As part of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ’s new Netflix documentary, the Harry & Meghan series has used the controversial Panorama interview with Princess Diana, despite Prince William saying that the clip should “never be aired again”.
As 38 year old Harry opens up about his experience with the press, the documentary cuts to Martin Bashir interviewing his beloved mother during an episode of BBC’s Panorama in 1995.
Speaking to the camera, Harry says: “I think she had a lived experience of how she was living that life. She felt compelled to talk about it.
“Especially in that Panorama interview – I think we all now know that she was deceived into giving the interview but at the same time she spoke the truth of her experience.”
The footage comes after Prince William spoke out in May 2021 in response to a report issued by Lord Dyson which found that Bashir was in a "serious breach" of BBC guidelines and acted inappropriately by producing fake bank statements to obtain the interview.
In the video, Prince William read out a statement where he revealed the “indescribable sadness” that he felt regarding Diana’s tell all Panorama interview.
In the full statement, Prince William said:
“I would like to thank Lord Dyson and his team for the report. It is welcome that the BBC accepts Lord Dyson’s findings in full – which are extremely concerning – that BBC employees:
lied and used fake documents to obtain the interview with my mother;
made lurid and false claims about the Royal Family which played on her fears and fuelled paranoia;
displayed woeful incompetence when investigating complaints and concerns about the programme; and
were evasive in their reporting to the media and covered up what they knew from their internal investigation.”
He continued: “It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said. The interview was a major contribution to making my parents’ relationship worse and has since hurt countless others.
“It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.
“But what saddens me most, is that if the BBC had properly investigated the complaints and concerns first raised in 1995, my mother would have known that she had been deceived. She was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions.
“It is my firm view that this Panorama programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again. It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others.”
Prince William went on: “This settled narrative now needs to be addressed by the BBC and anyone else who has written or intends to write about these events.
“In an era of fake news, public service broadcasting and a free press have never been more important. These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down; they let the public down too.”
Following the report by Lord Dyson, Bashir issued a statement and a "full and unconditional" apology was issued by BBC Director General Tim Davie.
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