Historian and Author

Richard Aldous

1 article 2017

Richard Aldous is a historian and author who has written biographies of prominent political and cultural figures. He is a professor of history at Bard College. He contributed a cultural review to The Weekly Standard in 2017.

The Jewel of 'The Crown'

December 22, 2017 · Table of Contents, TV, Royal wedding

Back in the 1990s, when I was a student at Cambridge, I met Queen Elizabeth’s sister, Princess Margaret. A party had been arranged in her honor by the historian J. H. Plumb. There was jazz and dancing; the champagne flowed. Her Royal Highness drifted around, making excruciatingly banal conversation…