Charles Wheeler (journalist)
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Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (born Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler on March 26, 1923) is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he is currently their longest serving foreign correspondent.
Wheeler's long career has involved postings to Berlin, Delhi and Washington. In the later years of his career he was the American correspondent of Newsnight. He remains active as a presenter of documentary series' on Radio 4.
He was appointed a CMG in 2001, and was knighted in the 2006 Birthday Honours, for services to broadcasting and journalism overseas. His daughter, the barrister Marina Wheeler, is the wife of leading journalist and Conservative MP Boris Johnson.
In June 2006 Charles Wheeler announced he had discovered that a painting by Alessandro Allori of Eleonora of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo de Medici, which had been given to him in Berlin as a wedding present in 1952, had been looted during World War II. Via the Commission for Looted Art in Europe it was returned to its legitimate owner, the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin from whose possession it had been absent since 1944.[1]
