BBC ánd Prince Willuam

No need to be so abrasive, perhaps have a nice cup of tea and chill out.

And no need to be quite so patronising either. I guess we can both improve, eh?

Well there we go , peace has been restored

“ she loved her children and gave them a happy time but she spoilt them, encouraged them to be naughty”. How do you know this ?

MaizieD

I'm sorry, but I don't get this. It happened 25 years ago. The BBC is now being screamed at by the papers that hounded Diana and have no scruples at all about using dirty tricks to get the dirt on public figures. They're all complicit.

Agreed. All the sanctimonious reporting by the very press who would pay paparazzi for invasive photographs is sickening. Even more so is the criticism by Diana's brother who refused her sanctuary in her own home when she needed it. The victim is the same but the perpetrators are many. To suggest that this interview, however it was arranged, was the cause of her death two years later is monstrous, Diana was already on a disaster course, the marriage was well and truly over. I am saddened for her sons to have this all dragged up again, but don't think that the BBC are the only guilty party here.

The cause of her death was a car crash , the driver v the papps,
because Dodi Fayed And Diana chose to leave a private apartment in the Ritz hotel at night in full knowledge that the
cameras were waiting and against the advice of their security,
what was so urgent that caused them to leave the safety of the
Ritz to go to his apartment

Why is the fact that the driver was well over the drink-drive limit and Diana and Dodi were not wearing seatbelts ignored?

I am not saying the papps did not play a part, but would seatbelts have saved their lives.

I watched with admiration the statement that Prince William gave about the BBC and the Bashir interview. I do like William
a lot however I have thought lately that he has been hard faced
and unemotional about his mother the late Diana and he has said very little about her. "Wills" was her name for him and no one can say she did not love her two boys because she did. William has now gone up in my estimation of him again,
and although Harry was the one always keeping on about Diana suddenly there were her two boys both pointing the finger in the same direction to the BBC and telling all that the interview made things worse for them.
I think Harry done another statement also where he said his mother was hounded and died because she had a boyfriend that was not white. I personally think that took things a bit far and maybe he should have left Dodi out of things.
There probably is some truth in his words although I think Diana had become a huge embarrassment to the Royal family and the fact that Dodi was Egyptian did not help matters. A lot of things are out there now for the public and most of the debate will obviously continue.

Probably.

To me Diana's life was in a downward spiral she was hounded mercilessly by papps and could do nothing without one of them trying for photos. There was an awful build up going on
and it held onto the darkest of dreading that something terrible was going to happen to her. Too many unscrupulous
people just wanted to use her and finally at the end the papps had their day hunting her down like an animal something that nobody would wish on anyone.

And now we have the unscrupulous Harry wanting to use her too.

Why is the fact that the driver was well over the drink-drive limit and Diana and Dodi were not wearing seatbelts ignored?

The wearing of a seatbelt saved the life of the only other passenger in the car at the time.

I agree that William was right to speak out; and also that he is reiterating what Harry has been saying for a long time. One of them has chosen to try and find a way of working with the media to protect his family; the other has chosen to simply walk away. Both are valid choices, made for similar reasons. I criticise neither.

I find it shocking that Bashir basically invented a conspiracy against Diana in order to get her on board with an interview for his own aggrandisement. That is deeply unacceptable and has had an impact not only on Diana herself but her family, especially those vulnerable boys. That the BBC were aware there was something amiss and covered it up is a matter for grave concern.

But I fear that Boris will use this in his anti-BBC campaign and that we may lose a lot here.

Harry didn’t say his mother was ‘hounded to her death because she had a boyfriend who wasn’t white’.
He reflects on the casual racism his wife has experienced. He will remember, as we do, the press frenzy that Dodi had Egyptian Muslim heritage.
Algeria’s1 - thanks for posting, Lucca, MaizieD and trisher also spring to mind as taking a broader, more compassionate view of the mental health difficulties Harry has acknowledged. His description of the impact of being with his mum when her car was being followed by paparazzi, by the sounds and feelings associated by the walk behind his mother’s coffin. I’m not a psychologist but - ptsd would be something I’d consider

3nanny6 why was there some truth about Dodi Fayed not being white ? There was no problem when she had a relationship with Hasnet Khan which went on for nearly two
years, she went publicly to Pakistan to meet his family.

Anniebach

The cause of her death was a car crash , the driver v the papps,
because Dodi Fayed And Diana chose to leave a private apartment in the Ritz hotel at night in full knowledge that the
cameras were waiting and against the advice of their security,
what was so urgent that caused them to leave the safety of the
Ritz to go to his apartment

On and on.

Maybe it is time to ditch the license fee for the BBC. An anachronism is ever there was one.

Lucca why the sarcasm for my post which was not an opinion
but a fact of the events which caused her death ?

nanna8

Maybe it is time to ditch the license fee for the BBC. An anachronism is ever there was one.

That will be the BBC that in lockdown provided educational programmes for all, even those who couldn't afford wifi or had no internet access would it?

Agree oldwoman once again turning into a William & Harry fest.
The problems lie with the BBC in so many ways.

Can I add my thanks to Algerias, Lucca, Trisha, MaisieD and Luckygirl, for their contributions.

I also fear that this will be used to try and get rid of the BBC, and I see this has already started on here.

Yes be very careful what you wish for. The BBC drives me to distraction at times but it would be a great loss.

I felt sorry for William and Harry when she did the interview. My sons are similar ages and I felt it was horrible for them to hear what she said and to think of what other boys would have said to them.

The thing that strikes me about the deception is the question of her security. She refused to have Scotland Yard security at one point, was that because of what Bashir convinced her of regarding the conspiracy against her? If so I think that must have contributed to her death, I'm sure a Scotland Yard security officer would not have accepted a drunk driver.

It is also sad to think of the people she must have turned against because she thought they were part of the conspiracy. It is very sad.

If people have respect for her and her memory maybe stop and think that she wouldn't want either of her sons to be demonised about this.

How different things might have been IF ONLY Diana and Dodi had decided to spend that night in the Ritz Hotel in Paris instead of getting into that car.

( I make no apologies for using capital letters.)

Smileless2012 : my post was referring to people who did use Diana and the Bashir interview which made things worse for Diana. The head of the BBC 25 years ago has retired and now
Bashir has resigned apparently due to long Covid how convenient for him although I expect he will still have some explaining to do. Harry is completely doing his own thing and makes a lot of talk about Diana on the other hand he has said pretty much about most of the Royals I am just happier
that William hit back at the BBC and stuck up for his mother and rightly so.

Anniebach ; I remember the papps still hounding Diana even when she was seeing Hasnet Khan also there was trouble even then and Paul Burrell often drove her to meet Khan after he finished work at the hospital( (if I remember correctly he was a doctor). There was some speculation about letters Diana wrote to him and then suddenly she finished the relationship
Diana later met Dodi and their relationship began and many photographs appeared of Diana, Dodi and the boys
on Dodi's yacht which is when the press began to have a field day. This is when Diana started to become an embarrassment and the Royal family snubbed her even more. Prince Charles said himself in an interview "the woman is an embarrassment " referring to Diana.