The BBC agreed on Thursday to pay “substantial” compensation for damages to the former nanny of Princes William and Harrywho was the subject of false accusations to get an interview with Princess Diana in 1995.
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This agreement is part of the scandal over the deceptive methods used by British public television to obtain the explosive interview, which was seen by 23 million viewers, in which the Princess of Wales admitted from her bulimia to an extramarital affair.
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Alexandra Pettifer, a former nanny to Diana’s children, better known by her maiden name Tiggy Legge-Bourke, had sued the BBC over “fabricated” allegations that she had an affair with Prince Charles.
His lawyer, Louise Prince, told the High Court in London that her client was “relieved that the BBC recognized that the accusations were totally false and unfounded”.
“The BBC has agreed to pay Pettifer substantial compensation and I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to her, the Prince of Wales and
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Sussex for the way Princess Diana was deceived
and the impact it had on their lives,” group CEO Tim Davie said in a statement.
“If we had done our job well, Princess Diana,” who died in 1997 in a traffic accident in Paris, “would have known the truth,” he added.
In an independent report published in May 2021, former judge John Dyson put
reveals the deceptive methods used by the journalist Martin Bashir to get the interview and criticized the BBC for its handling of the case.
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Bashir showed fake bank statements to Diana’s brotherCharles Spencer, to make her believe that the security services paid two people in court to spy on her.
According to Charles Spencer, that was what prompted him to put the journalist in contact with
Lady Di.
After this explosive exclusive, Bashir continued his career in the United States before
returning to the UK to work for the BBC, from where he resigned in May.
The BBC has already compensated Diana’s former private secretary in this case and reached a financial settlement with a graphic designer who was fired after exposing Bashir’s deceptive methods.
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*With information from AFP
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