[1] When he returned to the UK he wanted to work in television but was quickly rejected because his accent and approach appeared wrong and he had no journalistic training.
[1] Douglas-Home found the work dull and was about to resign[citation needed] when the paper's proprietor, Beaverbrook Newspapers, promoted him to be the deputy to Chapman Pincher, the respected Defence correspondent of the Daily Express in London.
Douglas-Home stabilised the paper, which he had inherited in a parlous state in the wake of its year long closure as well as the shock of the Harold Evans dismissal., and then began a steady process of improvement.
[1] Although firmly conservative in the editorial line of the paper's leaders, Douglas-Home was at the same time committed to the tradition of impartial news reporting.
The Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award was established in his honour to writers on the subjects of defence, foreign affairs, democracy, the royal prerogative in the 21st century, or music.