Penelope Jane Junor is an English journalist and author.
12 Facts About Penny Junor
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Penny Junor's father was the newspaper editor Sir John Junor and her brother Roderick, to whom she was very close throughout his life, was a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph and speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher.
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Penny Junor studied history at St Andrews University, but left in her second year to get married.
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Penny Junor started out on television in 1981, aged 32, presenting a programme called Collecting Now when she worked as a reporter.
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Penny Junor was the main presenter of the Travel Show Guides on BBC2 alongside Matthew Collins and John Kettley presented the weather forecast for the holiday destination for the forthcoming week or so.
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Penny Junor has written several books about the British royal family; she has written biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales and Charles, Prince of Wales, and Charles and Diana: Portrait of a Marriage.
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Penny Junor has written and had published a book titled Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King.
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Penny Junor subsequently said in an interview that she found Major to be a failure as a British prime minister.
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Penny Junor assisted Sir Cliff Richard in writing the number one best selling My Life, My Way which sold over 250,000 copies and Shaun Ellis with his book The Man Who Lives with Wolves.
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Penny Junor has worked for the Evening Standard and a column for Private Eye lasted five years.
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Penny Junor married ex-restaurateur James Leith in 1970.
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Penny Junor has four children with her husband; their eldest son is the journalist Sam Leith.