It was January 1981 on a snowy dawn at the end of a dead-end track in Co. Tyrone. Andrew was in charge of a military observation team who had only just disarmed the gunmen responsible.
'She was really upset,' Lady Elizabeth Anson confided to the biographer Sally Bedell Smith. 'I was shocked when the Queen told me this, how she was so saddened.'
ROBERT HARDMAN: As I retrace the events of that night in slow motion, in the company of someone who knows that operation as well as anyone, I begin to despair of the creeping judicial over-reach.
HARDMAN: For more than three hours, on a freezing February night, the 12 men from the Special Air Service had been lying behind a low, threadbare bit of hedge near the village of Clonoe
At one end of Whitehall, the Government was solemnly announcing plans to add the direct action group Palestine Action to the UK's current list of 81 proscribed terrorist organisations.
ROBERT HARDMAN: When Charles III came to the throne in September 2022, some commentators warned he would seek to 'meddle' and 'cross constitutional red lines'.