25 years after Princess Diana’s bombshell interview with the BBC, her brother Earl Charles Spencer claims that she was set up with forged information to agree to the interview.

Let’s start from the beginning: In November 1995 Princess Diana was interviewed by Martin Bashir for his Panorama program on the BBC. That interview was watched by 23 million viewers in the UK and made headlines around the world. Three years after Diana and Charles agreed to split, Diana was unbelievably open in her revelations about her failed marriage to Prince Charles and her own private affairs in that interview. Diana told Martin Bashir “that there were three [of us] in that marriage” and that “it was a bit crowded”. She went on to allege that she didn’t see Charles fit to be the next king – which must have sent shockwaves through Buckingham Palace! But Diana didn’t stop there. She went on to admit that she also had an affair after she was sure that her marriage was irretrievably broken thus substantiating the already existing rumors about that.

That interview marked a turning point in Diana’s already frosty relationship with the royal family. After the interview the palace froze Diana completely out of their ranks and she was left to fend for herself. Worse: Her son Prince William didn’t speak to her for a while because he was devastated by the fact that his mother would so publicly wash the family’s dirty laundry. Diana was said to have regretted the interview shortly before her tragic death two years later. The only ones who benefitted from that interview were Martin Bashir and the BBC.

Now 25 years later, Diana’s younger brother Earl Charles Spencer claims that his sister was coerced into agreeing to the interview based on forfeited information. Earl Spencer introduced Diana to the young and aspiring TV journalist Bashir only because he was given bank statements that allegedly showed that two senior courtiers were already on the payroll of certain media outlets set to leak compromising information to the press. Earl Spencer and Princess Diana believed that they needed to set the record straight when it came to War of the Wales’ – as the bitter feud between Prince Charles and Princess Diana was called. Diana felt compelled to tell her side of the story because she feared that Prince Charles could change the narrative in his favor with the help of the Palace and its massively influential PR teams. Given this context, Diana felt the need to go public.

The BBC has apologized for the fact that there were forged information that were shown to Diana and her brother. However, they claim that Diana allegedly has signed a document confirming that she did not see those forged documents. That handwritten document, however, is lost. BBC conceded that it was a bad idea to have these documents made in the first place, but insist that “that in no way were the documents used to gain the interview with Princess Diana.”

That’s not enough for Earl Spencer who accuses the BBC of a “piecemeal apology” and not accepting “the full gravity” of the situation.” He wants a posthumous apology to his sister and a share of the profits that were made through the interview.