Princess Diana's shocking 1995 interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir is back in the headlines 25 years later, thanks to Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer's (opens in new tab) claim that she was tricked into participating in the "Panorama" interview using fake bank documents. Thanks to his claims, 25 years later, the story is once again making headlines. While many of the explosive revelations about Diana's life in the royal family have been documented widely enough to be quotable, some of Diana's quieter comments are less well known but equally telling.

Diana talked about the pressures of the media spotlight and then began to perceive herself as a "commodity," a very profitable one at that. She told E! News, "My husband and I were told when we got engaged that the media would go away quietly, but it didn't, and when we got married, they said it would go away quietly, but it didn't." (Open in new tab) "Then the media started focusing on me, and it was like I was on the front page of the newspaper every day, and it was an isolating experience, and the higher the media thought of you, the higher they thought of you, the bigger the fallout. I was very aware of that

"For years, you see yourself as a good commodity that gets put on the shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money off of you," she added.

In an interview in which she discussed bulimia, self-harm, and her troubled marriage to Prince Charles, Diana said she resented being perceived as intellectually inferior to her husband. 'I once made the grave mistake of telling a child that I was thick as a board to ease his nerves,' she said. But the headlines went all over the world, and I rather regret having said it."

Diana said that she and her estranged husband had common interests. She said, "We both liked people, we both liked country living, we both liked kids, we both liked working in the oncology field and in hospice. But when it came to her own interests, she told ....... 'I think I always got no credit for growing up because I kept being the 18-year-old girl he got engaged to. I had to grow up."