Princess Diana during the interview with Martin Bashir, in which she admitted adulteryEarl Spencer has accused the BBC of a “whitewash” as he rejected the director-general’s “piecemeal” apology for fake bank statements that are said to have helped the corporation to land the historic Panorama interview with his sister Diana, Princess of Wales. He called for an inquiry into the way that Martin Bashir, the interviewer, persuaded the princess to talk to him. He accused Bashir of “yellow journalism”. In a letter to Tim Davie, the director-general, revealed by the Daily Mail, he accused the BBC of “sheer dishonesty” over how it won the interview and handled the subsequent inquiry. Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, visiting her grave at Althorp House in Northamptonshire in 1997 DAVID JONES/PALord Spencer also told Mr Davie that Bashir showed him falsified bank statements purporting to show, entirely wrongly, that two senior courtiers were being paid by

Source: The Times November 03, 2020 00:33 UTC