Found - a mimeographed 4 page typed set of instructions for stewards at the royal ceremony. It reveals the amount of detail and planning tha...

Bought a few years ago in a provincial auction house for very little, this signed drawing of Frances Molesworth by the talented amateur La...

Lord Glenavy with his  children Patrick and Biddy This is a continuation of a jot  from March 2014 featuring  a good letter, over 20 clo...

As a follow-up to a very recent Jot on Princess Mary of Teck, whose biography was called The People’s Princess , here is a short letter fro...

The phrase 'the people's princess'  was not made up by Alastair Campbell for the famous Blair soundbite on the day Diana died...

Lady Elvery by William Orpen A good letter, over 20 closely written pages. Indiscreet, gossipy ('The Prince of Wales was blotto.....

Best known as the venue for the most prestigious antiques fair in the world, the Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House Hotel (opened 1929)...

There are at least two other well known Kate Middletons. The American (or possibly Australian) Dr. Kate Middleton author of Stress How to ...

From the papers of the Cambridge don Dadie Rylands - a courteous letter thanking him for the gift of his latest slim anthology Croaked the R...

Of the then Prince of Wales, later to be Edward VIII (and shortly thereafter Duke of Windsor and married in 1937 to Wallis Simpson) Cheiro* ...