The wry and amusing journals of royal biographer and Sunday Telegraph journalist Kenneth Rose, one of the most astute observers of the Establishment in mid 20th-century Britain.
Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. Equipped as Rose was to witness, detail and report, these journals vividly portray some of the most important events and people of the last century.
What is so good - and is so well brought out in D.R.Thorpe's edition - is that [Kenneth Rose] was master of his material. This was the British establishment ... his diaries compose
accurate, fair-minded history ... As Kenneth's editor in the later years of his Albany column, I was irritated by his fault (quite the opposite of most of us journalists) of putting into his articles less than he knew. This is corrected in his Journals. He knew a lot and he put it in; and now we can read it.
