Monthly Archives: March 2014

Britain’s funniest, cleverest and fattest queen ever: Queen Caroline

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Hello!  I’ve been a bit quiet for a fortnight because I have busy hurling myself round the globe: in last two weeks I have laid my head in Istanbul, Northern Ireland, Ludlow and Oxford.  While I’ve been away, though I gather that trailers have been spotted for the BBC’s eighteenth century season, including my own

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When a geek goes to Fashion Week

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In case you missed it when it was in t’paper… ‘My first thought on hearing that ES [The Evening Standard’s glossy magazine] wanted to send me to London Fashion Week to lose my fashion-show virginity was glee. As a curator at London’s Historic Royal Palaces, I look after a vast collection of gowns, and BBC

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