Dickie arbiter on duty with the queen

On Duty with the Queen is Dickie’s memoir of an intense dozen years, travelling the globe with what he fondly referred to as ‘the double act’, witnessing the ‘Diana Effect’ in action, and being at the epicentre of palace affairs.  It’s a candid look behind some of the most salacious and sensational Royal news stories of those days, from the perspective of someone who was not only there, but who had also long experience of the monarchy and its history, having first become a royal reporter for the first commercial radio station, LBC, as far back as The Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

From that poignant moment when the world saw Diana alone at the Taj Mahal, through the AIDS tour, the marital breakdown, the publication of THAT book, Dickie’s