![]() Louise Prince of Harbottle & Lewis, representing Pettifer, told the High Court the former nanny was “relieved that the BBC accepts that the allegations are completely untrue and without any foundation whatsoever. ![]() Prince William, Prince Harry with Tiggy Legge-Bourke arriving at Heathrow Airport on 26 October 1993. 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. “Instead, as The Duke of Cambridge himself put it, the BBC failed to ask the tough questions. “It is a matter of great regret that the BBC did not get to the facts in the immediate aftermath of the programme when there were warning signs that the interview might have been obtained improperly. Picture: PA Wire/Aaron Chown BBC pays substantial damages over Bashir Diana interviewĭavie said: “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. “Especially because, still today, so much about the making of the programme is yet to be adequately explained.”Īlexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, a former nanny to the Duke of Cambridge, outside the High Court, central London. “I know first-hand how much they were affected at the time, and how the programme and the false narrative it created have haunted the family in the years since. “The distress caused to the royal family is a source of great upset to me. “Sadly, I am one of many people whose lives have been scarred by the deceitful way in which the BBC Panorama was made and the BBC’s subsequent failure to properly investigate the making of the programme. The BBC has already paid out to Mark Killick, a former Panorama journalist who raised concerns about how Bashir secured the interview and was subsequently forced off the programme, and Matt Wiessler, the graphic designer who mocked up faked documents for Bashir without knowing what they would be used for and was later blacklisted by the corporation.Īfter successfully settling her defamation claim, Pettifer said on Thursday she was “disappointed that it needed legal action for the BBC to recognise the serious harm I have been subjected to. The report also found the initial investigation into the circumstances of the interview soon after it aired, led by then-director of news Lord Tony Hall, was “woefully ineffective” while whistleblowing staff suffered after he pledged to “work to deal with leakers and remove persistent troublemakers” from Panorama.ĭavie said today that since publication of that report the corporation has been “working with those who suffered as a result of the deceitful tactics used”. The Dyson report published last year found that Panorama journalist Bashir had used “deceitful behaviour” in a “serious breach” of the BBC’s producer guidelines to secure the interview in which Diana said there were “three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded” in a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles, who Charles later married. ![]() What did the Dyson report find about the BBC Bashir interview? If it wants to broadcast short extracts for a journalistic purpose, the BBC executive committee will have to clear it first, director-general Tim Davie said. ![]() The broadcaster then also pledged never to air or license out footage of the 1995 Panorama interview again. OctoGoogle's latest core algorithm change hits major news publishers harder than 'helpful content' update
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