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It can be a thankless business, being a royal correspondent. The job largely consists of standing in the rain outside the gates of some grand estate to which you, as a pleb, will never be admitted, relaying informa-tion that viewers at home already know because they’ve just heard it on the news headlines. There are weighty issues to discuss, for sure, but that can be done by historians and constitutional experts back in a warm studio. Muggins is the one shivering under an umbrella.
