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<\/p>\nTHE BBC has given a significant pay-out to William and Harry's former nanny after she was smeared by rogue reporter Martin Bashir, it is claimed.<\/p>\n
Tiggy Legge-Bourke has reportedly been offered a settlement over false claims made by Bashir as he desperately tried to secure his Panorama interview with Princess Diana.<\/p>\n
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An official inquiry concluded Bashir told Diana that her husband Charles was in love with the nanny, who now goes by Tiggy Pettifer.<\/p>\n
And Diana's brother Earl Spencer says she was also told Charles and Ms Legge-Bourke enjoyed a two-week holiday together.<\/p>\n
Most damagingly of all, it's alleged Bashir went further – and claimed Charles was having an affair with the nanny, who had gone on to have an abortion.<\/p>\n
Bashir even produced a fake receipt showing payment for the termination, it's claimed.<\/p>\n
The BBC has now recognised the harm caused to the 56-year-old and is understood to have offered her a six-figure sum, the Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n
Sources told the publication an agreement will likely be reached by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
And the broadcaster is going to pay out more than \u00a3100,000, it's claimed.<\/p>\n
One insider said: \u201cTiggy Legge-Bourke was right at the centre of Bashir\u2019s manipulation and it is right that the damage caused to her is recognised by the BBC."<\/p>\n
In May, an independent inquiry concluded Bashir had used deceit to secure his interview with Diana.<\/p>\n
The princess used the discussion to reveal that "there were three of us in this marriage" – a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles.<\/p>\n
Lord Dyson, who conducted the probe earlier this year, was supplied with handwritten notes made by Earl Spencer.<\/p>\n
It was claimed in the documents that Bashir told Diana her husband was "in love with" Ms Legge-Bourke, who cared for William and Harry between 1993 and 1999.<\/p>\n
Bashir denies spreading the smears.<\/p>\n
However, whatever the source, Diana became so convinced of a relationship between Charles and Ms Legge-Bourke that she confronted the young woman at a Christmas party.<\/p>\n
She is said to have approached the blameless nanny in 1995 and said: "So sorry about the baby."<\/p>\n
She even wrote a letter two years before her death claiming that Prince Charles was plotting to kill her so he could marry Ms Legge-Bourke.<\/p>\n
In the note, Diana predicted she would die through "brake failure and serious head injury".<\/p>\n
The princess is said to have been obsessed with the mistaken idea of an affair –\u00a0a false allegation deeply upsetting to the younger nanny.<\/p>\n
Mark Stephens, a media lawyer with the law firm Howard Kennedy, said: \u201cThe BBC\u2019s handling of Bashir was a catastrophe turned into a disaster and as a consequence, the corporation recognises the least said, the soonest mended.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bashir denies faking documents connected to the nanny.<\/p>\n
He says notes made by Earl Spencer and attributed to him were in fact comments made by the princess.<\/p>\n
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