Royal official handling press charter won damages over reporter’s SAS claim
Queen’s private secretary Sir Christopher Geidt won high court libel action against John Pilger and Central TV in 1991 The senior royal official tasked with handling the creation of a royal charter to regulate the press is a former military intelligence officer who successfully sued an investigative journalist who had sought to question his activities in Cambodia in the 1980s.
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Royal official handling press charter won damages over reporter’s SAS claim