Lady Di's butler unwraps: This call changed everything for Diana

The scandalous BBC interview between Princess Diana and Martin Bashir is making waves again.

Diana's butler is now talking about the moment.

London - The BBC interview by journalist Martin Bashir

there is currently a heated discussion with Princess Diana.

Prince William and Prince Harry in particular condemn it, blaming the BBC for their mother's death.

"It cost her life," said Harry.

Princess Diana stayed with the journalist for a long time after the scandal interview and was even friends with him.

Until the moment she looked behind Bashir's facade.

Now Lady Dis's former confidante and butler, Paul Burrell, reports in an interview with

“The Sun on Sunday”

at that very moment in 1996, which opened Diana's eyes to Bashir and ended their friendship.

According to BBC interview: Princess Diana was friends with Martin Bashir and wanted to help him

“Diana was a generous person and she loved supporting the 'underdogs'. Martin, as far as it is known, was an outsider who needed help, "said Burrell to

" The Sun "

. For them he was a friend who received too little recognition for his work. She wanted to change that. But how much Martin Bashir abused her trust and took advantage of it, she probably only realized one afternoon during a phone call between him and her butler, who overheard her.

"Martin called me once a week at this time and tried in vain to get information from me about Diana's whereabouts," said Burrell.

“I never told him anything because it was worth more than my work.

But he tried to win me over. ”That afternoon, Bashir apparently called Kensington Palace again, wanted information about Diana's whereabouts and to know with whom she was meeting.

Princess Diana just came back when he called.

In a whisper, she asked Burrell who was on the phone.

When he whispered "Martin" back to her, she put her ear next to that of her butler on the phone to be able to overhear.

Without knowing it, Martin Bashir showed Princess Diana a different side of herself

“Martin was very disrespectful. It was all about 'she' this and 'she' that, ”said the butler about this uncomfortable situation. "He asked where she was and whether 'she was seeing one of her friends again'". He must also have complained that she didn't take his calls and didn't share as much with him as he wanted. Diana, who heard everything at the other end, was just speechless. "Diana gave me a look that said, 'Oh my god, is that how he talks about me?' She saw another side of him and was totally amazed by his disrespect, ”said Burrell. Because whenever Bashir spoke to Princess Diana directly, he was very polite and addressed her with "Your Royal Highness". "For her it was like listening to a completely different person."

The phone call marked the end of Princess Diana and the BBC journalist

According to Burrell, this moment heralds the end of the friendship between Princess Diana and Martin Bashir: "When I hung up the phone, she looked confused and asked me: 'How can he behave like that?'

I knew that my friendship with Martin was over.

Then she burst into tears and ran from the room.

She was very hurt and felt betrayed by him ”.

After this phone call, meetings were only very brief, if at all, and Diana would not have answered the phone either, Burrell summed up the princess's reaction.

"In January 1997, she completely cut off contact and never spoke to him again, as far as I know."

How things went for Diana and Bashir after the interview is all too well known.

He made a career.

She divorced and died in a car accident in Paris in August 1997.

Paul Burrell also has a clear opinion about Prince Harry and Meghan and how Princess Diana would think of the current, tense situation in the British royal family, he said.

(SL)