Prince William's nanny gets PAID for Charles affair scandal
The BBC yesterday paid around £200,000 (AUD$346,000) to a former royal governess who was subjected to a “completely unfounded” smear by Martin Bashir. Tim Davie, director general of the corporation, also made embarrassing apologies to Tiggy Legge-Bourke and Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. The court has heard that Ms Legge-Bourke suffered extensive and angry damage for 25 years as a result of “false and malicious accusations”. Although not named at trial, the false claim is said to have been made by Bashir while working on a BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana. Miss Legge-Bourke said the program’s “false narrative” had been “haunting” the Royal Family since it aired in 1995. An official statement, agreed by the former nanny and the BBC, said she was the victim of “very serious and completely unfounded” allegations that she had an affair with Charles which resulted in an aborted pregnancy. These allegations, the statement said, had been “fabricated” and a series of