For 36 years Kenneth Rose in his Sunday Telegraph “Albany” column chronicled the doings of the establishment. His connections with royalty were so extensive that when he once asked his secretary at the Sunday Telegraph: “Get me the King”, she replied: “Which King?”
Rose liked “people of rank” and wrote approvingly of the historian HAL Fisher’s dictum that the wheels of history are seldom moved by the poor (what about the French Revolution?), adding that “names that recall past glories stir the blood”.
