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Prince William's nanny gets PAID for Charles affair scandal

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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

Queen's six-word claim after hearing Meghan Markle will miss Philip's funeral

The Queen allegedly said “thank goodness Meghan didn’t come” to the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, according to an unnamed source cited in a new book. Tom Bower biographer’s latest book – Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors – being serialized on Time and Sunday Time and includes controversial claims. An excerpt published in Saturday’s newspaper indicated that the Queen was relieved that Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, then seven months pregnant, would not attend her husband Philip’s funeral on April 17 last year. For more news and videos related to the Royal Family, check out the Royal Family >> “‘Thank God Meghan isn’t coming’, the king said in a clear voice to his trusted aides,” the book says. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the story. However, a source close to the Queen questioned whether she would be thinking about anything other than Philip on the day of the funeral. An unflattering new nickname has been given to Meghan Markle Big new re

Mysterious radio signal from space with 'heartbeat' pattern detected

A mysterious radio explosion with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space. Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy about a billion light years away, but the exact location and cause of the explosion is unknown. A study detailing the findings published Wednesday in the journal Natural . Rapid radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense, millisecond-long bursts of radio waves of unknown origin. The first FRBs were discovered in 2007, and since then, hundreds of these rapid cosmic flashes have been detected coming from various distant points throughout the universe. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Many FRBs release super-bright radio waves that last only a few milliseconds before disappearing completely, and about 10 percent of them are known to repeat and have patterns. Fast radio bursts are so fast and unpredictable that they are difficult to observe. One of the sources used to find them is a radio telescope called th