Sky ignores William’s plea not to rerun BBC interview built on lies

A DOCUMENTARY on Princess Diana is showing significant portions of Martin Bashir’s notorious Panorama interview – against the wishes of Prince William and the BBC.

Around two key minutes are included in The Princess, being shown by the Sky NOW channel.

The Bashir clip includes Diana’s quote: “There were three people in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”

It will be shown in the US on August 13, and in the UK the next day.

The news comes two days after the BBC said it would not license other channels to show the interview, watched by more than 22 million viewers in 1995.

William, 40, said it should never again be shown after an inquiry revealed Bashir obtained the interview, right, with false documents.

The BBC has paid a reported £200,000 to Diana’s former nanny Tiggy Legge-bourke, as well as sums to ex-aide Patrick Jephson and the show’s exproducer Mark Killick.

In apologising to Ms Legge-bourke, 57, now known as Alexandra Pettifer, BBC director-general Tim Davie said: “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.”

However, the content seems to have found its way into the Hbo-made film, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Diana’s death in Paris on August 31, 1997, after a car crash.

The 100-minute programme, made by Oscar-winning producer Simon Chinn, begins with Paris footage inside a car on the night Diana died.

People are heard to say: “Drive straight – don’t have an accident!” However, it is actually said by people in another car, who see and film the commotion outside the Ritz Hotel as Diana speeds away in the black limousine, pursued by paparazzi.

After much footage of Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles in 1981, there is coverage of the couple’s 1983 Australia tour when Charles appeared to resent the huge public interest in

Diana. He tells an audience: “It would have been far easier to have had two wives to cover both sides of the street.

“I could have walked down the middle, directing operations.”

Charles is also seen driving off to play polo – where the then Camilla Parker Bowles was watching – just an hour after bringing new baby Prince Harry home to Kensington Palace.

Sky television, Kensington Palace and Clarence House declined to comment about the show.

The Princess will be shown in the UK on Sky NOW, August 14