Hannah Ingram-Moore told the BBC she has the “deepest regret” over setting up the Captain Tom Foundation.
The 100-year-old Second World War veteran died on 2 February 2021 of coronavirus.
A two-year investigation by the Charity Commission found the couple “misled” the public by benefitting personally from the charity.
The regulator also took issue with an £18,000 awards ceremony appearance fee, deals with Virgin Media and criticised the couple for not consulting trustees about a spa complex built at their home.
In an interview with the BBC following the inquiry, Ms Ingram-Moore said: “It didn’t need to be set up as a charity, we could have continued that legacy without it, because what it’s done is all but completely derailed our lives.
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Ms Ingram-Moore, a former business consultant, is due to write three books which she says are about grief, loneliness and resilience.
“We gracefully bowed out and said we’ll have to accept what they say, even though we know it not to be true and get on with our lives,” she said.
“He wanted to ensure that we lived well, that we had future income, because he could see that Covid had been quite devastating to our business,” she said.
Ms Ingram-Moore said that after fees were taken into account, the family received £800,000 from the book deal, which was mostly spent on legal costs.
“I’m sorry they feel misled, I genuinely am, but there was never any intent to mislead,” she said. “If there was any misleading it wasn’t our doing.”
Since then, Mr and Ms Ingram-Moore have been sacked as trustees of the charity and barred from roles in any other charities for eight and 10 years respectively.
Following the Charity Commission report in November into the foundation, the remaining trustee said he was “imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due” so they could be donated “to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore”.
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