How ballet lessons transformed Princess Diana
The choreographer Anne Allan not only indulged the princess’s love of dance in weekly one-to-one sessions but also became her longstanding confidante
The horrors of the Eastern Front
Nick Lloyd reinforces Churchill’s sentiment that the first world war in the East was ‘one of the most frightful misfortunes to befall mankind’
What possessed the Duke of Windsor to visit Nazi Germany in 1937?
Whether it was from hurt, spite or genuine fascist sympathies, his surprise at his family’s response simply confirms his stupidity
Why did Britain lock up so many innocent refugees in 1940?
Despite prostrate Germany’s need for the return of its men, in Britain we didn’t release our prisoners of war until…
It all started with Dracula
The title of the journalist Paul Kenyon’s second book on crazy leadership, Children of the Night, leaves the reader in…
