The BBC on Thursday issued an apology as an inquiry concluded that the media corporation had covered up the tactics used by journalist Martin Bashir to secure his famous 1995 interview scoop with Princess Diana, in which the late Princess of Wales opened up about her troubled marriage to Prince Charles. Lord John Dyson, the retired judge who led the inquiry, said the BBC “fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark” and noted that Bashir, who recently left the BBC, “deceived and induced” Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer to obtain the interview aired on the BBC's Panorama programme.