The BBC has donated £1.4M ($1.6M) to charities linked to Princess Diana following the Martin Bashir scandal.

The sum has been divided between Centrepoint, English Nationwide Ballet, Nice Ormond Road Hospital Youngsters’s Charity, The Leprosy Mission, Nationwide Aids Belief, The Royal Marsden Most cancers Charity and The Diana Award.

The BBC burdened the donations will come from industrial income relatively than the licence payment, which can have elicited criticism.

The transfer comes after a report final yr from Lord Dyson recognized “clear failings” over the way in which by which the infamous Panorama interview between Bashir and Diana was secured in 1995.

The BBC has since apologized to these concerned.

“The BBC had indicated its intention to donate to charity the gross sales proceeds derived from the 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales,” mentioned an announcement.

“The BBC has now executed so. Given the findings of Lord Dyson, we expect that is the proper and applicable plan of action.”

In a bid to attract a line beneath the saga, the BBC just lately mentioned it would “by no means display screen” the interview once more and urged different broadcasters to comply with go well with, though a latest Sky doc did embody the footage.

Diana is presently the topic of quite a few documentaries to mark the 25 yr anniversary of her dying.