Prince William says controversial BBC interview contributed to mother’s ‘fear, paranoia, and isolation’

Published May 21, 2021 12:43am ET



The United Kingdom’s Prince William said on Wednesday that a controversial 1995 BBC interview with his mother, Princess Diana, contributed to the “fear, paranoia, and isolation” she felt at the end of her life.

The royal’s statement was delivered in reaction to the release of an independent report from retired judge Lord Dyson, which concluded that Martin Bashir, the interviewer, “acted inappropriately” in the way he obtained the interview in which Diana infamously said there were “three of us” in her marriage, referring to Prince Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.

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