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Sean Coughlan

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  • Royal Correspondent, BBC
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BBC News royal correspondent. Award winner. Formerly BBC education corr; Guardian finance; Times book reviewer. Books on Titanic and history of sleep.

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BBC royal correspondent and covering other topics. Broadcaster on BBC national radio and TV news and long-read writer for BBC News website. Former BBC education correspondent, editor of Knowledge Economy series, former Guardian personal finance columnist, former media editor at TES, book reviewer and travel writer for The Times. Written about travel, culture and politics. Author of books on subjects from the Titanic, poetry to a cultural history of sleep.

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Search begins for King's new top aide

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Follow Search begins for King's new top aide Sean Coughlan - Royal correspondent Tue, July 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Clive Alderton is stepping down from his key role at the King's side [Getty Images] The search will soon begin for a new right-hand man or woman for King Charles, with the current principal private secretary, Sir Clive Alderton, set to step down next year.
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The honours system used to be too posh but I'm proof change is happening

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"I always had the perception that you only got an honour if you were rich or famous," says Clive Lawrence. His start in life had been free school meals and growing up on a council estate in Derbyshire, but the former head teacher has now been made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). He's part of a quiet revolution in the honours system, which has deliberately sought to make the awards less socially exclusive and to have a fairer spread of winners around the country.
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Chaos and confusion reign as Harry loses media battle

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Prince Harry's visit this week was meant to be the dramatic moment when his wife Meghan appeared before the UK public for the first time in almost four years. That would focus the world's attention on his passion project, the Invictus Games, which would be promoted in London and Birmingham with a series of media-friendly events. Instead it turned into a series of unfortunate events - with crisis comms appearing to be hit by its own crisis - leaving behind a vapour trail of confusion.
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