Martin Bashir

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Martin Bashir scandal to cost BBC £4m as 'scoop of the century ... (iNews)

Prince William's former nanny Tiggy-Legge Bourke accepts £200000 damages over smears used to secure interview, adding to BBC's total bill.

The £1.5m charity payment is believed to be imminent. A spokesman said the force’s position had not changed since then. That figure includes £1.15m estimated profits from selling the now-discredited interview to global broadcasters, plus reparations. The solicitor said that the “totally unfounded” allegations “appeared to exploit some prior false speculation in the media” about Charles and Ms Legge-Bourke, whose duties at the time involved looking after William and his brother Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Accepting damages of about £200,000, she said she was “disappointed” that she had to take legal action against the BBC for the broadcaster to acknowledge the harm done to her. The BBC accepted that “false and malicious allegations” were made about Pettifer to induce Diana, Princess of Wales, to agree to the Panorama interview in 1995.

BBC pledges never to air or license Martin Bashir's Diana interview ... (Press Gazette)

The BBC has paid damages to the former nanny of Prince William and Prince Harry following the investigation into how Martin Bashir secured his world-famous ...

“She is also pleased that the BBC has agreed to apologise unreservedly… It has also agreed to pay her legal costs.” I would urge others to exercise similar restraint.” We let her, The Royal Family and our audiences down.” Had we done our job properly Princess Diana would have known the truth during her lifetime. “The BBC has agreed to pay to her a substantial sum of damages…

Where is Martin Bashir now - and why was the Princess Diana ... (goodtoknow)

The tell-all Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995 may have been the journalist's most iconic, but where is he now and was it worth the risk?

Harry also issued a full statement linking "unethical practices" to the princess' death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Both the BBC and Bashir have apologised over the matter. However, the full extent of the deceit experienced by Diana would go unknown until 2021, when an independent inquiry (opens in new tab) by Lord Dyson, a former senior judge, uncovered the full picture. This sparked a new controversy with Martin Bashir at the centre - and one that left Prince William and Harry 'sick with rage' (opens in new tab). He said, “The ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took her life. The Lord Dyson inquiry said this was to gain Earl Spencer's confidence so he would introduce Bashir to Diana. The quote came via a 1995 note written after Bashir was asked by BBC executives to provide evidence Diana had not been shown fake bank statements. In the interview, Diana famously commented on Prince Charles’ relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, saying, "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded." He was also accused of lying to her brother Earl Spencer to bring him on side, and claimed the former royal nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, had an affair with Prince Charles. Jonathan Munro, the BBC’s deputy director of news, said in a message to staff, “We wish him a complete and speedy recovery.” At the end of 2020, Martin Bashir had major cardiac surgery and was admitted to hospital for another procedure on his heart in February 2021. Sign up to the GoodTo Newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time.

BBC will 'never' show Princess Diana's Panorama interview with ... (WalesOnline)

The BBC broadcast clips from the interview again last May in a documentary explaining how Bashir persuaded Diana to be interviewed. The landmark programme, in ...

The BBC broadcast clips from the interview again last May in a documentary explaining how Bashir persuaded Diana to be interviewed. It comes as the Duke of Cambridge’s former nanny Alexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, received substantial damages from the BBC over "false and malicious" allegations used to obtain the interview. Tim Davie said: “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.

BBC makes public apology to Prince Charles, William and Harry for ... (Mirror.co.uk)

The broadcaster agreed to pay substantial damages to the Duke of Cambridge's ex-nanny over 'false and malicious' allegations about her used to obtain the ...

We let her, The Royal Family and our audiences down. Had we done our job properly Princess Diana would have known the truth during her lifetime. Ms Prince said that Ms Legge-Bourke had not known the source of the allegations over the last 25 years, but that it was now likely that the "false and malicious allegations arose as a result and in the context of BBC Panorama's efforts to procure an exclusive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales".

BBC to pay 'substantial' damages to former nanny of William and ... (Sky News)

Alexandra Pettifer, previously known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, "felt she had to prove to others that the allegations were untrue by revealing highly sensitive ...

A long shadow has been cast over relationships with those close and dear to her." Mr Davie said it was a "matter of great regret" that the "BBC did not get to the facts in the immediate aftermath of the programme". Ms Prince added: "The allegations were fabricated. Tim Davie, BBC director-general, said on Wednesday: "The BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to Mrs Pettifer and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise publicly to her, to the Prince of Wales, and to the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, for the way in which Princess Diana was deceived and the subsequent impact on all their lives." Ms Prince said the allegations appeared to have arisen "in the context of BBC Panorama's efforts to procure an exclusive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales". The lawyer went on: "The claimant did not have an affair with HRH The Prince of Wales, did not become pregnant with his child, and did not have an abortion."