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Prince William thinks Netflix is profiteering by re-enacting his mother Diana's BBC Panorama interview, palace sources have said.
The streaming giant will recreate excerpts of Diana’s 1995 encounter with journalist Martin Bashir for the fifth series of The Crown.
A source told The Telegraph that the Prince of Wales made his feelings 'very clear' and a depiction in the show would be 'met in the way you would expect'.
They added it was understandable that he was angered about the 'dramatisation of it for financial gain'.
An independent inquiry found that Bashir deceived Diana to get the interview, seen by more than 20 million viewers, and then lied to BBC managers.
He got a BBC graphic artist to produce fake bank statements that appeared to show payments by a newspaper group to an ex-member of staff of Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother.
The inquiry said this was to gain the Earl’s confidence so he would introduce Bashir to Diana.
Prince William thinks Netflix is profiteering by re-enacting his mother Diana's BBC Panorama interview, palace sources have said
The streaming giant will recreate excerpts of Diana’s 1995 encounter with journalist Martin Bashir for the fifth series of The Crown
Prince William has previously been an outspoken critic of the interview being aired by broadcasters
It is thought the interview contributed to her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 - a year prior to her fatal car crash in the Tunnel de l'Alma in Paris.
Series 5 of The Crown opens in 1991, and a key plotline is the deteriorating relationship between Charles, played by Dominic West, and Diana, portrayed by The Night Manager’s Elizabeth Debicki.
It is understood that Netflix, which has cast Prasanna Puwanarajah in the role of Bashir, will show how the discredited reporter persuaded Diana to give the interview by playing on her paranoia.
But to tell the story, it will recreate what an insider called ‘snippets’ from Diana’s Panorama appearance.
However, any reference to the interview, even if critical of Bashir, is likely to be greeted with dismay in Buckingham Palace.
Prince William has previously been an outspoken critic of the interview being aired by broadcasters.
In May last year, he said: 'It is my firm view that this programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again.
'It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised
