BBC to pay compensation to princes’ ex-nanny William and Henry, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, for “false and malicious” accusations made against him for interviewing Princess Diana in 1995.
Alexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, this Thursday London High Court An internal investigation unfolded in 2020 to hear a public apology from the station, whose employee Martin Bashir used “dishonest” tactics to secure this interview.
According to that researchBashir, who resigned due to “health problems” in May 2021, used false documentsLike bank statements to convince Diana’s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, that it’s in the Princess of Wales’s best interest to talk to the Panorama program.
Regarding the nanny, it was falsely claimed: While working as her personal assistant in 1995, she had an affair with the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, and had an abortion. The BBC itself reports.
Interview with Dianaor big impact at that time, pA year before the princess died in a car accident in Paris, she voiced the problems of her relationship with Carlos, whom she broke up with in 1992 and divorced in 1996.
Legge-Bourke’s lawyer, Louise Prince, told the London court: these slanders had “serious personal consequences for all concerned.”
He recorded it though.e For 25 years your client did not know where he came from, Research on Bashir’s methods shows that they are relevant to the purpose of obtaining the interview.
The BBC’s managing director, Tim Davie, said the company “wanted to take this opportunity to apologize to him publicly”. The Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Catherine) and Sussex (Henry and Meghan), Because of the way Princess Diana was cheated and the effect it had on her entire subsequent life.”