Category Archives: Interesting People

The contrast is admittedly fatuous but still intriguing.  King Charles III’s accession to the throne is a sombre, formal affair imbued with widespread public sadness at the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.  For the last King Charles, Charles II, the circumstances were very different, with his country having been through even more upheavalContinue reading “Collecting King Charles – When Samuel Pepys Met the Merry Monarch”

His is the voice that everyone over the age of 40 probably knows.  The dry, urbane tone, the controlled and precise diction, which never wavered, even as the events he was describing reached a fever pitch.  Back in the days when the nation stopped for horse races like the Derby and the Grand National, PeterContinue reading “Peter O’Sullevan”