Historian Lady Antonia Fraser has called on the King to do something which the late Queen would never countenance - sanction DNA testing of the bones in Westminster Abbey
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Henry Dent-Brocklehurst and his wife, Lili Maltese, may be experiencing something of a cost of living crisis - albeit of the sort that afflicts the castle-owning classes.
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Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends
Antoinette was not the only royal to be tied to this remark as, ‘many 18th-century royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI.’