He presented coverage of major royal events, including the death and state funeral of Elizabeth II and the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.

In July, he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children by receiving them during online chats.

Huw Edwards was born on 18 August 1961 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales,[1] into a Welsh-speaking family, and, from the age of four, was brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli.

[2] His father, Hywel Teifi Edwards, was a Plaid Cymru and Welsh language activist,[3] and an author and academic, who was research professor of Welsh-language Literature at University College of Swansea.

[4] Edwards's mother, Aerona Protheroe, spent 30 years teaching at Llanelli's Ysgol Gyfun y Strade.

[9] After his first degree, he started postgraduate work at Cardiff University in Medieval French, before becoming a reporter for local radio station Swansea Sound and then joining the BBC.

[10] In 2018, Edwards was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, with a thesis on Welsh Nonconformist chapels in Llanelli and London, by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

[16] Edwards also made regular appearances on the Welsh-language television channel S4C,[17] working as the sub-editor and presenter of the programme Newyddion Saith from June 1985.

[37] In August 2021, Edwards told BBC Radio Cymru he was contemplating his future, saying 20 years of news "can be taxing" and that viewers should "get a change".

[38] In January 2022, he joined BBC Radio Cymru as one of five regular presenters for the Sunday morning current affairs programme Bore Sul.

[42] Beyond news, Edwards presented a range of programming on television and radio, including documentaries on classical music, religion and the Welsh language (of which he is a native speaker), and hosted various events such as the BAFTA Cymru award ceremonies.

The documentary covered the Welsh Assembly, with Edwards stating: "To achieve its full potential it needs even greater support for the people of Wales than it's received so far ...

Following a complaint, the governing body concluded that Edwards's words were not objective and even-handed, saying: "It is not the role of BBC presenters to encourage audiences to exercise their right to vote on particular occasions."

[51] That year, Edwards appeared as himself in the James Bond film Skyfall, presenting a BBC News report on a fictional attack on the British intelligence service MI6.

By then, he had been suspended for nine months over allegations in The Sun newspaper that he had been paying a young person for sexually explicit photos.

He responded to comments in The Times written by the scientist Michael Pepper in which it was suggested that his late colleague John Meurig Thomas wrote notes in Welsh purely to stop others from reading them; Edwards said that Welsh speakers do not "use our native language in our daily lives simply to thwart others".

[69] In 2021, he criticised the former journalist Max Hastings for saying that Welsh was of "marginal value" and that Wales could not succeed as an independent country because it was "dependent on English largesse".

[72] In 1993, Edwards married Vicky Flind, a television producer, whose credits include editing This Week and Peston.

[78] He led a campaign to save the historic Jewin Presbyterian Church, London's oldest Welsh chapel.

On 15 March 2024, Williams received a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing category A, B and C images.

[101] Mark Lawson wrote in The Guardian that Edwards's conviction would "rank as one of the greatest British public plunges from success and celebrity".

The Chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, said Edwards had acted in bad faith by continuing to draw his salary.

[105] Edwards' sentence was calculated by Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring based on an initial one year imprisonment.

[106] Edwards' defence barrister, Philip Evans KC, said that his client wished "to apologise to the court" and those he had hurt.