Book 8 of The Speedicut Papers is primarily concerned

with Speedicut’s involvement with the young Winston Churchill

on the North-West Frontier of India, in the Sudan at the Battle of

Omdurman and in the Second Boer War, during which Speedicut is captured

along with Churchill. When not acting as nursemaid to Britain’s future

greatest Prime Minister, Speedicut plays a central role, invariably

with disastrous consequences, in the notorious Jameson Raid,

Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and the assassination

of the Empress of...

In this, the final volume of the memoirs of Jasper Speedicut, the old soldier and courtier is deeply--and often hilariously--involved in the 1900 siege of the Peking legations, the death and funeral of Queen Victoria, the final days of Oscar Wilde, the removal to safety of the personal correspondence of the Dowager Empress of Germany, the sinking of RMS Titanic, the start of the First World War, and the fates of Mata Hari and Edith Cavell. The Speedicut Papers Book 9 (1900-1915): Boxing Icebergs also solves the mystery of the manacled skeleton found on a building site in Leicestershire,...