November 20, 1995 marked Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's 48th wedding anniversary, but on the same night, the Royal Family was faced with one of its biggest scandals when Princess Diana's Panorama interview aired. In the extraordinary 54-minute BBC program, Diana confessed everything from adultery to self-harm to bulimia, even sharing that she didn't think Prince Charles was fit to become King. But it was later revealed that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used deceitful tactics to convince Diana into sitting down with him—a choice author Andy Webb says shaped royal history forever and, in part, contributed to Diana's 1997 death.
Webb, a documentary filmmaker and former BBC journalist, released his new book Dianarama on Tuesday, November 25. He tells Marie Claire that he decided to tell the story behind Bashir, the BBC and Diana after having "long, long been convinced that there is a terrible story here which has not nearly been told in full."
