Nicholas Witchell is a journalist for the BBC. He has held the role as the BBC ’s royal and diplomatic correspondent for 24 years, having taken on the role in 1998.
Nicholas, 68, was born in Shropshire and was educated at Epsom College. He began his career as a BBC graduate news trainee in 1976 after studying law at Leeds University, where he edited the university newspaper.
His first role within the corporation was as a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland. There he covered the IRA hunger strikes and the assassination of Earl Mountbatten.
