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Harry Mount


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The Making of a Marchioness

The late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava rejected her glamorous youth for a colorful life spent helping others

Dirty Latin

If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston

Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting

Callil Confidential

For many years, Carmen Callil dominated London’s literary and feminist scenes. In a memoir, the outspoken Melbourne native travels back in time

Out of the Blue

A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?

Fraudenfreude

While the businessman–social animal David Tang gave the impression of living the high life, in fact he was plundering his companies and gambling away his fortune

Sic Trans Gloria

Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders

Arche-Nemesis

If only Prince Harry had done his ancient-Greek homework …

Rootless Metropolitan

A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York

Cotswolds Confidential

Billionaires vs. millionaires in the Hamptons of England

Class Clown

How Boris Johnson uses education and privilege to taunt the toffs and play to the yobs