The BBC is decided to pay “mammoth” damages to the historical nanny to Princes WIlliam and Harry over claims made by disgraced journalist Martin Bashir that she had an affair with the Duke of Wales.
A file by the UK nationwide broadcaster last yr found that Bashir had “deceived and induced” Earl Spencer, the brother of Princess Diana, to fetch his 1995 Panorama interview alongside side her.
In doing so, he is alleged to personal knowledgeable the Earl that royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke had an affair with Prince Charles which ended in a terminated pregnancy.
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Her lawyer Louise Prince acknowledged the “very severe and fully spurious allegations” had been fabricatd.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke (married name Mrs Alexandra Pettifer) in 2000. Credit rating: John Stillwell – PA Pictures/PA Pictures via Getty Pictures“The claimant didn’t personal an affair with HRH The Prince of Wales, didn’t became pregnant with his diminutive one, and didn’t personal an abortion,” Prince acknowledged.
She added that the allegations impacted the nanny’s relationship with Princess Diana, causing Ms Legge-Bourke, whose married name is Alexandra Pettifer, to became “extremely upset and puzzled”.
“She felt she needed to display to others that the allegations had been fraudulent by revealing extremely level-headed matters, alongside side deepest medical data,” Prince acknowledged.
“Sadly Diana, Princess of Wales, might well perchance well no longer be convinced even when incontrovertible proof became presented.”
Pettifer also suffered from the publicity and the coverage within the nationwide press for the following 25 years, she acknowledged.
In courtroom, BBC representatives issued an apology to Pettifer and agreed to a settlement.
TIm Davie, BBC director-overall acknowledged: “The BBC has agreed to pay mammoth damages to Mrs Pettifer and I’d fancy to protect this different to apologise publicly to her, to the Prince of Wales, and to the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, for the capacity by which Princess Diana became deceived and the subsequent affect on all their lives.”