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In October 1970, the 21-year-old Prince Charles met his great-uncle, the erstwhile Edward VIII, at his Paris home. Above: Charles pictured at the Dukes home in May 1972, just days before his death.

Less than a week after becoming Conservative leader in 1975, Mrs Thatcher had breakfast with the US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Not long afterwards, Kissinger privately advised the then President Gerald Ford, “Soames may be a big Conservative leader sometime. I don’t think Margaret Thatcher will last.”

He put the interests of the state before the wishes of the people

The Royal Family has had a long love affair with France. But few senior members will have experienced such strong personal feelings about its capital city as King Charles.

From Nathan Hale to Marie-Antoinette to George Harrison, here are some of the most famous last words in history.

He cut taxes, drove privatisation and freed up financial markets before turning his energies to Brexit and global-warming scepticism

There is nothing about "Never in a thousand years" (Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's vow that blacks would never be allowed to rule the country now named Zimbabwe in the next 1 000 years), or baboon climb the mountain (his message to black students at the University of Rhodesia when they demonstrated against his

Chief executive has offered robust defences of controversial outsourcing firm since 2014

Lord Alexander Macmillan has been banned from the roads and slapped with almost a £10,000 fine after he drove his Range Rover into two parked cars in Denham, Buckinghamshire.

Larson brings all of the passionate dynamics of Churchill’s personal life to the foreground balancing this to his ever-present demands on the foreign front.