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# On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people
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- Published: 2021-04-04T10:28:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:20.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Interviews, Cinema, Monarchies, Observations, People, Pop Culture

On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people. It was spoken of as "the interview that shook the world".

Twenty-six years have passed, and it is still not entirely clear why Diana agreed to so candid a conversation with a little-known journalist, Martin Bashir, a man she did not know. What did he do to win her trust?

This is the very interview in which the princess spoke of her serious troubles and deeply personal torments, of long-standing depression and bulimia, of how she experienced being hounded by journalists, and of her unhappiness in marriage. It was in this interview that Diana spoke of Prince Charles's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, and here too came the phrase "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded". Diana also revealed her own affair with the army officer James Hewitt.

The scandal of the interview lies not only in the words of Princess Diana, whose revelations did indeed breach several protocols and unwritten rules, but also in the fact that there are grounds to believe Bashir obtained the opportunity to conduct and record this conversation by deceit, misleading people close to Diana, in particular her brother, Earl Spencer, whom he is believed to have duped by showing him forged documents, bank statements and medical certificates, and all but falsifying information about an abortion. Charles Spencer later received an official apology from the BBC's management, but no full investigation was ever presented to the public or to the family.

It is well known that Diana bitterly regretted that this interview ever saw the light of day, and it became a great trauma for her. One cannot help but take an unequivocal view of this product, given the history of its making through monstrous lies, manipulation and blackmail. Now Netflix will show it afresh, dressing the whole affair up as an investigation into the circumstances of its creation.

Questions remain open: why the streaming service decided to return to this interview of Lady Di precisely now, and why it labels its project a documentary. And, above all, to what end, apart from the mad money, naturally, which they earn by exploiting Diana's memory. A still greater question is whether Harry and Meghan are mixed up in this story, and whether Harry will sever relations with this outfit after such an horror, or whether the pull of the dollar will prevail after all.

For now the announcement looks like another stage in the campaign to blacken the British Royal Family, like "The Crown" and the musical "Diana". And, to be frank, Netflix's conduct is simply loathsome: disrespect, unscrupulousness and shameful greed. When will Diana at last be allowed to rest in peace, and when will people stop making money and status out of her name?