The Crowngate Scandal

The Crowngate scandal was based on a misleading trailer for the fourth coming series 'A year with the queen'. On July the 11th the queen was shown in the trailer storming out of a photo shoot after photographer Annie Leibovitz suggested she remove her crown. The queen was presented apparently 'walking out in a huff'. The footage was misleadingly edited by RDF showing her walking out of the shoot when she was actually walking in, Peter Fincham who was the BBC1 controller aired this to an audience of journalists. Fincham and his head of press Jane Fletcher knew by 5pm on the day of the BBC1 press launch that the story was untrue. But they did not correct it until the following morning, allowing the media,including BBC News to run with the story. Hence they had not apologized since the following day on July 12. As a result Peter Fincham and Jane both resigned as well as the Head of RDF who was mainly responsible for the edit. The BBC and RDF were highly criticised by former BBC executive Will Wyatt.

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