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    Why could none of us see the problem with Martin Bashir's Diana interview? | Gaby Hinsliff

    Earl Spencer’s claims might seem like ancient history, but they show the human cost of commodifying women in the public eye
    by Gaby Hinsliff Nov 09, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘It doubtless helped that in those days Diana was still widely portrayed as a knowingly manipulative player of the media game.’ Photograph: Rex Shutterstock

    If it happened today, we’d call it gaslighting.

    There’s surely no other word for playing on someone’s darkest suspicions, planting seeds of doubt that could only leave her more bewildered about whom to trust. It would be a scandal now if it was alleged that a journalist had with an emotionally fragile woman – for everyone knew Princess Diana’s history of eating disorders, her belief the palace was out to get her, the tales of her trying to throw herself down the stairs as her marriage imploded – after showing members of her

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