It’s been a bad week for biographers: first DR Thorpe, now Philip Ziegler. This obit contains my favourite story about PZ: when writing his biography of Mountbatten he kept a message on his desk: “Remember, in spite of everything, he was a great man.” thetimes.co.uk/article/616744…
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@philipvmurphy I interviewed him in 1982 I was 28 royalbooknews.blogspot.com/2023/02/an-int…
@philipvmurphy Sorry to hear this: I particularly admire his William IV and Melbourne. A man who really 'got' Whiggery.
@philipvmurphy IIRC I read his book on the Black Death...