So while Bashir is clearly presented as manipulative, and heartlessly exploiting Diana’s fears, Diana is seen several times making phone calls which do indeed feature mysterious whirls or clicks, including a call with her acupuncturist and a phone call with William. This, The Crown implies, gives him the idea of faking bank statements to present to Spencer, which he has since admitted to doing.īashir is seen telling Spencer that the bank statements prove that not only is he being bugged but that so, also, is his sister, and controversially implicates Patrick Jephson, Diana’s private secretary at the time, as, “a spy.” The Crown shows the sense of un-named and anonymous watchers and it’s absolutely true, there is no need for Peter Morgan to make anything up.”ĭiana’s fears are revisited in Episode 7, when Martin Bashir, the interviewer who would subsequently conduct the bombshell Panorama interview with Diana, reads a newspaper clipping saying that her brother Charles Spencer’s security guard, Alan Waller, has been convicted of leaking Spencer’s private information, selling to a newspaper a private letter of Spencer’s which was critical of the princess’s behavior. “Yes, we had Diana’s rooms swept for bugs. Morton confirmed to The Daily Beast that this really happened. Morton told The Daily Beast: “Writing that book was the royal equivalent off All The President’s Men. The implication is that shady figures within the establishment and the security services are trying to stop Diana from telling her story. In another sequence, Colthurst is seen being knocked off his bike as he cycles through London, while Morton suffers a break-in his office is shown ransacked. The background to all this is that she is starting to collaborate with Morton, then a royal correspondent, using tapes supplied to him by an intermediary, James Colthurst.

Her private secretary Patrick Jephson replies: “It’s my understanding that every call, incoming and outgoing, goes through the main palace switchboard, making it very difficult indeed to set up a tap.”ĭiana responds: “Yes, but not impossible.” I heard a click on our line this morning. I’m not speaking on this thing again, ever. When the phone rings, she says: “I’m not answering that.

The theme is established in the second episode, when Diana starts to express anxiety about hearing strange clicks and noises on her phone. One of the themes in the new series of the Netflix show is that Princess Diana believes her phone is being bugged, and that she is being spied on by Britain’s security services. It was like being back in the room with her 30 years ago. He said: “I was blown away by how authentic Elizabeth Debicki was in her portrayal of Diana.

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