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The Crown challenges Prince William (with Diana’s infamous BBC interview)

Prince William he had asked that the “Infamous” interview extorted in 1995 from mother Diana by the BBC journalist Martin Bashir was never broadcast again. Ma Netflix ignored his plea: in the fifth season of the series The Crown an entire episode will be dedicated to the famous outburst with which the princess made the Crown tremble by recounting all her torments in front of 23 million astonished spectators: the “Three-way marriage” with Carlo (due to Camilla), the betrayals with the army captain James Hewitt, and then the bulimia, the depression post-partum, masochistic temptations.

The BBC admitted, after launching an independent investigation, that that interview was extorted from Diana with “dishonest methods”. And he decided to remedy it with one maxi donation of € 1.75 million. A mountain of money – from pay to a charity of the royal family’s choice, according to Daily Mail – which would correspond to the money collected by the British broadcaster by selling the broadcasting rights of the famous television outlet all over the world.

An epilogue that certainly does not relieve the pain of William that a few months ago he condemned the BBC for cheating his mother, “contributing greatly to the fear, paranoia and isolation of his later years of life“. The prince, as a sign of respect for his mother’s memory, had asked that the public outburst extorted with dishonest methods (the princess was presented with false documents from which among other things it was deduced that Carlo was having an affair with William and Harry’s babysitter), was never broadcast again.

Netflix not only ignored his prayer but according to the Daily Mail spent millions of dollars to recreate the famous interview, to which it will be dedicated an entire episode. «The creators of The Crown», An insider explained to the British tabloid,« they see the interview as the key moment of the fifth series. Because precisely that public outburst, arising from the anger for the stormy marriage with Carlo, directed the course of the last months of the princess’s life“. Ingrid Seward, managing editor of Majesty Magazine, commenting on the news said: “William has only one way to protect himself: not to watch that episode of the series The Crown».

The choice of the creators of the Netflix series certainly pains too Harry, which in recent months had harshly condemned the BBC, attacking “the domino effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices”: “Our mother died for this. And nothing has changed“. Now the second son of Charles and Diana, as the royal expert Margaret Holder points out, must be in serious trouble embarrassment: Netflix, the streaming TV that is about to bring the infamous interview with mother Diana back to the small screen, is the same with which the Prince and his wife Meghan Markle signed a $ 112 million contract.

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