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A Beginning, A Muddle And An End

Peter Quennell THE HUTCHINSON BOOK OF ESSAYS chosen and introduced by Frank Delaney Hutchinson, £24.95, pp. 550 M ontaigne, though he wrote in a spacious attic room under the......

Regretting At Leisure

Elizabeth Longford THE KING'S WIFE: FIVE QUEEN CONSORTS by Robert Gray Secker & Warburg, f17.95, pp.367 T he moral of this royal saga is clear: never be a queen consort. One can......