Valentine Low

Valentine Low is a British journalist. He was the royal correspondent for The Times from 2008 to 2023.

Early life Low was educated at Winchester College and Wadham College, Oxford. The novelist Penelope Lively is Low's half-sister. Low replaced Alan Hamilton, who had been the royal correspondent for The Times since 1982.

Low broke the story of claims of bullying of royal staff by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in an article for The Times in May 2021. The story was published a few days before the broadcast of Oprah with Meghan and Harry, an interview by Oprah Winfrey with Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. In an interview with Amol Rajan for his documentary The Princes and the Press, Low denied that the story of bullying allegations had been leaked to him with the "tacit approval" of William, Prince of Wales, Harry's brother. He later stated that they received "several strongly worded letters from their lawyers before we published – after we published we didn't hear a word from them. So that speaks volumes, too."

Courtiers Low's book Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown was published on 6 October 2022 by Headline. Excerpts from Courtiers were published in The Times in September 2022.