by RuthDE | Jun 6, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
I’m sorry that other commitments made me miss the Northern Ireland centenary celebrations on Saturday. Published: 31 May 2022 I am so not least because as this paper’s editor Ben Lowry put it — it’s been a “front-rank scandal” that this huge milestone has been given...
by RuthDE | Apr 20, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I’m writing a book about Royal consorts, so every part of his funeral that Prince Philip so meticulously planned was of interest to me. Published: 20 April 2021 From the poignancy of the jar of sugar cubes alongside the cap, gloves and lap blanket on the seat of the...
by RuthDE | Apr 20, 2021 | 2021, April, Journalism, The Spectator
Published: 19 April 2021 Prince Philip’s death presented Sinn Fein with a particular challenge, given that the IRA murdered his beloved uncle. ‘I am sorry that happened. Of course, that is heartbreaking,’ said the party’s leader Mary Lou...
by RuthDE | Apr 15, 2021 | 2021, April, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
The narrative that Boris is responsible for problems in the North hinders the search for actual solutions Published: 15 April 2021 Our Prime Minister consistently reminds me of William Brown, Richmal Crompton’s 11-year-old hero, a natural leader whose optimism leads...
by RuthDE | Apr 13, 2021 | 2021, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I’ve been thinking and reading about Prince Philip since I heard the news of his death. Published: 13 April 2021 It surprised me how upset I was. As he had kept pointing out, he was old and it was his time to die. For Covid-related reasons, I was alone as I watched...
by RuthDE | Jul 16, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
It didn’t please republican puritans, but Irish people know how to greet strangers warmly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 July 2018 ‘The fawning over #HarryandMeghan has been pretty nauseating,” tweeted The Irish Times journalist Kitty...
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...
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Self-righteous bigots condemning what they don’t understand is so annoying, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 12 February 2018 The obsessively progressive Guardian newspaper has it in for the Freemasons. The most recent assault was precipitated by...
