Noel Botham

Noel Botham (23 January 1940 – 23 November 2012) was a British tabloid journalist and prolific author.

He wrote books on the love-life of Princess Margaret (Margaret: The Untold Story and Margaret: The Last Real Princess) and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (The Murder of Princess Diana), as well a series of books of obscure facts with the theme of "Useless Information",[1][2] some of which was wildly erroneous; for example, "It would take 150 million years to drive a car to the sun" in The Totally Awesome Book of Useless Information.[3] Also noted as a raconteur and publican, for many years he ran one of Soho's landmark pubs, The French House.

  1. ^ "Noel Botham". The Daily Telegraph. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. ^ Greenslade, Roy (3 November 2012). "Noel Botham - journalist, author, bon viveur and heroic drinker". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. ^ Botham, Noel (2012). Totally Awesome Book of Useless Information, The. Penguin Group. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-101-94851-4.