False claims that Tiggy Legge-Bourke had affair with Prince Charles ‘were likely spread to help secure exclusive’
The BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to the former royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke after false allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles were used to obtain Martin Bashir’s 1995 interview withLegge-Bourke’s solicitor, Louise Prince, told the high court the allegations caused “serious personal consequences for all concerned”.
Originally hailed as one of the all-time great journalistic scoops – with Diana sharing the details of her failed relationship with Prince Charles in front of tens of millions of people – the Panorama interview is now considered so toxic that the BBC director general, Tim Davie, has pledged never to show it again.
“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. The settlement with Pettifer was announced at the high court on Thursday. She became a public figure during the 1990s while looking after the Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex as children during the period that their parents were divorcing.
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