The Oldie - 2017-07-19

• First news of Diana’s last minutes
• Elvis – his debt to Britain
• Visiting Denmark’s artistic haven
• What led to the murder of Joe Orton? His favourite actor and close friend, Kenneth Cranham, reflects on a gifted life and its end
• Ancient Charterhou­se is now open to female Brothers, and has a woman boss. Rachel Johnson signs up
• Valuable homes are down to hard work and patience, not luck, argues
• After 55 years of puffing, Penny Mortimer’s last fag has been lit
• Olden Life: What was a marriage bureau?
• The Last Leg?
• I Once Met Anthony Burgess
• Travel: A surreal Mexican garden.
• Letter From America
• Postcards from the Edge
• Memorial Service
• Notes from the Sofa
• Overlooked Britain
• Bird of the Month
• Media Matters
• Competitio­n
• 21 Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
• Res Publica
• The Old Un’s Notes
• Wilfred De’ath
• MEMORY LANE
• The stuff of genius
• Hot, angry London – the ultimate test for a Stoic
• Why I changed my mind about second thoughts
• Offenders remembered
• The fete that is awaiting us all
• Dial M for maddening
• Battle scars
• High infidelity
• Bohemian recipe
• Pence and Sensibilit­y
• Revolting times
• Irish eyes crying
• First among unequals
• The roly-poly raggle-taggle of ricochets
• VALERIE GROVE
• ROGER LEWIS
• RICHARD OSBORNE
• HUON MALLALIEU
• DAVID WHEELER
• SIMON COURTAULD
• ELISABETH LUARD
• JAMES PEMBROKE
• BILL KNOTT
• How to look absolutely fab at 71
• Hidden Florence with Harry Mount
• Genuine gusto
• Dover’s waning white cliffs
• The whole hog
• Time to lasso the political Wild West
• The matter of the heart
• Genius crossword 351
• In grief, it’s fine to be ‘fine’

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