World War II drained the community of physicians and health personnel, created housing shortages and job mobility, and served to push more people into a crazyquilt variety of nursing homes which seemed to assure housing and medical care.

Every house has its skeleton in it somewhere, and it may be a comfort to some unhappy folks to think that the luckier and most wealthy of their neighbours have their miseries and causes of disquiet.

Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists. adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic.