Home Secretary


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 28 December 2012  Home Secretaries were historically required to be present at royal births. Fortunately for Theresa May and the Duchess of Cambridge, the tradition was abandoned in 1948. Queen Victoria enjoyed Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland so much that she suggested he dedicate his next book to her. Lewis Carroll was, of course, a pen name for a distinguished Cambridge mathematician […]


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 2 May – 8 May 2012  James ‘Jim’ Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. Yes, Prime Minister – don’t give me any First Lord of the Treasury nonsense – the  Ministers of the Crown Act 1937 gives unequivocal legal recognition to […]