Clive Irving

CLIVE IRVING is a columnist for the Daily Beast in New York. He has had a long and distinguished career on both sides of the Atlantic, with an unusually wide media experience: as a pioneer of investigative journalism at the Sunday Times; as a colleague of David Frost in transforming live television journalism; as a top magazine editor in London and New York; and as an early contributor to the Daily Beast. Coincidentally, his career in journalism and as a frequent critic of the monarchy has run in parallel with the Queen’s entire reign. This gives him a unique insight into how the Queen has dealt with enormous social and cultural changes and, particularly, how the world’s perception of the royal family is now, more than ever, decisively shaped by the media.