Princess Diana confided to friend Rosa Monckton her deep regret over the 1995 Panorama interview, fearing it harmed sons William and Harry, just 10 days before her tragic death in 1997. (148 characters)
Diana shared this private remorse during a final holiday in Greece with close friend Rosa Monckton in August 1997.
“She told me she regretted doing it because of the harm she thought it had done to her boys,” Monckton later revealed.
Monckton noted Diana's fragile state made her vulnerable to interviewer Martin Bashir's tactics.
The infamous BBC Panorama interview aired in 1995, exposing personal royal matters that Diana believed damaged her young sons, then aged 15 and 12. She never learned the full extent of Bashir's deceptions, like forged documents, before passing away on August 31.