Dermot Morrah

[2] There, he was wounded and returned to Oxford, changed his studies to modern history and gained a first-class degree.

After dating his future wife under the eye of a nun who acted as a chaperone, his marriage forced him to end his Prize Fellowship, as they were required to be single.

[3] Morrah was in the Civil Service for six years before joining the editorial staff of the Daily Mail in 1928.

[5] During this time, he wrote books on Britain's monarchy and its constitution,[4] and later began writing speeches for George VI during the Second World War.

[5] In 1947, while Elizabeth II was still a princess, Morrah wrote a famous speech of hers given on her 21st birthday in southern Africa, which had been briefly lost in a bar.