Personalities

In the winter of 1973, the future King came through our doors in pursuit of the three silliest men in England —…

He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the same thing…

One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing "Greensleeves" until…

Pink pigeons on the lawn, a clavichord under the seat of the Rolls, a horse taking tea in the drawing room, and…

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Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King - the fable of an Englishman who travels east, is taken for a god…

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He had 30,000 acres, a perfumed motor car and a chapel he turned into a theatre. In six brief years, Henry Cyril…

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He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a…

She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.