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Bring it on, you've got me at the word wine. Love them or loathe them. The Royal Family are never far from the news. Particularly this week with the imminent publication of yet

another book that claims to reveal all.

But whether the House of Windsor is creating significant moments in the history of our nation,

or just endless gossip and fascination around the world,

for the times, one man has been there to cover it all.

It's a funny job being a Royal Corresponder,

because it's a job that no one ever wants.

It's not like being political editor or something like that,

where you know, there's a deputy out there who wants your job and there's a number three who wants his job.

For 15 years, Valentine Lowe has reported on royal weddings and

royal funerals he's been on royal visits across the country and beyond to

Australia, Bhutan the Galapagos, India, Kenya, but now he's retiring.

You are there to be a proper reporter, you're there to report the proper stories, you're not there to do their PR for them or to write what

goes down well with them. I mean it's nice if you have a friendly relationship

of course it is but you're not there to be their friend. As Valentine leaves the

times he takes us behind the scenes of what it's really like,

reporting on Britain's most famous family.

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