Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey
Robert Laceyis a British historian and biographer. He is the author of a number of bestselling biographies, including those of Henry Ford, Eileen Ford and Queen Elizabeth II, as well as works of popular history...
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It's an open secret that Prince Charles was deeply opposed to the war in Iraq and holds very different views on the environment.
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Nobody hopes that she falls on her face.
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Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II.
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We have been providing the leading recruitment advertising vehicle in this city since 1999. The level of participation in this event is the result of solid business relationships forged over a period of years. We are proud to be a part of the rebuilding of this great city.
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Fill it up today? Before prices go up more?
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Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.
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It is pretty clear that people are not enormously enamored by Camilla. People in the future will say that when you compare her style with Diana's, it is very different.
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Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
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It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.
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Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
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I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
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The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.
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There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.