Robert Jobson
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Robert Jobson is an award-winning royal correspondent, TV commentator and author, dubbed the "godfather of royal reporting" (Wall Street Journal). He is the author of William & Kate: The Love Story, Harry's War and co-author of New York Times bestseller Diana: Closely Guard Secret written with the late Princess Diana’s police protection officer Inspector Ken Wharfe. He is also the author of Bulletproof, the life story of Royal Marine and George Cross
George Cross
The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...

 recipient Matt Croucher. He has reported on the British Royal Family
British Royal Family
The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms, thus sometimes at variance with...

 since 1991 as royal correspondent for several Fleet Street
Fleet Street
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 newspapers including the Daily Express
Daily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

, London Evening Standard, The Sun and the News of the World
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...

. He won the London Press Club
Press Club
The Press Club was established in 1882 as a London gentlemen's club. For much of its history, it occupied premises in Wine Office Court, near Fleet Street...

's "Scoop of the Year" award for his world exclusive that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were to wed in 2005.
Jobson regularly appears as an on-screen royal expert and is currently the official royal commentator for NBC News
NBC News
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 and ITN News. He was co-host for CNN
CNN
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 coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II
The Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was the international celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the accession of Elizabeth II to the thrones of seven countries, upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, and was intended by the Queen to be both a commemoration of her 50...

in 2002 and the wedding of The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in 2005, watched by millions globally.
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