Frank Rolleston Gardner OBE (born 31 July 1961) is a British journalist and correspondent. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent. He was appointed an OBE in 2005 for his services to journalism.
Gardner's father and mother were both diplomats and aged six he moved from the UK to the Hague in the Netherlands. The excitement of travel to a foreign country left a lasting impression. Educated at Saint Ronan's School, an independent junior s...
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Frank Rolleston Gardner OBE (born 31 July 1961) is a British journalist and correspondent. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent. He was appointed an OBE in 2005 for his services to journalism.
Gardner's father and mother were both diplomats and aged six he moved from the UK to the Hague in the Netherlands. The excitement of travel to a foreign country left a lasting impression. Educated at Saint Ronan's School, an independent junior school in Hawkhurst, Kent, in England, and later at Marlborough College, an independent school in Marlborough, Wiltshire, teachers pushed Gardner into taking up biathlon, which enabled him to travel to Austria to train with the British Army biathlon team.
Aged 16, Gardner and his mother had met the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger (whom his mother knew previously) on a bus. Invited to the explorer's home in Chelsea, the initially reluctant Gardner fell in love with Arabia. Partly as a result and partly reasoning that knowing the Arabic...
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