When the unthinkable, yet inevitable, happened last September, the eyes of the nation fell on one man. “BBC television is broadcasting this special programme,” croaked the clearly emotional tones of Welsh newsreader Huw Edwards, “reporting the death of Her Majesty the Queen.” It was a moment of national grief, one that closed the book on a volume of British history. And it was all filtered through the prism of one man who seemed singularly able to capture the moment, in all its solemn gravity.
Now 61-year-old Edwards has been named as the suspended BBC presenter at the centre of a sex images scandal, and is in hospital being treated for serious mental health issues, his wife announced on Wednesday evening. Vicky Flind said her husband had been treated for severe depression in recent years, adding: “The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving inpatient hospital care where he’ll stay for the foreseeable future.”
