Barry Everingham

Barry Everingham is an Australian born writer, broadcaster and author and an internationally recognized commentator on royalty.

His encounters with royalty began in the 1970's when he was based in the London Bureau of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited bureau, reporting for Australian and American newspapers and magazines in the News group.

Everingham's "round" was Buckingham Palace and the royal family and during his time in the UK he built up formidable contacts which included members of the royal family, some non royal relatives of the Queen's and Palace officials charged with running the family efficiently.

In addition to his covering of the British royals, Everingham interviewed several surviving members of Europe's former royal families and wrote a three part series for "The Australian" newspaper and which was subsequently syndicated world wide.

He wrote, and Bantum published in 1985, a warts and all biography of the life and times of Princess Michael of Kent, and Australian migrant who against all odds married the Queen's first cousin and became the royal family's enfant terrible.

Barry Everingham is an accomplished raconteur; his mode of delivery charms, interests and in some cases, shocks his audience, particularly when he reveals hitherto unknown anecdotes of royal behavior, or in many cases, misbehavior.

His fascinating take on the first ever royal tour undertaken by the Queen and her husband to the states of the Arabian Gulf when the Queen was compelled to be "an honorary gentleman". Everingham was the only Australian n reporter accredited to the tour and in his talks he reveals other details of the fabulously wealthy sheiks who were hosts to the royal couple.

Barry is the repository of personal stories of both senior and junior members of the royal family and shares them with the wit and incisiveness for which he is so justly famous.