{
  "id": 12821269,
  "title": "‘My Bill’: Sir William Heseltine, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II who helped to modernise the monarchy, dies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/my-bill-sir-william-heseltine-private-secretary-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-12821269",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T07:36:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
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    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/my-bill-sir-william-heseltine-private-secretary-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-who-helped-to-modernise-the-monarchy-dies-20261008-p613o1.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Heseltine, born in Fremantle, helped shake up the royal family’s public image, convincing them to participate in a television documentary and devising that now-famous feature of tours, the walkabout.",
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        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "‘My Bill’: Sir William Heseltine, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II who helped to modernise the monarchy, dies",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/my-bill-sir-william-heseltine-private-secretary-to-queen-elizabeth-ii",
        "published": "2026-10-08T07:36:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}