The former private secretary of the Princess Diana, Patrick Joseph has broken his silence after understanding the full truth behind the late Princess' estrangement from him.
In an interview with People Magazine, Patrick admitted that he had no idea about why Diana's attitude towards him shifted to an extent that he had no choice, but to resign in January 1996.
The new book Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-Up—The Betrayal of Princess Diana by investigative journalist Andy Webb has unveiled that BBC journalist Martin Bashir convinced Diana that her loyal aides are secretly spying on her, which led to the late Princess withdrawing from the very people who could've guided her.
The mother of Prince Harry and Prince William had no idea that Martin had used forged documents to manipulate her to secure infamous 1995 Panorama interview.
Patrick tells People Magazine, "It is chilling to re-run those events and feel that Diana was seeing me as the enemy within. I had no understanding of what had changed."
Now, after findings by Andy Webb, Patrick understood that Martin told "her I was betraying her."
The former secretary said, "It was horrifying. I now understand the lengths he was prepared to go to."
"It was chilling, creepy and cruel. But at the same time, thanks to Andy, I now understand what went wrong and why. For 25 years, I never understood what went wrong, and whether it was my fault," he added.
As per Patrick, during the final days of Princess Diana's death, she was "putting her trust in people who were not qualified to look after her. If I was still running her program then, and her administrative arrangements, there would have been appropriate oversight of her visit to Paris."
"By making Diana distrust every kind of official protection and benign, albeit sometimes irksome, oversight of her day-to-day organization, she put herself in a position where she had to accept the protection of people who were not competent to look after her," Patrick Jephson noted.
Princess Diana passed away in a tragic accident in Paris on August 31, 1997 at the age of 36, when her children Prince William and Prince Harry were only 15 and 12 respectively.
