Houghton Revisited showcases art collection of Britain’s first prime minister
70 paintings return to their English country home
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Patricia Treble
Patricia Treble is the royal specialist at Maclean’s. In addition to her interest in all things monarchical—from the Queen’s constitutional role to Kate’s flyaway hems—she writes on everything from TV, books and celebrity culture to history and sports trends.
Venice proposes alcohol testing for gondoliers
YouTube video of drunken ganzer skinny dipping makes waves
Must-watch TV: the Israeli series that inspired ’Homeland’
’Prisoners of War’ debuts on Super Channel
Poll: When is the new royal prince or princess arriving?
All eyes are on Kate, duchess of Cambridge
The craze around the royal birth
...or ’Event SO601865’, as London police are calling it
Yet another Benelux monarch abdicates in 2013
Less than six months after Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced she was giving up the throne, the king in neighbouring...
Does Monaco’s royal family have a ‘legitimacy’ issue?
Reports of Charlotte Casiraghi’s possible pregnancy set tongues wagging
The sex lives of puppets
’What sex is your children’s teddy bear?’ and other burning questions
How Mesopotamia invented our world (and created the best beer stein)
A look at the only Canadian stop on a world tour of treasures from the cradle of civilization
Bookies lose millions because of the Queen
The gambling industry’s royal woes grow