Wills: Panorama interview was desperate act

DIANA’S notorious Panorama interview about the state of her marriage was an act of desperation, Prince William said.

William said he understood why his mother had wanted to speak out, to address lies about the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles.

Speaking for the first time about the interview, in which Diana laid bare her anguish over her husband’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duke of Cambridge appeared sympathetic to his mother’s decision.

He said: ‘I can understand – having been in those situations – you feel incredibly desperate and it is very unfair that things are being said that are untrue.

‘The easiest thing to do is just to say or go to the media yourself. Open that door. [But] once you’ve opened it you can never close it again.’

Charles and Diana separated in 1992 after an 11-year marriage. In her 1995 Panorama interview, Diana garnered public sympathy when she said Charles’s relationship with Camilla meant there were ‘three of us in this marriage’.