The Royals and the press: how the secret relationships between the Royal Family and the media actually work
Kasia is Chief Features Writer for The i Paper. She was previously a commissioning editor and writer at Radio Times.The task of reporting on the royals is a fraught, fascinating process.
A young Prince William with members of the press in the garden at Kensington Palace for his 2nd birthday Certainly, royal reporters in the UK argue this is not the case, and that things are not so cosy between the Palace and some parts of the press.was the journalist who broke the story concerning allegations of bullying made by former Palace staff against the Duchess of Sussex. “The Palace, like most institutions, sometimes says things officially on the record,” he tells. “Sometimes they have more informal conversations with the journalists to cover that beat.
That’s not to say that royal reporters don’t build relationships with members of royal households. “Sometimes journalists get closer to one household than the other,” he says, “but I would say that the current crop of journalists from the last few years – I don’t think any of them have been particularly friendly to one household or the other. That can happen. For instance, it did happen in the Charles and Diana years, where there were papers more aligned with one or the other.
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