• Princess Diana said her BBC Panorama interview had been a “huge mistake”.
• Former Princess of Wales was strongly advised against participating in the interview.
• It was thought she was voicing her concerns with her sit-in at Kensington Palace.

Princess Diana said that her BBC Panorama interview had been a “huge mistake.”

The former Princess of Wales was strongly advised against participating in the interview with Martin Bashir since it was thought that she was voicing her concerns with her bombshell sit-in.

“I know one newspaper editor who was having lunch with her on the day that she did the interview,” royal authority Nick Bullen tells Royally Us.

“He was having lunch in Kensington Palace with her and the cameras were being set up upstairs.”

He continued, quoting Diana,  “Diana said to him ‘I’m thinking about doing this thing’, not knowing it was happening that night.

“The editor said do not under any circumstances, you should not do this.

“So, even on the day [Diana] was being told not do it,” noted Mr Bullen

The expert said, when asked if she had any regrets about doing the interview, “I think in the initial days after she really felt she’d put her voice out there.

“She also believed what [Martin] Bashir told her about the security services listening to her.

“[However] I think as more clarity set in, it became more and more apparent [that] it was a huge mistake,” he concluded.

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