Rafe Heydel-Mankoo

Those wishing to view my (very) brief appearance on Canada's CTV Network last night, in which I discuss Sunday's Concert for Diana a...

The car bomb discovered in London in the early hours of this morning appears to have a connection to "international terrorism". Th...

Today saw the publication of the Royal Finances Annual report, which includes details of public expenditure. Once again the report revealed ...

Photo: The Lord Lyon with the Young Fogey, St. Andrew's, 2006 . With the departure of one Blair another appears soon to follow. It has b...

Having written about two celebrations of the Feast of St. John (those of the Order of Malta and the Venerable Order of St. John) it would be...

Will he or won't he? Rumour-mills have been churning ferociously in recent days, sprinkling little tidbits pertaining to Prime Minister ...

Yesterday saw the Roman Catholic Order of St. John (Order of Malta) celebrate the Feast of its patron with a Mass at the London Oratory, and...

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, otherwise known as the "Sovereign Military Or...

I have been asked to record a series of television segments which shall be aired every evening next week on Canada's CTV Network, in the...

Top right corner: Robert Watt, Canada's outgoing Chief Herald, wearing the Collar of Cs and holding his ceremonial baton. Robert Watt st...

Iran has today condemned the decision to confer a knighthood on Sir Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize winning author of "The Satanic Ver...

The Queen's birthday honours were announced today (with knighthoods bestowed upon Sir Ian Botham and Sir Salman Rushdie amongst others) ...

Today we officially celebrate the birthday of Our Sovereign Lady, HM The Queen.* Her Majesty is the fourth longest reigning Sovereign in Br...

On this 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands I had intended to pay my own tribute to the heroism and professionalism o...

The past three days have afforded this Young Fogey such an array of social distraction that he has been unable to attend to his usual routin...

I have recently been engaged in a delightful correspondence with various gentlemen members of the New Sheridan Club, a bastion of chappist c...

Yesterday afternoon I ventured into the Orwellian-sounding Ministry of Justice (the month old successor to the Department for Constitutional...

Britain was once a proud nation. A nation which had no need to assert its identity or reaffirm its notion of self. So pronounced was its sel...

The new London Olympic logo was unveiled today amidst much fanfare and self-congratulation. An excited Lord Coe, the London Olympic organisi...

On this date in 1953, HM The Queen did "solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor...

I am fortunate to have been born upon the First of June, one of the two dates of the year Britons traditionally hold to be "Glorious...

David Lumsden of Cushnie, Garioch Pursuivant to the Countess of Mar; Alexandre de Prat i Pont; Don Victor Franco De Baux; Hugh Macpherson Es...