People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.