24 APRIL 1993, page 21

A Braganza Extravaganza

Christina Lamb meets an applicant for a position - Emperor of Brazil - which might yet fall vacant Rio de Janeiro THE FRAYING leather-bound visitors' book in the entrance hall......

The Fifth Horseman

Alasdair Palmer talks to 'Jack the Dripper', the American doctor whose patients never wake up Royal Oak, Michigan TO SOME, he is 'a hero . . a kind of sec- ular saint'. To......