The two future Kings were Edward VIII and his brother who succeeded him after the 1936 abdication, George VI. The mistresses were both upper-class women: Mrs Freda Dudley Ward and Lady Sheila Loughborough.
In the year of the Committee’s centenary, a fine account of its evolution and its role today has been written by Philip Norton, Professor Lord Norton of Louth. Alistair Lexden ‘s review of the book was published in The House, Parliament’s magazine on 2 October.
In September 2018, Alistair Lexden spoke about the significance of Stanley Baldwin’s career after the unveiling of a statue of the three- times prime minister in Bewdley, Worcestershire. His address was printed in a booklet recording the great occasion, Stanley Baldwin: A Statesman in Bronze.
What happened last October when Liz Truss resigned underlines the need to look again at the rules under which a Tory leader is elected, as Alistair Lexden argued in a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 20 September.
That is how Charles Stewart Parnell is—rightly—described in a new book by the leading Irish historian, Paul Bew. Alistair Lexden ‘s review of the book, published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 11 September, follows.
Many people campaigned to get Archbishop Welby to admit that he was wrong when he accepted in 2015 that Bishop George Bell, a towering figure in Christian history who died in 1958, had on the balance of probabilities sexually abused a young girl. Welby admitted his gross error in 2021.
Alistair Lexden paid tribute to Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park (1892-1975), a hero of the Second World War, in a letter published in The Sunday Telegraph on August 20.
A snap general election, which destroyed a secure Conservative Government and brought the Labour party to power for the first time, took place on 6 December 1923.
