Everyone knows that the late Princess Diana was a bona fide fashion icon. The royal was a style queen - from her off-duty cycling shorts to her crisp sharp suits and stunning jewellery.
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Prince William's former nanny has received substantial damages from the BBC over "false and malicious” allegations used to obtain Martin Bashir’s 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana. Alexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, appeared at the High Court in London for a public apology from the broadcaster over “fabricated” allegations she had had an affair with the Prince of Wales, while working as Charles’ personal assistant in the same year.
Alongside the allegation of the affair, the court was told that William's former nanny was falsely accused of becoming pregnant with Charles baby and then having an abortion. Her solicitor, Louise Prince, said that the source of the allegations has been unknown to her for the past 25 years, but that it was now likely that the “false and malicious allegations arose as a result and in the context of BBC Panorama’s efforts to procure an exclusive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales”.
The court was told that the Dyson Investigation, commissioned by the broadcaster, had “shed some light” on how the interview had been secured.The solicitor said that the “totally unfounded” allegations “appeared to exploit some prior false speculation in the media” about Ms Legge-Bourke and Charles. “After Diana, Princess of Wales, became aware of the allegations in late 1995, she became upset with the claimant without apparent justification,” she added.
Ms Prince said Ms Legge-Bourke “holds the BBC liable for the serious impact the false and malicious allegations have had. Had the BBC not fallen short, the claimant and her family could have been spared 25 years of lies, suspicion and upset.” Jonathan Scherbel-Ball of lawyers 5RB on behalf of the BBC later told the court: “The BBC
.Everyone knows that the late Princess Diana was a bona fide fashion icon. The royal was a style queen - from her off-duty cycling shorts to her crisp sharp suits and stunning jewellery.
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BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to former royal nanny Alexandra Pettifer, formerly known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, after airing “false and malicious” allegations that she had an affair with Prince Charles and terminated a pregnancy.
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BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to former royal nanny Alexandra Pettifer, previously known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, after “false and malicious” claims that she had an affair with Prince Charles and terminated a pregnancy.
The BBC has vowed “never” to broadcast Princess Diana’s 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir again following the “shocking” revelation of how it was obtained, the corporation’s director-general has said. An inquiry led by Lord Dyson found the BBC covered up Mr Bashir’s “deceitful behaviour” to secure his headline-making interview with the Princess of Wales and “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency.” The report said that the journalist was in “serious breach” of the BBC’s producer guidelines when he faked bank statements and showed them to Diana’s brother Earl Spencer to gain access to her.
Prince William's former nanny has received damages from the BBC over "false and malicious" allegations used to obtain Panorama's exclusive 1995 interview with Princess Diana. Alexandra Pettifer, also known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, was issued a public apology from the broadcaster at the High Court in London over "fabricated" claims she had an affair with Prince Charles while working as his personal assistant. She was also falsely accused of becoming pregnant with the Prince of Wales' child and having an abortion.
Prince William and Harry’s ex-nanny is set to receive substantial damages from the BBC over "false and malicious” allegations used to obtain Martin Bashir’s Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995. Tiggy Legge-Bourke appeared at the High Court in London for a public apology from the broadcaster regarding “fabricated” allegations that she had had an affair with the Prince of Wales while working as Charles’ personal assistant in 1995.
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