‘Dearly beloved friends and family, well, what a year it’s been! Where to start?! The big event for us – aside from nurturing our preternaturally gifted children and enjoying multiple holidays in exotic locations – was the “K” for Rupert in the King’s Birthday Honours list. Mingling with the Beckhams at Buck House after the investiture was an experience we won’t forget in a hurry!!! Meanwhile, Sarah’s novel about Thucydides is doing rather well in the Kindle charts and Agatha, Mungo and Antigone continue to impress…’

A few years ago, by this point in Advent, many Spectator readers would have received a pile of similar missives tucked into Christmas cards. Usually destined to stoke the fire or swell the recycling, the ‘round robin’ or annual Christmas family newsletter and the curious co

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