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The Queen described Princess Diana’s sensational Panorama interview with Martin Bashir as a “frightful thing that my daughter-in-law did,” a new TV show will claim. The surprise revelation comes from former BBC Governor and Royal National Theatre boss Richard Eyre in a documentary that also uncovers that the BBC decided against officially telling Buckingham Palace about the controversial interview, and that Diana was “rehearsed” to answer the questions. The feature length film, Diana: The Interview That Shocked The World tells the story of how a virtually unknown journalist, Martin Bashir, landed the interview of the century in 1995. But it’s the revelation of the Queen’s attitude to the Panorama interview that will surprise observers since the monarch rarely gives her opinion on issues if at all. Said Richard Eyre: “I had lunch with the Queen not long after [the interview went out]. She said to me unprompted, ‘How are things at the BBC?’ I said, ‘Fine’. She said, ‘Frightful thing to d...