Introducing a Guardian Fan

New Zealander Roger Cowell, a UK-based freelance writer and registered nurse, features in the Guardian’s reader series, ‘Good to Meet You’. “In 1974, aged 23, I came to the UK from New Zealand and stayed with my sister and brother-in-law, then living in north London. They read the Guardian, and since then the paper has been my first choice wherever I am in the world. I am an experienced Pacific Islands researcher and am proud to have written two obituaries of Tongan royalty, which appeared on your pages. I wrote to the obituaries editor when the King of Tonga died in 2006 and asked why an article hadn’t appeared. He telephoned me and said: ‘Are you offering?’ I paused and replied: ‘Why not?’”