Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a familiar face on our TV screens has been the BBC's Nicholas Witchell. He has been the corporation's royal correspondent since 1998, having first joined the BBC in the mid-1970s.
Nicholas, 68, was born in Shropshire and educated at Epsom College. He started his career as a BBC graduate news trainee in 1976 after studying law at Leeds University. From 1979 to 1982, Nicholas was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland. He worked on major stories such as the assassination of Earl Mountbatten and the IRA hunger strikes.
In 1982, Nicholas became a news reporter for television news and covered the Falklands conflict. The following year, he reported on Margaret Thatcher's General Election campaign before returning to Belfast to become the BBC's Ireland Correspondent.
