Kings and princes have had their mistresses since the dawn of time - women deemed desirable enough to share a royal pillow, but not posh enough to become a wife.
From his brutal childhood - beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear - to his decades of paranoid, drug-addled seclusion, he fought a constant battle against the world.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The gods of television are cruel. No sooner do I confess my loathing for golf than they send a ten-part comedy series about the game.
Christopher Hitchens, the brother of Alas podcast host, Peter Hitchens, was a prodigious author and journalist, known for his divisive atheism and left-wing politics.
They stood triumphant on the Buckingham Palace balcony, victors in the long battle that had decimated Europe. The King and Queen, together with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
Blue Peter was once the BBC's flagship - the longest-running children's programme in the world, watched by eight million during its heyday every Monday and Thursday.
Every splinter of bereavement, in Catey Sexton's bitterly personal documentary about Covid, was so sharp and painful that I had to keep pausing, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS