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Prince Charles dreading new bombshell Diana documentary
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Publishing date:May 01, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Princess Diana arrives at the Royal Geographical Society in London for a speech on the dangers of landmines throughout the world June 12, 1997.
Princess Diana arrives at the Royal Geographical Society in London for a speech on the dangers of landmines throughout the world June 12, 1997. PHOTO BY IAN WALDIE /REUTERS
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Prince Charles is battling with his son, his dad just died and now the heir to the throne is bracing for a new documentary on his late ex-wife said to be packed with embarrassing tidbits.
The new Netflix show has culled through shocking audio tapes of the princess killed in a 1997 Paris car crash. The program is a sequel to last year’s Diana: In Her Own Words.
According to The UK Sun, filmmaker Tom Jennings said he has six unheard hours of recordings made by the princess. The tapes were for her biographer Andrew Morton and his 1992 tome, Diana: Her True Story.
“There are seven hours of tapes that Diana made for Morton. We wound up in our two-hour film only using about one hour of them,” Jennings told the Daily Mail.
“We’re talking quite a bit about doing something for next year, which is the 25th anniversary of Diana’s passing and also coincidentally it’s the 30th anniversary of Andrew Morton’s book. There will be renewed interest, and season five of The Crown will be coming out.”
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(FILES) A file picture take on July 29, 1981, shows Britain’s Prince Charles (L) and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, on their wedding day at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Prince Charles said Tuesday November 16, 2010, he was “thrilled” at the engagement of his eldest son Prince William to his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton, adding: “They have been practising long enough.”
(FILES) A file picture take on July 29, 1981, shows Britain’s Prince Charles (L) and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, on their wedding day at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Prince Charles said Tuesday November 16, 2010, he was “thrilled” at the engagement of his eldest son Prince William to his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton, adding: “They have been practising long enough.” PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES
When the first documentary was released in 2017, it detailed the beloved Princess’s struggles with bulimia and her rocky marriage to Charles.
She also hinted her “greatest love” was her bodyguard.
As for The Crown, the controversial royal fly-on-the-wall starts filming again in August and covers the difficult years 1991 to 1997. That stretch covered the Queen’s “Annus Horribilis” and daily end-of-the-world headlines on Charles and Diana’s marital meltdown.
Meanwhile, British media are reporting that Prince Harry’s return to the U.K. for the unveiling of his mother’s statue in July is seriously in doubt. One royal expert believes his wife Meghan Markle will almost certainly skip the trip.
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“I personally don’t think Meghan will return to the UK,” Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited: Harry and Meghan In Their Own Words, told the Sun.
“And there must now be a serious doubt as to whether Harry will come over for the unveiling of a statue for Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday in July.”
He offered some advice for Harry and Meghan: “They should get on with their lives, stop playing the victim and stop playing on their Royal connections by leaking stories while pleading for privacy.”
“People can see through it and anyone who advises them to carry on this way is giving them bad advice,” Dampier said.
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Author of the article:Brad Hunter
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Princess Diana arrives at the Royal Geographical Society in London for a speech on the dangers of landmines throughout the world June 12, 1997.
Princess Diana arrives at the Royal Geographical Society in London for a speech on the dangers of landmines throughout the world June 12, 1997. PHOTO BY IAN WALDIE /REUTERS
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Prince Charles is battling with his son, his dad just died and now the heir to the throne is bracing for a new documentary on his late ex-wife said to be packed with embarrassing tidbits.
The new Netflix show has culled through shocking audio tapes of the princess killed in a 1997 Paris car crash. The program is a sequel to last year’s Diana: In Her Own Words.
According to The UK Sun, filmmaker Tom Jennings said he has six unheard hours of recordings made by the princess. The tapes were for her biographer Andrew Morton and his 1992 tome, Diana: Her True Story.
“There are seven hours of tapes that Diana made for Morton. We wound up in our two-hour film only using about one hour of them,” Jennings told the Daily Mail.
“We’re talking quite a bit about doing something for next year, which is the 25th anniversary of Diana’s passing and also coincidentally it’s the 30th anniversary of Andrew Morton’s book. There will be renewed interest, and season five of The Crown will be coming out.”
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(FILES) A file picture take on July 29, 1981, shows Britain’s Prince Charles (L) and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, on their wedding day at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Prince Charles said Tuesday November 16, 2010, he was “thrilled” at the engagement of his eldest son Prince William to his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton, adding: “They have been practising long enough.”
(FILES) A file picture take on July 29, 1981, shows Britain’s Prince Charles (L) and Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, on their wedding day at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Prince Charles said Tuesday November 16, 2010, he was “thrilled” at the engagement of his eldest son Prince William to his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton, adding: “They have been practising long enough.” PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES
When the first documentary was released in 2017, it detailed the beloved Princess’s struggles with bulimia and her rocky marriage to Charles.
She also hinted her “greatest love” was her bodyguard.
As for The Crown, the controversial royal fly-on-the-wall starts filming again in August and covers the difficult years 1991 to 1997. That stretch covered the Queen’s “Annus Horribilis” and daily end-of-the-world headlines on Charles and Diana’s marital meltdown.
Meanwhile, British media are reporting that Prince Harry’s return to the U.K. for the unveiling of his mother’s statue in July is seriously in doubt. One royal expert believes his wife Meghan Markle will almost certainly skip the trip.
Oh, oh. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are unlikely to get the easy ride they got from Oprah in a new tell-all.
Oh, oh. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are unlikely to get the easy ride they got from Oprah in a new tell-all. PHOTO BY BY DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS,KENA BETANCUR /AFP via Getty Images
“I personally don’t think Meghan will return to the UK,” Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited: Harry and Meghan In Their Own Words, told the Sun.
“And there must now be a serious doubt as to whether Harry will come over for the unveiling of a statue for Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday in July.”
He offered some advice for Harry and Meghan: “They should get on with their lives, stop playing the victim and stop playing on their Royal connections by leaking stories while pleading for privacy.”
“People can see through it and anyone who advises them to carry on this way is giving them bad advice,” Dampier said.
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Prince Charles dreading new bombshell Diana documentary
Prince Charles is battling with his son, his dad just died and now he's bracing for a new documentary on his late ex-wife.
BBC used deceit to secure Princess Diana's infamous 1995 interview: Report
Author of the article:Reuters
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Publishing date:May 20, 2021 • 2 minutes ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris.
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris. PHOTO BY VINCENT AMALVY /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — An inquiry into how the BBC secured the 1995 interview with Britain’s Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage concluded on Thursday that the journalist involved had acted deceitfully.
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior Court judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that forged documents and “other deceit” were used to trick him to introduce Diana to journalist Martin Bashir.
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Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements to induce him to arrange a meeting with Diana.
“Mr Bashir acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers’ Guidelines on straight dealing,” the report said.
He also concluded the BBC had fallen short of “the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark” in its response to allegations of impropriety.
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During the explosive interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles.
It came at a nadir for the royal family and was the first time Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997, had made public comments about her doomed marriage.
Her remark that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded” – a reference to Charles rekindling his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his second wife – was particularly damaging to the Windsors.
Last week, the BBC announced that Bashir was leaving his current job as the publicly-funded broadcaster’s religious affairs editor because of ill health.
Bashir apologized but said he did not believe the faked statements had prompted Diana to give the interview, PA Media reported.
Spencer says Bashir had persuaded him to get his sister to agree to the interview by telling him Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
Both Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, have welcomed the investigation as a chance to find out the truth of what had happened.
“While the BBC cannot turn back the clock after a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology. The BBC offers that today,” BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, said in a statement.
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In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris.
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris. PHOTO BY VINCENT AMALVY /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — An inquiry into how the BBC secured the 1995 interview with Britain’s Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage concluded on Thursday that the journalist involved had acted deceitfully.
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior Court judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that forged documents and “other deceit” were used to trick him to introduce Diana to journalist Martin Bashir.
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Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements to induce him to arrange a meeting with Diana.
“Mr Bashir acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers’ Guidelines on straight dealing,” the report said.
He also concluded the BBC had fallen short of “the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark” in its response to allegations of impropriety.
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During the explosive interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles.
It came at a nadir for the royal family and was the first time Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997, had made public comments about her doomed marriage.
Her remark that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded” – a reference to Charles rekindling his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his second wife – was particularly damaging to the Windsors.
Last week, the BBC announced that Bashir was leaving his current job as the publicly-funded broadcaster’s religious affairs editor because of ill health.
Bashir apologized but said he did not believe the faked statements had prompted Diana to give the interview, PA Media reported.
Spencer says Bashir had persuaded him to get his sister to agree to the interview by telling him Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
Both Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, have welcomed the investigation as a chance to find out the truth of what had happened.
“While the BBC cannot turn back the clock after a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology. The BBC offers that today,” BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, said in a statement.
Journalist lied to get Princess Diana interview, BBC covered it up: Report
LONDON — A BBC journalist used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to…
Journalist lied to get Princess Diana interview, BBC covered it up: Report
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Publishing date:May 20, 2021 • 21 hours ago • 3 minute read • 7 Comments
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris.
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris. PHOTO BY VINCENT AMALVY /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — A BBC journalist used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles and the broadcaster covered up the deception, an inquiry found on Thursday.
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that he had been tricked into introducing her to journalist Martin Bashir.
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Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little-known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements suggesting that Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
“Mr Bashir deceived and induced him to arrange a meeting with Princess Diana,” the report said. “Mr Bashir acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers’ Guidelines on straight dealing.”
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Spencer said he drew a line between the events and Diana’s death.
“She didn’t know who to trust and in the end when she died, two years later, she was without any form of real protection,” Spencer said.
The BBC has written to Diana’s son Prince William to apologize.
During the “Panorama” interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles.
It was the first time Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997, had commented publicly about her doomed marriage.
Her remark that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded” – a reference to Charles rekindling his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his second wife – was particularly damaging.
“LIED”
After it was aired, Bashir repeatedly lied to his bosses about how the interview was obtained, the report said. As questions continued, BBC managers failed to scrutinize his version of events properly and covered up facts about how Bashir had secured the interview.
“Without justification, the BBC fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark,” the report said.
The interview propelled Bashir into the limelight and he went on to secure high-profile interviews with other celebrities, notably the late U.S. singer Michael Jackson.
Last week, the BBC announced that he was leaving his current job as the publicly funded broadcaster’s religious affairs editor because of ill health.
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Bashir apologized for the fake statements, but said he stood by his evidence from 25 years ago and he did not believe they had prompted Diana to give the interview.
Dyson’s report included a handwritten note from Diana from a month after the interview in which she said she had no regrets and that Bashir did not show her any information of which she was not previously aware.
“By his deceitful behavior … Mr Bashir succeeded in engineering the meeting that led to the interview,” the report said. “But it is important to add that Princess Diana would probably have agreed to be interviewed.”
The BBC said there had been clear failings and it would hand back the awards the program won.
“While the BBC cannot turn back the clock after a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology.” BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, said.
Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, have previously welcomed the investigation as a chance to find out the truth of what had happened.
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Publishing date:May 20, 2021 • 21 hours ago • 3 minute read • 7 Comments
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris.
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris. PHOTO BY VINCENT AMALVY /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — A BBC journalist used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles and the broadcaster covered up the deception, an inquiry found on Thursday.
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that he had been tricked into introducing her to journalist Martin Bashir.
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Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little-known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements suggesting that Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
“Mr Bashir deceived and induced him to arrange a meeting with Princess Diana,” the report said. “Mr Bashir acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers’ Guidelines on straight dealing.”
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Spencer said he drew a line between the events and Diana’s death.
“She didn’t know who to trust and in the end when she died, two years later, she was without any form of real protection,” Spencer said.
The BBC has written to Diana’s son Prince William to apologize.
During the “Panorama” interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles.
It was the first time Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997, had commented publicly about her doomed marriage.
Her remark that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded” – a reference to Charles rekindling his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his second wife – was particularly damaging.
“LIED”
After it was aired, Bashir repeatedly lied to his bosses about how the interview was obtained, the report said. As questions continued, BBC managers failed to scrutinize his version of events properly and covered up facts about how Bashir had secured the interview.
“Without justification, the BBC fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark,” the report said.
The interview propelled Bashir into the limelight and he went on to secure high-profile interviews with other celebrities, notably the late U.S. singer Michael Jackson.
Last week, the BBC announced that he was leaving his current job as the publicly funded broadcaster’s religious affairs editor because of ill health.
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Bashir apologized for the fake statements, but said he stood by his evidence from 25 years ago and he did not believe they had prompted Diana to give the interview.
Dyson’s report included a handwritten note from Diana from a month after the interview in which she said she had no regrets and that Bashir did not show her any information of which she was not previously aware.
“By his deceitful behavior … Mr Bashir succeeded in engineering the meeting that led to the interview,” the report said. “But it is important to add that Princess Diana would probably have agreed to be interviewed.”
The BBC said there had been clear failings and it would hand back the awards the program won.
“While the BBC cannot turn back the clock after a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology.” BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, said.
Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, have previously welcomed the investigation as a chance to find out the truth of what had happened.
Journalist lied to get Princess Diana interview, BBC covered it up: Report
LONDON — A BBC journalist used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to…
Prince William says BBC failed Diana with interview deceit
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Publishing date:May 20, 2021 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by her son Prince William, arrives at Wimbledon's Centre Court before the start of the Women's Singles final July 2.
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LONDON — Britain’s Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry found a journalist for the broadcaster deceitfully obtained an interview with her in 1995.
William’s astonishing rebuke to the public broadcaster comes after a report published Thursday said the inquiry found that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Diana, and that the broadcaster covered up the deception.
During the “Panorama” interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne and William’s father, Prince Charles.
Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997 at the age of 36.
“It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said. The interview was a major contribution to making my parents’ relationship worse and has since hurt countless others,” William, 38, said in a statement.
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“It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”
In a separate statement issued at the same time, William’s brother Harry did not mention the BBC by name, but drew broader aim at the media and the “ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices (which) ultimately took her life.”
“To those who have taken some form of accountability, thank you for owning it. That is the first step towards justice and truth,” Harry, 36, said.
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“Yet what deeply concerns me is that practices like these – and even worse – are still widespread today. Then, and now, it’s bigger than one outlet, one network, or one publication.”
Harry and his wife Meghan quit their duties as members of the royal family and moved to California last year. Harry, who has sued several British tabloids, has spoken out previously about his worries that his mother’s experience of the intense glare of the press would be repeated with his wife.
‘LET MY MOTHER DOWN’
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that he had been tricked into introducing her to Bashir.
Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little-known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements suggesting that Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
After it was aired, Bashir repeatedly lied to his bosses about how the interview was obtained, the report said. As questions continued, BBC managers failed to scrutinize his version of events properly and covered up facts about how Bashir had secured the interview.
The inquiry found that the BBC had fallen short of the “high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark,” and the BBC has written to Buckingham Palace to apologize.
Bashir apologized for the fake statements, but said he stood by his evidence from 25 years ago and he did not believe they had prompted Diana to give the interview.
William said that the BBC should have properly investigated when concerns were first raised in 1995.
“(Diana) was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions,” he said.
“These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down; they let the public down too.”
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LONDON — Britain’s Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry found a journalist for the broadcaster deceitfully obtained an interview with her in 1995.
William’s astonishing rebuke to the public broadcaster comes after a report published Thursday said the inquiry found that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Diana, and that the broadcaster covered up the deception.
During the “Panorama” interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an affair and sharing details of her marriage to the heir to the throne and William’s father, Prince Charles.
Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997 at the age of 36.
“It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said. The interview was a major contribution to making my parents’ relationship worse and has since hurt countless others,” William, 38, said in a statement.
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“It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”
In a separate statement issued at the same time, William’s brother Harry did not mention the BBC by name, but drew broader aim at the media and the “ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices (which) ultimately took her life.”
“To those who have taken some form of accountability, thank you for owning it. That is the first step towards justice and truth,” Harry, 36, said.
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“Yet what deeply concerns me is that practices like these – and even worse – are still widespread today. Then, and now, it’s bigger than one outlet, one network, or one publication.”
Harry and his wife Meghan quit their duties as members of the royal family and moved to California last year. Harry, who has sued several British tabloids, has spoken out previously about his worries that his mother’s experience of the intense glare of the press would be repeated with his wife.
‘LET MY MOTHER DOWN’
The BBC set up the investigation, headed by former senior judge John Dyson, in November following allegations from Diana’s brother Charles Spencer that he had been tricked into introducing her to Bashir.
Dyson’s report found that Bashir, then a little-known reporter, had shown Spencer fake bank statements suggesting that Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her.
After it was aired, Bashir repeatedly lied to his bosses about how the interview was obtained, the report said. As questions continued, BBC managers failed to scrutinize his version of events properly and covered up facts about how Bashir had secured the interview.
The inquiry found that the BBC had fallen short of the “high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark,” and the BBC has written to Buckingham Palace to apologize.
Bashir apologized for the fake statements, but said he stood by his evidence from 25 years ago and he did not believe they had prompted Diana to give the interview.
William said that the BBC should have properly investigated when concerns were first raised in 1995.
“(Diana) was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions,” he said.
“These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down; they let the public down too.”
Prince William says BBC failed Diana with interview deceit
LONDON — Britain’s Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry…
BBC under pressure over Diana interview after princes launch scathing attack
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In this file photo taken on August 19, 1995 Princess Diana and their children William and Harry watch the march past on a dais on the mall as part of the commemorations of VJ Day.
In this file photo taken on August 19, 1995 Princess Diana and their children William and Harry watch the march past on a dais on the mall as part of the commemorations of VJ Day. PHOTO BY JOHNNY EGGITT /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — The British government vowed on Friday to examine how the BBC was run, after a damning inquiry into how the broadcaster got its bombshell 1995 interview with Princess Diana and unprecedented criticism from her son Prince William.
An independent investigation concluded on Thursday that journalist Martin Bashir lied and deceived to persuade Diana to agree to the interview in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to heir to the throne Prince Charles.
It also lambasted the BBC for its “woefully ineffective” investigation into Bashir’s actions the following year and for covering up his wrongdoing. Bashir tricked Diana’s brother into thinking her staff were spying on her, and could not be trusted.
In a scathing statement, Diana’s eldest son William, now 38, called the way the interview was secured “deceitful.”
“It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”
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His younger brother Prince Harry said the interview was part of a series of unethical practices that ultimately cost his mother her life.
“Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed,” he said.
Diana died aged 36 in a Paris car crash in 1997 having become an effective outcast from the royal family, which she suspected of trying to undermine her as her relationship with Charles, William’s father, collapsed.
The BBC has apologized for its failings, but ministers, newspapers, critics and some supporters said the episode raised questions for the publicly-funded broadcaster.
Britain’s justice minister, Robert Buckland, said “doing nothing” was not an option in light of the inquiry by former UK Supreme Court judge John Dyson.
Media minister Oliver Dowden said they would consider whether further reforms were needed during a review of the BBC’s royal charter, which sets the 98-year-old broadcaster’s mission, due in 2022 before it needs to be renewed in 2027.
“I am obviously concerned by the findings of Lord Dyson’s report,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters.
“I can only imagine the feelings of the Royal Family and I hope very much that the BBC will be taking every possible step to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
Some in his Conservative government, including Johnson himself, have voiced skepticism about the BBC’s funding model – a license fee levied on all households with a TV – while many accuse it of being politically biased.
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“There’s got to be a serious governance structural change inside the BBC,” former BBC chairman Michael Grade told BBC radio.
Some newspapers were damning in their assessment of the report, likening the BBC’s failures to a phone-hacking scandal involving tabloid reporters a decade ago.
“Ten years ago, when the phone-hacking scandal closed the News of the World, BBC journalists were among the loudest of those baying for blood and desperate to see The Sun engulfed too,” The Sun newspaper, the twin tabloid of Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World, wrote in its editorial.
“Their stinking hypocrisy is not lost on us.”
However, some critics of print media said the issue was merely being used as revenge.
“Amid the orgy of hypocrisy generated by William’s statement in the press, worth reflecting just how different is the BBC reporting of its own failings today than the lack of such reporting by newspapers … on their own failings,” said Alastair Campbell, former prime minister Tony Blair’s communications chief.
London police said officers would assess the contents of Dyson’s report to see if there was any significant new evidence having previously ruled out a criminal investigation.
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In this file photo taken on August 19, 1995 Princess Diana and their children William and Harry watch the march past on a dais on the mall as part of the commemorations of VJ Day.
In this file photo taken on August 19, 1995 Princess Diana and their children William and Harry watch the march past on a dais on the mall as part of the commemorations of VJ Day. PHOTO BY JOHNNY EGGITT /AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON — The British government vowed on Friday to examine how the BBC was run, after a damning inquiry into how the broadcaster got its bombshell 1995 interview with Princess Diana and unprecedented criticism from her son Prince William.
An independent investigation concluded on Thursday that journalist Martin Bashir lied and deceived to persuade Diana to agree to the interview in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to heir to the throne Prince Charles.
It also lambasted the BBC for its “woefully ineffective” investigation into Bashir’s actions the following year and for covering up his wrongdoing. Bashir tricked Diana’s brother into thinking her staff were spying on her, and could not be trusted.
In a scathing statement, Diana’s eldest son William, now 38, called the way the interview was secured “deceitful.”
“It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”
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His younger brother Prince Harry said the interview was part of a series of unethical practices that ultimately cost his mother her life.
“Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed,” he said.
Diana died aged 36 in a Paris car crash in 1997 having become an effective outcast from the royal family, which she suspected of trying to undermine her as her relationship with Charles, William’s father, collapsed.
The BBC has apologized for its failings, but ministers, newspapers, critics and some supporters said the episode raised questions for the publicly-funded broadcaster.
Britain’s justice minister, Robert Buckland, said “doing nothing” was not an option in light of the inquiry by former UK Supreme Court judge John Dyson.
Media minister Oliver Dowden said they would consider whether further reforms were needed during a review of the BBC’s royal charter, which sets the 98-year-old broadcaster’s mission, due in 2022 before it needs to be renewed in 2027.
“I am obviously concerned by the findings of Lord Dyson’s report,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters.
“I can only imagine the feelings of the Royal Family and I hope very much that the BBC will be taking every possible step to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
Some in his Conservative government, including Johnson himself, have voiced skepticism about the BBC’s funding model – a license fee levied on all households with a TV – while many accuse it of being politically biased.
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“There’s got to be a serious governance structural change inside the BBC,” former BBC chairman Michael Grade told BBC radio.
Some newspapers were damning in their assessment of the report, likening the BBC’s failures to a phone-hacking scandal involving tabloid reporters a decade ago.
“Ten years ago, when the phone-hacking scandal closed the News of the World, BBC journalists were among the loudest of those baying for blood and desperate to see The Sun engulfed too,” The Sun newspaper, the twin tabloid of Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World, wrote in its editorial.
“Their stinking hypocrisy is not lost on us.”
However, some critics of print media said the issue was merely being used as revenge.
“Amid the orgy of hypocrisy generated by William’s statement in the press, worth reflecting just how different is the BBC reporting of its own failings today than the lack of such reporting by newspapers … on their own failings,” said Alastair Campbell, former prime minister Tony Blair’s communications chief.
London police said officers would assess the contents of Dyson’s report to see if there was any significant new evidence having previously ruled out a criminal investigation.
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LONDON — Prince Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana’s death in 1997, and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide.
Harry, now 36, has spoken before about the trauma of losing Diana in a Paris car crash and then having to walk as a 12-year-old behind his mother’s coffin in her funeral cortege under the glare of the world’s media.
“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry told Oprah Winfrey in an Apple TV series about mental health.
“I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night and I would find myself drinking not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something,” he said.
Harry said the loss of his mother accentuated fears about his own wife Meghan when she grappled with suicidal thoughts, although he said the British royal family neglected them both.
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Princess Diana died in 1997 at age 36 in a crash in Paris after the car in which she was traveling with her Egyptian-born boyfriend Dodi Fayed was chased by paparazzi. Harry was 12 years old.
“The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now be put in a position of losing another woman in my life, with a baby inside of her, our baby,” he said.
“I felt completely helpless. I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence or total neglect.”
Harry’s repeated public criticism of the British royal family, led by his 95-year-old grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, and his 72-year-old father, Prince Charles, has created another public relations crisis for the monarchy.
The queen has said she was saddened to learn of the experiences of Harry and Meghan.
She said that while recollections might differ, the royal family would also address issues around race that had been raised by the couple, who said one unnamed royal made a racist comment about their son Archie before he was born.
In the documentary, Harry spoke of walking behind Diana’s coffin through the streets of London with his brother William, father Prince Charles and uncle Charles Spencer.
“The thing I remember most was the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the Mall,” he said. “It was like I was outside of my body, just walking along, doing what was expected of me, showing one tenth of the emotion that everyone was showing.”
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Years earlier, he recalled sitting in the back of his mother’s car while she, in tears, was pursued by photographers.
“One of the feelings that comes up for me always is the helplessness. Being a guy and being too young to help a woman, in this case your mother, and that happened every single day,” he said.
Harry said he buried his feelings, but drank heavily and suffered panic attacks and anxiety in his 20s, and still freaks out when he sees cameras.
“I was so angry with what happened to her (Diana) and the fact there was no justice at all… the same people that chased her through that tunnel photographed her dying on the back seat of that car,” he said.
“The clicking of cameras, and the flash of cameras makes my blood boil. It makes me angry. It takes me back to what happened to my mum, what I experienced as a kid.”
Even now, at age 36, he said that returning to London makes him feel tense and hunted.
Harry said he started serious therapy almost five years ago, when he met Meghan.
“I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work, I had to deal with my past,” he said. The couple married in May 2018.
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LONDON — Prince Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana’s death in 1997, and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide.
Harry, now 36, has spoken before about the trauma of losing Diana in a Paris car crash and then having to walk as a 12-year-old behind his mother’s coffin in her funeral cortege under the glare of the world’s media.
“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry told Oprah Winfrey in an Apple TV series about mental health.
“I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night and I would find myself drinking not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something,” he said.
Harry said the loss of his mother accentuated fears about his own wife Meghan when she grappled with suicidal thoughts, although he said the British royal family neglected them both.
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Princess Diana died in 1997 at age 36 in a crash in Paris after the car in which she was traveling with her Egyptian-born boyfriend Dodi Fayed was chased by paparazzi. Harry was 12 years old.
“The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now be put in a position of losing another woman in my life, with a baby inside of her, our baby,” he said.
“I felt completely helpless. I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence or total neglect.”
Harry’s repeated public criticism of the British royal family, led by his 95-year-old grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, and his 72-year-old father, Prince Charles, has created another public relations crisis for the monarchy.
The queen has said she was saddened to learn of the experiences of Harry and Meghan.
She said that while recollections might differ, the royal family would also address issues around race that had been raised by the couple, who said one unnamed royal made a racist comment about their son Archie before he was born.
In the documentary, Harry spoke of walking behind Diana’s coffin through the streets of London with his brother William, father Prince Charles and uncle Charles Spencer.
“The thing I remember most was the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the Mall,” he said. “It was like I was outside of my body, just walking along, doing what was expected of me, showing one tenth of the emotion that everyone was showing.”
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Years earlier, he recalled sitting in the back of his mother’s car while she, in tears, was pursued by photographers.
“One of the feelings that comes up for me always is the helplessness. Being a guy and being too young to help a woman, in this case your mother, and that happened every single day,” he said.
Harry said he buried his feelings, but drank heavily and suffered panic attacks and anxiety in his 20s, and still freaks out when he sees cameras.
“I was so angry with what happened to her (Diana) and the fact there was no justice at all… the same people that chased her through that tunnel photographed her dying on the back seat of that car,” he said.
“The clicking of cameras, and the flash of cameras makes my blood boil. It makes me angry. It takes me back to what happened to my mum, what I experienced as a kid.”
Even now, at age 36, he said that returning to London makes him feel tense and hunted.
Harry said he started serious therapy almost five years ago, when he met Meghan.
“I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work, I had to deal with my past,” he said. The couple married in May 2018.
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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attends a roundtable discussion on gender equality with The Queen's Commonwealth Trust (QCT) and One Young World at Windsor Castle, Windsor, Britain October 25, 2019.
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Prince Harry was “worried” about returning to the U.K. to attend the funeral of his grandfather Prince Philip, because he feared the trip would trigger the trauma of losing his mother.
The Duke of Sussex was just 12 when his mum, Princess Diana, was killed in a car crash in Paris, France back in 1997, and ever since the tragedy, Harry has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
He flew back from his new home in California in April to join his family in mourning Prince Philip’s passing, but the whole time, the now 36-year-old was wracked with nerves.
“I was worried about it, I was afraid about it,” he told The Associated Press of his trip to the U.K., which he made solo as his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was advised by doctors not to fly as she is pregnant with the couple’s second child.
To cope with the mental health struggles, Harry leaned on techniques he had learned in therapy to pull him through the private memorial service, which was held at St. George’s Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle – the same venue in which he had exchanged vows with his wife back in 2018.
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“Going through the motions and being able to lean on the toolbox, and lean on the learnings that I’ve grown from over the past, it definitely made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds,” he said.
Harry admitted simply being in London was enough to make him anxious because it’s been a “trigger” for him since the death of Diana.
He confessed, “For most of my life I always felt worried, concerned, a little bit tense and uptight whenever I fly back into the U.K., whenever I fly back into London.”
Harry details the trauma he suffered behind closed doors in the years following his mother’s passing and how he’s been processing the pain through therapy in his new Apple TV+ mental health series, The Me You Can’t See, which he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey.
He also opens up about the struggles which led to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s high-profile split from the royal family, which prompted the couple and its two-year-old son Archie to relocate to the U.S. last year.
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Prince Harry was “worried” about returning to the U.K. to attend the funeral of his grandfather Prince Philip, because he feared the trip would trigger the trauma of losing his mother.
The Duke of Sussex was just 12 when his mum, Princess Diana, was killed in a car crash in Paris, France back in 1997, and ever since the tragedy, Harry has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
He flew back from his new home in California in April to join his family in mourning Prince Philip’s passing, but the whole time, the now 36-year-old was wracked with nerves.
“I was worried about it, I was afraid about it,” he told The Associated Press of his trip to the U.K., which he made solo as his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was advised by doctors not to fly as she is pregnant with the couple’s second child.
To cope with the mental health struggles, Harry leaned on techniques he had learned in therapy to pull him through the private memorial service, which was held at St. George’s Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle – the same venue in which he had exchanged vows with his wife back in 2018.
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“Going through the motions and being able to lean on the toolbox, and lean on the learnings that I’ve grown from over the past, it definitely made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds,” he said.
Harry admitted simply being in London was enough to make him anxious because it’s been a “trigger” for him since the death of Diana.
He confessed, “For most of my life I always felt worried, concerned, a little bit tense and uptight whenever I fly back into the U.K., whenever I fly back into London.”
Harry details the trauma he suffered behind closed doors in the years following his mother’s passing and how he’s been processing the pain through therapy in his new Apple TV+ mental health series, The Me You Can’t See, which he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey.
He also opens up about the struggles which led to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s high-profile split from the royal family, which prompted the couple and its two-year-old son Archie to relocate to the U.S. last year.
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Martin Bashir, one of the anchors of the ABC news program 'Nightline', takes part in a panel discussion at the ABC television network Summer press tour for television critics in Beverly Hills, California July 26, 2007.
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LONDON — A former BBC journalist found to have deceived Princess Diana in order to secure an explosive interview with her in 1995 has denied he was responsible for a chain of events that led to her death, a newspaper reported.
Martin Bashir told The Sunday Times he believed his actions did not harm Diana.
An independent investigation published on Thursday found that Bashir lied and deceived Diana that she was being spied upon to persuade her to agree to the interview in which she disclosed details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles.
“I never wanted to harm Diana in any way and I don’t believe we did,” Bashir told The Sunday Times.
Diana’s eldest son William has said the way the interview was secured was “deceitful” and the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to Diana’s “fear, paranoia and isolation.”
His younger brother Prince Harry and Diana’s brother Charles Spencer have said the interview was part of a series of unethical practices that ultimately cost Diana her life in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
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“I don’t feel I can be held responsible for many of the other things that were going on in her life, and the complex issues surrounding those decisions,” Bashir told The Sunday Times in an interview.
“I can understand the motivation… but to channel the tragedy, the difficult relationship between the royal family and the media purely on to my shoulders feels a little unreasonable … The suggestion I am singularly responsible I think is unreasonable and unfair.”
The Sunday Times quoted Bashir as admitting that he used forged bank statements which the inquiry said was part of the deception of Diana. “Obviously I regret it, it was wrong,” he told the newspaper. “But it had no bearing on anything. It had no bearing on (Diana), it had no bearing on the interview.”
Britain’s government said on Friday it would examine how the BBC was run after the inquiry criticized the broadcaster for its “woefully ineffective” investigation into Bashir’s actions.
London’s police force has said officers will assess the contents of the report to see if there was any significant new evidence, having previously ruled out a criminal investigation.
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Martin Bashir, one of the anchors of the ABC news program 'Nightline', takes part in a panel discussion at the ABC television network Summer press tour for television critics in Beverly Hills, California July 26, 2007.
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LONDON — A former BBC journalist found to have deceived Princess Diana in order to secure an explosive interview with her in 1995 has denied he was responsible for a chain of events that led to her death, a newspaper reported.
Martin Bashir told The Sunday Times he believed his actions did not harm Diana.
An independent investigation published on Thursday found that Bashir lied and deceived Diana that she was being spied upon to persuade her to agree to the interview in which she disclosed details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles.
“I never wanted to harm Diana in any way and I don’t believe we did,” Bashir told The Sunday Times.
Diana’s eldest son William has said the way the interview was secured was “deceitful” and the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to Diana’s “fear, paranoia and isolation.”
His younger brother Prince Harry and Diana’s brother Charles Spencer have said the interview was part of a series of unethical practices that ultimately cost Diana her life in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
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“I don’t feel I can be held responsible for many of the other things that were going on in her life, and the complex issues surrounding those decisions,” Bashir told The Sunday Times in an interview.
“I can understand the motivation… but to channel the tragedy, the difficult relationship between the royal family and the media purely on to my shoulders feels a little unreasonable … The suggestion I am singularly responsible I think is unreasonable and unfair.”
The Sunday Times quoted Bashir as admitting that he used forged bank statements which the inquiry said was part of the deception of Diana. “Obviously I regret it, it was wrong,” he told the newspaper. “But it had no bearing on anything. It had no bearing on (Diana), it had no bearing on the interview.”
Britain’s government said on Friday it would examine how the BBC was run after the inquiry criticized the broadcaster for its “woefully ineffective” investigation into Bashir’s actions.
London’s police force has said officers will assess the contents of the report to see if there was any significant new evidence, having previously ruled out a criminal investigation.
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