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Feb 03, 2021
Banned Royal Family Documentary Resurfaces For The First Time In Nearly 50 Years
Royal fans couldn t believe they got lucky enough to watch the documentary, though it was quickly taken down.
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Queen Elizabeth II lunches with Prince Philip and their children Princess Anne and Prince Charles at Windsor Castle, circa 1969. A camera (left) is set up to film for Richard Cawston s BBC documentary Royal Family, which followed the Royal Family over a period of a year and was broadcast on June 21, 1969.
Prince Charles making salad dressing. Queen Elizabeth calling someone a “gorilla.” A staff member serving carrots to a horse on a white napkin.
There’s a long-established tradition in newspaper journalism that irony is a risky weapon. In a much-quoted 1982 column for The Times, Bernard Levin credited the writer, MP and possibly spy Lord
Letter: Jan Morris obituary
Jan Morris, the historian, author and travel writer who died in November, was ‘blessed with a prose style of spare and sinuous grace’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian
Jan Morris, the historian, author and travel writer who died in November, was ‘blessed with a prose style of spare and sinuous grace’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian
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Tue 15 Dec 2020 11.54 EST
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An astute assessment of the writing of Jan Morris came in the review of Conundrum, the account of her transition from man to woman, in the Observer by Bernard Levin in 1974. He spoke of how the writer, while James, “was blessed with a prose style of spare and sinuous grace, an eye of penetrating intensity, and an altogether exceptional ability to reach that level of his reader’s mind at which the spark of recognition jumps the gap and ignites understanding”.
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