Editing Alan Whicker (section)

== Early life==

[[File:AmeryArrested.jpg|thumb|left|Whicker (right, with back to the camera) with [[John Amery]] shortly after the latter's arrest by [[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] in [[Milan]].|alt=Dark-haired unshaven man]]

Whicker was born to British parents in [[Cairo]], Egypt, in 1921.{{refn|group=note|name=year of birth|Sources such as Whicker's ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]'' entry give a year of birth of 1925.<ref name="WWW">{{cite web |title=Whicker, Alan Donald, (2 Aug. 1925–12 July 2013), television broadcaster (Whicker's World); writer |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U39510 |website=[[Who Was Who]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=4 August 2024 |language=en |date=1 December 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=107081|title=Whicker, (Donald) Alan (1921–2013)}}</ref><ref name=indy>{{Cite web|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/a-wonderful-life-broadcaster-alan-whicker-dies-aged-87-8705800.html|work = [[The Independent]] | date = 12 July 2013|access-date = 12 July 2013|title = 'A wonderful life': Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies, aged 87|first = James|last = Legge}}</ref> When he was two years old his father Charles, a British Army officer, became seriously ill with a heart problem and died. The family, now consisting of his mother Nancy, Alan and his elder sister Mary, moved to [[Richmond, London|Richmond]] in [[Surrey]]. His sister soon died, too. He attended [[Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School]], an all-boys [[Independent school (UK)|independent]] [[boarding school]], where he excelled at cross-country running.<ref name="ODNB" />