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To think there is no outcry over the BBC Princess Diana thing

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battenburgwithtea · 22/05/2021 17:43

I saw on the news they were saying there was an outcry over it. I'm pretty sure nobody I know irl is bothered, it seems like just the people who decide whats on the news/in the papers think it's a big deal. Or do you know people who are bothered about it?

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ufucoffee · 22/05/2021 18:22

I remember at the time everyone I knew thought she knew exactly what she was doing by doing the interview and we didn't buy her doe eyed persona on it. I'd always been a fan up until then, after that I wasn't so sure about her although her death was very sad. I think there is as much of an outcry about bashir as there was about boris's wallpaper. Zero. No one cares. Apart from the media.

Mrsfrumble · 22/05/2021 18:24

Yeah, it does seem a bit like the BBC is standing in a public square in sackcloth and ashes, flogging themselves while everyone else ignores them and gets on with life.

It was too long ago. Also agree she was a terrible judge of character.

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battenburgwithtea · 22/05/2021 18:24

I think William has misread the situation badly. He wants to be seen as speaking out as to be relatable but has missed the mark here

I don't really see what he was hoping to achieve. Also calling her paranoid wasn't a good look imo.

I wouldn't want a daily mental heath bulletin from my own family, let alone from Harry.
Grin true.

I don't really think there's much appetite to bring up Princess Diana as a major talking point just now, with all that's going on. Lots of young people would barely have heard of her. The BBC has said it's made mistakes and it's nothing compared to Jimmy Saville anyway is it.

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battenburgwithtea · 22/05/2021 18:26

The fact a BBC reporter has lied is very important - but we have a Prime Minister who has lied - that is far more critical right now, and needs an outcry.

Yes it's bizarre really that this isn't mentioned and that the PM commented on the story at all really, nothing to do with him is it really.

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sashagabadon · 22/05/2021 18:29

It seems to be loads of men took advantage of her in this whole affair and still taking advantage of her now, Prince Charles gets to blame the bbc as does her brother, bashir obviously. Even the guy that uncovered the fake bank account only did so as he wanted to make his own documentary on the interview and Nicholas witchalls main gripe seemed to be that he was blocked from doing an interview with her himself Hmm
All trying to cash in on her imo.
And I like Times radio normally but my god, they’re loving it and so hypocritical, I had to turn them off!

HarrietPierce · 22/05/2021 18:29

Zzelda

I think there needs to be more of an outcry over Johnson saying the BBC needs to get its house in order. Given his long history of lying and massive corruption, the hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking.

Exactly this.

Theunamedcat · 22/05/2021 18:30

William sees the past through the eyes of a child the eyes of a hurt child whose parents behaved very badly very publicly its obvious he wants to blame "someone" and his mother is dead his father is the only one left he cant blame either of them so he blames the BBC who can blame him they have acted really badly and illegally

sashagabadon · 22/05/2021 18:30

I was at hairdressers today. No one was talking about it, it was all Indian variant and will we get to go ahead on holiday

stairway · 22/05/2021 18:31

I’m not that bothered. When she died there was months and months of wailing about how she was murdered by the press and we are all to blame. I just don’t see the point of bringing it all up again 25 years later. Have an investigation and sack a few people but let’s not have months of this being the top news story again. Corruption is everywhere.

Lanique · 22/05/2021 18:32

I was very much more moved by the image of a five month old baby having been rescued from a pile of rubble in Gaza, his family all dead, than anything that over-privileged man child has had to say about his life of sufferings or anything that has come to light in the Martin Bashir allegations.

sashagabadon · 22/05/2021 18:32

I even heard the guy who on the radio who faked the bank statements being all poor me. No one thought to ask him why he thought it was ok to even fake bank statements in the first place or what questions he asked before doing it!

RJnomore1 · 22/05/2021 18:33

Don’t know anyone making an outcry and still think that performance deserved an Oscar.

Lanique · 22/05/2021 18:33

*btw I was referring to Harry not William.

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battenburgwithtea · 22/05/2021 18:34

I was at hairdressers today. No one was talking about it, it was all Indian variant and will we get to go ahead on holiday

Yes people have definitely got more to be thinking about than why did Princess Diana do that interview in 1995 Confused

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x2boys · 22/05/2021 18:35

I remember the interview and she seemed quite manipulative to me,there were three of us in that marriage etc ,they may have been underhand ,but I think she got the attention she wanted and the public on her side .

Onlinedilema · 22/05/2021 18:39

No, nobody cares.
I always thought it was in bad taste but I suppose she was in a very bad place at the time. She had lead an unhappy life with parents who argued and divorced. Knowing that she wasn’t really wanted, her parents wanted a boy through no fault of their own. She was lied to by her foul grandma and pushed into a marriage which was doomed.
She did have mental health issues but as others have said, it’s not the same as ending up penniless after divorce is it?
The gutter press hounded her and will be relieved to make someone else take the blame for a change.
Her brother is a nasty, Over privileged cretin.

MilduraS · 22/05/2021 18:41

I haven't seen an outcry really. The BBC managed to cover up Jimmy Saville abusing children for years and that didn't get them shut down so God knows what the papers think the Diana story will do.

ZoeCM · 22/05/2021 18:43

Two of the prison officers who were guarding Jeffrey Epstein have admitted falsifying records to make it look as though they checked on him the night he "killed himself". This was a man whom a hell of a lot of rich, powerful people wanted dead. Yet that story is largely being ignored by the media, while a Panorama interview from 1995 is the top story.

skodadoda · 22/05/2021 18:45

@picturesandpickles

It is a convenient excuse for the Tories to try again to weaken the BBC, and of course the tabloids are glad it isn;t them in the firing line this time after the dreadful things they have done.
Hit the nail right on the head there.
SimonedeBeauvoirscat · 22/05/2021 18:52

Mostly I feel sad for the women who were sent to prison for not paying the BBC licence fee, over the decades.

Yes it’s terrible that the BBC lied and faked evidence that drove Diana to estrange herself from those she had trusted. I hope those responsible are held to account (did those responsible at the BBC for Saville ever get held to account?).

The scars of Diana’s later life are so visible on both of her sons. I hope that both of them can find support and healing out of the public eye, in private. Where their family problems should have been in the first place.

OwlTwitterings · 22/05/2021 18:52

I think there have been so many royal interviews or talks in the media lately that bringing up an old one isn’t of interest.

Inkanta · 22/05/2021 18:54

Weird thing is how William is at pains to tell us how that interview made his parents relationship deteriorate. What? Everything we have been told up to now is that the marriage was doomed from the start - barely lasted the honeymoon! Seems like a speech to 'promote' his dad to the public and re-write history

My thoughts exactly Stoneof Destiny

ForThePurposeOfTheTape · 22/05/2021 18:56

@GoldenLabbie

I’ve been wondering this as well. I really couldn’t give a shit, and neither could anyone else I know? Why does it matter after 25 years anyway? We all know she was a bit unhinged and was a bloody awful judge of character. There’s nothing to see here. It’s interesting her brother is the one who seems to be at the forefront of all this, he always negates to mention that they were estranged at the time of her death. Guilty conscience methinks.
People always blame the RF for Diana but the Spencers also bear a massive amount of blame too. I know that everyone doesn't have supportive family like the Middletons who would have got Kate away if she was feeling like Diana but it's massively hypocritical of him to act like it was all the Windsors fault.
OwlBeThere · 22/05/2021 18:56

@coodawoodashooda

People are mostly sick of Harry flogging the chip on his shoulder. We've all got burdens we carry.
Ah yes, because a traumatised child who didn’t get any help for his issues should just shut up and put up cos his granny is the queen right?
Macncheeseballs · 22/05/2021 18:58

What the BBC did was terrible, whether they are talking about it in hairdressers or not