Royal Correspondent and London Press Club Director Rob Jobson will be speaking at a special Foreign Press Association/London Press Club briefing to journalists on Wednesday 9 March, 11am, at the Royal Overseas League, Park Place, St James’s.
Press Club members are invited to attend by pre-registration.
Robert Jobson – a journalist, author and broadcaster – is Royal Editor of the London Evening Standard and is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He co-authored the 2002 book Diana: Closely Guarded Secret with Princess Diana’s Scotland Yard personal protection officer Inspector Ken Wharfe. He and Wharfe authored Guarding Diana, published in 2017. Jobson has written several other books on the British royal family, including Charles at Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes and Dreams; The Royal Family Operations Manual; Prince Philip’s Century 1921-2021: The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of Edinburgh and the upcoming William at 40: The Making of a Modern Monarch.
Jobson was dubbed “The Godfather of Royal Reporting” by the Wall Street Journal in an article in 2011. He has reported on the British royal family since 1991 as royal correspondent for British newspapers such as the The Sun, News of the World, Daily Express and, from 2011, the Evening Standard.
He was the recipient of the London Press Club Scoop of the Year award for his world exclusive that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were to wed in 2005. Jobson is also Royal Editor for the Australian breakfast show Sunrise on Channel 7 as well as royal contributor for Good Morning America on US network ABC. He was “Royal Consultant” for Mark Schwahn’s originally scripted series The Royals for E! starring British actress Joan Collins and played cameo roles as himself in series 1, 2, 3 and 4.
To attend please email: royals@fpalondon.org
