David Dimbleby has criticised the BBC for refusing to tackle sensitive topics relating to the royal family and questioned why Buckingham Palace is able to exert such control over the corporation.
Dimbleby, for decades the face of the BBC at state events, said the broadcaster “would not go near things like the power that the palace has to change taxation legislation” or whether it was right for the Duchy of Cornwall not to pay capital gains tax.
“All those issues are never touched by the BBC because I think they feel their viewers will not like it — a visceral feeling,” he told the Henley Literary Festival. “I think it is wrong and these things should be properly examined.” Dimbleby, who returned to the
