The gruesome story of Tiggy, Princes William and Harry’s nanny who fueled Lady Di’s jealousy

the British chain BBC announced this Thursday that will indemnify Tiggy Legge-Bourkethe former nanny of Princes William and Harry, for false claims they made about her to get an interview with Lady Di on the year 1995. A talk that was followed live by more than 22.8 million viewers in the UK, and that would go down in history as “the interview of the century”. The broadcast of this interview took place in the Program Panorama, and it came three years after Princess Diana and Prince Charles of Wales split; largely due to the extramarital affairs of the heir to the British throne.

The investigation already established last year that the journalist Martin Bashir used false information and manipulated documents to gain the trust of the Princess Diana of Wales, aiming to get her first solo interview since her marriage to Prince Charles. Judge John Dyson then ruled that: the BBC did not meet “high standards of integrity and transparency” for conducting this interview. The Dyson report said Bashir had lied to a number of people (some of his own) BBC) to conduct this interview. The journalist has publicly apologized for a long time and does not currently work for this company.

The “interview of the century” was described by analysts at the time as a “bomb” that would eventually destroy the image of the British royal family.. Tiggy, aka Alexandra Pettifer, has already received an apology from the BBC before the Superior Court of London for the confirmations made about him by the British chain. And it’s that, Besides having an affair with Prince Charles, they assured the nanny had to have an abortion. His lawyer said this had caused “serious personal consequences” to his client, being “Very serious and totally unfounded allegations” that the applicant was having an affair with the Prince of Wales, which resulted in a pregnancy that was said to have been terminated.” BBC with Diana in a critical phase, the Princess of Wales told her lawyer that she had been informed that Tiggy had undergone an abortion and that she “would be certified soon”.

The attorney also noted that her client was “relieved that the… BBC accept that the allegations were completely false and unfounded”; since “these allegations are made up”. As part of the agreed statement before the Supreme Court in London, BBC he said he fully accepted that the claims against the former nanny were “totally baseless and should never have been made”. After the hearing, the CEO of the BBCTim Davie said the Sorry is for Pettifer, Prince Charles and their sons, William and Harry “for the way Princess Diana was deceived and the subsequent impact on their entire lives”. He also stated that he was “deeply sorry for the serious and long-lasting damage”, and assured that “now that we know how the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC never release the same againnor will we license it in whole or in part to other broadcasters.”

The William and Harry’s former nanny expressed his opinion on this matter through a statement published by the newspaper Sunday Times; in which he confessed Feeling disappointed for the fact that “the BBC needed legal action to acknowledge the serious damage I suffered”.She is just “one of many people whose lives have been scarred by the deceitful manner in which the interview was conducted. Panorama and the subsequent failure of BBC to adequately investigate the realization of the program”. Alexandra Pettifer receives a substantial amount from the BBC, who will also have to pay his legal costs; in addition to taking two separate payments to Princess Diana’s former private secretary and a former producer related to this program.

Tiggy Legge Bourke She was hired by Prince Charles in 1993 as a nanny for his children.small amount after divorcing Diana of Wales. He had to his advantage the confidence that the British royal family had in his family; since her mother had been a lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne of England in the 1980s, while her brother was a page of honor for Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after Prince Charles adopted her, Princess Diana… confessed to her butler that she believed her husband was in love with Tiggy and planned to marry her. Diana’s suspicions added to the pregnancy rumors made the relationship between the two women far from good. Magazine Time reported in 1996 that Diana even asked Tiggy to leave the room if she called her children; and that in a letter She asked her ex-husband “not to read to them at night or supervise their bath time”.

The babysitter he cared for Princes William and Harry until 1999 and always had an excellent relationship with both. Proof of this was the fact that in 2018 Tiggy was a guest at the wedding of the Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle.