It’s So Lonely On A Limb
Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth while in Kenya, then a colonial possession still 11 years away from independence. The Mau Mau revolt against British rule was about to begin. Back home, Scotland…
Democracy’s Debt
Malmesbury – the oldest borough in England – is one of many Wessex market towns on the front line in the struggle against London overspill. The Coalition, for whose parties…
Punishing The Toys
Windsor Castle is home to more than a few of the 1,200 items of ivory in the Royal Collection. The 1,200 items that Prince William would like to have destroyed…
Right Royal Ruination
Prince Charles likes to let his mother’s Ministers know his views. In at least 27 letters to seven Government departments in just seven months, many of the letters being “particularly…
Cradle of the Crown
“Whereas the liberties of England, its laws, statutes, system of justice and administration, had their beginnings in the Kingdom of Wessex;Whereas that Kingdom in its heyday was at once the…
Peace & Goodwill?
This September, those who died in terrorist attacks on U.S. cities were commemorated, ten years on. Although the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan combined is over 300 times the…