Nicholas Witchell was the BBC’s royal correspondent for 25 years, and he retired this week, on Christmas Day. There have been soap opera aspects to the royal family for a long time and an appetite for the tittle-tattle, scandal end of reporting. It was about Harry and Meghan and maybe subconsciously I just wasn’t that interested… I’ve obviously asked myself what went wrong. It’s a huge loss to the royal family, when you think what they might have done had they been prepared to try harder and give it more time. There is no doubt at all that he, like other members of the royal family, has been badly treated by the media on occasions.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2023 16:43 UTC