Earl Charles Spencer isn’t mincing his words.
Four years after an internal investigation found journalist Martin Bashir used deceitful tactics to secure his 1995 infamous sit-down with Princess Diana, her younger brother is connecting the interview and her tragic death.
“There are high-ranking people in the BBC who participated in securing this interview, through appalling deception,” Spencer told People in an interview published Nov. 24. “I am sure that this led directly to Diana being left vulnerable in Paris on the night she died.”
Before that 1997 fatal car crash, Bashir had shown Spencer forged bank statements, suggesting Diana’s inner circle—including her private secretary Patrick Jephson—were being paid to spy on her.
“She was in a state of justified anxiety,” Jephson recalled to People. “It is not paranoia if you have reasonable grounds to believe that they are out to get you.”
Plus, as Bashir claimed, Diana’s husband King Charles III was having an affair with Prince William and Prince Harry‘s nanny. He even provided forged documents that the caretaker had an abortion. All of which led to him convincing Diana to sit down for an interview.
