Fiona Armstrong, Lady MacGregor (born 28 November 1956), is a British television journalist and is Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries.
[2] She started her career in local radio, before joining the BBC news team in Manchester in 1983.
On the reporting side, she covered the Lockerbie air disaster and produced a series on AIDS orphans in Africa.
Whilst working as a journalist for the BBC News Channel, Armstrong interviewed the civil rights activist and writer, Darcus Howe, on the subject of the street disturbances in England in the summer of 2011.
The BBC later issued a qualified apology to Darcus Howe for Armstrong's accusation.
She has made more than 20 films on Scottish families, and in 2006, set up the first Border Reiver Trail in the south of Scotland.
She is currently writing a book on Queen Victoria and a family connection to Scotland.