By Martin Williams
Hodder & Stoughton £25
At the start of the last century, England's then longest-reigning monarch died.
At the end of the last century, we still wore black as part of our uniform at my school. Supposedly we were grieving for Queen Victoria. That probably says something about Harrow School, but it also says something about the country. When a good monarch dies, people are bereft.
As would happen again after the death of Elizabeth II, when Victoria
