Whereas
this is a long running project, started over 35 years ago, with the initial
operational plan being for Diana to simply obtain a modest revenue from a
couple of autobiographical (ghost-written) books, the project then became more
professional with the recruitment of a group of efficient, and well-funded, managers;
and, they in turn hired very effective and professional researchers to investigate
and produce the necessary data, and evidence, that in turn could provide the ghost-writers
with material for their efforts. Very rapidly, the evidence and disclosures
contained in the Archive grew and pointed fingers at culpable individuals whom
were then afraid of the possibility of public exposure, and possible criminal
prosecution for their activities. Those individuals were then very keen to
purchase Non-Disclosure Agreements.
The initial
ambition of providing Diana with both an income, and a platform for her to
express her frustrations and accusations, was superseded by the realisation
that Diana could both control various parties, and obtain very substantial NDA
payments from them, by simply not publishing the accusatory information that
had been gathered by the project.
As the
business plan evolved, Diana and her advisors realised that they could actually
control those they regarded as being in the enemy camp, and then get paid substantial
amounts of offshore cash, for Diana not denouncing her adversaries in public.
It was clear at that moment that Diana, and perhaps Forstmann, both saw an
escape route for Diana, and the weapons they needed to use against Diana
oppressors and opponents; and to ultimately free Diana from her captivity in ‘the
Windsor Herd’.
In 1997 Diana Spencer died, however the project Trusts were still receiving the NDA
revenues, and the Trustees decided to allow those individuals and entities benefitting
from the NDAs to continue paying (with certain additional performance
conditions and provisos attached to the agreement). Those NDA revenues were
used by the Trusts both for donations to the charities and organisations
supported by the Diana during her life (and/or the types of charities she would
have wanted to support), and to continue the research being done for the
publication project.
Indeed,
under Forstmann’s subsequent control of the Trusts, the NDA payments actually increased as
Forstmann’s representatives became more assertive with the NDA payees. The
objective was to entirely deplete the illicit and corrupt offshore nest-eggs of
criminal proceeds, bakhshes, and bribes, collected over the decades by those
payees. For many of the malefactors, those nest-eggs actually represented their
escape route finances; and indeed, such considerations had obsessed the Windsor
Herd, and their confederates, for centuries, as they waited for the knock on
the door from the Accusateur, and the
dreaded appointment with Madame Guillotine.
The first
substantive NDA lapsed in 2021 due to the death of Philip Glücksburg, a man
with a vast retinue of skeletons in his cupboard, and a second (and more
critical) NDA lapsed in 2022 with the death of Elizabeth Windsor, a woman with
considerable fantasy pretentions, and fears of denunciation. However, whereas
the payments for the NDAs would persist due to the instructions given (by the above NDA payees) to their legal representatives, those now deceased individuals were
unable to continue the performance of their side of the agreement, namely that
Elizabeth Windsor would not resign her job function, and hand over her Disneyland on the Thames role to Charles
Windsor. Thus, inevitably, the Trusts had to decide when to terminate the NDAs,
and to publish according to the documented wishes of the settlors of the
Trusts.