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Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt The Third Plantagenet: Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother (born 6 May 1968) is a British journalist and author.
Wyatt attended St Paul's Girls' School. She then began reading history at Worcester College, Oxford. Wyatt left the university within weeks of her first term, after, she says, suffering persistent bullying and harassment due to her father's position as friend of and political advisor to Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. She subsequently read history at University College London.
In 1996, when interviewing the proposed Labour Minister for Women Janet Anderson, Anderson joked that "under Labour, women will become more promiscuous", which Wyatt reported as policy. Denis Healey regretted at the close of an interview with Wyatt that there was no time left for "rumpy pumpy".
Between 2000 and 2004, Wyatt had an affair with the then editor of The Spectator and Conservative MP Boris Johnson. Johnson had promised to leave his wife, and the affair had resulted in a abortion and a miscarriage. When her mother found out about the affair, she discussed it with the press. Johnson was fired from his shadow cabinet post by party leader Michael Howard for lying about the affair, after he had initially categorically denied it, famously calling the true allegation "an inverted pyramid of piffle".
Career
After graduating, Wyatt became a trainee journalist and later weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph in the early 1990s. She then worked for The Spectator magazine, where she was promoted to deputy editor.
Personal life
In the 1980s and 1990s, Wyatt occasionally crossed paths with Ghislaine Maxwell, a close friend of convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Among various London encounters in which Maxwell tried to recruit her, Maxwell invited Wyatt to a lesbian sex party. Wyatt subsequently appeared in, and consulted on, the 2022 documentary film .
Publications
Categories: 1968 Births, Living People, Writers From Westminster, People Educated At St Paul's Girls' School, Alumni Of University College London, English People Of Hungarian Descent, People From St John's Wood, Daughters Of Life Peers, Journalists From London, English Women Journalists, English Biographers, English Women Non-fiction Writers, English Columnists, British Women Columnists, British Women Biographers
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