Royal Family News: Princess Diana Came To Fear ‘The Poison Dwarf’ Martin Bashir?

British royal family news shows that in 1996 BBC reporter Martin Bashir called on Princess Diana at Kensington Palace. Six weeks earlier their bombshell interview stunned the royals and rocked the nation. It was long before reality shows and the internet were disseminators of lurid gossip, and Diana used the interview to reveal the reality of her ugly personal life.

In the aftermath, the Queen demanded that she and Prince Charles divorced. She had also lost two key staff members, press secretary Geoff Crawford and her private secretary, Patrick Jephson.

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In her isolation, it was said, she turned again to Bashir. He came a confidant and a supportive figure who influenced her life as her marriage wound down.

But Bashir was not like the smooth operators at the palace, well-groomed and deferring. He was secretive and an outsider.

After the program aired on November 20, 1995, he visited the palace to pick up a Christmas card from the Princess. He parked in De Vere Gardens, a few streets away from the palace, and waited for her butler, Paul Burrell, to fetch him.

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Bashir liked to hide in the back seat or even squirm into the truck to avoid detection.

Why the subterfuge? So that he would not have to give his name or show his face to the palace police. That way there would be no record of his arrival effectively fooling everyone.

For the record, Bashir was not the only male Diana had sneak in to see her. It’s been widely reported that a clique of friends and lovers was smuggled into the palace in a similar way.

Some in the Princess’s circle said he tricked her into giving the interview. Some at the BBC questioned his reporting and investigative methods. And yet Diana herself came to his defense saying, “He was the right person coming along with the right questions.”

Royal Family News – Why Such Subterfuge?

One friend claimed that she told them she felt sorry for the young reporter and, “wanted to give him a leg up” with his career.

But later another friend claimed she was frightened he would reveal all of her secrets. She reportedly feared that Bashir would exploit their friendship and write a book. In the end, she stopped taking his calls and changed her number.

And she took to calling him, “The Poison Dwarf.”

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