Princess Diana was like a ‘wounded deer’ day after Martin Bashir interview claims Loose Women’s Jane Moore: ‘I could sense she regretted it’

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Loose Women’s Jane Moore recalled Princess Diana looking like a ‘wounded dear’ the day after her infamous Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in 1995.

An inquiry into how Martin secured the chat concluded that he was deceitful in his pursuit of the Princess of Wales, using false bank statements which may have convinced her to open up about her turbulent life in the royal family and marriage to Prince Charles.

Diana died two years after the interview in a car crash in Paris, France in August 1997.

Jane revealed on today’s episode of the ITV show that she had shared a flight with Diana to Buenos Aries, and she claims she could tell exactly how she felt at the time over her discussion with the presenter.

She explained: ‘I could sense straight away that she regretted it. Because I think she didn’t anticipate the reaction that it would have.’

Jane added that she believes there may have been a fallout in the royal family by the time the interview had taken place.

‘I could tell she was a bit like a wounded deer when she got on the plane,’ she said.

Jane remembers seeing Diana boarding the plane looking like the princess the public were used to seeing, before she switched into a tracksuit and took her make-up off, later falling asleep with a blanket over her head.

She then said that she later saw Diana getting dressed up again to get off the plane and thinking to herself: ‘God that is a tough life.’

‘I saw first hand how tricky her life was,’ she added.

However, Jane also said that Diana ‘knew what she was doing’ when she agreed to the interview, and she was not simply an ‘innocent simpleton’ who was manipulated and told what to say.

It comes after the Princess’ close friend Paul Burrell insisted that her death was ‘not caused’ by the interview.

Speaking to Susanna Reid and Bill Turnbull on Good Morning Britain, Paul described Martin as being like an ‘excited child’ whenever he was snuck into Kensington Palace.

‘He was so excited about coming to Kensington Palace, every time he came he sort of romped up the staircase and, “Hi Di, how are you?” They were very friendly and very chatty with each other. The princess trusted him – maybe she trusted him a little bit too much at times,’ Burrell said.

Sharing his thoughts on Diana’s brother Earl Spencer’s comments that he ‘draws a line’ between the Panorama interview and her death, Paul said: ‘But don’t underestimate the princess in all of this. She was a professional, this Panorama interview certainly did accelerate the process of her divorce. But I’m not of the opinion that this caused her death. 

Martin has also said he ‘never wanted to harm’ Diana with his interview, adding: ‘I don’t believe we did’.

‘Of course, her life was accelerated by this, she was catapulted onto the world stage… It was a tool to an end, it was never a tool to her death.’ 

He maintained Diana was never unhappy about the content of the interview and said they continued to be friends after the broadcast, with the princess even visiting his wife Deborah at St George’s hospital in Tooting, South London, on the day she gave birth to the couple’s third child, Eliza.

He said he is ‘deeply sorry’ to the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, but disputes William’s charge that he fuelled her isolation and paranoia.

The BBC board has since announced it will ‘review’ the BBC’s editoral polices and governance in detail.

Loose Women continues tomorrow at 12:30pm on ITV.

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