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Jennie Bond was educated at Warwick University, from where she graduated with a degree in French and European Literature in 1968. Her career began in the print where she worked for various local newspapers in London in journalist and sub-editing roles. In 1977 she moved to BBC radio, working in producing and editing. In 1985 she became a radio news reporter. In 1988 she moved on to report on television. She began her role as royal correspondent, which was to bring her to wide public attention, in 1989.

Bond held position until the summer of 2003. During that time she reported on many dramatic events in the British Royal FamilyThe British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. Although there is no strict legal definition of who is or is not a member of the royal family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the titl, including two royal weddingThis article is about the marriage ceremony. For the former borough in Berlin, see Wedding, Berlin. Aswan, Egypt A wedding is a civil or religious ceremony at which the beginning of a marriage is celebrated. In most societies, a number of wedding traditios, the divorceDivorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custo of Charles, Prince of WalesFor other people known as Charles, Prince of Wales, see Charles, Prince of Wales (disambiguation His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Windsor), styled HRH The Prince Charles, Du and Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, nee Spencer) ( 1 July 1961 31 August 1997), commonly, but incorrectly, known as Princess Diana was for fifteen years the wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. She was the mother of th and Diana's subsequent deathThis page deals with death, the cessation of life. For other meanings of death, see death (disambiguation). Death is a term that can refer to either the termination of life in a living system, or the state of that organism after that event. A common perce and the Queen and Prince Philip's Golden Jubilee celebrations. Bond's reporting style suggested that she was very close personally to members of the Royal Family. She wrote a book in 2001 called Reporting Royalty , which tells how she reporting the Royal Family for the BBC in the 1990's. Impressionists such as Ronni Ancona took to spoofing Bond's royal reports by posing as Bond and pretending to be the Queen herself, crown and all.

Following from her departure from the BBC, Bond's career took a different turn. In February 2004 she finished runner-up in the third series of reality tv show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Shortly afterwards she presented E!'s coverage of the BAFTA film awards, "Live from the Red Carpet." She also presented her own three part documentery called Jennie Bond's Royals on Five. Bond also current works as an after dinner speaker , offering insider tales from her time at the palace.

She is married to a former journalist, Jim Keltz and they have one daughter together. She also has two step children, Stephen and Danielle.