The first serving PM to receive the Legion of Honour?
The BBC and The Guardian have both recently reported that Sir Keir Starmer was the first serving British PM to receive the French Legion of Honour. Both are wrong. David Lloyd George was invested as Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour in 1920. Grand Cordon was the secularist Third republic’s name for the Legion’s […]
“Winston and David” on stage
Robert Lloyd George’s play Winston and David, a sell-out hit at Edinburgh in 2022, will have a limited run at London’s Tabard Theatre in Chiswick this August. The play is performed by Maverick Theatre and directed by award-winning Fringe regular, Maverick’s Nick Hennegan (Henry V, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet-Horatio’s Tale with Sir Derek Jacobi, Romeo […]
His father knew Lloyd George
On the 9th April 1917, Easter Monday, the poet Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras.
