King Charles Sends Warm Retirement Message To BBC Reporter He Once Called “An Awful Man”
deadline.com19 years ago, King Charles was caught on a microphone calling the BBC’s Nicholas Witchell “awful,” and saying he couldn’t stand him.
But it seems the pair have since made up, with the King sending the longtime royal correspondent a warm message, wishing him well on Witchell’s retirement from the BBC after nearly 48 years.
The Sun newspaper reports that the King’s video message, described as “generous and warm-hearted”, was played to Witchell at his retirement party last week, and included the monarch joking about the “ups and downs” experienced by the pair over the years.
Back in 2005, Witchell was one of the press pack covering the then Prince of Wales’s ski holiday with his teenage sons William and Harry, ahead of his wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles.
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