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Season of Scandals

Season of Scandals

That famous photograph is lodged in all our memories – Christine Keeler naked, astride a concealing chair. And perhaps we all have our own background with this story. Ok, my husband Derek Malcolm’s memories are a bit more direct than most. As…

By Sarah Gristwood | December 29, 2019 | Talking Points |
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Lessons in loving

Lessons in loving

There are two photographs on the desk Vita Sackville-West kept in the tower of Sissinghurst Castle. One of her husband, the writer and diplomat Harold Nicolson, and one of Virginia Woolf. The brief physical passion Vita and Virginia shared was…

By Sarah Gristwood | July 4, 2019 | Talking Points |
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‘Woke’ women and the Sixteenth Century

‘Woke’ women and the Sixteenth Century

There’s been a lot of talk about the new Mary Queen of Scots movie – much of it about the historical accuracy. But the most dramatic moments are not necessarily the invented ones.   Did Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor…

By Sarah Gristwood | January 11, 2019 | Talking Points |
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Meghan’s Match With History

Meghan’s Match With History

Of course Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle is in many ways extraordinary. American, of mixed race and divorced – things have changed since Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, surely. But let’s not get carried away. In one very important…

By Sarah Gristwood | April 18, 2018 | Talking Points |
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‘A native-born Frenchwoman’: the role Anne Boleyn died to play

‘A native-born Frenchwoman’: the role Anne Boleyn died to play

If you write about the Tudors, there are two people at whom you want a crack – well, if you’re interested in women’s history, anyway. One is Elizabeth I. (Been there, done that, in several books already.) The other is…

By Sarah Gristwood | December 13, 2016 | Talking Points |
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What the Dollar Princesses did for us

What the Dollar Princesses did for us

In the long twilight of the Victorian age, the British aristocracy quailed at the thought a new era might be about to dawn. One in which they could no longer count on the exclusive access to power they had once…

By Sarah Gristwood | October 8, 2015 | Talking Points |
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Braveheart

Braveheart

It’s twenty years ago this week since Mel Gibson’s Braveheart was released. Which makes it twenty one years (yes, I am that old) since I interviewed him about it at the Cannes Film Festival, and then went on the set…

By Sarah Gristwood | May 23, 2015 | Talking Points |
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The story of Arbella Stuart

The story of Arbella Stuart

The story of Arbella Stuart, England’s Lost Queen on BBC

By Sarah Gristwood | April 1, 2015 | Talking Points |
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The Reburial of Richard III

The Reburial of Richard III

I think it was the men on horseback that finally got to me. Two knights (or near offer) in shining armour, riding through the streets of Leicester ahead of Richard’s coffin, while the spectators threw white roses, and the officials…

By Sarah Gristwood | March 24, 2015 | Talking Points |
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Ice Widows

Ice Widows

The white expanses at the ends of the earth have always had a special place in all our imaginations. Almost three years ago, in 1912 , the anniversary of Scott’s Antarctic expedition saw us all give ourselves up to the…

By Sarah Gristwood | December 23, 2014 | Talking Points |
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