That responsibility fell to the young correspondent of The Times, James Morris, waiting at base camp nearly 18,000ft up. And so, thanks to Morris, The Times had its story in time for a Coronation special, to inaugurate what people called the new Elizabethan age. Cheer: A party in Northampton marking the Coronation in 1953It sounds like a tale from a vanished era of old-fashioned heroism. Today, trans rights and gender fluidity are the most fashionable and contentious aspects of Britain’s fractious 21st-century culture wars. And there is no doubt that aspects of post-war Britain were dingyMany single mothers gave up their babies for adoption.

Source: Daily Mail September 19, 2020 00:45 UTC