One would have to be living under a rock to miss what has been going on with regards to how Martin Bashir was able to convince Diana Spencer, aka Princess Diana, to do a Panorama interview back in 1995. Did he dupe the Princess, showing her false documents to convince her to do the interview? You know what, I really don’t care. And why is that?

  1. The interview was in 1995 – rather infamous really, in which with heavily kohled eyes, stared into the camera like Bambi and declared that there were 3 people in her marriage. The interview was 26 fucking years ago.
  2. If there were issues with regards to how he convinced her to do the interview, why was this not looked into 25yrs ago? Actually there was a pseudo-investigation and Mr Bashir was found innocent by an internal BBC review. IF .. and I mean IF the interested parties thought the investigation wasn’t good enough – again, why the f&ck didn’t they do anything 25yrs ago.
  3. To be honest there are greater things the police should be investigating. Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, has contacted The Met asking for them to investigate. The police could spend resources looking into something that happened over 25yrs ago, which wasn’t actually criminal, or focus on issues such as domestic violence, murder, rape, child endangerment .. you know, real crimes?
  4. In many criminal cases there is a statute of limitation – why does a television interview in which a not very bright woman desperate to portray herself as wholly innocent (both she & Charles used the media in their War of the Wales .. she wasn’t completely the innocent) is not subject to the same requirements as a criminal case?
  5. Now Prince William (and probably Harry as well) are suggesting the Martin Bashir interview contributed towards their mother’s death. I’m sorry, but now .. she was hounded by the media, but this was mostly due to her courting the media in the first place and then she lost control of the media situation.
  6. I firmly believe that the Tory Government is desperate to latch onto anything to get the public notice turned away from their cronyism, ineptitude with the covid pandemic and the upcoming chat that Dominic Cummings is to have later this week with a couple parliamentary committees. And let’s face it, the Tories would love to find any excuse to completely neuter the BBC.

This is a 25yr old issue. It does not merit this much scrutiny & attention. Martin Bashir may well have been shady in forging documents to convince Diana to do the interview. But nothing was illegal. He didn’t blackmail her into the interview, he didn’t threaten her children, he didn’t threaten any physical harm. What did happen is a deeply unhappy woman was tricked, but she still got her story out to the greater public.