Right royal tragedies

HUGO VICKERS

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse Frances Welch Short Books £25 In 2011, I was employed to comment for an American outlet on Prince William's wedding to Catherine Middleton. I envisaged being stuck in a van in the compound opposite Westminster Abbey, able to see only the occasional plume passing over a high fence. However, I managed to get myself onto a platform early in the morning, and I pointed out to a security guard (who looked like Robson Green) that there was a little veiled figure above the door of Westminster Abbey. That, I told them, was one of the 20th-century Christian martyrs and the groom's great-great-great-great aunt, the Grand Duchess Ella. As a result of imparting this obscure information, I was allowed to be on…

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