As the streaming giant Netflix decided to recreate excerpts of Lady Diana’s 1995 encounter with Bashir, Prince William considers Netflix is profiteering by re-enacting his mother’s BBC interview, according to Daily Mail.
For the fifth season of The Crown, the streaming behemoth will recreate portions of Diana’s 1995 encounter with journalist Martin Bashir.
The Prince of Wales made his thoughts “quite clear,” a source told The Telegraph, and any portrayal in the show would be “handled in the way you would expect.”
They added it was understandable that he was angered about the ‘dramatization of it for financial gain’.
An independent inquiry found that Bashir deceived Diana to get the interview, seen by more than 20 million viewers, and then lied to BBC managers.
He hired a graphic designer from the BBC to create fictitious bank statements that purported to show payments made by a media group to a former employee of Diana’s brother Earl Spencer.
According to the investigation, this was done to win the Earl’s trust so that he would introduce Bashir to Diana.
It is thought the interview contributed to her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 – a year prior to her fatal car crash in the Tunnel de l’Alma in Paris.
The worsening relationship between Charles, played by Dominic West in Series 5 of The Crown, and Diana, represented by Elizabeth Debicki in The Night Manager, is a major story point.
Netflix, which chose Prasanna Puwanarajah for the part of Bashir, is rumored to have plans to depict how the disgraced reporter convinced Diana to grant the interview by using her paranoia.
However, it will replicate what an insider referred to as “snippets” from Diana’s Panorama appearance in order to tell the story.
Even if the interview was critical of Bashir, any mention of it will probably be met with shock in Buckingham Palace.
In May last year, he said: ‘It is my firm view that this program holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again.
