Princess Diana wanted to tell Britain about the injustice done to her
Princess Diana didn't mind sitting with Martin Bashir.
Biographer Tina Brown states in her book Royal Family that Diana's friends admit that their sources suggest that the Princess of Wales was more than happy with the Panorama interview and said exactly what she wanted to portray.
Gulu Lalwani, who had dated Diana during her lifetime, told Ms Brown: "Diana said she has no regrets about the interview and clarified that she said exactly what she wanted to say on camera."
Ms Brown said: "Her 'object' was to prepare herself for the British public as an unfaithful woman before her increasingly inevitable divorce from Charles."
Diana's friends also said that they "didn't have a bad word to say about Martin Bashir" despite the interview being secured under false pretense.
Prior to the publication of her book, Ms Brown denied that the princess was a 'vulnerable' victim of the media.
"I no longer subscribe to the widespread narrative that Diana was a vulnerable victim of media manipulation, a mere puppet tossed by malicious forces beyond her control.
"While deeply sympathetic to the pain of my sons, I find it disrespectful to present the cunning, resourceful Diana as a woman of no agency, either a foolish, deceitful child or a helpless casualty of malicious bullies."