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Mary Killen

July 17, 2020
The Colour of the Sky After Rain By Tessa Keswick Head of Zeus, £30 For most of my life I had no interest in China. It wasn’t corona that got me interested – it was seeing Chinese mansions spring up in Jamaica, or driving into the Ethiopian bush on Chinese-built highways (they need the fertile
November 14, 2020
The Prince of Wales is 72 today. Social climber is not the precise expression to describe me. Alpha-phile, perhaps?  In any case I’m also a monarchist, so it was a high point of my life when I saw the Prince of Wales heading for the seat next to mine at a writers’ dinner during a
August 27, 2020
Lockdown has changed friendships, old and new. I felt guilty when Professor Robin Dunbar, an Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, came on to Nick Ferrari’s LBC breakfast show yesterday morning. He was on air to discuss a paper he has published in the Royal Society Journal on the subject of friendships and what might happen
July 01, 2020
Diana, Princess of Wales would have been 59 today. She will not grow old, as we that are left grew old. We will never see her with grey hair, facial pouches, crepey neck or cellulite. We fell in love with Di in 1981. We found out more – masses more – later. In fact, we
June 27, 2020
Cinderella is to blame for the fanfare that surrounding modern weddings; why not escape to the Catholic Caribbean and get married there instead? Good news for brides – or is it good? From 4 July, their weddings can go ahead, with only 30 guests. “But you can’t even have a party afterwards”, bleat the brides,
June 10, 2020
Prince Philip turns 99 today. He is a living totem of the virtues of putting duty first. I have long been fascinated by His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh. Who else has worked until he was 95? Who else is still handsome at 99? As a young man, he was the best looking of
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