There is nothing new under the ever-hotter sun. Back in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, the towering Elizabethan musician William Byrd answered his own rhetorical question about the value of ...
On November 2, 1959, their engagement was announced in The Times and Ms Hicks described how it caused 'huge press excitement: a "royal" Mountbatten was marrying a "commoner," Hicks'. David ...