Diana investigator on coming face to face with Charles in police interview ‘Remarkable’ | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV
David Douglas joined Ranvir Singh and Paul Brand on Good Morning Britain on Friday to discuss the documentary. It will explore the police investigations following Princess Diana’s death and the conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic accident. As part of the investigation, Douglas spoke to Prince Charles for a witness statement.
Douglas recalled: “He didn’t appear to be nervous. It was one of those days where it was remarkable.
“You don’t always go into St James’ Palace with the ex-commissioner, who had been in charge of me, to interview His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.
“It’s remarkable in that way but in actual fact, it was also unremarkable, because it was a straight forward witness statement from someone who happened to be the Prince of Wales.
“When we went in, I’d never met him before obviously, I found him charming. He was very polite and friendly.
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“We sat down. It was Lord Stevens, the Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales’ private secretary who was also there, Sir Michael Peat, and myself, just the four of us in the room.
“Lord Stevens obviously took the lead and talked to Prince Charles about that note and what became obvious was Prince Charles knew nothing about that note until it became note in 2003.
“He knew no more than we did. We asked a few questions about that.”
The note Charles was asked about referred to the “Burrell note” and was allegedly written from Diana to her butler Paul Burrell about her fears she was in danger.
“I think that covers a lot of it,” Douglas answered.
His comments come after Lord Stevens joined This Morning on Thursday and insisted it was “time for the story to be told” about Diana’s death.
Addressing his hopes for the documentary, Stevens remarked: “Well it’s transparency, [we want] people to understand what we did and why we did it and what the conclusions were.
“Maybe they will come to the same conclusions the jury did at the coroner’s court.”
