We Brits have always loved a bit of gossip and scandal sheets – which were early versions of newspaper gossip columns – were jam-packed with everything from lovers caught by husbands in flagrante to royal bed-hopping
Thanks to the work of the caricaturists of the late 18th century, the mistresses of the future George IV – Mrs Fitzherbert, Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson and Lady Jersey among them – are better known to us than his eventual wife, Caroline of Brunswick. The Prince of Wales’s decadent, spendthrift lifestyle (we see him emerging in
SIR – David Frost, writing about the Government White Paper on the private rented sector (Comment, June 17), opposes controls as being a betrayal of Conservative principles and likely to reduce the availability of properties for rent.