28 JANUARY 1989, page 34

Prince Charming Turns Into A Toad

Kenneth Rose IN ROYAL SERVICE: THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF SIR ALAN LASCELLES, VOLUME II, 1920-1936 edited by Duff Hart-Davis Hamish Hamilton, £14.95, pp.212 Ng. A work on a......

More Often They Were Just Profane

Geoffrey Wheatcroft SACRED MONSTERS by Daniel Farson Bloomsbury, £14.95, pp. 205 Y ears ago, the editor of a Fleet Street paper, the Daily Mirror I think, was complaining to his......