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broadcast to the nation. Indeed, the 1957 Queen’s speech was the first to be televised, with Her Majesty hoping that the new format would be ‘more personal and direct’.
The Review foundered in 1960 then Altrincham worked for The Guardian for ten years and later as a columnist for The Times. In 1963, when Viscount Stansgate succeeded in passing the Peerage Act in parliament and immediately renounced his title, becoming plain Tony Benn, Baron Altrincham was the first to follow suit. He later wrote that he was ‘entirely opposed to hereditary seats in the Lords...although it was a bore to have to change my name again’. John Grigg was also a prolific author, completing biographies of Lady Astor and a four-volume work on the life of Lloyd George, the last of which was completed by another author after his death in 2001. In 1987, John Grigg returned to Eton where Martin Charteris was, by now, the provost and who told him, ‘You did a great service to the monarchy – and I’m happy to say it publicly’.
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