RDF's Lambert offers to resign over Queen tape

RDF chief creative officer Stephen Lambert has offered his resignation after admitting that he was responsible for editing the tape that showed the Queen apparently storming out of a photoshoot.

Speaking to The Guardian over the weekend, Lambert said that the clip in question was part of a five-minute tape for international broadcasters interested in buying the show, A Year With The Queen. "In order to make it coherent without the commentary, I felt you needed a different approach," he explained, but added that he had not intended to deceive viewers.

He continued: "In retrospect, this was a serious editorial misjudgment, but in this context, and without any commentary, these shots did not convey the interpretation that was later placed on them as being a record of the Queen storming out. All that was being attempted was to convey a brief sense of a slightly ruffled encounter."

RDF chief executive David Frank said the board had rejected Lambert's resignation pending the results of an independent BBC-ordered inquiry.

Share prices in RDF were up 0.96% early Monday, following a slump of 16.7% on Friday.