Dr. David Starkey: A Boswell in the House of Windsor
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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The Royal Family and Doctor David Starkey
i wanted to know if the crown loomed large in doctor david starkey's early life. My family background was modest, my parents were very, definitely working class. And all that i fist became absolutely aware of the monarchy a key moment of my life,. which was the coronation of elizabeth the second in 19 53. It was the first time i had seen television and then you watched the ceremony, which is extraordinaris magical. This woman at the centre of it, am magical. So that's the moment, i think, at which i firstand as i said, i engage in a way which which resonates in my memory till the moment was speaking.
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