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Status anxiety

Royal reporters make it all up - doesn't everyone know that?

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

Seeing the royal hack pack in full cry on Monday reminded me of the week I spent with the late James Whitaker, the Daily Mirror’s chief royal correspondent. This was for a profile I was writing about him in a colour supplement in 1993. It was a memorable experience, not least because of the message he left on my answering machine the day the piece came out.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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