Father, Dear Father

Contents

About the Author

1. Father sings The Red Flag

2. The heresy of enthusiasm

3. My father, Caligula

4. Hungarian rhapsodies

5. Mother takes elocution lessons

6. Father and Gandhi

7. Father and Churchill

8. Father becomes Lord Bradwell’s lavatory attendant

9. Father sings the Blues

10. Father fights a duel over Elizabeth Taylor

11. Father becomes a butler

12. Harold Macmillan’s birthday

13. The stately homes of Cornwall, or Father insults Oliver Cromwell

14. Father falls in the Grand Canal

15. Father is ejected from the Uffizi

16. Father gets married (four times)

17. Father hangs on

18. Father and Margaret Thatcher

19. Father and his friends

20. Father throws his kippers out of the window

21. Father is arrested for flashing

22. The pleasure of your company

23. Norman Lamont wins the Tour de France

24. A Peer of the Realm

25. Father entertains Royalty

26. Father gets married again (almost)

27. The way to Heaven