Funeral Service: Ronald Allison CVO (1932-2022)
Ronald Allison reigned over the Buckingham Palace press office with calm and good humour from 1973 until 1978. He was already well known as a football reporter, having commentated on the 1966 World Cup Final on telly. He knew about the real world. The Rev Canon David Richards and John Dauth, Prince Charles’s press secretary who was later Australian High Commissioner in London, were in the pulpit at St Cross Chapel in Winchester at his thanksgiving service. The Canon spoke of Allison’s football commentary and his irrational devotion to Southampton FC. ‘He could be quietly diplomatic and discreet – but apparently not when it came to Fulham FC,’ said Canon Richards. ‘His match report on Grandstand said that ‘When you come to Craven Cottage, you expect rubbish – and that’s what we got today.’ It meant he was less popular in some parts of the Royal Borough of Chelsea and...
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