Blue plaques celebrate individuals whose lives and work helped shape London’s intellectual, cultural, and social landscape. English Heritage, which awards plaques, invites people to nominate those worthy of recognition. However, they say that blue plaques are only given to those who have been dead for twenty years.

The British Royal Family is one of the world’s most recognisable institutions. Although the monarch has a constitutional rather than a political role, family members carry out hundreds of public engagements each year, support charitable causes, and appear at major national occasions.

Although I grew up in Enfield and had visited Trent Country Park to see the daffodils in spring, I had no idea of its history. Its WW2 history was not made public until the end of the Cold War, but now, all is revealed in a new museum, The House of Secrets in Trent Park Mansion.