Palace aides relieved at BBC 'whitewash' over Martin Bashir's Diana interview
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mirror.co.ukPalace courtiers decided “not to get involved” in a BBC probe into exactly how Martin Bashir got his interview with Princess Diana, a source claims.
The Mirror can reveal advisers to the Queen and Prince Charles hoped the internal investigation into Bashir and his team “would go away”, it is claimed.
Bashir was cleared of improper behaviour following the 1996 probe, which was headed by former director general Tony Hall when he was boss of BBC News and Current Affairs.
But Diana’s brother Earl Spencer has accused the BBC of “sheer dishonesty” and labelled the probe a “whitewash”. One former staffer who worked for the Queen for around a decade said: “The BBC were particularly secretive about what they were doing or even what the
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