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Reputed Orator

Kenneth Lindsay An Autobiography Abba Eban (Weidenfeld and Nicol son £10) I think it was Sir Alec Douglas-Home who, when Foreign Secretary, said of Abba Eban: 'He must be the......

Dreadful Dukes

Anthony Mockler The Royal Race Jillian Robertson (Blond & Briggs 25.95) Princess Charlotte was one of the jolliest and most popular of the Hanoverians. The people pitied her......