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'''Petronella Wyatt''' (born May 1968), is a British ] and author. She is the daughter of the former journalist and ] politician, the late ], and his fourth wife, the Hungarian Veronica (Verushka) Banszky Von Ambroz. '''Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt'''<ref>''The Third Plantagenet: Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother''</ref> (born 6 May 1968) is a British ] and author.


==Early life and education==
==Biography==
Wyatt was born on 6 May 1968 at 12 ], ], England.<ref name="Wyatt2012">{{cite book|first=Petronella |last=Wyatt|title=Father Dear Father|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAr0UaEAoKkC&pg=PT6|date=31 May 2012|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4481-3693-3|page=6}}</ref> Her parents were the journalist and ] MP ] and his fourth wife, Hungarian-born Veronica "Verushka" Banszky von Ambroz (née ]).<ref name=Popham>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-families-5-the-wyatts-1273409.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-families-5-the-wyatts-1273409.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|date=17 March 1997|access-date=28 October 2019|last=Popham|first=Peter|title=Media families 5. The Wyatts}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/all-cyclists-should-have-a-licence-says-petronella-wyatt-as-her-mother-is-injured-twice-in-a-month-8121009.html|work=London Evening Standard|title='All cyclists should have a licence', says Petronella Wyatt as her mother is injured twice in a month|date=10 September 2012|access-date=28 October 2019|last=Watling|first=Lindsay}}</ref><ref name=Profile/><ref>{{Cite web|date=9 December 1997|title=Obituary: Lord Wyatt of Weeford|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lord-wyatt-of-weeford-1287784.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lord-wyatt-of-weeford-1287784.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=20 November 2020|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>
Born in London, Wyatt attended ] in London before reading History at ] for a week, and then transferring and later graduating from ]. She is listed in her University year book as "Student who is most likely to make a living re-enforcing negative prejudices at a third-rate right wing rag".


Wyatt attended ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-2012/9464365/My-daddy-Woodrow-Wyatt-Robin-Day-and-a-sporting-disaster.html|title=My daddy Woodrow Wyatt, Robin Day and a sporting disaster|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=10 August 2012|access-date=28 October 2019|last=Wyatt|first=Petronella}}</ref> She then began reading history at ]. 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 ] ] ].<ref name=Oxford>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9714190/Petronella-Wyatt-I-was-bullied-out-of-Oxford-for-being-a-Tory.html|title=Petronella Wyatt: I was bullied out of Oxford for being a Tory|last=Wyatt|first=Petronella|date=30 November 2012|access-date=28 October 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> She subsequently read history at ].<ref name=Oxford/>
She has been a weekly columnist for the '']'' and ''],'' of which she was deputy editor. She currently writes political interviews and main feature articles for the ''].'' Her interviewees have included ],<ref>, ''The Spectator'', 20 - 27 December 1997</ref> ],<ref>, '']'', 20 December 2004</ref> and ].<ref>, ''The Spectator'', 20 July 2002</ref> Known for her direct and playful interview style, Wyatt got proposed Labour Minister for Women ] to say that under a Labour Government women would be more ]; and ] to regret that as the interview had gone on for so long, there was now no time for some ''].''<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml;?html=/archive/1996/10/05/tlpet05.html|title=Women Like Seeing Men as Sex Objects"|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=1996-10-05|accessdate=2007-05-28}}</ref>


==Career==
Wyatt's ] appearances include '']'' and '']''.
After graduating, Wyatt became a trainee journalist and later weekly columnist for the '']'' in the early 1990s. She then worked for '']'' magazine, where she was promoted to deputy editor.<ref name=Profile>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/woodrow-verushka-pericles-and-petronella-welcome-to-the-world-of-the-wyatts-533899.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/woodrow-verushka-pericles-and-petronella-welcome-to-the-world-of-the-wyatts-533899.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|title=Woodrow, Verushka, Pericles and Petronella: welcome to the world of the Wyatts|date=20 November 2004|access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref>


In 1996, when interviewing the proposed Labour Minister for Women ], Anderson joked that "under Labour, women will become more promiscuous", which Wyatt reported as policy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/promiscuity-a-new-war-cry-for-labour-5598107.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/promiscuity-a-new-war-cry-for-labour-5598107.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Promiscuity. A new war cry for Labour?|last=Picardie|first=Ruth|date=3 October 1996|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=1 March 2010 }}</ref> ] regretted at the close of an interview with Wyatt that there was no time left for "]".<ref name=Popham/>
===Misplaced Pages article===
In May 2007, '']'' reported that Wyatt had been instructed by ], the editor of the ''Daily Mail'', to pen an attack on ] over the content of her entry on the site.<ref>{{Citation|title=Street of Shame|magazine=]|pages=p4|date=25 May 2007|issue=1185}}</ref> This was published on 22 April 2007 when Wyatt admitted to writing her initial entry and then threatening to sue over vandalism to the page.<ref>, David Cross, 24 April 2007.</ref> She concluded the article by saying:


== Personal life ==
<blockquote>Education Secretary ] may claim that Misplaced Pages is educational history and "a force for good". But if Misplaced Pages is "history", then history is indeed bunk. I suspect that Mr Johnson, perhaps, just wanted to read more about my embonpoint. Wicked-pedia!<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=450045&in_page_id=1770|title=Wicked-pedia: 'Why the online encyclopedia makes me want to scream'|publisher=]|date=2007-04-22|accessdate=2007-05-28}}</ref></blockquote>
Between 2000 and 2004, Wyatt had an affair with the then editor of ''The Spectator'' and Conservative MP ].<ref name="Times1">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article391143.ece|title=Boris Johnson sacked for lying over affair|newspaper=]|date=14 November 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724140737/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article391143.ece |archive-date=24 July 2008| first1=Andrew | last1=Porter | first2=Nicholas | last2=Hellen}}</ref> Johnson had promised to leave his wife, and the affair had resulted in a ] and a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/how-boris-johnsons-affair-with-petronella-wyatt-nearly-ended-his-career/news-story/3b755b23fbee046601d06019397ed149|title=How Boris Johnson's affair with Petronella Wyatt nearly ended his career|date=24 July 2019|last=Carey|first=Alexis|publisher=news.com.au}}</ref> When her mother found out about the affair, she discussed it with the press.<ref name=Profile/><ref name="Times1"/> Johnson was fired from his ] post by party leader ] for lying about the affair, after he had initially categorically denied it.<ref name="Times1"/><ref>{{cite news |first=Gaby |last=Hinsliff |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/nov/14/uk.conservatives |title=Boris Johnson sacked by Tories over private life |newspaper=] |date=14 November 2004 |access-date=5 August 2017 }}</ref>


===Personal life=== ==Publications==
⚫ *''Father, dear Father: Life with Woodrow Wyatt'', ], London, 1999. {{ISBN|0-09-929760-4}}
Wyatt, known to her friends as "Petsy," lives with her mother in ], ].<ref name="Times1"/>
*''Secrets of The Press'', edited by ].

*''The Third Plantagenet: ]'', John Ashdown Hill. The History Press, 2014. Contribution.
After she had lived in the United States for the latter half of 2003 with Charles Bruce Berry at his home in ], ], in 2004 British newspapers reported that she had had a four-year ] with the then-] ] ].<ref name="Times1">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article391143.ece|title=Boris Johnson sacked for lying over affair|publisher='']''|date=2004-11-14|accessdate=2007-05-29}}</ref> The affair, which had been well hinted at in UK newspaper gossip columns, included passionate ] rides around St John's Wood during which they would ask the cab driver to insert cassette tapes of Wyatt singing ].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/08/bogim208.xml|title=The only dumb blond in Westminster village|publisher=The Telegraph|date=2006-10-15|accessdate=2008-08-26}}</ref> Although Johnson had promised to leave his wife,<ref name=indie>{{cite news|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article21133.ece|title= Woodrow, Verushka, Pericles and Petronella: welcome to the world of the Wyatts|publisher=]|date=2004-11-20|accessdate=2007-05-30}}</ref> after a break-up, they had rekindled their relationship during which Wyatt had become ] and then had an ]; resulting in her mother discovering the affair and reporting it to the press.<ref name="Times1"/> Johnson was sacked from his ] post by ], not because of the affair but because he had lied about it. Boris Johnson is on record as describing her as "A better ride than a Pederson - plenty between the legs but nothing between the ears."

Wyatt's real passion in life is fixed-gear bike tricks. Her backward circles, bar spins and bunny hops; all taught by her equally able mother, often light up otherwise dull North London Labour party gatherings, and it is for this she has become famous on the London social elite party scene. Sadly her recent weight gain following her approach to late mid life, and the accident that disfigured her face have put paid to any sponsorship deals. Wyatt was quoted in Bicycle Weekly saying "I taught that Danny MacGaskill everything he knew on a bike, and the industry never thanked me for it." The Swagger Fixie bike is now safely in the garage and more time is dedicated to her other passions, such as trying to find porky TV Chef James Martin's tiny penis, knitting, biscuit making, Nazi loving and writing amateur blog-quality articles for the Hitler-appeasing national Shame 'The Daily Mail'.

Wyatt, whose hobby is singing and lyric-writing, loves to sing ]; and her party trick, which she performed for ]’s birthday, is singing '']'' in the husky tones of ].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article380228.ece|title=David, Kimberly, Boris and Petsy: it's showtime|publisher=The Times|date=2005-04-13|accessdate=2008-08-26}}</ref> Wyatt devised and wrote a ] act called ''Kiss and Tell'' with the pianist and composer Jeremy Limb, the poet Lloyd Evans, and opera singer Melinda Hughes.<!-- Bot generated title --> It debuted at London club Volstead in November 2007.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-491687/Shes-voice-training-dance-lessons-brand-new-dress-Could-Petronella-Wyatt-new-Liza-Minnelli.html|title=She's had voice training, dance lessons and a brand new dress|publisher=Daily Mail|date=2007-11-05|accessdate=2008-08-26}}</ref> The show's popularity was measured, and somewhat short lived - it closed after just a few runs when the greater public realised that she is about as talented as a sea sponge, and that she should have stuck with biek tricks.

==Publications==
⚫ *''Father, dear Father: Life with Woodrow Wyatt'', ], London, 1999. ISBN 0-09-929760-4


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British journalist and author (born 1968)

Petronella Wyatt
BornPetronella Aspasia Wyatt
(1968-05-06) 6 May 1968 (age 56)
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford
University College London
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
PartnerBoris Johnson (2000–2004)
Parent(s)Woodrow Wyatt
Veronica Banszky von Ambroz (née Racz)

Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt (born 6 May 1968) is a British journalist and author.

Early life and education

Wyatt was born on 6 May 1968 at 12 Devonshire Street, London, England. Her parents were the journalist and Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt and his fourth wife, Hungarian-born Veronica "Verushka" Banszky von Ambroz (née Racz).

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.

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.

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".

Personal life

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 terminated pregnancy 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.

Publications

References

  1. The Third Plantagenet: Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
  2. Wyatt, Petronella (31 May 2012). Father Dear Father. Random House. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4481-3693-3.
  3. ^ Popham, Peter (17 March 1997). "Media families 5. The Wyatts". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  4. Watling, Lindsay (10 September 2012). "'All cyclists should have a licence', says Petronella Wyatt as her mother is injured twice in a month". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Woodrow, Verushka, Pericles and Petronella: welcome to the world of the Wyatts". The Independent. 20 November 2004. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  6. "Obituary: Lord Wyatt of Weeford". The Independent. 9 December 1997. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. Wyatt, Petronella (10 August 2012). "My daddy Woodrow Wyatt, Robin Day and a sporting disaster". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  8. ^ Wyatt, Petronella (30 November 2012). "Petronella Wyatt: I was bullied out of Oxford for being a Tory". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  9. Picardie, Ruth (3 October 1996). "Promiscuity. A new war cry for Labour?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  10. ^ Porter, Andrew; Hellen, Nicholas (14 November 2004). "Boris Johnson sacked for lying over affair". The Times. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008.
  11. Carey, Alexis (24 July 2019). "How Boris Johnson's affair with Petronella Wyatt nearly ended his career". news.com.au.
  12. Hinsliff, Gaby (14 November 2004). "Boris Johnson sacked by Tories over private life". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
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