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Every Thursday, we present in this space a week’s worth of randomly selected single pages from editions of The Kingston Whig-Standard, The Whig-Standard or The…

Quaglino's: Golden-age glam the perfect antidote to lockdown Quaglino's is big, exaggerated and unapologetic - the perfect antidote to the forced reserve of lockdown (Lara Mills) It is fair to say that good old fashioned glamour has not been in vogue during months of endless lockdowns. But London is back, and open-ish, and so City A.M. whipped out the dust-covered ironing board to glow up for a night of Golden Age glamour. Quaglino’s has a wonderful history – a Gatsby-esque favourite in the thirties, it was also the first restaurant that the Queen ever dined in. John P...

10 People Whose Lives Were Completely Ruined By The Media Free media is a fundamental characteristic of an open society. Without freedom of speech, all other freedoms tend to wither and die. But there is another side to the coin: The media is made up of people, and people make mistakes. In some cases, those mistakes include accusing innocents of the most heinous crimes, subjecting them to trials of public opinion alongside those taking place in courthouses. The influence of the misguided media can ruin an innocent person’s life, put them in jail, or even kill them. 10Robert Murat Life was g...

The Queen of 1960s London’s ‘permissive society’, Novotny mixed with statesmen, strippers and spies – then vanished 1 May 2021 • 5:00am 'I can rattle skeletons in many important cupboards': Mariella Novotny in 1971 Credit: Dove/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty In the dying days of the 20th century I was researching the life of my grandfather, Charlie, a con man implicated in the corruption of Flying Squad officers. During his trial at the Old Bailey in 1978, Charlie alleged he had been set up by a mysterious blonde called Mariella Novotny, codenamed Henry. In court, he claimed: “She i...

Prince Philip by Stephen Ward. Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal. As a teenager, she slept with Captain Eugene Ivanov, a Russian naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London, while also having a relationship with the much older John Profumo, the high-flying Conservative MP who was Secretary of State for War. Profumo, who met Keeler in July 1961, dramatically denied a relationship with her in the House of Commons but later admitted he had lied and, in June 1963, resigned in disgrace. Stephen Ward, the artist and ‘society osteopath’ who had introduced Kee...