Alan Waller had claimed his bank statements were forged by Martin Bashir to help secure an interview with late Princes Diana in an effort to encourage her to be interviewed on Panorama. The BBC has reached a settlement with Earl Spencer’s head of security.
2021, an inquiry led by Lord Dyson found Bashir acted in a deceitful way to secure an interview with Princes Diana. The Corporation said it had now settled with Mr. Waller and published a statement last Thursday “ Following the publication of the Dyson Report last year, the BBC and Alan Waller, a former employee of the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, today announce that a settlement has been reached between them. The BBC has agreed to pay Mr. Walter an agreed sum in damages and to pay his reasonable costs and apologises to him for the false information included in the fabricated bank statements used to procure the 1995 interview with Diana Princess of Wales. The BBC hopes that Mr. Waller is now able to draw a line under this chapter, and we wish him the best for the future”.
Bashir’s interview with Princes Diana watched by 20 million people, was broadcast by Panorama in late 1995, when she was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced. In it, the princes famously said, “ there were three of us in this marriage”.