With their long faces and mournful eyes, bloodhounds are known for lugubrious expressions. But there’s nothing sad about the pack bounding joyously towards me on a November morning in rural Northamptonshire. There are 19 of them and only one of me. And with their strong build — they stand around two feet tall at the … Read more
Although not known for cracking jokes in public, Her Majesty the Queen could not resist a light-hearted exchange with the comedy duo Cannon and Ball after the Royal Variety Performance of 1987. The previous week they had been introduced to the Duke of Edinburgh at a charity dinner. ‘We were told to address him as … Read more
Although not known for cracking jokes in public, Her Majesty the Queen could not resist a light-hearted exchange with the comedy duo Cannon and Ball after the Royal Variety Performance of 1987. The previous week they had been introduced to the Duke of Edinburgh at a charity dinner. ‘We were told to address him as … Read more