Monique Jessen

I am a freelance reporter and writer with over 20 years experience covering the British royal family, style, celebrity news and human interest for PEOPLE magazine, The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Time, the Daily Telegraph and Hello! magazine.

I started my journalism career at the London bureau of PEOPLE magazine, working my way up from editorial assistant to correspondent before going freelance in 2009. I have reported and written numerous celebrity features and covers during this time, interviewing everyone from Beyonce, George Clooney, Clare Danes and Kate Winslet to name just a few.

For the last decade I have primarily been writing about the royal family (with the odd celebrity cover story thrown in for good measure!) Reporting on hundreds of royal cover stories, I have broken several major royal exclusives whilst covering the daily lives of the British royal family which has included four royal weddings and the recent funeral of Queen Elizabeth.

Having covered the fashion week circuit in both London and Paris over the years, interviewing designers from Erdem to Valentino along the way, I was excited to debut my own style column for PEOPLE Royals, the quarterly title of PEOPLE magazine’s royal franchise in 2021.

I am also on the board for the Association of American Correspondents in London, a networking group for journalists, for which I organise events for our 200-plus members which include The New York Times, CNN, NBC and The Washington Post.