The King has been sent a supersized get well soon card from the leading lights of Britain’s theatre, as more than a dozen “Dames and Hamlets” joined the Queen to toast his good health.
It opened with cherished personal memories of this one-of-a-kind Speaker, whose steely grit and profound political conviction was matched only by her love of gossip over an “industrial strength gin and tonic, or two”.
Betty Boothroyd s memorial service was held yesterday at St Margaret s, Westminster. No Tony Blair, no John Major, no William Hague, no Gordon Brown. Not a sniff of John Bercow.
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