[News] The Diana interview scandal...

The Clamp · Nov 19, 2020

Whatever one’s take on the Royals, do we really need to rake over this muck from twenty plus years ago. It’s of zero consequence and frankly, the country has far more pressing matters to attend to.
Thoughts?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54996143

Westdene Seagull · Nov 19, 2020

The Clamp said:
Whatever one’s take on the Royals, do we really need to rake over this muck from twenty plus years ago. It’s of zero consequence and frankly, the country has far more pressing matters to attend to.
Thoughts?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54996143

I'm not overly bothered but I suspect that if Diana had been a member of my family I would be.

METALMICKY · Nov 19, 2020

My thoughts entirely. We all have more critical things to worry about.

Whatever the truth of the matter we all know that Diana was a great manipulator of the press so if the tables were ever turned so what? Live by the sword and die by it. Her death was undoubtedly tragic but trying to portray her as some saint like victim is wrong.

The Clamp · Nov 19, 2020

METALMICKY said:
My thoughts entirely. We all have more critical things to worry about.

Whatever the truth of the matter we all know that Diana was a great manipulator of the press so if the tables were ever turned so what? Live by the sword and die by it. Her death was undoubtedly tragic but trying to portray her as some saint like victim is wrong.

Quite. If she hadn’t been so keen to court publicity she may have thought to carry out due diligence. She’s no victim here.

Motogull · Nov 19, 2020

The obsession some have for this woman is pathetic.

I of course have sympathy for her and her family but stone me, let it go.

m@goo · Nov 19, 2020

It's just another bit of escapism for some I suppose. All conspiracy theories are.

vegster · Nov 19, 2020

The Clamp said:
Whatever one’s take on the Royals, do we really need to rake over this muck from twenty plus years ago. It’s of zero consequence and frankly, the country has far more pressing matters to attend to.
Thoughts?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54996143

Waste of time, effort and money, the only ones interested are Daily Express readers

Tom Bombadil · Nov 19, 2020

Ive not been paying close enough attention by why has this come up now?

The Clamp · Nov 19, 2020

Voroshilov said:
Ive not been paying close enough attention by why has this come up now?[/QUOTE

Because Harry has realised life out of the limelight isn’t what he thought it’d be?

Stat Brother · Nov 19, 2020

Oooooh someone doesn't read the Daily Express. :lol:

NooBHA · Nov 19, 2020

METALMICKY said:
My thoughts entirely. We all have more critical things to worry about.

Whatever the truth of the matter we all know that Diana was a great manipulator of the press so if the tables were ever turned so what? Live by the sword and die by it. Her death was undoubtedly tragic but trying to portray her as some saint like victim is wrong.

I am no lover of the Royal Family but of course she was a Victim.

She was Utilised because the Establishment back then were insistent that the Mother of any future King had to be a Virgin because they didn't want past Lovers further down the line coming out of the woodwork saying ''I've shaggged the Queen'' . And she fitted the Bill perfectly at that time. If I was her as soon as Prince Charles said he wasn't in love with her the night before their wedding- I would have shut my legs and said ''Candy Store is closed honey''.

As for opening it all up now. Waste of time. She got her own back by doing the interview but it serves no purpose except to get Corona Virus off the Front Page of Newspapers

highflyer · Nov 19, 2020

Voroshilov said:
Ive not been paying close enough attention by why has this come up now?

It's a chance to use the slavish devotion of a certain proportion of the UK public to the memory of Saint Diana to help advance the anti-BBC agenda of some of the wealthiest media owners.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 19, 2020

Voroshilov said:
Ive not been paying close enough attention by why has this come up now?

It is alleged that Martin Bashir enticed Diana into gobbing off by showing her some sort of document that he'd fabricated.

marlowe · Nov 19, 2020

It's not just Diana and nor are they recent allegations. Terry Venables was accusing Bashir/ Panorama of using fake documents relating to the investigation into his financial dealings as far back as 1996, the date of this article....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...tants-back-bbc-forgery-claim-1304368.html?amp

He's also now seeking answers from the BBC.

I'm not remotely royalist and never had the slightest interest in Diana or for that matter any sympathy for her. I was in fact very cynical about her like most on here, but I think the methods Bashir used were really irresponsible.

It wasn't just the matter of faking documents it was the other implications of playing on her emotional insecurities and vulnerabilities and making her believe that people close to her were spying on her and that her phone was bugged etc.

It's hard for us to appreciate how isolated she must have felt in that environment so I suppose her manipulation of the press was a necessary means of getting people on side. It shouldn't be underestimated the impact all this had on her mental health. It's only now that I have started to appreciate the difficult position she was in where it was basically her against the whole Royal Family who were just interested in protecting their public image. I think it was irresponsible of Bashir to exploit her insecurities and emotional and psychological vulnerabilities by telling her lies which would have exacerbated her fragile psychological state.

Westdene Seagull · Nov 19, 2020

The Clamp said:
Quite. If she hadn’t been so keen to court publicity she may have thought to carry out due diligence. She’s no victim here.

Hmmm .... an innocent 19 year old ( really only a child ) persuaded to marry a 32 year old Prince and join an historic institution ..... all while that Prince was having an affair with the person he really loved ? Unfair to say she wasn't a victim. I suspect she leaned to play the system after gaining some experience.

Motogull · Nov 19, 2020

Stat Brother said:
Oooooh someone doesn't read the Daily Express.

Or the Mail?

I think that's a bit unfair [MENTION=33848]The Clamp[/MENTION]. I reckon he would rather the media just fukken let his long dead mother lie, and lie in peace.

The Clamp · Nov 19, 2020

Motogull said:
Or the Mail?

I think that's a bit unfair [MENTION=33848]The Clamp[/MENTION]. I reckon he would rather the media just fukken let his long dead mother lie, and lie in peace.

Yes, I think you're probably right. Probably not the greatest idea for he and Wills to give interviews and comment on it then. If it were me, I'd give it no oxygen. Who knows, not my Mother , not my life. What do I know.

A1X · Nov 19, 2020

Personally I'm delighted there is so little going on in the UK at this moment in time that this is deemed news

Wardy's twin · Nov 19, 2020

someone raising smoke screen to suggest that 'Royals' can be duped into given interviews and that evidence can be fabricated mmmm...what else is going on that might need screening , I wonder

KZNSeagull · Nov 19, 2020

Wardy's twin said:
someone raising smoke screen to suggest that 'Royals' can be duped into given interviews and that evidence can be fabricated mmmm...what else is going on that might need screening , I wonder

If you read the article it is Charles Spencer who has raised all this again as it would appear that he was the one who was allegedly duped into persuading Diana to do the interview. Don't think he is the first person that springs to mind who would willingly do the Royals Family's bidding.

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