We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

A busybody's work is never done.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.