Showing posts with label Royal Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Family. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Queen Mary did not request the Agatha Christie radio play that became The Mousetrap

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Dorian Lynskey has written for The Nerve about the current production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and the play's history: Th...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Prince Philip sent 12th-century font to Charles’ boarding school in the 1960s

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The Independent wins our Headline of the Day Award. Apparently the font wasn't academically gifted, but it had character and played in...
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Friday, July 31, 2026

The white horses of Lutterworth

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I went to Lutterworth today and was taken by these four white horses on a grassed bank at the bottom of the town's main street, which cl...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Another myth exploded: Queen Victoria and the lesbians

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Embed from Getty Images The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 outlawed "gross indecency" between but made no mention of relation...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

"His glamour tarnished, his boorishness came to notice": On being the monarch's second son

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Embed from Getty Images Being the second son of a monarch is a difficult career, because you cease to be of use to the family firm – assumin...
Friday, July 10, 2026

Prince Harry visits hospital as brother William plays crazy golf and King Charles examines a penguin

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This effort from Sky News , in which the Royal Family plays a starring role, wins it our Headline of the Day Award. Norman Baker will not be...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Gilbert Adair and when Jacques Derrida came to Loughborough

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Today I thought of the writer Gilbert Adair, looked up his Guardian obituary from 2011 and found this gem: He once told us on the arts desk...
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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Why Kenneth Williams wanted to be serviced by Terence Rattigan

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Having recently posted a video of Fergus McClelland with Leo McKern in Brecht's Gallileo, yesterday I had a look in the British Newspap...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Vaughan Wilkins gives Queen Victoria's wicked uncles both barrels and Private Eye has more on Hakluyt

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The spooky "strategic advisory" firm Hakluyt that occasionally features in Private Eye . That was me blogging the other day. And ...
Friday, April 03, 2026

Norman Baker: Royal Mint, National Debt

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The former Liberal Democrat MP and minister talks about the subject mattere of his recent book on the opaque financial arrangements of the R...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Ed Davey on Keir Starmer's "staggering lack of backbone"

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A Liberal Democrat media release  says:  Responding to confirmation that the King will make a second state visit to the US, Ed Davey, Leader...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Great Tew: From dereliction to the Beckhams' illuminations

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A derelict cottage in Great Tew, 1980. Photo by Kim Traynor The Beckhams' plans to light the pond at their Cotswold home have upset thei...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars by Alwyn Turner

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This review appears in the latest issue of Liberator – no. 434. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. A Shell...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Andrew Lownie on today's arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

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Andrew Lownie, the indefatigable author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York , responds to today's developments.
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

What the latest Epstein revelations mean for the Royal Family

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I review Andrew Lownie's Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York in the latest Liberator.  Here he talks about what the revela...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie

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Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York Andrew Lownie William Collins, 2025; £22 Before he turned to royal biographies, Andrew Lown...
Friday, January 23, 2026

William and Ed Grundy are the King's sons William and Harry

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Embed from Getty Images One of the great Archers scenes was the one with Clarrie in labour with her first child: "Eddie, if I die, I do...

Mole in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's garden at Wolferton

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The Eastern Daily Press , which knows a news story when it sees one, wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Monday, January 05, 2026

Norman Baker talks to Andrew Lownie about the royals' finances

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Back in the day, Norman Baker was my favourite Liberal Democrat MP. So it's good to see he's alive and kicking, even if his lens cou...
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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Richard Dimbleby, David Dimbleby, Henry Dimbleby and the hereditary principle

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David Dimbleby's current television series is questioning Britain's hereditary monarchy. So it's time for a thumping ad hominem...
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