BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to former royal nanny Alexandra Pettifer, previously known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, after “false and malicious” claims that she had an affair with Prince Charles and terminated a pregnancy.
The allegations were made by disgraced journalist Martin Bashir, in order to secure his 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.
Last year, a report found Bashir “guilty of deceit” in which, at the time, he persuaded Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer with the false claims to obtain the bombshell interview.
What was once hailed as one of the all-time great journalistic scoops, with Diana sharing details over her and Prince Charles’ failed marriage in front of millions of people, is now considered so toxic that BBC director-general Tim Davie has pledged never to show the program again.
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