Jonathan 'Jonny' David Dymond (born 15 February 1970 in

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) is a British journalist. He is currently a Royal Correspondent for

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, having previously been the BBC's Washington Correspondent, Europe Correspondent (based in Brussels), and Middle East Correspondent (based in Istanbul). Dymond is also a presenter for

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news programmes including ''

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'' and ''

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'', and the

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's ''The World This Week'' and ''World Questions''.

Education

From 1983—1987, Dymond was educated at St Paul's School, an independent school for boys, in the London district of

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. From 1988—1991, he studied Politics at Durham University, and in 1993 completed an MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy at the

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Career

Dymond joined the BBC in 1994 as a researcher and later became a producer on ''

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''. Following this he worked as a reporter, first covering British politics for the

and

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, then in 2000 moving to

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. He covered 9/11 from DC, then went to

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to cover Turkey and the Middle East between 2001 and 2005. After some years as a foreign correspondent in

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, Dymond became a royal correspondent in 2017. Interviewed for the November 2019 edition of ''Town and Country'', Dymond was critical of

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for agreeing to be interviewed by

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about the controversy over his friendship with the American billionaire and convicted sex offender

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, suggesting it was a 'fantasy' that Prince Andrew could have reversed public opinion in one 40 minute interview. He told the same magazine that

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was rude to members of the press during a royal tour of Australia,

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in 2018, but declined to go into details about what Prince Harry had said to them.

Personal

In 2008 Dymond was fined £230 for possession of

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, after a search at an airport in

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found two grams of the drug among his clothes. Dymond admitted to purchasing cannabis at a nightclub, but claimed he packed it into his suitcase inadvertently.

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