You might think it a kindness to buy the Peruvians’ asparagus, but it is said to leave the wells of the poor dry

ON 2 MAY 1930, five weeks before his ninth birthday, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark went out for a picnic, with his elder sisters and their grandmother, from the house at Saint-Cloud near Paris where they were living in exile. While they were out, their mother was forcibly sedated, bundled into a car and driven to a clinic

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