BBC chief resigns over misleading footage of queen

BBC1 CONTROLLER Peter Fincham resigned yesterday in the wake of a damning report into misleading footage of Queen Elizabeth II.

The most high-profile casualty in a string of TV fakery scandals, he was forced to go after the independent inquiry revealed a catalogue of “misjudgments, poor practice and ineffective systems” at the corporation.

The trailer for forthcoming series A Year With The Queen appeared to show the monarch storming out of a photo shoot after photographer Annie Leibovitz suggested she remove her crown.