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Seventy Glorious Covers
By Private Eye
IT WAS QUEEN ELIZABETH II who spoke the first photo- bubble ever to appear on the front cover of Private Eye magazine, in the fifth edition in February 1962. Prince Charles, 13, had just been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Over the years there were to be many, many more covers featuring Her Majesty. Here are seventy of the finest...
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MD on expert medical witnesses in trials
Strife of Brian
The King of Troubles: a summer special
A right wedge
Who is the Telegraph's highest-paid Tory MP columnist?
Read these stories and much more - only in the magazine. Subscribe here to get delivery direct to your home and never miss an issue!