BBC Issues Formal Apology to Princes William, Harry and Charles Over Controversial Princess Diana Interview

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Righting wrongs. Prince Charles and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, received an apology from BBC director general Tim Davie for the late Princess Diana‘s infamous Panorama interview.“It is a matter of great regret that the BBC did not get to the facts in the immediate aftermath of the program when there were warning signs that the interview might have been obtained improperly.

Instead, as The Duke of Cambridge himself put it, the BBC failed to ask the tough questions. Had we done our job properly Princess Diana would have known the truth during her lifetime.

We let her, The Royal Family and our audiences down,” read a statement from Davie shared via the network’s website on Thursday, July 21. “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained I have decided that the BBC will never show the program again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.”The statement was issued shortly after Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who nannied William, 40, and Harry, 38, throughout their childhood, won a defamation case against the BBC in the London High Court on Thursday.

The former royal caretaker, 57, filed a lawsuit regarding claims in the 1995 interview that she had an affair with Charles, 73, and received a “substantial” sum from the network.“I would like to take this opportunity to apologize 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,” Davie continued.The interview with the late Princess of Wales will “remain part of the historical record and there may be occasions in the future when it will be justified for the BBC to use short extracts for journalistic