Prince William reportedly still feels "hurt and pain" over Princess Diana's infamous BBC Panorama interview and believes his mother would never have given it without manipulation.
Diana gave the bombshell interview in 1995 to Martin Bashir, where she talked at length about her private life and her crumbling marriage to Prince Charles.
She also uttered the infamous line “there were three of us in the marriage, so it was a bit crowded” in relation to her husband’s affair with his now-wife Camilla.
Last week, the BBC issued a public apology to William, Charles and Prince Harry and agreed to pay substantial damages to William and Harry's ex-nanny over "false and malicious" allegations about her used to obtain the interview.
And according to the Sunday Times, William is understood to think the BBC has "not gone far enough" in questioning the "legitimacy" of the Panorama interview.
The publication adds that he thinks Diana would not have agreed to the interview without manipulation by Bashir and still feels "a lot of hurt and pain" over the scandal.
Last week, former nanny Alexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, appeared at the High Court in London over "fabricated" claims she had had an affair with Charles while working as his personal assistant in 1995.
Her solicitor Louise Prince told the court that the allegations caused "serious personal consequences for all concerned".
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As well as the allegation of the affair, the court was told Ms Legge-Bourke was falsely accused of becoming pregnant with Charles' baby and having an abortion.
Ms Prince said that Ms Legge-Bourke had not known the source of the allegations over the last 25 years, but that it was now likely that the "false and malicious allegations arose as a result and in the context of BBC Panorama's efforts to procure an exclusive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales".
The court was told that the Dyson Investigation, commissioned by the broadcaster, had "shed some light" on how the interview had been secured.
The solicitor said that the "totally unfounded" allegations "appeared to exploit some prior false speculation in the media" about Ms Legge-Bourke and Charles.
Previously, an inquiry led by Lord Dyson found the BBC covered up Bashir’s “deceitful behaviour” to secure his headline-making interview with Diana and “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency.”
The journalist was in “serious breach” of the BBC’s producer guidelines when he faked bank statements and showed them to Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, to gain access to her, the report said.
Last Thursday, BBC boss Tim Davie said: “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.
“It does of course remain part of the historical record and there may be occasions in the future when it will be justified for the BBC to use short extracts for journalistic purposes, but these will be few and far between and will need to be agreed at executive committee level and set in the full context of what we now know about the way the interview was obtained.
“I would urge others to exercise similar restraint.”
