BBC Diana payout

The BBC has paid a “substantial sum” and apologised to Princess Diana’s former private secretary over a bombshell 1995 interview obtained by deception.

An independent report by judge John Dyson last year concluded interviewer Martin Bashir tricked Diana’s brother into helping to arrange the interview, in which she spoke candidly about her troubled marriage to Prince Charles.

Patrick Jephson, an aide to Diana from 1988 to 1996, reportedly said Bashir “seduced and betrayed” her into agreeing to the interview, which was watched by a British audience of 23 million.