It created more and more of a rift between Diana and the RF.. She believed that the RF and the Secret services were spying on her, she didn't trust her staff, nor the police who guarded her... nor her in laws. That led her to rely on the security provided by other people, and to her being "OUT" of the RF. Had she been less suspicious of the RPOs, and her husband's family, she would have had better security that night in Paris, adn would hopefuly not have ended up in a car driven by a drunken driver.
Yes, this is what really gets to me. Bashir’s fabrications caused her to mistrust staff and become more paranoid about whom she could trust. Absolutely despicable.
If you haven’t already seen, Earl Spencer took elaborate notes at their meeting which DM has published. Even though both he and Diana questioned the truth of some of what Bashir told them, Earl Spencer thought he was talking to a reliable and honest reporter from the “august” BBC. He says he even called someone high up at the BBC to make sure that he could trust Bashir and was told that he could.
and he stated that he absolutely believed that the bank statements were real.
I believe that even if all the lies from Bashir hadn’t taken place and Diana gave an interview at that time, she would have most likely over shared as Charles did in his interview. But you can tell in the clips that they show that she really believed that in some way the RF was out to get her and that she could no longer trust BP - if she’d already suspected that, being told and having her brother believe that people were being paid to spy on her put her in a horrible position.
Bashir also made her distrust Jephson (spelling is wrong) who was the closest courtier she had. He stated that he could tell a difference in Diana right away after she’d met with Bashir but he didn’t understand why.
I have always revered the BBC and in our last four years in the US have often looked at what they had to say looking for honest, impartial reporting. Both the lies by one person and more importantly the coverup by many higher ups at the BBC have destroyed that for me.?
In addition to the implications for Diana and the RF, real people who tried to question what was going on and bring this to the light of day back then either lost their jobs or were lied to and told by BBC higher ups that everything was ok and being taken care of. So the ripple effect of all of this had huge ramifications for so many other people too. Including William and Harry.
William’s statement was excellent; how horrible to find out that lies colored his last two years with his mother and how things might have been different if she’d found out during the initial “investigation” that she and her brother had been conned. It would have impacted who she believed she could and couldn’t trust.
I wish I could think of more apt words than unethical, despicable, and opportunistically vile.
