Princess Diana's emotional "Queen of Hearts" interview of 1995 has been voted the most memorable in broadcasting history, a survey of British television viewers has found.
A poll of 3,000 viewers commissioned for the UKTV Gold channel voted the Diana interview most memorable of all time, ahead of Sir David Frost's 1977 interview with former US president Richard Nixon who admitted having let his country down in the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation.
Diana, princess of Wales, told Panorama interviewer Martin Bashir that "there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," referring to then-estranged husband Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he finally married in 2005.
She also said that she did not expect to be Queen but she would like to be "a queen of people's hearts." As a result of her comments, the Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles became the subject of increasingly acute public attention.
Diana also admitted her own adultery with James Hewitt. "I was in love with him. But I was very let down," she said.
She insisted she did not want a divorce from Charles.
Just a month later the Queen wrote to Charles and Diana asking them to seek an early divorce. Their marriage ended in August 1996 and Diana was stripped of her Royal Highness title. She died in a Paris car crash a year later.
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