The BBC's royal correspondent who was famously described by the King as an 'awful' man is retiring after nearly five decades with the corporation.
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The BBC's royal correspondent who was famously described by the King as an"awful" man is retiring after nearly five decades with the corporation.Veteran broadcaster Nicholas Witchell, who has covered the royal family since 1998, will retire next year after joining the broadcaster as a graduate news trainee in 1976.
The 70-year-old first joined the BBC after finishing a law degree at Leeds University, later becoming a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland in 1979 covering the assassination of Earl Mountbatten and the IRA hunger strikes during his several years in the role.
He was one of the founding presenters of the Six O'Clock News with Sue Lawley in 1984, before becoming the main presenter of the re-launched Breakfast News programme from 1989 to 1994. Witchell then returned to frontline reporting for the BBC, for Panorama, and then as the BBC's royal and diplomatic correspondent from 1998.
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