Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani surgeon who was a lover of Diana of Wales from 1995 to a few months before her death in 1997, recently decided to break his silence to tell the newspaper Daily mail that this controversial interview was the product of the journalist’s manipulation Martin Bashir exercised on Lady Di.
“There are three of us in my marriage and that’s a crowd.” The sentence has been released by the princess Diana in a famous interview with the BBC network in 1995, when she revealed that her husband, the Prince Carlos, I was unfaithful to Camila Parker-Bowles. How come Lady Di started to tell about intimate aspects of her life? How did this famous meeting between her and the British media come about?
“One of Diana’s most attractive qualities was her vulnerability. It was the reason the public loved her. I realized that later Bashir took advantage of those vulnerabilities. He was very convincing with Diana and filled his head with garbageSaid the 62-year-old doctor, who has not appeared in the public sphere since 2008 to speak on this matter.
The reason why Khan decided to refer to this conversation between Lady Di y Bashir It’s because he had a conversation a few days ago with someone who knows both him and the journalist. “He told me that he knew Martin Bashir and that he was under a lot of stress. He said he was a decent man, but he was very depressed and had to ask me to please talk to him, ”he said.
But the surgeon could only say negative things about him. Among them, that Lady Di considered Bashir like a “mole” in the palace and that has been causing paranoia in the princess since she met him. “She wasn’t a paranoid person, but with all those ideas and talk of wiretapping, Bashir was trying to lead Bashir to a place where she distrusted things and the people around her.. He was an intelligent man ”, he stated.
MEETINGS WITH BASHIR, BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTERVIEW
Bashir met the princess Diana around the same time that she started a secret relationship with Khan. The journalist and the surgeon met in a country pub on a date organized by Lady Di herself. “Almost from the first moment he started asking me very personal and very direct questions about Diana and our relationship. I got mad. It was rude for this man I didn’t know to talk to us like that, ”he noted.
Hence, he manifested himself at the time Diana Spencer that the journalist made him feel bad. “I told Diana that I didn’t like Bashir, that I didn’t trust him, and that I should end their relationships”. But she ignored his warnings and conducted the controversial interview. After recording it, Diana Khan asked what he thought. “I thought it was a big mistake and I told him it was terrible“, He said.
After the broadcast, Diana of Wales told Khan that the royals would ask her and Prince Charles to divorce. “So it was, to Lady Di’s luck, because it was what she wantedThe doctor said. And just as the divorce was done immediately, the same thing happened with the relationship between the princess and Bashir.
“I asked him why [zanjó su amistad con el periodista] and she said by william. I could believe it because children were fundamental to everything she did, ”she said.
THE POSITION OF PRINCE WILLIAM
In that conversation between Lady Di and Martin Bashir, for the BBC’s “Panorama” program, the princess had the opportunity to reveal her weaknesses and fears after being separated from Charles of England for three years. Then she spoke about the infidelity they had committed and questioned the possibilities of her still husband.
However, this series of revelations was disapproved by the eldest of his sons. “William hated the ‘Panorama’ interview and told his mother he made a mistake that had upset him very much. He was very direct, saying, ‘Mom, Bashir is not a good person,’ said Khan, who agreed during his relationship with Lady Di William and the prince harry.
In November 2020, 25 years after that interview, a documentary produced by the UK network ITV revealed the plot of falsehoods and manipulations used to convince Diana of Wales. Indeed, Prince William spoke of it and said: “It is a step in the right direction”.
On the other hand, Hasnat Khan, who described the princess’s inner circle as “the true love of his lifeHe touched on his memories of Lady Di only once during an interview with the Sunday Telegraphtwelve years ago, where he stated that he had nightmares about the death of his ex-partner, which occurred on August 31, 1997.
HOW WAS THE INTERVIEW OF THE CENTURY ACHIEVED?
Twenty-five years later, the princess’s brother, Count Charles Spencer accused the author, the journalist Martin Bashir, of falsifying documents in order to obtain it, particularly bank statements – which turned out to be false – to prove that the security forces paid two people to spy on his sister.
“If I hadn’t seen those statements, I would never have introduced Bashir to my sisterSpencer said in a letter to the BBC, denouncing “unfair” methods.
The investigation will examine Bashir’s behavior, which has propelled this exclusively internationally, and will investigate “alleged bank data”.
It will also examine what the BBC knew and whether the institution knowingly protected its journalist.
Days ago, prince william, eldest son of Lady Di and Carlos, welcomed the opening of an investigation and said it was “a step in the right direction.”
Diana and Prince Charles separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. The prince, heir to the crown, married Camila Parker Bowles in a quiet civil ceremony in 2005.