JANUARY I, 1966 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS—I 3 OUR NOTEBOOK by Arthur Bryant Often, when in London, I walk in
... statesmen, the Earl of Derby, at that time the rather reluctant leader of the Conservative party, and Lord Clarendon, who was a Whig. The request,” the latter wrote to the duchess, ” came in a form so urgent from the Queen that it was impossible to decline ...