A regional daily editor has claimed that The Queen reads his newspaper every morning after meeting her when she visited the area.
Eastern Daily Press editor Nigel Pickover spoke to the Queen yesterday when she went to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn to open a new £3m MRI scanner.
After the meeting, Nigel took to Twitter to reveal that Her Majesty had told him she reads the EDP “every morning”.
The Queen’s Sandringham residence in Norfolk is just a few miles away from the hospital, which is named after her late mother.
Tweeting about the meeting, Nigel wrote: “Great line from The Queen when I met her at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn a few minutes ago. Her Majesty reads the EDP ‘every morning.'”
Ahead of the arrival of the Royal visitor, he tweeted that it was a “wonderful day” at the hospital.
It was the Queen’s first visit since 2008 to the hospital that she is patron of and she was welcomed by staff and patients.
She visited the new scanning suite before unveiling a plaque and signing a photograph which will be put in the MRI unit.
During her visit, The Queen met hospital executives and those involved in building and operating the scanner, along with local people who had gone to the hospital to see her.
A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said she was not able to confirm or deny whether the Queen read the EDP daily.
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Good on ya Nigel … Wear the name and share the fame.
We still fly the Royal standard in Saddleworth on my hyper local award winning Saddleworth Independent
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Bet she doesn’t look at the website. Take note JP, TM etc….
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And Nigel, of course, is passed all HM’s Govt red boxes for his approval every morning….
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I know the EDP is desperate to boost sales but this does seem a cheap way to try to put a feather in your own cap – and on Twitter, too. I’m sure the Queen reads lots of newspapers, not just the EDP.
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Just goes to prove the theory that only old people read newspapers.
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Nigel’s innate modesty has not diminished over the years. He described the EDP editorship – he is the 13th editor in its 142-year history – as “the biggest job that there is in the regional press”.
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I doubt she does somehow.
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