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What it’s like to be the Queen’s doctor…
Here’s my article from yesterday’s Telegraph… When the Queen left hospital after a brief stay earlier this month, she reputedly told her doctors not to “make a fuss’ – entirely in keeping with what we know about her stoical character. But our monarchs have never been particularly docile patients. The doctors who look after them
Continue ReadingThe Telegraph has a new history page (v.g.) and it kicks off with Kensington Palace…
Telegraph Weekend, Saturday March 3, 2012. Kensington’s extreme makeover, by Lucy Worsley. Welcome to the Telegraph’s new History Page, in which writers and scholars will be explaining how they work to make the past come alive. This week, curator and historian Lucy Worsley offers an exclusive preview of a revamped royal palace… In the cold
Continue ReadingDead robins and other festive cheer in my article in today’s Telegraph
The makings of a modern Christmas Cooked peacocks and dead robins have come and gone, but today’s festival draws on many other unlikely tastes and rituals. Lucy Worsley in The Telegraph, 22.12.2011 ‘Take a peacock, break its neck and cut its throat,” the recipe begins. Then “flay him”, being careful to “keep the skin and
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