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September 30, 2011

Chairman of the Board

September 30, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Lodestar or mirror? Passé or ne plus ultra? Elizabeth II has presided with consistency over an inconsistent age. And what have we learned of her?

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September 30, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features, History, Politics & History
A Year With The Windsors, Ben Pimlott, Charles Higham, King Edward VIII, King George VI, October 2011, Prince George, Prince John, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Queen Victoria, Ron Chase, Roy Moseley, Sarah Bradford, St- George's Chapel, Steve Donoghue, The Naked Gun, Walter Bagehot, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, Winston Churchill
July 31, 2011

A Very Ordinary Person

July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When his brother the king abdicated, shy Prince Bertie suddenly became king - and he was just settling in when the World War II threw his kingdom into chaos. 'A Year with the Windsors' continues.

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July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features, History, Politics & History
A Year With The Windsors, Admiral Leahy, Adolph Hitler, August 2011, Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Jutland, Bertie, Buckingham Palace, Clement Attlee, Duke of Windsor, Duke of York, Edward VIII, Elizabeth, first world war, Franklin Roosevelt, George III, George v, George VI, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, House of Windsor, John Wheeler-Bennett, Lord Mountbatten, Margaret Rose, Marlborough House, Nagasaki, neville chamberlain, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Pearl Harbor, Pericles, Prince Albert, Prince Eddy, Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, quisling, Sarah Bradford, Sir Gerald Kelly, Spanish Armada, Steve Donoghue, Third Reich, U-S-S- Augusta, Wallis Simpson, Westminster Abbey, Winston Churchill
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