Caroline Wyatt (born 1967) is an Australian-born English journalist. She has worked as a
BBC News
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journalist for over 25 years, as defence correspondent until August 2014, when she replaced Robert Pigott as religious affairs correspondent until June 2016, when she revealed that she had been diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis
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Early life
Born in Darlinghurst
Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney. I ...
, a suburb of Sydney
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, to an Anglo-Irish father and a Polish mother, Wyatt was adopted by a British diplomat
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,[Caroline Wyatt • Q and A • TV Newsroom]
Accessed 19 August 2009. and his Swiss
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-born wife. She has two brothers.
Wyatt was educated at the independent
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Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Woldingham
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, Surrey
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, and then studied English
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and German
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at Southampton University
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
, which also included six months of study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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at the New Brunswick
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, New Jersey
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campus in the US. After graduating from Southampton, she studied for a post-graduate diploma in print journalism
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at City University, London
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Career
Wyatt joined the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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trainee. She undertook work for ''
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