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Showing posts with label Royal Family. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 November 2022

The attack-dog syndrome is a dead giveaway

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I n the first, and main, article about a phenomenon that I think of as the  attack-dog syndrome , I described how I was the object of strong...
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Defence Against the Dark Arts Part XVII: The Farjeons' Kings and Queens

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W hen I was working on the article about the  witty and amusing books of  W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman,   their British history textbook p...
Monday, 1 March 2021

L. M. Montgomery and Mary Webb: some similarities and connections

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M ary Henley Rubio's  biography Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings  is yet another depressing book that needs to be taken in small ...
Friday, 11 October 2019

Napoleon Bonaparte and the crumbs of hope

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N apoleon Bonaparte must be one of the most written-about people on the planet. However, although he got a brief mention in an article about...
Thursday, 16 August 2018

Today’s birthdays: Georgette Heyer and Diana Wynne Jones

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G eorgette Heyer was born on August 16th 1902. D iana Wynne Jones was born on August 16th 1934. T here is nothing in Georgette Heyer’s n...
Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Princess Diana’s death and the backfiring feature

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I noticed the  sacrificed son feature in this case a while back: the ruthless self-made social climber Mohamed Al Fayed lost his son Dodi ...
Monday, 18 December 2017

Princess Margaret’s death: was it a mercy killing?

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A re there sinister elements in this case? Should we be suspicious of the official stories? W hen Princess Margaret died in 2002, alleged...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Benjamin Disraeli: Imperium Et Libertas, death and primroses

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B enjamin Disraeli died on April 19th, 1881. P rotocol did not permit Queen Victoria to attend his funeral, but she sent two wreaths of...
Sunday, 27 August 2017

Benjamin Disraeli: clothes, debts and a very happy marriage

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I have been looking at more information about Benjamin Disraeli’s life, personality and political career. He is still a man of mystery to ...
Monday, 1 May 2017

The childhood of Marie Corelli

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I described some painful events in the life of the Queen of Victorian Best-sellers Marie Corelli  recently. Writing about an episode in Ru...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

King Charles II and synchronicity

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I have been doing some research into the English Civil War, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. I was looking for examples of the ...
Friday, 23 December 2016

King George V's Christmas speech

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K ing-Emperor George V made the first-ever royal Christmas speech. It was broadcast on the radio to all the peoples of the British Empire o...
Monday, 18 January 2016

Today is the 80th Anniversary of Rudyard Kipling’s death

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R udyard Kipling died on January 18th 1936, in hospital in London, not long after his 70th birthday. Incidentally, January 18th is also the...
Sunday, 19 July 2015

Mayor and Llewelyn Davies connections: a tangled web

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T his article consists of material left over from my recent post about convenient deaths associated with the Austen, Mayor and Disraeli fam...
Monday, 15 July 2013

Two exploited women: Maria Callas and the Duchess of Windsor

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I remember watching a TV programme about the final years of the Duchess of Windsor in Paris a while back. This reminded me of something ...
Friday, 9 April 2010

Unseen influences: positive interference and reverse sabotage

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M y reading, research and personal experiences have convinced me that unseen influences can and do interfere with and sabotage people’...
Monday, 14 September 2009

Unseen crimes: an introduction

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I t is now quite common to hear people use expressions such as 'dysfunctional family' and 'control freak'. Energy vampires ...