Martin Bashir Tricks Diana into Interview | The Crown (Elizabeth Debicki)

[@tarawrr20]

She was happy to give that interview. He may have tricked her, but she was so desperate to tell her version of the story to all who would hear, it didn’t matter the outcome.

[@susanwaugh9711]

Exactly

[@sookibeulah9331]

No. Bashir’s lies are why she gave up her police protection, why she ended up in a car with a drunk driver in Paris. Rosa Monkton was one of Diana’s closest friends. She was on holiday with Diana before she went on holiday with Dodi and Rosa has said Diana was already regretting the interview without knowing she’d been manipulated into doing it. Finally both William and Rosa have stated how Bashir’s lies made Diana paranoid and affected her mental health….you can look up interviews where they’ve said this.

[@Coryraisa]

He never "tricked" her...she saw through it. Contrary to misconception, Diana was not stupid.

[@susanwaugh9711]

@@sookibeulah9331 Of course she regretted it, it led to the final breakdown of her marriage and the Queen initiating a divorce. As for being paranoid…well she told the world what was really going on in her marriage and about his affair etc etc. What did she expect was going to happen? That the palace would sit back and do nothing? Diana knew what she was doing. As with her biography Diana: A True Story; she initiates these interviews, and then regrets it all afterwards, blaming others when shit hits the fan. William is just peeved because he remembers the interview well, and the fact it lead to the divorce between his parents, and that’s why he’s out for revenge. Reporters/journalists will do anything for an interview/photo with a famous icon at any cost. Diana was a grown woman and often made the wrong choices. She CHOSE to participate and tell her story, just like she CHOSE to reveal all to her vocal coach and her biographer. She was very naive, and despite the Andrew Morton tapes backfiring, she continued to tell anyone who would listen to her very intimate details of her marriage, and throw herself into a deep hole again and again.

[@boscovilante4068]

Bashir manufactured evidence and he should've gone to prison. But the core issue isn't that off base either; she was regarded as someone who would trouble the British establishment and the security services where interested in her. For her part, Diana didn't need much prompting to let it all hang out.

[@AllMamu]

The manipulation of that man - you’re a threat, I have all this classified info as a journalist, give me an interview

[@kismit100]

And still he remains FREE

[@meeeka]

And employed as a journo.

[@Maxwell_Cambridge]

Because his actions were unethical, not illegal.

[@boscovilante4068]

@@Maxwell_Cambridge Fraud is legal?

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

Good. These two DESERVED each other! Let Bashir have his freedoms so he could watch all the other journalists climb above him! Brazen Bashir dug his own grave!! And where did it get Diana? 😢😮😢

[@Coryraisa]

​@@JoanMorrison-vq2jc In heaven enjoying great food and conversation.

[@MarciaLeeStelling]

Could be she was scared to death they'd try to put her in the funny farm... or even kill her...

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

You make a good point here but remember it was Diana who was taunting the queen. And others. She made hundreds of phone calls to Oliver Hoares home and Scotland Yard had to get involved!! Diana really was an instigator and a troublemaker. Diana supposedly had a history of mental illness. She probably would have wanted the queen to go off with a nervous breakdown but she didn't! Good for QE. Diana towards the end of her life was losing her popularity because of her erratic ways and destroying so many marriages. She shoved her stepmother down a flight of stairs!! She tipped off the photographers and reporters when Fergie was having her toes sucked! Diana was bitterly jealous of Tiggy Legg Bourke and told Tiggy at a party "I'm sorry to hear that you lost Charles baby" . Tiggy ran from the party and got good lawyers against Diana! Good for Tiggy! There was no baby!! ( Other than Diana. ) Diana had no conscience!! Horrible woman. Awful person. Not everything can be blamed on Camilla and Charles infidelity or Diana's youth.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

@@MarciaLeeStelling If Diana was seen as a candidate for the "funny farm" maybe it's because of her erratic behavior and devious temper! Diana was emotionally unstable and treacherous. Even Diana admitted in an interview that she loved getting revenge and plotting on others. Awful woman. As for killing Diana - well I suppose the truth will come out but for now we are told that the driver was drunk and Diana didn't have her seat belt on and the driver was speeding and the paparazzi were in the way and Dodi was supposedly shouting for the driver to go faster and the car was a re- built vehicle and not up to standards. Sad.

[@leonie563]

She may have been a girl at the start but in the end she was found to not be stupid, naive or unintelligent. Have to assume cunning and calculated comes into play. Nothing gullible about it. She did some good.

[@PeterT-i1w]

"Lord Spencer" - who the F introduces himself like that? Not "Hi, I'm John" or whatever ...

[@grannygoes]

Someone who lives off the title.

[@stevenfranks3131]

"We would definitely give you...control...." 😐

[@Greenwoodlegacy1814]

Princess Diana still spoke her truth and I am so glad it was recorded and aired. The Queen chose to accept Prince Philips female confidant, Penny Knatchbull. Princess Diana not going to accept Camilla.

[@thomasplinguidy4588]

It's one thing to accept another woman as your husband's confidante (Philip). But it's quite another when you read in the newspaper that your husband wants to be that woman's tampon (Charles). Diana was certainly not the easiest person to be around, but you have to draw the line somewhere, don't you?

[@IridescentTea]

​@@thomasplinguidy4588 have you ever listened to that tampon thing or do you just spread false information? Bcs you do the latter and shame on you, as you've had years to actually learn what he said. Not this, that'đ for sure.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

@@thomasplinguidy4588 Charles did seem to accept the 1990 Squidgy Tapes with James Gilbey and The Princess of Wales. Hmmm. Everyone jumped on Charles for being with Camilla and yet no one jumped on Diana for her many extra marital affairs! Go figure society. Why did Diana get away with so much - because she was a woman? Sad. Unfair.

[@MilkAndSugar16]

​@@JoanMorrison-vq2jcRather because she was appreciated and cherished for her kindness and empathy.

[@olofman300]

BBC + Journalistic integrity? This did not age well

[@Beckford4000]

Jimmy Saville, Huw Edwards... not to mention the entire Operation Yew Tree, the Martin Bashir interview. The BBC is a cesspit of lies, corruption and abuse.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

"She opens her mouth and hand grenades come out"! says Bashir. So true - so true! When I think of that Andrew Morton book that Diana helped to write and the screaming match she had using her four letter words with Princess Margaret and the queen mum at Buckingham Palace I just understood Martin Bashir's thoughts!! Diana likes to reveal and expose and embarrass people - not just Charles 😡 or the queen but those she was associated with. Diana could dish it out but she just couldn't take it.

[@alexger85]

the evil establishment against a poor little earl's daughter...

[@Irishjay_94]

Diana's Spencer bloodline was an aristocratic family that was even more prestigious than the royal family. The current British royal family is descended from the Duke of Hanover in Germany. Diana is descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham. This means that Diana's royal family tree stretches back through the ages of both English and Scottish history. I bet it was this connection that also had an impressive take in the arranged marriage.

[@Sarah_270]

You think less of this tragedy because they were all rich. Got it.

[@saraneuss4089]

He played her

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

She wanted to be played.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

​​@@AndyBluebear-fi9om Very well said! I thought Diana just wanted to bait people. Diana maybe met her match when she met Bashir. I'm guessing that Diana was just too manipulative as a woman and as a princess and as a person...

[@libriansana8562]

I don't understand why would he TRICK her into this interview?? It doesn't really seem like it in this show?!

[@thomasplinguidy4588]

yes, there is also a scene in the series in the "Guy Fawkes" episode when the BBC team is recording the interview. Beforehand, Diana and Bashir meet secretly in a tunnel and she asks him openly about the "contradictions" in his statements because her brother Lord Spencer also took notes of the conversations. Bashir goes one step further and lets Diana know that even her brother is being manipulated in some way. The man has obviously really used every dirty trick possible to get a candid interview and to get one over on the British monarchy.

[@rogerfielding1117]

You need to remember that The Crowm is not a documentary but a work of fiction

[@rogerfielding1117]

BBC ... INTEGRITY ... and she fell for that

[@fahimfaisalmahir567]

For money. A non-white Muslim journalist getting the exclusive interview of Princess of Wales was too big to even fit in his wildest dreams.

[@sookibeulah9331]

@@dahomieehe did it to be able to interview the most famous woman in the world and through that advance his career.

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

I like Martin Bashir, I also love Diana's blue shirt.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

❤❤🎉🎉 "She wants to tear down the temple" Bashir says. The queen and the royal family thought so too. Bashir was cut throat and sneaky. But didn't anyone see what Diana was all "about"? I'm guessing it was not easy to TRUST her. When a celebrity becomes too big usually the media or the government or an irritated politician becomes somewhat "concerned" (and rightfully so depending on the situation.) Diana should have stuck to cutting ribbons and balcony appearances. It makes me wonder if Diana became too big for the position of Princess of Wales. And for all her influence what did Diana ever do for the Welsh people? Never put yourself where you don't belong. The palace should have kept Diana and Fergie and Megan on a short leash. Most princesses are not this controversial unless they are up to something - I can see why both Diana and the palace were paranoid.

[@fahimfaisalmahir567]

She wanted to burn down the temple but God retaliated in the worst manner possible.

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

@@fahimfaisalmahir567 No. God is good and HE had nothing to do with all that craziness!! HE gives man a FREE WILL but THIS is how we act? This is the thanks God gets?!

[@secondme209]

"where is home", that is actually a quite racist question...

[@JoanMorrison-vq2jc]

​@@secondme209 I thought so too but think of the other side where some people ENJOY sharing their culture and customs and traditions and beliefs and...

[@Coryraisa]

A question Diana never asked.

[@YouTuber-my2ky]

She was dating Dr. Hasnat khan, whose family was from Pakistan. She even went there with the doctor to meet them. She's said to like him more than any of her other suitors and was hoping that he would propose marriage. Sadly, that didn't happen.

[@PeterT-i1w]

@@KZbinr-my2ky How do you propose a married woman? Even while polygamy is legal in Pakistan, polyandry is not.

[@PeterT-i1w]

if you are on the correct side, then you can be as racist as you want. look at Joe Biden for example.