As the "Crowngate" scandal at the British Broadcasting Corp. grows larger with the boss of the BBC One Television having lost his job, pressure piles up on those who are left.

Following the resignation of two senior British television executives, the controller of the BBC1 channel, Peter Fincham, and Stephen Lambert, chief creative officer of RDF Media PLC, the independent company that produced a documentary in which Queen Elizabeth II is wrongly portrayed as storming out of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz, BBC Vision director, Jana Bennett, described as the most powerful woman at the BBC, is also expected to take responsibility for the mishap as it was her job to supervise all BBC content.

The inquiry into the affair by Will Wyatt, a former senior executive at the broadcaster concluded that Bennett was "lacking in curiosity" when problems emerged, Daily Mail reports.
 
She was also found not to have read an email version of an apology agreed with Buckingham Palace, the night before it was released.

"The channel controller did brief his director and then sent her an email copy of the statement but there was a misunderstanding between them about what the problem actually was," the Wyatt report read.
 
"The director believes the controller acted responsibly in ringing and emailing her, nevertheless she was left thinking the issue was the way the controller introduced the clip at the press launch.

"Certainly she was unaware that DVDs of the footage had been distributed and as she did not realize that the agreed statement had been emailed to her that evening, she did not read it."

Although according to the BBC Fincham resigned voluntarily, some reports claimed he was actually made a scapegoat in order to protect Bennett’s position who was his superior.

Fincham said he informed Bennett immediately after he discovered the editing error in the documentary’s trailer showing the Queen walking out of the photo shoot "in a huff," while Bennett claimed she found out much later that the footage had been edited in the wrong sequence. By then, the Queen’s supposed tantrum had already made it on the first page of the newspapers, The Observer reports.

Just hours after his dismissal, Roly Keating, the BBC Two controller, took over the position and he is now rumored to be replacing Fincham permanently.