to Prince Charles for what it agrees was the unethical conduct of its former reporter, Martin Bashir in securing the 1995 explosive interview with the now late Princess Diana.
This follows the report of an independent inquiry led by a retired Supreme Court justice, John Dyson”, which found Bashir guilty of deceit and breaching the BBC’s editorial.
In the famous interview, Diana who was at that time separated from the heir to the British throne uttered, “there were three of us in the marriage”. A reference to Camilla Parker-Bowles, Prince Charles’s long-term mistress, whom he eventually married eight years after she got killed in a car crash in Paris.
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Bashir was found by the Inquiry to have used falsified bank statements to hoodwink Diana into believing that palace staff were being paid to spy on her, and thereby gained her trust into agreeing to do the interview.
A few years after Diana’s death, Bashir was cleared of any ethical wrong-doing by an in-house probe, after allegations came to the fore that dishonest means had been used to get her to speak out about her failing marriage.
Source: BBC
