Royal Family News: Princess Diana’s Lover Accuses The BBC Of ‘Exploitive’ Conduct Toward Her

British royal family news divulges that the most recent of the late Princess Diana’s inner circle to talk about her infamous BBC interview is former love interest Hasnat Khan. Khan is a cardiologist whose relationship with Diana began in 1995 and ended two years later. He claims that the interviewer, Martin Bashir, “exploited” a fragile and vulnerable Diana.

Royal Family News – Hasnat Khan Defends Princess Diana

“One of her most attractive qualities was her vulnerability,” told Daily Mail. “It was what endeared her to the public. I later realized that Martin picked on those vulnerabilities and exploited them. He was very persuasive with Diana. It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. But he filled her head with rubbish.” Khan’s statements about Diana have been few and far between but he maintains that after talking with Bashir, Diana believed that her then-husband Prince Charles was having an affair with her sons’ nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke. He also claims that she began to talk about bugs and, “phone-tapping.”

Later Bashir was introduced to Khan who told the royal to be “careful.”

“Almost from the word go, he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship. Why didn’t we get married? When were we going to get married? That kind of thing,” he said. “There was something about Bashir I didn’t like. I told her to be careful of him.”

Royal Family News – Should Princess Diana Have Been More Careful?

He added, “Of course I am not naïve. I knew that there was a part of Diana that wanted to give an interview but my question is if Martin Bashir had not been there persuading her, would she ever have done it?”

Princess Diana’s friend Rosa Monckton echoes these sentiments, having told the Daily Mail that she believed the BBC interview contributed to the royal’s untimely death.

According to Monckton, the BBC interview, “dishonestly achieved, probably changed the course of history,” referring in part to the subsequent divorce of Diana and Charles.

“Among those decisions was the fact that Diana lost her royal title,” Monckton said. “Had she retained it, she would have still been in the embrace of the Royal Family when in Paris on August 31, 1997. And she would almost certainly not have been in the incapable hands of a speeding drunk driver employed by Mohamed Al-Fayed, who owned the Ritz Hotel where she and his son, Dodi, had dined.”

The BBC is currently investigating the circumstances of the interview and Bashir’s conduct.

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