The men who tried to kill a queen

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

That threatened thrones

The story that’s consumed my life for much of the past few years has it all: family dysfunction, political intrigue, royalty, the rewriting of our national history. A secret hidden for generations. Th

The posthumous reputation of James VI and I

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

The “PC Pc” who led the Met during ...