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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellie Iorizzo

BBC royal correspondent who Charles once described as ‘awful’ retires

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The BBC’s royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell, who was famously once described by King Charles as an “awful” man, is retiring after nearly five decades with the corporation.

Witchell, a veteran broadcaster who has covered the royal family since 1998, will retire next year after joining the broadcaster as a graduate news trainee in 1976.

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