Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
...heavyweights who could take the heat and demonstrate a bit of political showmanship. David Lloyd George epitomised this new kind of Chancellor. He immediately ran afoul of Margot Asquith, the...
...League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in Britain, where his idealism caught the mood of the moment. But at a state banquet in...
...nations departed after six months of competition, which then included all the summer and winter Olympic sports, ministers at the Foreign Office (which kept a close eye on the diplomatic...
...confidential go-between, conveying messages between them. From the outset, Lloyd George assumed total control in a way unknown to Herbert Henry Asquith or his predecessors. He appointed a five-man War...
...Foreign Office Private Secretary, Charles Powell. Mrs Thatcher brought contemporary British art to Number 10, including the Henry Moore Alcove on the main passageway between the Hall and the Cabinet...
“How the power of Prime Ministry grew up into its present form it is difficult to trace precisely.” In 1841 a former Prime Minister, Viscount Melbourne, explained the above to Queen Victoria. Details of the lives of individual Prime Ministers …