Brooks, who is among the seven defendants on trial,denies conspiracy to hack phones, conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office, and two counts of conspiring to pervert the course of justicehree years later Diana would open up to Bashir about the state of her marriage to Charles, in an explosive BBC interview that ultimately led to the royal couple's divorce the following year. Diana, the mother of Princes William and Harry, was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Asked how he used the information in the royal directories, Goodman described one story he wrote about the flying of the flag at Buckingham Palace after Diana's death.