* Godfrey Talbot; Covered WWII, Royals for BBC

Godfrey Talbot, 91, BBC correspondent who covered World War II and the royals. Talbot joined the British Broadcasting Corp. in 1937 as a war correspondent and was made an officer of the Order of British Empire for his coverage of the Desert Rats’ campaign in North Africa. In 1948, he became the BBC’s first royal correspondent, personally approved by King George VI. He traveled more than a quarter of a million miles around the world with the royal family over the course of 20 years and wrote a book about the Queen Mother Elizabeth. He retired from the network in 1969. On Sunday in London.