by RuthDE | May 2, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
The first time I heard of a coronation outside fiction, I was nine. Published: 1 May 2023 It was 1953, I was growing up in Dublin and some of my female relatives were complaining bitterly that the IRA were threatening to blow up cinemas that showed the crowning...
by RuthDE | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Published 24 March 2018 ‘A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind,’ is a quotation from a constitutional expert, Walter Bagehot, writing in 1863 about the wedding of Prince Harry’s...
