Dickie Arbiter
Dickie Arbiter LVO | |
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| Born | Richard Winston Arbiter September 1940 (aged 80) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Known for | Television and radio commentator for the British Royal Family Press secretary for Queen Elizabeth II (1988-2000) |
| Family | Victoria Arbiter (daughter)[citation needed] |
Dickie Arbiter[1][2][3] LVO (born September 1940) is a British journalist, television and radio commentator on the British Royal Family and an international public speaker. He was a press spokesman for Queen Elizabeth II from 1988 until 2000;[4] in 1996, he was appointed LVO.[1]
Biography[]
Arbiter was born during an air raid on London, to German Jewish refugee parents.[5] After college in London he was an actor and stage manager in South Africa and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, where he became a television and radio news reporter. His most famous on-air slip up occurred when he started a radio broadcast with the sentence "I am an oil tanker, Dickie Arbiter is on fire in the Gulf". This would then go on to be immortalised by Fi Glover as the title of her book I am an Oil Tanker: Travels with My Radio.
Upon his return to the United Kingdom he was a special events presenter for LBC and court correspondent for Independent Radio News[6]
His television appearances include Newsnight, BBC Breakfast, BBC News, This Morning, Larry King Live and Richard and Judy.[7][8]
Controversies[]
In March 2021 he was tricked by a fictional news company created by YouTuber pranksters Josh Pieters and Archie Manners into giving his reaction to the Oprah with Meghan and Harry interview two days before the interview was aired.[9]
Personal life[]
He is the father of , who is a commentator on the Royal Family for CNN.[citation needed]
Publication[]
His book On Duty With the Queen was published in October 2014.[10]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Supplement to The London Gazette, 15th June 1996, p. B4
- ^ "Richard Winston ARBITER - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1995, ed. Charles Kidd, p. 95
- ^ Arbiter, Dickie (April 2016). On Duty with the Queen. ISBN 9781910536278.
- ^ Langford, Georgina (26 November 2014). "Tales From The Palace With Dickie Arbiter". Tatler Hong Kong. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ Sheila Tracy (1983). Who's who on radio. Worlds Work Ltd. ISBN 0-437-17600-2.
- ^ Biography at Dickie Arbiter Website. Retrieved 4 July 2017
- ^ Dickie Arbiter Showreel on YouTube. Retrieved 2 June 2012
- ^ "Royal commentators hoaxed into critique of Meghan interview before seeing it". the Guardian. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ Dickie Arbiter (April 2016). On Duty with the Queen. Blink Publishing. ISBN 978-1-910536-27-8.
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