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Max Hastings (Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings) was born on 28 December, 1945 in Lambeth, London, England, is an English journalist, editor, historian and author (born 1945). Discover Max Hastings's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings
Occupation Journalist, editor, author
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 28 December, 1945
Birthday 28 December
Birthplace Lambeth, London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Max Hastings Height, Weight & Measurements

At 78 years old, Max Hastings height is 6' (1.83 m) .

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Who Is Max Hastings's Wife?

His wife is Patricia Edmondson (m. 1972-1994) Penelope Levinson (m. 1999)

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Wife Patricia Edmondson (m. 1972-1994) Penelope Levinson (m. 1999)
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Children 3

Max Hastings Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Max Hastings worth at the age of 78 years old? Max Hastings’s income source is mostly from being a successful Miscellaneous. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Max Hastings's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Miscellaneous

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1944

He dedicated his book Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944–45, which was published in 2007, to Charles's memory.

Hastings has at different times voted for all three major British political parties.

1945

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard.

He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards.

Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.

Hastings' parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.

He was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.

1967

Hastings moved to the United States, spending a year (1967–68) as a Fellow of the World Press Institute, following which he published his first book, America, 1968: The Fire This Time, an account of the US in its tumultuous election year.

He became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC1's Twenty-Four Hours current affairs programme and for the Evening Standard in London.

1972

Hastings has a surviving son and daughter by his first wife, Patricia Edmondson, to whom he was married from 1972 until 1994.

1980

He has presented historical documentaries for the BBC and is the author of many books, including Bomber Command, which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction in 1980.

Both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year prize.

1982

Hastings was the first person accompanying the British Task Force to enter Port Stanley on the last day of the 1982 Falklands War.

He was named Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year at the 1982 British Press Awards, and Editor of the Year in 1988.

1993

He was elected a member of the political dining society known as The Other Club in 1993.

1996

After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he returned to the Evening Standard as editor in 1996 and remained there until his retirement in 2002.

1999

Hastings lives near Hungerford, Berkshire, with his second wife, Penelope (Levinson), whom he married in 1999.

2000

In 2000, his 27-year-old first son, Charles, died by suicide in Ningbo, China.

2002

Hastings was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2002 Birthday Honours for services to journalism.

He was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England from 2002 to 2007.

Hastings wrote a column for the Daily Mail between 2002 and 2008 and often contributes articles to other publications such as The Guardian, and The Sunday Times.

He also currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion.

2007

In his 2007 book Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 (known as Retribution in the United States), the chapter on Australia's role in the last year of the Pacific War was criticised by the chief of the Returned and Services League of Australia and one of the historians at the Australian War Memorial, for allegedly exaggerating discontent in the Australian Army.

Dan van der Vat in The Guardian called it "even-handed", "refreshing" and "sensitive" and praised the language used.

The Spectator called it "brilliant" and praised his telling of the human side of the story.

2010

In 2010 he received the Royal United Services Institute's Westminster Medal for his "lifelong contribution to military literature", and the same year the Edgar Wallace Award from the London Press Club.

He announced his support for the Conservative Party at the 2010 general election, having previously voted for the Labour Party at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.

He said that "four terms are too many for any government" and described Gordon Brown as "wholly psychologically unfit to be Prime Minister".

At elections since he has voted for the Liberal Democrats.

2012

In 2012, he was awarded the US$100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award, a lifetime achievement award for military writing, which includes an honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation.

Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Historical Society.

2014

In August 2014, Hastings was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

2019

In June 2019, Hastings described Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party leadership candidate, as "unfit for national office, because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification ... [his] premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability ... If the price of Johnson proves to be Corbyn, blame will rest with the Conservative party, which is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people – who will not find it funny for long."

He continued along this line of argument throughout the Johnson premiership and he said that "the experiment in celebrity government to which the Conservative Party committed us has failed, and is seen by the world to have failed. The foremost task for a successor is to restore Britain's reputation as a serious country."

In his Bloomberg column on 14 February 2021, Hastings wrote that the United Kingdom's future was unlikely to be long-term.

He advocated a United Ireland but said he was against Scottish and Welsh independence.

Hastings was widely criticised for stating in the article that the Welsh language was of "marginal value" and that Wales could not succeed as an independent country because it was "dependent on English largesse".

Huw Edwards said there were several factual errors in Hastings' points, while Fergus Llewelyn Turtle responded: "For the non-English part of the UK that is ... the most integrated with England, it's pretty astonishing how many English commentators have exactly zero political clue about Wales."

In March 2021, Hastings wrote that the prospect of a showdown between the United States and China over Taiwan was becoming increasingly likely.