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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Lee Cohen |Matthew Dennison
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the grim air of a not particularly funny joke.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Christian House |Philip Hensher |Alice Jolly |Matthew Dennison
Reading Robert Ferguson’s fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation between 1940 and 1945 – a collage of resistance, collaboration and the gray areas in between – I was reminded of the remarks of two Norwegian nonagenarians. In 2011, I interviewed Gunnar Sonsteby, a hero of Norway’s resistance movement, for The Spectator.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Matthew Dennison |Kara Kennedy
Earlier this week, I tried and failed to purchase a couple of items from the As Ever range that the Duchess of Sussex has been touting in her ill-fated Netflix show. I won’t lie, Spectator readers; my dedication to bringing you the latest hard-hitting investigative news was tempered by the hope that such condiments as the “limited edition wildflower honey with honeycomb” and the “shortbread cookies with flower sprinkles” would end up being perfectly edible.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Piers Morgan |Grace Curley |Kevin Roberts |Matthew Dennison
Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the habitual liberal hysteria about his rollercoaster presidential style is reaching shrieking banshee levels again. But as always with my friend in Pennsylvania Avenue, I urge patience and a focus on what he does rather than what comes out of his inflammatory machine-gun mouth.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Dennison |Kara Kennedy |Julian Glover |Alexander Larman
It’s not hard to see why the ninety-three-year-old, wheelchair-bound Princess Astrid of Norway might feel that now is the moment to remind Norwegians “I can still be useful for something,” as she did in a rare interview last month. The princess, who is the sister of eighty-eight-year-old King Harald, was awarded an honorary pension by the government two decades ago; last year, her official diary shrank to twenty engagements. But 2024 was not kind to the Norwegian ruling house.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countrylife.co.uk | Matthew Dennison
Once considered a luxury item and given as a love token — or even used as a makeshift toothbrush — the handkerchief still offers an elegance sorely lacking in a packet of paper tissues, says Matthew Dennison.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
legrandangle-lgm.fr | Matthew Dennison
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Dennison
Simpson moved to China aged 28, in 1924 In the summer of 1924, Wallis Spencer was 28, living in China, and unhappily hitched to a hard-drinking, abusive naval officer of the US South China Patrol. In the eyes of conservative family members, responsibility for the marriage’s collapse lay with Wallis. In China – far from home and, after a last-ditch attempt in Hong Kong to patch up their marriage had failed – Wallis mustered the resolve to break free: with few regrets she would divorce Spencer...
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
msn.com | Matthew Dennison
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
standard.co.uk | Matthew Dennison
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The voiceover described them as “the most charming and natural pictures ever taken of our Royal Family”: a husband and wife outdoors with their children feeding the ducks, the children unselfconscious, playing ball games, running, laughing, broad open spaces all around them. Sound familiar?
