Charles Moore: ‘I’ve been a practising Christian all my life’

The journalist and former newspaper editor gives his view on the upcoming coronation of King Charles III 

The Eton-educated authorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher, whose full title is Baron Moore of Etchingham, knows his way around the British establishment.

National newspaper editors like Charles Moore are widely regarded as wielding immense power. But Moore says he wasn’t conscious of that during his tenures at The Daily Telegraph (1995-2003), The Sunday Telegraph (1992-95) and The Spectator (1984-90). He was too busy with the day-to-day running of the titles – “it’s amazing how much of your time is consumed with making it the best you can”. He concedes that his position did give him access to the great and the good. “If the editor wants to get hold of someone powerful in any walk of life and find out what’s going on, then he can. It’s a privilege that I didn’t see at the time.”