Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

This afternoon I saw a perfectly good fez, size 10, on a £1.00 shelf outside an antiques shop.  My Wife would not let me buy it. ...

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Grey Owl (1888-1938).  He was well-known in the 1930s from a series of books and lectures extol...

Beagle (not at the Galapagos)   Today is the anniversary of the arrival of HMS Beagle at the Galapagos Islands.  It  could very near...

  Nichole, Duchess of Bedford (d. 7 Sep 2012), French résistante who married into the British aristocracy and helped save Woburn A...

I'm having serious medal-withdrawal symptoms at the moment, and am feeling accordingly grumpy. Today was day one of one of DNW's ...

Thursday is Tiara Day over on the Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor, which thereby deserves a plug. The ROSS describes itself a '...

From reading some of my recent posts one might be mistaken that medals are just the shiny things worn by young princes or won by glamorous f...

Wizzard This afternoon I was able to catch up with reading the Saturday newspapers. The Daily Telegraph carried interviews with two g...

Back in August, I posted on the start of the archeological dig in Leicester of the supposed site of the burial of King Richard III. ...

Prince Harry in the tropical dress of the Blues and Royals on his Diamond Jubilee Tour of the Bahamas, March 2012.  Army Air Corp off...

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex , was born on 10 March 1964, the third son, and fourth and youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince P...