Romilly Sarah Weeks (15 December 1973 in Paddington, London) is an English journalist who is a political correspondent and news presenter for

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Media career

After a career in

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, Weeks entered broadcast journalism. She has travelled extensively while reporting for

. She was embedded with the British Army during the Second Gulf War, reported from Thailand after the

2004 tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

, and has covered many royal tours in her role as Royal Correspondent. During

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen ...

's 60th wedding anniversary, Weeks was broadcasting live on air when she was surprised by Prince Philip. In 2003, she became a regular newscaster on the now closed

ITV News Channel The ITV News Channel was a 24-hour television news channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 1 August 2000 to 23 December 2005. It was available on Sky, NTL:Telewest, ITV Digital (until 2002), Freeview (latterly only between 6:00 am an ...

. From 2006, she combined roles as royal correspondent and news presenter for ITV News; until 2008 she was also a occasional presenter for ITV London. In 2009, she became a News Correspondent, and in 2012, was promoted to political correspondent.

Personal life

Weeks lives in North London with her husband Nick Green, a media consultant, who opened an upmarket kebab shop in Farringdon in 2015, called Chifafa the venture permanently closed the following year according to final filed accounts for the dissolved company in 2018.

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* * * 1973 births Living people British television newsreaders and news presenters British women television journalists English television journalists English women journalists ITN newsreaders and journalists People from Paddington Royal correspondents {{UK-tv-journalist-stub